Sadness Quotes

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If men as individuals surrender to the call of their elementary instincts, avoiding pain and seeking satisfaction only for their own selves, the result for… — Albert Einstein
Who goes a-borrowing goes a-sorrowing. — Thomas Tusser
The old happiness is unreturning. Boy's griefs are not so grievous as youth's yearning. Boys have no sadness sadder than our hope. — Wilfred Owen
The value of ourselves is but the value of our melancholy and our disquiet. — Maurice Maeterlinck
What a miserable thing life is: you're in clover; only the clover isn't good enough. — Bertolt Brecht
Once you have known the generosity of existence you will never feel miserable. — Rajneesh
Keep busy at something: a busy person never has time to be unhappy. — Robert Louis Stevenson
Don't feel bad when I die; I've been dead for a long time. — Dorothy Parker
It's always winter but it's never Christmas. — C.S. Lewis
Despair has been called the unforgivable sin-not presumably because God refuses to forgive it, but because it despairs of the possibility of being forgiven. — Frederick Buechner
Not to believe in love is a great sign of dullness. There are some people so indirect and lumbering that they think all real affection… — George Santayana
It is better to drink of deep grief than to taste shallow pleasures. — William Hazlitt
Let tears flow of their own accord; their flowing is not inconsistent with inward peace and harmony. — Seneca the Younger
In great cities men are more callous both to the happiness and the misery of others, than in the country; for they are constantly in… — Charles Caleb Colton
In the valley of sorrow, spread your wings. — Susan Sontag
Since hate poisons the soul, don't cherish enmities or grudges: avoid people who make you unhappy. — Robert Louis Stevenson
Being myself animated by feelings of affection toward my fellowmen, I am saddened by the modern system of advertising. Whatever evidence it offers of enterprise,… — Joseph Conrad
In the presence of nature, a wild delight runs through the man, in spite of real sorrows. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
You see all these things that make you feel desperate or sad, but you realize changes can be made, and it doesn't take a lot… — John Legend
EARTH DAY uses one of humanity's great discoveries, the discovery of anniversaries by which, throughout time, human beings have kept their sorrows and their joys,… — Margaret Mead

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