Top 100 Sadness Is Quotes
#1. 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
#2. What is the point of roaming the world when it's the same misery everywhere?
Elif Shafak
#3. Being funny is a way of being liked and a way of dealing with sadness.
Wendy Wasserstein
#4. 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
#5. 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
#6. 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
#7. 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
#9. 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
#10. The sadness of the incomplete, the sadness that is often Life, but should never be Art.
E. M. Forster
#11. 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
#12. 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
#13. 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
#14. 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.
#15. 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
#16. Serve God joyfully. Let there be no sadness in your life: the only true sorrow is sin.
Mother Teresa
#17. 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
#18. The value of ourselves is but the value of our melancholy and our disquiet.
Maurice Maeterlinck
#19. Philosophy is a corrective against sadness. Yet there still are people who believe in the profundity of philosophy!
Emil Cioran
#20. 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
#21. 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
#22. 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
#23. 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
#24. 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
#25. There is no measure in the occasion that breeds;
therefore the sadness is without limit.
William Shakespeare
#26. The lonlier your path is, the brighter your future will be.
Omer Abazi
#27. Life is directly proportional to happiness and sadness.
Santosh Kalwar
#28. 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
#29. 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
#30. 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
#31. Never fall for anyone. It's only sadness that is gifted by them to you in your rest of the life.Kills the loving person inside you.
Debolina Bhawal
#32. It is with extreme sadness that we hear of the passing of the leader of the world's Catholics, His Holiness Pope John Paul II, who commanded the three paths of religious learning, philosophical thought and poetical and artistic creativity.
Mohammad Khatami
#33. Among the numerous luxuries of the table ... coffee may be considered as one of the most valuable. It excites cheerfulness without intoxication; and the pleasing flow of spirits which it occasions ... is never followed by sadness, languor or debility.
Benjamin Franklin
#35. The process of living, for each of us, is pretty similar. For every gain there is a setback. For every success, a failure. For every moment of joy, a time of sadness. For every hope realized, one is dashed.
Sue Atchley Ebaugh
#36. Nature is a mirror in which I am reflected, because by rescuing this land from sad devastation [through recreating it in photographs], I am in fact trying to save myself from my own inner sadness.
Mario Giacomelli
#37. The physical world - the world of stone and brick - is indifferent to our suffering, to our dramas, she thought. Even a battlefield can be peaceful, can be a place for flowers to grow, for children to play; the memories, the sadness, are within us, not part of the world about us.
Alexander McCall Smith
#38. Forgetting who you are is so much more complicated than simply forgetting your name. It's also forgetting your dreams. Your aspirations. What makes you happy. What you pray you'll never have to live without. It's meeting yourself for the first time, and not being sure of your first impression.
Jessica Brody
#39. Why is it...that the good things that pop up almost always get clobbered by these miserable darn things that seem to choke out everything like stinkweed?
A. E. Hotchner
#40. Sometimes, hope is even harder to bear than grief.
Claudia Gray
#41. Crying is cleansing. There's a reason for tears, happiness or sadness.
Dionne Warwick
#42. Heaven is laying in my sweet baby's arms, hell is when my baby's not here.
Waylon Jennings
#43. I believe that in a way, sadness is happiness for there can be no wrong without right, no light without dark, no success without failure, no relief without pain, no love without hatred and no Snow White without the evil queen.
Girl234
#44. Sitting on my bed with all these things I used to love but not loving them anymore, I just wanted to set them on fire. That's when I knew I was never going to be all right again.
Wendy Walker
#45. His absence is so big it's like he's there.
Patrick Ness
#46. I wonder what freezes
the flurry of hurt on her cold-
flushed cheeks, if his touch is
a salve or the shattering.
Beth Morey
#47. If a man cannot understand the beauty of life, it is probably because life never understood the beauty in him.
Criss Jami
#48. It is almost a sadness to my soul that men should be astonished and surprised at an ordinary, tangible evidence of the power of God.
John G. Lake
#49. I rode all day.
I cried all night.
The moon didn't glow.
The sun didn't rise.
A comet blazed
Between my eyes.
West and South,
Wind and rain.
Every way is
Just the same.
Pray give me a box
To hide inside.
