Famous Quotes

"Everything takes me longer than I expect. It's the sad truth about life."

Donna Tartt 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 Donna Tartt

• "To really be centered and to really work well and to think about the kinds of things that I need to think about, I need to spend large amounts of time alone."

• "I believe, in a funny way, the job of the novelist is to be out there on the fringes and speaking for an experience that has not really been spoken for."

• "The novel is about five students of classics who are studying with a classics professor, and they take the ideas of the things that they're learning from him a bit too seriously, with terrible consequences."

• "But romantic vision can also lead one away from certain very hard, ugly truths about life that are important to know."