#sad

Oh Woman, come before us, before our eyes longing for beauty, and tired of the ugliness of civilization, come in simple tunics, letting us see the line and harmony of the body beneath, and dance for us. Dance us the sweetness of life. Give us again the sweetness and the beauty of the true dance, give us again the joy of seeing the simple unconscious pure body of a woman. Like a great call it has come, and women must hear it and answer it. ↗

— Isadora Duncan

#isadora-duncan #spirituality #women #art

Here is a minute. It may be my love is dead, but here is a minute to kneel over the grave and pray by it. ↗

— William Makepeace Thackeray

#death #love #sadness #death

There's a feeling of elation that comes after getting off stage and then there's a feeling of utter sadness that comes after getting off the stage. ↗

— Neve Campbell

#comes #elation #feeling #getting #off

But, as you have intimated, I am among those who would be very wary of any military action in the light of Saddam Hussein's willingness to allow the weapons inspectors to go in. ↗

— George Carey

#allow #am #among #any #go

One of the saddest realities is that we never know when our lives are at their peak. Only after it is over and we have some kind of perspective do we realize how good we had it a day, a month, five years ago. ↗

— Jonathan Carroll

#ago #day #five #good #had

When I was in Paris, all of the German refugees began to flow in and it was a very sad time. ↗

— Elliott Carter

#flow #german #i #paris #refugees

In religious and in secular affairs, the more fervent beliefs attract followers. If you are a moderate in any respect - if you're a moderate on abortion, if you're a moderate on gun control, or if you're a moderate in your religious faith - it doesn't evolve into a crusade where you're either right or wrong, good or bad, with us or against us. ↗

— Jimmy Carter

#affairs #against #any #attract #bad

You want people to feel something when you tell a story, whether they feel happy or whether they feel sad. ↗

— Harry Dean Stanton

#happy #people #sad #something #story

A Church which has lost its memory is in a sad state of senility. ↗

— Henry Chadwick

#lost #memory #sad #senility #state

I often wish I'd got on better with your father,' he said. But he never liked anyone who--our friends,' said Clarissa; and could have bitten her tongue for thus reminding Peter that he had wanted to marry her. Of course I did, thought Peter; it almost broke my heart too, he thought; and was overcome with his own grief, which rose like a moon looked at from a terrace, ghastly beautiful with light from the sunken day. I was more unhappy than I've ever been since, he thought. And as if in truth he were sitting there on the terrace he edged a little towards Clarissa; put his hand out; raised it; let it fall. There above them it hung, that moon. She too seemed to be sitting with him on the terrace, in the moonlight. ↗

— Virginia Woolf

#imagery #love #marriage #melancholy #moon