#sadness

In deep sadness there is no place for sentimentality. ↗

— William S. Burroughs

#place #sadness #sentimentality

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

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

Good humor is the health of the soul, sadness is its poison. ↗

— Lord Chesterfield

#health #humor #poison #sadness #soul

We're always experiencing joy or sadness. But there are lots of people who've closed down. And there are times in one's life when one has to close down just to regroup. ↗

— Leonard Cohen

#close #closed #down #experiencing #joy

Cinema is a mixed form. L'Avventura has characters, it has social context, and these things are not trivial. Its plot is the disappearance of a disappearance. Possibly the most frightening plot imaginable. Forgetting the dead, whom all of history tells us we must remember. But what makes movies themselves, rather than novels or plays, is something else. What is it if not the film medium itself? The purity of the visual, which lies in the silence of the stilled image. The freeze frame. The deeply, deeply silent image. Like death. The image in itself in its silent purity reaches--it reaches!--for the purity of death. ↗

— Frank Lentricchia

#frank-lentricchia #michelangeo-antonioni #the-sadness-of-antonioni #death

I want to take this opportunity to express, one more time, my deep sadness to those countrymen who feel, rightly, that they were victims of my government. ↗

— Jean Claude Duvalier

#deep #express #feel #government #i

Beauty and love pass, I know... Oh, there's sadness, too. I suppose all great happiness is a little sad. Beauty means the scent of roses and then the death of roses- ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

#death #fitzgerald #happiness #rose #roses

She and I were bound together at the border between life and death. It was like that for us from the start ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#death