Sadness Quote by Anonymous

My illness is excruciating and difficult to cope with. It takes over your entire life and causes more suffering than I can describe.

— Laura Hillenbrand

“There is no call for you to get tragic about it. Tragedy is easy enough to contrive. And if you want to be tragic,…

— Cordwainer Smith

“Humans, as a species, are constantly, and in every way, comparing themselves to one another, which, given the brief nature of their existence, seems…

— Donald Miller

“We, all of us, have been affected by war, hurricanes, drought, economic hardship. The result is a disease—an epidemic—called ‘hopelessness.’ It’s carried on the…

— Charles Martin

“It is illness that makes us recognize that we do not live in isolation but are chained to a being from a different realm,…

— Marcel Proust

How cruel my suffering is,—no one is more talkative than I am!

— Georges Bataille

“When the tragedies of others become for us diversions, sad stories with which to enthrall our friends, interesting bits of data to toss out…

— Lucius Shepard

When my disease nearly destroyed me in 2009, my doctors thought I'd be lucky to regain 80 percent of my cognitive abilities. When I…

— Susannah Cahalan

“But suffering from a life-threatening disease also helped me have a different attitude and perspective. It has given a new intensity to life, for…

— Desmond Tutu

I've always felt solidarity with those people who have to cope with illnesses, including ones that are far worse than mine.

— Seve Ballesteros

Life is tragic. You are tiny and flawed and ignorant and weak, and everything else is huge, complex, and overwhelming.

— Jordan Peterson

I have not had tragic incidences in my life that have rocked my personal being. The thing that really has been my biggest enemy…

— Myron Rolle