3,622 Quotes About Sadness



  • Author David Levithan
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    tiny: but there is the word, this word phil wrayson taught me once: weltschmerz. it's the depression you feel when the world as it is does not line up with the world as you think it should be. i live in a big goddamned weltzschermz ocean, you know? and so do you.

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  • Author Neil Hilborn
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    I think a lot about killing myself, not like a point on a map but rather like a glowing exit sign at a show that’s never been quite bad enough to make me want to leave. See, when I’m up I don’t kill myself because, holy shit, there’s so much left to do. When I’m down I don’t kill myself because then the sadness would be over, and the sadness is my old paint under the new. The sadness is the house fire or the broken shoulder: I’d still be me without it but I’d be so boring.

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  • Author Lidia Longorio
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    Your smile is what I need atthe end of a hard dayYour hug is what I need to know I’m going to be okayYour voice drowns out my loudest thoughtWhen I’m in trouble you’re the one I’ve always soughtSo when you were gone I became lostOf loving you, I knew the costFor you were only human and so was IWe were always meant to die

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  • Author Brian Krans
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    The wind made me shiver as i pulled my arms into my T-shirt. There I was, cold, isolated and desperate for something I knew I couldn't have.A solution. A remedy. Anything.The silence continued except for my own footsteps. I hated it. Alone and confused was the last place I wanted to be.Somehow I knew I deserved this.

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  • Author Julia Schumacher
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    ...Sometimes they open it up like a package in the presence of a person they can talk to,' she said. 'Someone they can trust.' She held out her hands. 'Any person who is carrying a lot of sadness,' she said, 'needs to be able to rest sometimes, and to put it down.

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