Pray give me a spade
To dig my own grave.
Gail Carson Levine
#50. For a moment I had a strange intuition that just this, and in a real, profound sense, is life; and perhaps happiness even - love with a mixture of sadness, reverence, and silent knowledge.
Erich Maria Remarque
#51. A broken heart is not the same as sadness. Sadness occurs when the heart is stone cold and lifeless. On the contrary, there is an unbelievable amount of vitality in a broken heart.
Elizabeth Lesser
#52. To make art is to realize another's sadness within, realize the hidden sadness in other people's lives, to feel sad with and for a stranger.
Marianne Wiggins
#53. Sometimes, all it takes to lift the sadness from another is to let them know how much you appreciate them and how grateful you are having them in your life.
Charles F. Glassman
#54. Always give but never expect. Giving is happiness; disappointment is sadness.
Debasish Mridha
#55. I don't dare touch her. Loss is a knowledge I'm sorry to have. Perhaps the only thing worse than experiencing it, is watching it replay anew in someone else
all the awful stages picking up like a chorus that has to be sung.
Lauren DeStefano
#56. His work was so great that it cannot be compassed in a few words. His death is one of the greatest losses ever to occur to British science.
{Describing Ernest Rutherford upon his death at age 66. Thomson, then 80 years old, was once his teacher.}
J.J. Thomson
#57. Sadness of any sort is also seductive, particularly if it seems deep-rooted, even spiritual, rather than needy or pathetic - it makes people come to you.
Robert Greene
#58. If Caribbean writers have one single unifying theme, it is a strong sense of place, and of home. There is also - always, beneath the humour, which is a West Indian characteristic - a sadness: an awareness of a past that can never really be forgotten, or forgiven.
Malcolm Bradbury
#59. Face, to me, is a metaphor of sadness. And I want to share this sadness. I'm not really interested whether it's an Indian face or not - that's not as important for me. But it's still important to establish the relationships in order to bring about a consciousness of our fragility.
Luis Gonzalez
#60. Deep down a broken heart, all the sadness one can bear is misery.
Auliq Ice
#61. Nothing: a landscape, a glass of wine, a little loveless love, and the vague sadness caused by our understanding nothing and having lost the little we're given.
Alvaro De Campos
#62. My hope for all of us is that 'the miles we go before we sleep' will be filled with all the feelings that come from deep caring
delight , sadness, joy, wisdom
and that in all the endings of our life, we will be able to see the new beginnings.
Fred Rogers
#63. Sadness is pervasive, so focus on joy, focus on happiness.
Debasish Mridha
#64. Maybe tranquility is the dirt under my nails. I know it's there but I never feel like digging it out.
Casey Renee Kiser
#65. There is some sadness for me now about acting because it used to be that there was a reverence for actors.
Estelle Parsons
#66. There's such a thing as too much happiness and sadness. What I'm after is contentment.
Ray Charles
#67. He may take long walks
in the raining dark
almost aimlessly
to a spot of soaked grass
in a neighbor's open field.
He's decided this is the place
for you and him to meet again.
Kristen Henderson
#68. She looks over at his empty bed, and her sadness is so potent that in that moment, I'd do anything to get him back for her. (I'd do anything to bring him back.)
Rainbow Rowell
#69. I want it to stop," he said. "Sophie says everyone is still searching for a cure for me. I know I gave Will my permission, but I want everyone to cease looking now, Charlotte. It is over.
Cassandra Clare
#70. The mercy of heaven is greater than you or your sins. Let your sadness be dispersed by its glorious beams. Do not let apathy prevent you from seizing the moment for repentance. It matters not how wickedness has flourished. Divine grace can flourish still more abundantly.
Christopher St John
#71. While it is important to trash the governor, it should be done in the context of regret, sadness and balance.
Frank Luntz
#72. It is not the place, nor the condition, but the mind alone what it compares its situation to that can make anyone happy or miserable. Compare it to something better - result envy, frustration and sadness. Compare it to something worse - relief, gratitude and happiness.
Roger L'Estrange
#73. There is no love;
There are only the various envies, all of them sad.
