Sadness Quotes

3015 Sadness quotes by 1610 unique authors

By freely choosing to believe God's promises, a person's faith may be more strongly embraced and, therefore, less likely to falter in times of struggle,… — Mary C. Neal
Child of mortality, whence comest thou? Why is thy countenance sad, and why are thine eyes red with weeping? — Anna Letitia Barbauld
Therefore, we know about God that He loves and shows pity on His creatures, and also that He is the source of wisdom and knows… — Dorotheus of Gaza
We, all of us in the First World, have participated in something of a binge, a half century of unbelievable prosperity and ease. We may… — Bill McKibben
Of all tales 'tis the saddest--and more sad, Because it makes us smile. — Lord Byron
What a sad business is being funny! — Charlie Chaplin
Grief alone can teach us what is man. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
The dreamer's valuation of a thing lost - not another man's - is the only standard to measure it by, and his grief for it… — Mark Twain
Some women's faces are, in their brightness, a prophecy; and some, in their sadness, a history. — Charles Dickens
People should never sit alone for too long when they're crying. — Dalai Lama
If only it were possible for us to see farther than our knowledge reaches, and even a little beyond the outworks of our presentiment, perhaps… — Rainer Maria Rilke
Grief can have a quality of profound healing because we are forced to a depth of feeling that is usually below the threshold of awareness. — Stephen Levine
If you're hung up on nostalgia, pretend today is yesterday and just go out and have one hell of a time. — Art Buchwald
the moods of sadness that come over anyone who takes up art... these dismal moods have very little compensation. — Edgar Degas
My philosophy is fundamentally sad, but I'm not a sad man, and I don't believe I sadden anyone else. — Antonio Machado
I have learned to cry again and I think perhaps that means I am a human being again. Perhaps that at least. A piece of… — William Styron
I want to do drawings which touch some people... In either figure or landscape I wish to express, not sentimental melancholy, but serious sorrow. — Vincent Van Gogh
To live beneath sorrow, one must yield to it. — Madame de Stael
Life is a mosaic of pleasure and pain - grief is an interval between two moments of joy. — Sathya Sai Baba
Joys as winged dreams fly fast, / Why should sadness longer last? / Grief is but a wound to woe; / Gentlest fair, mourn, mourn… — John Fletcher
I'd like to combine melancholy and sunshine... There's a sadness in Provence which no one has expressed... I'd like to put reason in the grass… — Paul Cezanne
It is perhaps sad books that best console us when we are sad... — Alain de Botton
When in such sadness I earnestly elevated my spirit into God and locked my whole heart and mind along with all my thoughts and will… — Jakob Bohme
I'd like to have a word for 'the sadness inspired by failing restaurants' as well as for 'the excitement of getting a room with a… — Jeffrey Eugenides
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… — Mohammad Khatami

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