Sadness Quotes

3015 Sadness quotes by 1610 unique authors

You have had many sadnesses, large ones, which passed. ... But please, ask yourself whether these large sadnesses haven't rather gone right through you [that… — Rainer Maria Rilke
There is no true joy and compassion except through the difficult emotions - all we get without the experience of fear, anger, and sadness are… — Gabrielle Roth
Love, experienced thus, is a constant challenge; it is not a resting place, but a moving, growing, working together; even whether there is harmony or… — Erich Fromm
Hold the sadness and pain of samsara [suffering, confusion] in your heart and at the same time the power and vision of the Great Eastern… — Pema Chodron
There's such a thing as too much happiness and sadness. What I'm after is contentment. — Ray Charles
...too much sadness hath congealed your blood,And melancholy is the nurse of frenzy. — William Shakespeare
The moment a man questions the meaning and value of life, he is sick, since objectively neither has any existence; by asking this question one… — Sigmund Freud
Relaxing with something as familiar as loneliness is good discipline for realizing the profundity of the unresolved moments of our lives. We are cheating ourselves… — Pema Chodron
Often we see a couple who has separated or divorced and look with sadness at the ‘failure’ of their relationship. But if both people learned… — Marianne Williamson
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
Your fingertips across my skin, the palm trees swaying in the wind - images. You sang me Spanish lullabies, the sweetest sadness in your eyes… — A Fine Frenzy
Happiness, sadness, loss and gain all pass away. What they do to us is what remains. — Yasmin Mogahed
It's sad, but sometimes moving on with the rest of your life, starts with goodbye. — Carrie Underwood
A tender sadness drops upon my soul, like the soft twilight dropping on the world. — Alexander Smith
It is not true that if we had true faith we would not be sad. Prophets (as), and righteous people experienced a great deal of… — Nouman Ali Khan
What protects you in this world from sadness and from the loss of an ability to do something? ... Work and love. — Maira Kalman
There is a sadness at the back of life which some people do not attempt to mitigate. Entirely aware of their own standing in the… — Virginia Woolf
Even if death were to fall upon you today like lightning, you must be ready to die without sadness and regret, without any residue of… — Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche
Real sadness is such an all-encompassing intense thing that it takes you out of your humdrum existence. If you can still function, you want to… — David Byrne
My heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains/ My sense, as though of hemlock I had drunk. — John Keats
I know a cure for sadness: Let our hands touch something that makes your eyes smile. — Meera
The weight of sadness was in wonder lost. — William Wordsworth
Sadness takes up the pen more readily than joy. — Henri Frederic Amiel
Tears are often a gift from God, and sadness is a healthy emotion. — Alan Loy McGinnis
Can't you tell when you're with someone who's listening? She hears you, really hears you. He hears the sadness in your tone or catches your… — Sheila Walsh

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