Pastoral Resources

Bad things do happen; how I respond to them defines my character and the quality of my life. I can choose to sit in perpetual sadness, immobilized by the gravity of my loss, or I can choose to rise from the pain and treasure the most precious gift I have - life itself.

Sadness is also a kind of defence.

The sadness of the women's movement is that they don't allow the necessity of love. See, I don't personally trust any revolution where love is not allowed.

When sadness happens in the middle of work, I separate my personal grief from my train of thought.

I really believe that all of us have a lot of darkness in our souls. Anger, rage, fear, sadness. I don't think that's only reserved for people who have horrible upbringings. I think it really exists and is part of the human condition. I think in the course of your life you figure out ways to deal with that.

I think we all have a lot of darkness in our bellies. As an actor, the challenge of tapping into that, reaching down into that sadness or anger, is very therapeutic.

Beauty is the disinterested one, without which the ancient world refused to understand itself, a word which both imperceptibly and yet unmistakably has bid farewell to our new world, a world of interests, leaving it to its own avarice and sadness.

I know what it's like to have someone coming home who looks at you not in the way they used to in the old days, and I've seen my own face contorted with sadness and rage in the mirror.

Red is the ultimate cure for sadness.

I had no idea that mothering my own child would be so healing to my own sadness from my childhood.

The essence of romantic love is that wonderful beginning, after which sadness and impossibility may become the rule.

Most poets in their youth begin in adolescent sadness. I find it more rewarding to end in gladness.

In deep sadness there is no place for sentimentality.

I felt a tremendous sadness for men who can't deal with a woman of their own age.

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.

I have seen him set fire to his wigwam and smooth over the graves of his fathers... clap his hand in silence over his mouth, and take the last look over his fair hunting ground, and turn his face in sadness to the setting sun.

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

We never taste happiness in perfection, our most fortunate successes are mixed with sadness.

We never taste a perfect joy; our happiest successes are mixed with sadness.

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.