Quotes About Sadness

#1. Why had he wanted to be rich, or to feel rich? Was he an unhappy mouse before? Didn't he see the King himself often looking sad? Was anyone completely happy?

William Steig

#2. It is a horrible, terrible thing, the worst thing, to watch somebody you love die right in front of you and not be able to do nothing about it.

Kate DiCamillo

#3. The more she was absolutely in need of external friendship, the more disposed was she to reject it, and to declare to herself that she was prepared to stand alone in the world.

Anthony Trollope

#4. I've lost loved ones in my life who never knew how much I loved them. Now I live with the regret that my true feelings for them never were revealed.

Garth Brooks

#5. What is the point of roaming the world when it's the same misery everywhere?

Elif Shafak

#6. Truth and life are very difficult to fathom, and I retained of them, without really having got to know them, an impression in which sadness was perhaps actually eclipsed by exhaustion.

Marcel Proust

#7. Deep down, I reckon the sweetest moment will come when it's finally all over. When, at last, I know that I can stop fighting. Of course it'll also be a little sad. The sweetest moments, y'know, always come with just a little sadness.

Evander Holyfield

#8. It's how I fill the time when nothing's happening. Thinking too much, flirting with melancholy.

Tim Winton

#9. Again and again, I learn how much friendship enriches my life, bringing warmth, assurance, humour, inspiration, a sense of security. It depends on honesty, trust, loyalty. It's about giving. It's for sharing the good times, but also the tough times, hurt, grief, sadness.

Quentin Bryce

#10. Everyone wanted what she couldn't have.

Richelle Mead

#11. Being funny is a way of being liked and a way of dealing with sadness.

Wendy Wasserstein

#12. He held her face in his hands and his gaze warmed her sadness. "I don't care how you got here. I'm just happy you were born." He rubbed noses with hers. "Real happy.

Selena Robins

#13. Bubba shot the jukebox last night, said it played a sad song and it made him cry.

Mark Chesnutt

#14. Things hurt.. accepted. Shedding tears.. accepted. Sadness.. accepted.. But to quit and make your work suffer.. not at all accepted..

Himmilicious

#15. I wish for a moment that time would lift me out of this day, and into some more benign one. But then I feel guilty for wanting to avoid the sadness; dead people need us to remember them, even if it eats us, even if all we can do is say "I'm sorry" until it is as meaningless air.

Audrey Niffenegger

#16. To do justice to a lifelong dream of being a writer, I must give it the intense concentration and focus I gave to track. To do both with excellence is not possible. It is with a sense of sadness and joyous anticipation that I leave track and move on.

Florence Griffith Joyner

#17. A rose looks grey at midnight, but the flame is just asleep. And steel is strong because it knows the hammer and white heat.

Johnny Cash

#18. May you hear my feeble voice! It will tell you that here below there is a heart full of the memory of you.

Herculine Barbin

#19. In the end, everything is found to be wanting.

Frank Lentricchia

#20. She also knew that the sadness she felt while pregnant, for strangers, for the entire world, did not feel like hormones so much as a kind of elevated consciousness, a heightened sensitivity to truth.

Laura Moriarty

#21. The thing about people though, I think, is that our hearts tend to do a great job holding on to the horrible stuff and a horrible job holding on to the good. Or at least we're like that until we learn how to not be like that.

Kevin Breel

#22. (Can human beings change? The humor, and the sadness, of remarriage comedies can be said to result from the fact that we have no good answer to that question.)

Stanley Cavell

#23. Pleasure and thrill are conducive to sadness after the so-called peak has
been reached; for the thrill has been experienced, but the vessel has not
grown.

Erich Fromm

#24. But I saw the pain and sadness in everything, and swirled it round my mouth like a fine wine.

Emma Forrest

#25. A wonderful book ... Full of sadness, hope, and ultimately love. I found it very moving.

Esther Freud

#26. Hold the sadness and pain of samsara in your heart and at the same time the power and vision of the Great Eastern Sun. Then the warrior can make a proper cup of tea.

Chogyam Trungpa

#27. An Hour of Bliss and Many Hours of Sadness

Thomas Hardy

#28. I am heartbroken by the devastation caused by Hurricane Katrina in my home state. Like so many Americans I am watching the news reports with great sadness. But it's at times like these that each of us must work together to provide lifesaving aid to those in terrible need.

Tim McGraw

#29. The sadness of the incomplete, the sadness that is often Life, but should never be Art.

E. M. Forster

#30. 92. Eventually I confess to a friend some details about my weeping - its intensity, its frequency. She says (kindly) that she thinks we sometimes weep in front of a mirror not to inflame self-pity, but because we want to feel witnessed in our despair.

Maggie Nelson

#31. He had a sadness in his eyes that Carrie recognised as regret.

Kassandra Cross

#32. Sad? Nonsense! Parting with friends is a sadness. A place is only a place." He glanced at the charts on the table. "And Arrakis is just another place.

