Famous Quotes

"The South is very beautiful but its beauty makes one sad because the lives that people live here, and have lived here, are so ugly."

James Baldwin 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 James Baldwin

• "The primary distinction of the artist is that he must actively cultivate that state which most men, necessarily, must avoid the state of being alone."

• "The South is very beautiful but its beauty makes one sad because the lives that people live here, and have lived here, are so ugly."

• "The paradox of education is precisely this that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated."

• "An identity would seem to be arrived at by the way in which the person faces and uses his experience."

• "But the relationship of morality and power is a very subtle one. Because ultimately power without morality is no longer power."