“They say geniuses mostly have great mothers. They mostly have sad fates.”
Sadness is not a problem to be solved — it is a signal to be understood. These quotes sit with grief, melancholy, heartbreak, and loss without rushing to fix them, because sometimes the most helpful thing is knowing you are not the only one who feels this way.
“Can I see another's woe, and not be in sorrow too? Can I see another's grief, and not seek for kind relief?”
“They say geniuses mostly have great mothers. They mostly have sad fates.”
“Women often postpone their lives, thinking that if they're not with a partner then it doesn't really count. They're still searching for their prince, in a way. And as much as we don't discuss that, because it's too embarrassing and too sad, I think it really does exist.”
“That is sad until one recalls how many bad books the world may yet be spared because of the busyness of writers.”
“If I get the forty additional years statisticians say are likely coming to me, I could fit in at least one, maybe two new lifetimes. Sad that only one of those lifetimes can include being the mother of young children.”
“It is one of the most saddening things in life that, try as we may, we can never be certain of making people happy, whereas we can almost always be certain of making them unhappy.”
“Sadness flies away on the wings of time.”
“In this world, full often, our joys are only the tender shadows which our sorrows cast.”
“Christmas makes everything twice as sad.”
“Being on your own would be sad, sick and weird. I don't trust myself. I need that balance.”
“The walls we build around us to keep sadness out also keeps out the joy.”
“There were points in my life where I felt oddly irresistible to women. I'm not in that state now and that makes me sad.”
“You know, why at the end of your life should you assemble thousands of pages of 'Why am I so sad, why am I so depressed?' Instead, assemble thousands of pages of why you're so content.”
“My parents' divorce left me with a lot of sadness and pain and acting, and especially humour, was my way of dealing with all that.”
“Sorrows are like thunderclouds, in the distance they look black, over our heads scarcely gray.”
“I think I would be very sad if I wasn't able to have a baby.”