Frank Herbert

#33. All the joy and color was washed from her face, and at first the sadness only made her more beautiful. But

Peter V. Brett

#34. We weren't so different, Finn and I. Cages come in lots of colors and shapes. Some are gilded, while others have a slamming door. But golden handcuffs are still handcuffs.

Amy Harmon

#35. It was becoming a nightmare. Ronan could hear the night horrors coming, in love with his blood and his sadness.

Maggie Stiefvater

#36. I don't know a writer who doesn't feel some sense of glamour and magic and a complex, wistful sadness emanating from the expats of the twenties in France. Some of the sadness, of course, is that we weren't there.

Guy Gavriel Kay

#37. Chronocanine Envy:
Sadness experienced when one realized that, unlike one's dog, one cannot live only in the present tense. As Kierkegaard said, Life must be lived forward.

Douglas Coupland

#38. Change is certain. Peace is followed by disturbances; departure of evil men by their return. Such recurrences should not constitute occasions for sadness but realities for awareness, so that one may be happy in the interim

Percy Bysshe Shelley

#39. No more crying. Tears only cause destructive
floods. When you are sad, you build a boat.

Katherine Russell

#40. Through the anger came something I recognized; the sadness that can result from too many years absorbing the poison of others. - Alex Delaware on Dr. Lehmann

Jonathan Kellerman

#41. I carry a deep sadness of the heart which must now and then break out in sound,

Franz Liszt

#42. There is some kind of a sweet innocence in being human- in not having to be just happy or just sad- in the nature of being able to be both broken and whole, at the same time.

C. JoyBell C.

#43. Griff held his breath, waiting for it, knowing the axe would fall and he'd start dying as soon as he walked out the fucking door, and Dante would just grin and joke and try to forget what they had done together in this room.

Damon Suede

#44. when she was younger, hannah liked to feel sad, so long as it was artifical sad' that was what she called it when the sadness was about something that wasn't real

Elizabeth Noble

#45. I finally got t this place were it feel right were i knew i belong were i didn't give crap maybe is not the right place but i feel save

Anita Rodriguez

#46. People are not theirs thoughts, they think they are, and it brings them all kinds of sadness.

Nick Nolte

#47. Serve God joyfully. Let there be no sadness in your life: the only true sorrow is sin.

Mother Teresa

#48. You learn, finally, that you'll die, and so you try to hang on to your own life, that gentle, naive kid you used to be, but then after a while the sentiment takes over, and the sadness, because you know for a fact that you can't ever bring any of it back again. You just can't.

Tim O'Brien

#49. People says it gets easier. People are stupid.
-Vlad

Heather Brewer

#50. I'd choked back so many tears, they'd become a lake of sadness in my belly.

Julia Karr

#51. beneath the stars that drift; she sighed and said
"Every tale of a love
can only be a tale of ghosts that linger
in these spaces we
can never hold," - as the wind
gave echo

John Daniel Thieme

#52. When sadness was the sea, you were the one that taught me to swim

Pleasefindthis

#53. The wolf pack will die when scattered by man, lonesome coyote survives.

Kris Kristofferson

#54. There is such sadness in his human eye that Tawaddud almost tells him the truth: that he should never marry a girl who loves only monsters. Then

Hannu Rajaniemi

#55. If my leg falls off, I'll get a prosthetic. There'd be no deep sadness about. I'd just get on with it! It's called life, and I love life. You have to be positive, and you have to crack on no matter what.

John Lydon

#56. The value of ourselves is but the value of our melancholy and our disquiet.

Maurice Maeterlinck

#57. As one who appreciated the tragic side of eating, it seemed to him that anything other than fruit for dessert implied a reprehensible frivolity, and cakes in particular ended up annihilating the flavour of quiet sadness that must be allowed to linger at the end of a great culinary performance.

Manuel Vazquez Montalban

#58. La Tahzan Innalaha Ma'ana It means dont be sad. Allah always there.

Anonymous

#59. Philosophy is a corrective against sadness. Yet there still are people who believe in the profundity of philosophy!

Emil Cioran

#60. There is no beauty in sadness. No honor in suffering. No growth in fear. No relief in hate. It's just a waste of perfectly good happiness.

Katerina Stoykova Klemer

#61. Paraphrasing Spinoza, Alexandre adds, "In pity, sadness comes first. I am sad that the other is suffering, but I don't really love him. In compassion, love comes first."23 The

Matthieu Ricard

#62. A little time separates us from those who depart - a time of tears, a time of sadness and solitude; but, that over, we go to rejoin them and to enjoy with them the society of the blessed. Oh, how sweetly the heart rests in this immortal hope!

Eugenie De Guerin

#63. She sat looking at him as she always did; her glance had tenderness without scorn and sadness without pity.

Ayn Rand

#64. Give sorrow words; the grief that does not speak knits up the o-er wrought heart and bids it break.

William Shakespeare

#65. I work grief and sadness out of my body when I dance, and I bring in joy and rhythm.

Inga Muscio

#66. He carries stars in his pockets
because he knows
she fears the dark.
Whenever sadness pays her a visit
he paints galaxies
on the back of her hands.

