Gabrielle Zevin Quotes

Some really good things kind of swing both ways and I like to see people that can swing really, really, really sad and horrible and terrible and really, really, really beautiful and funny.

Everything is so sad and so wonderful.

A smile is ever the most bright and beautiful with a tear upon it. What is the dawn without the dew? The tear is rendered by the smile precious above the smile itself.

Oh, well...up until now it had been a good day, in a horrible kind of way.

My music has to be funny and sad and happy and loving; it's gotta have it all. When somebody's just too dark all the time, it's just drama. Or if somebody's too funny? Well, I like being too funny sometimes.

It's lovely. I hate it.

Quite often, and in fact more often, I would say, I'm struggling all the way through to think, "What is it I like about this? What is the personality of this thing I'm hearing that I like so much?" And it's nearly always a sort of mixed emotion, which is why I like it. It's something that I have mixed feelings about in the sense that it's both, say, placid and dangerous, or bitter and sweet, or dark and bright.

What do I care if you are good? Be beautiful! and be sad!

The woman who opens the door has a blue stain on her shirt and dark hair wound into a messy knot and the most beautiful eyes I have ever seen. They're pale, like a lioness's, nearly golden, but they also look like they've done their fair share of crying, and we all know that a sky with clouds in it is much more interesting than one that doesn't have any.

Life consists of sadness too. And sadness is also beautiful; it has its own depth, its own delicacy, its own deliciousness, its own taste. A man is poorer if he has not known sadness; he is impoverished, very much impoverished. His laughter will be shallow, his laughter will not have depth, because depth comes only through sadness. A man who knows sadness, if he laughs, his laughter will have depth. His laughter will have something of his sadness too, his laughter will be more colorful.

I'm kind of sad and happy all the time. Just kind of like feeling, you know, full of life and confident, and at the same time terrified. I'm all of those things at once.

To me, the human experience does involve a great deal of anguish. It's joyful, but it's bittersweet. I just think that's life.

I love that feeling of when it's touching and it makes you happy but there's a melancholy or bittersweet glaze to it.

We are the only creatures that both laugh and weep. I think it's because we are the only creatures that see the difference between the way things are and the way they might be.

DaDa is beautiful like the night, who cradles the young day in her arms.

The world is awful but also the world is beautiful. Human beings are awful, but ultimately human beings are tremendous.

Belgrade is the ugliest city in the world in the most beautiful place in the world.

I had a thought, on the way home from the rock field, that the things we don't know about a person are the things that make them human, and it made me feel sad to think that, but sad in that reassuring way that some sadness has, a sadness that says welcome home in twelve different languages.

how sad and bad and mad it was - but then, how it was sweet

Beautiful. And ugly. The world is always both.

It frightened him to think what must have gone to the making of her eyes.

I think, that if I touched the earth, It would crumble; It is so sad and beautiful, So tremulously like a dream.

A noble craft, but somehow a most melancholy! All noble things are touched with that.

If you think of beautiful things, you’re not sad.