Sad Wise Quotes

#1. A sad, wise valor is the brave complexion.

George Herbert

#2. Its powers?' Dallben answered with a sad smile. 'My dear boy, this is a bit of metal hammered into a rather unattractive shape; it could better have been a pruning hook or a plow iron. Its powers? Like all weapons, only those held by him who wields it. What yours may be, I can in no wise say.

Lloyd Alexander

#3. Life is an endlessly creative experience, and we are shaping ourselves at every moment by every decision we make.

Kent Nerburn

#4. Whether you are happy or whether you are sad, it is wise to remember you are really in process.

Maya Angelou

#5. He who is not just is severe, he who is not wise is sad.

Voltaire

#6. I never worry about action, but only inaction.

Winston Churchill

#7. Everything is in you, Sad, Joy, Mercy... Those you think of, you feel...
when you feel, you act... So be wise in thinking....

Giridhar Alwar

#8. Affliction comes to us all, not to make us sad, but sober; not to make us sorry, but to make us wise; not to make us despondent, but by its darkness to refresh us as the night refreshes the day; not to impoverish, but to enrich us

Henry Ward Beecher

#9. Beauty makes idiots sad and wise men merry.

George Jean Nathan

#10. One of the pitfalls of writing about illness is that it is very easy to imagine people with cancer as either these wise, beyond-their-years creatures or else these sad-eyed, tragic people. And the truth is people living with cancer are very much like people who are not living with cancer.

John Green

#11. Alone beneath a tallow candle, she allowed herself a shuddering sob, then another. A woman may weep, but not a queen.

George R R Martin

#12. The soul's tears are worth more than the heart's smiles.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#13. Affliction comes to the believer not to make him sad, but sober; not to make him sorry, but wise. Even as the plow enriches the field so that the seed is multiplied a thousandfold, so affliction should magnify our joy and increase our spiritual harvest.

Henry Ward Beecher

#14. And through meditation comes wisdom - not through studying books, not through scriptures. Through scriptures one can become knowledgeable but no wise. and knowledgeable people are sad, they are bound to be sad because all their knowledge is borrowed. There can be no song in it.

Rajneesh

#15. It's a hard man who's only just, and a sad man who's only wise.

Gregory Benford

#16. [Grace talking to Billy.] "It's like people who want to feel only happy but not sad," she said. "It never works. You either feel things or you don't. You don't get to pick and choose. At least, I don't think so.

Catherine Ryan Hyde

#17. If you want a fulfilled life, stop thinking about wealthy people and what they have and you don't. Stop thinking from a place of scarcity.

Tony Robbins

#18. He who gives while he lives, gets to know where it goes.

Percy Ross

#19. I often feel like I have this spirit living inside of me, always dressing in like short mini skirts ... but then I start to discover myself. So there are eight spirits, mischievous ones, sad ones, handsome ones, wise ones, and crazy ones.

Bai Ling

#20. I'm not going to lie to you and say it gets easier, because it doesn't. It's just that you get used to it. The human animal has an amazing capacity to get used to almost anything.

Andrea Speed

#21. there's always been a little sadness inside my happiness.

i've never been able to separate the two.

AVA.

#22. ABNODATION (ABNODA'TION) n.s.[abnodatio, Lat.] The act of cutting away knots from trees;a term of gardening.Dict.

Samuel Johnson

#23. To sense when a teenager needs understanding and when misunderstanding is a difficult and delicate task. The sad truth is that no matter how wise we are, we cannot be right for any length of time in our teenagers' eyes.

Haim Ginott

#24. It is sad, people what to control others. But they have not learned to know their soul.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#25. I am more afraid of alcohol than of all the bullets of the enemy.

Stonewall Jackson

#26. It is sad to see people do things without putting their soul and heart into it.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#27. Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us sorry but wise.

H.G.Wells

#28. He is a hard man who is only just, and a sad one who is only wise.

Voltaire

#29. Hey Jude, don't make it bad, take a sad song and make it better.

The Beatles

#30. Without new life, death is simply sad. Without death, new life is without magic--the magic of wise voices of the past, now gone, but still urging us on, urging us to write a new song.

Bill Golembeski

#31. The sad truth of history has always been that the unreasoning masses follow the powerful, and not the wise.

George R R Martin

#32. To me there can be no liberation without socialism. And conversely, there can be no socialism without liberation for everybody.

Clara Fraser

#33. Poverty makes you sad as well as wise.

Bertolt Brecht

#34. And just then he realized in a flash that men have only this sad knowledge with which to heal themselves: when you lose life, you grow wise. But that is better than maiming life to hold it.

John Holmes

#35. It is sad that people seek money more than wisdom.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#36. I guess you have to born in the Pit to find light where there isn't any.

S.M. McEachern

#37. It was not curiosity that killed the goose who laid the golden egg, but an insatiable greed that devoured common sense.

E.A. Bucchianeri

#38. Moving eight miles a minute for months at a time.

Bob Seger