Famous Quotes

"I think coldness is chic among writers, and particularly ironic coldness. What is absolutely not allowable is sadness. People will do anything rather than to acknowledge that they are sad."

Mary Gordon on Sad

More quotes about Sad

• "When you are joyous, look deep into your heart and you shall find it is only that which has given you sorrow that is giving you joy. When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight."

  Khalil Gibran on Sad

• "Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad."

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow on Sad

• "I seldom think about my limitations, and they never make me sad. Perhaps there is just a touch of yearning at times but it is vague, like a breeze among flowers."

  Helen Keller on Sad

• "If my world were to cave in tomorrow, I would look back on all the pleasures, excitements and worthwhilenesses I have been lucky enough to have had. Not the sadness, not my miscarriages or my father leaving home, but the joy of everything else. It will have been enough."

  Audrey Hepburn on Sad

• "Sadness is but a wall between two gardens."

  Khalil Gibran on Sad

More quotes by Mary Gordon

• "It was actually a women's writing group I belonged to in graduate school that gave me the courage to move from poetry to fiction."

• "We all of us deserve happiness or none of us does."

• "It was actually a women's writing group I belonged to in graduate school that gave me the courage to move from poetry to fiction."

• "One should never be sexually involved with anyone one genuinely cares for. A sexual relationship guarantees a loss."