Sadness Quotes

“Of course we did everything right, insofar as we were able to imagine what "right" was.”
― Donald Barthelme, Sadness

“The world in the evening seems fraught with the absence of promise, if you are a married man. There is nothing to do but go home and drink your nine drinks and forget about it.”
― Donald Barthelme, Sadness

“Yes, the saint was underrated quite a bit, then, mostly by people who didn’t like things that were ineffable…

…a lot of people don’t like things that are unearthly, the things of this earth are good enough for them, and they don’t mind telling you so. “If he’d just go out and get a job, like everybody else, then he could be saintly all day long…”

—from “The Temptations of St. Anthony,” by Donald Barthelme”
― Donald Barthelme, Sadness

“... And Harold came into Perpetua's apartment.
He said, 'I just want to know one thing. Are you happy?' 'Sure,' Perpetua said. (Donald Barthelme, "Perpetua")”
― Donald Barthelme, Sadness