W. H. Auden
#74. Until there is no longer the possibility of sadness, of isolation, there can be no gravity. We all float by, rootless, taking clumsy astronaut steps and calling it progress.
Meg Wolitzer
#75. Sometimes they open it up like a package in the presence of a person they can talk to,' she said. 'Someone they can trust.' She held out her hands. 'Any person who is carrying a lot of sadness,' she said, 'needs to be able to rest sometimes, and to put it down.
Julia A. Schumacher
#76. It's a sign of this film's greatness that the enormous sadness that accompanies the final leave-taking of the circus interior is a good deal more than the conclusion of an unpretentious evening's entertainments; it's a sublime and awesome coda to the career of one of this century's greatest artists.
Jonathan Rosenbaum
#77. There is nothing else for people to do. They do not think. They feel no passion, no hatred, no sadness; they feel nothing but fear, and a desire to control. So they watch, and poke, and pry.
Lauren Oliver
#78. In the moonlight which is always sad, as the light of the sun itself is
as the light called human life is
at its coming and its going.
Charles Dickens
#79. I followed all life's pleasures wherever they would lead, but someone I can treasure is all I really need.
Neil Diamond
#80. Be happy, talk happiness. Happiness calls out responsive gladness in others. There is enough sadness in the world without yours.
Helen Keller
#81. Maybe the only thing that lasts is our memories of each other...
Sylvain Reynard
#82. Tantra says be real, be authentic to yourself. Your happiness is not bad; it is good. It is not sin! Only sadness is sin, only to be miserable is sin. To be happy is virtue because a happy person will not create unhappiness for others. Only a happy person can be a ground for others' happiness.
Rajneesh
#83. Your love is a kind place, and I don't deserve to stay.
J. Limbu
#84. Sadness is pathetically limited to the range of thirst, it is just a sip of emotion, tightly buckled to a frown, quenchable.
Miranda July
#85. There are many backstabbing friends who in your hard time will ignore you, without to ask something from them. You just are filled with sadness and they don't confide in you anymore.
The downside of your hard time is being considered rude, negative, boorish and insistent.
Camelia C.
#86. I will instruct my sorrows to be proud; for grief is proud, and makes his owner stoop.
William Shakespeare
#87. Yet my sadness is a comfort For it is natural and right And is what should fill the soul Whenever it thinks it exists
Fernando Pessoa
#88. Love won't always be sunshine and roses there is also sadness.
Auliq Ice
#90. Well, the musicals give emphasis to love, longing, melancholy, sadness. All of that is always there.
Ismail Merchant
#91. Everything we come across becomes a part of us. It doesn't matter how small or insignificant it is ... or how devastating. One story here, one story there, that's what I see when I look back at my life. An accumulation of everything I went through.
Bhaskaryya Deka
#92. Will the things that are being lost - the wilderness, the plants and animals, the skills, and all the others - leave too vast a gap in the human spirit? This is the unanswerable question. In the meantime, we must live in our century and wait, enduring somehow the unavoidable sadness.
David Ehrenfeld
#93. I felt as if something hung there in the back of my mind, waiting to tarnish whatever happiness I might find. Is it safer to be unhappy? Nothing ever wants to take that away.
Storm Constantine
#94. holding
the evening
tremblingly close
to me
i weep
into
the sun
letting
the burden
of hope
lift off my chest
i realize
this is what
it means
to be free.
Sanober Khan
#95. Perhaps the only way to love is to bury yourself so deeply in it that you avoid its very suffering.
Meghna Pant
#96. I am a trembling mess from hip to knee. There is a terrible heat, a looseness in my innards that makes me want to dig my fists between my thighs. It is a confusing feeling - somewhere between diarrhoea and sex - this grief that is almost genital.
Anne Enright
#97. Depression is our way of telling ourselves that something is seriously wrong and needs working through and changing.
Neel Burton
#98. Sadness is just happiness turned on its ass - it's all showbiz!
Guy Maddin
#99. I don't like romance, I don't like sadness. The sadness motion is negative one... as much you are sad as more deeper you go and you want to return the thing which you can't.
Deyth Banger
#100. I have found it is surprisingly difficult to remain sad when a cat is doing its level best to sandpaper one's cheeks.
R.L. LaFevers
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