Breathe Quote by Alexandre Dumas

“Can we account for instinct?' said Monte Cristo. 'Are there not some places where we seem to breathe sadness? — why, we cannot tell.…

— Alexander Dumas

there does seem to me something sad in life. It is hard to say what it is. I don't mean the sorrow that we…

— Katherine Mansfield

Sadness does not inhere in things; it does not reach us from the world and through mere contemplation of the world. It is a…

— Emile Durkheim

Perhaps somewhere, someplace deep inside your being, you have undergone important changes while you were sad.

— Rainer Maria Rilke

It's sadness coming on like the old days, the vast seamless hopeless weight of sadness looking for a place to rest.

— Anonymous

We're all connected to melancholy. It's an experience that moves us. And it defines us, the sadness we face it shapes our life journey.

— Jeremy Limn

Emotions are lovely. Even if they fall to the negative for a time. The sun will rise again another day. The sadness perhaps never…

— Anne Mallory

“It seems to me that almost all our sadnesses are moments of tension, which we feel as paralysis because we no longer hear our…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

Always there's that space between what you feel and what you do, and in that gap, all human sadness lies.

— George Rodrigue

“In the psychological literature, depression is often seen as a defense against sadness. But I'll take sadness any day. There is no contest. Sadness…

— Martha Manning

“The way sadness works is one of the strange riddles of the world. If you are stricken with a great sadness, you may feel…

— Lemony Snicket

Some days you'll feel sad without knowing why. Like you lost something very precious but forgot what it was, or like you miss someone…

— Anonymous