Emile Durkheim Quotes

To live beneath sorrow, one must yield to it.

There are many stages of grief. It's sad, something coming to an end. It cracks you open, in a way -- cracks you open to feeling. When you try to avoid the pain, it creates greater pain. I'm a human being, having a human experience in front of the world. I wish it weren't in front of the world. I try really hard to rise above it.

Sadness flies away on the wings of time.

The delta blues is a low-down, dirty shame blues. It's a sad, big wide sound, something to make you think about people who are dead or the women who left you.

I love sad. Sadness makes you feel more than anything.

It's hard to watch your life unfold, and sad. Life changes.

I had sadness for breakfast.

Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.

Among the reasons people keep sad stories to themselves is that they do not want anyone to feel sorry for them. I don't. I don't want you to feel sorry for me.

It's the poignancy and sadness in things that gets to me.

I am not sad, but I am melancholic. When you lose your mother at 20 and then your father soon after, melancholia is part of your life.

Part of me is drawn to the nature of sadness because I think life is sad, and sadness is not something that should be avoided or denied. It's a fact of life, like contradictions are.

I'd like a male to listen to my music and find it kind of fascinating, what a girl goes through when they get heartbroken or get sad or get hurt by something.

Christmas makes everything twice as sad.

I've cried, and you'd think I'd be better for it, but the sadness just sleeps, and it stays in my spine the rest of my life.

When you've been touched by sadness and grief, it makes you vulnerable. And because I am vulnerable, I try to be positive. And when I say 'try,' I really do mean try, because it's an effort.

The easiest thing to feel is sadness.

For a moment she'd wondered if the seal around her sockets were tight enough to allow the tears simply to go on and fill up the entire lens space and never dry. She could carry the sadness of the moment with her that way forever, see the world refracted through those tears, those specific tears, as if indices as yet unfound varied in important ways from cry to cry.

What need is there to weep over parts of life? The whole of it calls for tears.

Being human means losing everything we love best in the world," she murmured as she released me. "But would you ask to be anything else?

No wonder sorrow doesn’t smile much. No wonder sadness is so sad.

Sorrow is one of the vibrations that prove the fact of living.

There are times when sorrow seems to me to be the only truth.

I will not say, do not weep, for not all tears are an evil.