William S. Burroughs Quotes
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When you first hear Mozart's music, your first impression is that it's very alive, but if you peel away the layers, you can hear sorrow and sadness behind it, and that's what I try to be: multi-layered.
Park Chan-wook -
If the spectrum linking everyday depression to Major Depression sometimes hinders understanding of it, it also offers an opportunity for empathy. Because almost everyone, at some point, experiences feelings of sadness, of hopelessness, of emptiness, not to mention lethargy and irritability.
Gayle Forman -
It's a hard thing to imagine how somebody copes with grief and at the same time has to build a new life.
Caitriona Balfe -
Excess of grief for the dead is madness; for it is an injury to the living, and the dead know it not.
Xenophon -
Let us be honest with each other. The threat to marriage is not the gays. It is a lack of loving commitment - whether it is found in the form of neglect, indifference, cruelty or adultery, to name just a few manifestations of the loveless desert in which too many marriages come to grief.
Malcolm Turnbull -
My death is incidental, and I worry very much about my loved ones and, you know, would like to make it as easy as possible for them. Or wish I could will away whatever, you know, the sadness they will feel when I die. But for me, nothing. The world goes on.
Barbara Ehrenreich
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Death has its revelations: the great sorrows which open the heart open the mind as well; light comes to us with our grief. As for me, I have faith; I believe in a future life. How could I do otherwise? My daughter was a soul; I saw this soul. I touched it, so to speak.
Victor Hugo -
It's a source of great sadness to me that my father died without having seen me do anything worthwhile. He was constantly having to make excuses for me.
Daniel Day-Lewis -
If you go to a movie and it's a great experience, the experience at the end of it is always like this sadness that it's over, that your time with these characters is finished. There's almost like an achy feeling that I have when I go to a movie that I love and it ends.
Carlton Cuse -
I dance. A lot. I work grief and sadness out of my body when I dance, and I bring in joy and rhythm.
Inga Muscio -
Only a struggle twists sentimentality and lust together into love.
E. M. Forster -
In American culture we are supposed to take a pill when we're depressed or in grief as opposed to actually feeling.
Laura Dern
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I want to paint something that's gorgeous, something that's perfect. So that it's full of sadness.
Gary Hume -
Music is amazing. There's some metaphysical comfort where it allows you to be isolated and alone while telling you that you are not alone... truly, the only cure for sadness is to share it with someone else.
Wayne Coyne -
There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power. They speak more eloquently than ten thousand tongues. They are the messengers of overwhelming grief, of deep contrition, and of unspeakable love.
Washington Irving -
When a network passes, you really mourn the show. The official state of grief in Hollywood is saying you're taking around a dead pilot.
Rachel Bloom -
Grief causes suffering and disease.
Daniel D. Palmer -
Where grief is fresh, any attempt to divert it only irritates.
Samuel Johnson
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I had always wanted to have children, so it caused me a lot of grief when I was younger, and I had supposed that gay people could not be parents.
Andrew Solomon -
No outward doors of a man's house can in general be broken open to execute any civil process; though in criminal cases the public safety supersedes the private.
William Blackstone -
I think you have to be very careful with effects that they don't overpower the story with the visual element.
Harrison Ford -
At the moment of commitment the entire universe conspires to assist you.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe -
In deep sadness there is no place for sentimentality.
William S. Burroughs