Alaska Gold

#67. At this time of sadness, there are no words to say, My heart is full of sympathy, for you and your family today.

Susan Smith

#68. He pushed that thoughts away. He didn't like painful memories. Keep moving
that was his motto. Don't dwell in things. Don't stay in one place too long. It was the only way to stay ahead of the sadness.

Rick Riordan

#69. And it made me hurt inside of my bones with sadness. Because in a life that is long and well lived there are sorrows and darkest doldrums that cannot be understood by those who live day to day like it could be any other.

Brian McGreevy

#70. Find the courage to ask questions and to express what you really want. Communicate with others as clearly as you can to avoid misunderstandings, sadness and drama.

Miguel Ruiz

#71. There ain't nothing like regret to remind you're alive.

Sheryl Crow

#72. I give myself up to darkness; and wish I may never again be required to lift my head to the light.

Sarah Waters

#73. And at the closing of the day
She loosed the chain, and down she lay;
The broad stream bore her far away,
The Lady of Shallot.

Alfred Tennyson

#74. Your perspective is vital to your happiness. Some, blind to the bountiful opportunities around them, live lives of sadness and despair with brief moments of joy. Be alive to the abundant potential that surrounds you so that you live a life of peace and happiness with periods of challenging growth.

Richard G. Scott

#75. From my perspective, I absolutely believe in a greater spiritual power, far greater than I am, from which I have derived strength in moments of sadness or fear. That's what I believe, and it was very, very strong in the forest.

Jane Goodall

#76. There is no measure in the occasion that breeds;
therefore the sadness is without limit.

William Shakespeare

#77. Music expresses first of all sadness rather than joy.

Ignacy Jan Paderewski

#78. And they can't understand, what hurts more - Missing the other person, or pretending not to.

Khadija Rupa

#79. After such an emotional day with her own parents, the thought nearly brought Luce to her knees with sadness. Daniel was alone in the world.

Lauren Kate

#80. We didn't need light & shade, irony or humor. An iconic Daltrey bellow could convey an extrodinary range of human emotion; withering sadness, self pity, loneliness, abandonment, spiritual desperation, the loss of childhood, as well as the more obvious rage & frustration, joy & triumph.

Pete Townshend

#81. When we talk now, we both know we've lost something, and I can feel us trying to fake it and make up what's missing. The faking makes me sad, and the sadness makes the faking harder to do.

Kate Le Vann

#82. On the beach, Roran stood alone, watching them go. Then he threw back his head and uttered a long, aching cry, and the night echoed with the sound of his loss.

Christopher Paolini

#83. No! he wanted to cry out. No, Tania, please come back. What can I leave her with, what can I say, what one word can I leave with her, for her? What one word for my wife?
"Tatiasha," Alexander called after her. God, what was the curator's name ... ?
She glanced back.
"Remember Orbeli-

Paullina Simons

#84. The lonlier your path is, the brighter your future will be.

Omer Abazi

#85. Benvolio: What sadness lengthens Romeo's hours?
Romeo: Not having that, which, having, makes them short.

William Shakespeare

#86. If you do not answer the noise and urgency of your gifts, they will turn on you. Or drag you down with their immense sadness at being abandoned.

Joy Harjo

#87. Life is directly proportional to happiness and sadness.

Santosh Kalwar

#88. Zapped while zipping.

Tim O'Brien

#89. I tend to equate sadness with intelligence.

Chuck Klosterman

#90. Don't stop yourself from greatness before you've begun from fear or from self-doubt. You were put here on this planet to do great things, to pioneer change by way of your own personal uniqueness, and to express yourself and share your happiness with others.

Kaiden Blake

#91. Everything at the moment, my dear, no doubt seems disgusting. I know the mood too well. But being in that mood, Ross, is like being out in the frost. If we do not keep on the move we shall perish.

Winston Graham

#92. Love has, at its best, made the inherent sadness of life bearable, and its beauty manifest.

Kay Redfield Jamison

#93. They tore out my heart and stomped that sucker flat.

Lewis Grizzard

#94. Life's pressure is equal to your resistance. Your grief has endless time. Your sadness is bottomless. Your worries are relentless. Your resentment is unquenchable. Your fears are unmovable. Every dimension of your suffering will instruct you, until you have learned your essential lessons.

Bryant McGill

#95. The sky cries for those filled with sadness

Sonya Watson

#96. One of the greatest acts of service you can do is to find someone who is secretly lonely and be a friend to them, if only for a day.

Dan Pearce

#97. Sadness and anger aren't vampiric. If you let them, they'll follow you around the world, sunshine and stakes be damned.

Karina Halle

#98. I don't feel like myself unless I run. It's how I deal with sadness and happiness. I need it. It's like therapy.

Kara Goucher

#99. How much pain a person detains may be proportionate to the pain they spare others when they'd rather hurt than hurt another.

Donna Lynn Hope

#100. As awful as he could be, I always knew he loved me in a way no one else ever had.

Jeannette Walls