“No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.” – C.S. Lewis

“I learn from my mistakes. It’s a very painful way to learn, but without pain, the old saying is, there’s no gain.”

“Tears are the silent language of grief.”

"Once for all; I knew to my sorrow, often and often, if not always, that I loved her against reason, against promise, against peace, against hope, against happiness, against all discouragement that could be."

"Sadness of any sort is also seductive, particularly if it seems deep-rooted, even spiritual, rather than needy or pathetic—it makes people come to you."

“evangelizing, proclaiming Jesus, gives us joy. In contrast, egoism makes us bitter, sad, and depresses us. Evangelizing uplifts us.” 

“And here the first word that I wish to say to you: joy! Do not be men and women of sadness: a Christian can never be sad! Never give way to discouragement! Ours is not a joy born of having many possessions, but of having encountered a Person: Jesus, in our midst.” 

“Don’t cry out to God for change, and then be afraid of it when it comes.” 

“It is a sad truth, but we have lost the faculty of giving lovely names to things. ” 

“It is a sad thing to think of, but there is no doubt that genius lasts longer than beauty. That accounts for the fact that we all take such pains to over-educate ourselves. In the wild struggle for existence, we want to have something that endures, and so we fill our minds with rubbish and facts, in the silly hope of keeping our place. The thoroughly well-informed man--that is the modern ideal. And the mind of the thoroughly well-informed man is a dreadful thing. It is like a bric-a-brac shop, all monsters and dust, with everything priced above its proper value.” 

“The saddest thing I can imagine is to get used to luxury.” 

The saddest thing I can imagine is to get used to luxury.

All my pictures are built around the idea of getting in trouble and so giving me the chance to be desperately serious in my attempt to appear as a normal little gentleman.”

“The mirror is my best friend because when I cry it never laughs.”

I always like walking in the rain, so no one can see me crying.” 

“My pain may be the reason for somebody’s laugh. But my laugh must never be the reason for somebody’s pain.

“To truly laugh, you must be able to take your pain, and play with it!

“I don’t believe that the public knows what it wants; this is the conclusion that I have drawn from my career.

What a sad business, being funny 

“Music is essentially useless, as life is.”

“For sad if obvious reasons, women (especially white women who are seduced by access to the powerful) are the only discriminated-against group whose members seem to think that, if they don’t take themselves seriously, someone else will.” 

“Dying seems less sad than having lived too little.” 

"If you’re sad, add more lipstick and attack."

She who knows life flows, feels no wear or tear, needs no mending or repair.