117 Quotes Tagged: sad

I sit, and moan,
Like one who once had wings.

A feeling is not bottomless. once felt all the way through,a great peace greets you there

His absence is so big it's like he's there.

She knew I could tell with one glance, one look, one simple instant. It was her eyes. Despite the thick makeup, they were still dark-rimmed., haunted, and sad. Most of all though, they were familiar. The fact that we were in front of hundreds of strangers changed nothing at all. I'd spent a summer with those same eyes-scared, lost, confused-staring back at me. I would have known them anywhere.

All the birds who were never born, all the songs that were never sung and so can only exist in the imagination.

And this one is Teddy's.

So, this is my life. And I want you to know that I am both happy and sad and I'm still trying to figure out how that could be.

If you didn't remember something happening, was it because it never had happened? Or because you wished it hadn't?

Melancholy is the happiness of being sad.

I walked down the hall and saw that [she] was sitting on the floor next to a chair. This is always a bad sign. It's a slippery slope, and it's best just to sit in chairs, to eat when hungry, to sleep and rise and work. But we have all been there. Chairs are for people, and you're not sure if you are one.

Only sometimes at night when I think that you live now and are somewhere, I shed tears.

I’m not weeping, I’m not complaining,
Happiness is not for me.

It is a very sad thing that nowadays there is so little useless information.

The reason it hurts so much to separate is because our souls are connected.

Only Gatsby, the man who gives his name to this book, was exempt from my reaction — Gatsby, who represented everything for which I have an unaffected scorn ... No — Gatsby turned out all right in the end; it was what prayed on Gatsby, what foul dust floated in the wake of his dreams that temporarily closed out my interest in the abortive sorrows and the short-winded elations of men.

Feelings all your feelings is hard, but that's what they're for. Feelings are for feeling. All of them. Even the hard ones.