Sadness Quotes

3015 Sadness quotes by 1610 unique authors

Suffering is a big informer, a big catalyst for creation. You take your sadness, your despair, your sense of injustice, and you put it in… — Madonna Ciccone
I don't think of all the misery but of the beauty that still remains. — Anne Frank
One cannot be deeply responsive to the world without being saddened very often. — Erich Fromm
An ounce of cheerfulness is worth a pound of sadness to serve God with. — Thomas Fuller
Sadness is but a wall between two gardens. — Khalil Gibran
It's usually a big kind of vent of frustration or anger or sadness that puts me in the right frame of mind to write. It's… — Ellie Goulding
We never taste a perfect joy; our happiest successes are mixed with sadness. — Pierre Corneille
The tragedy of life is in what dies inside a man while he lives - the death of genuine feeling, the death of inspired response,… — Norman Cousins
Music is amazing. There's some metaphysical comfort where it allows you to be isolated and alone while telling you that you are not alone... truly,… — Wayne Coyne
It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are. — E E Cummings
Depressions may bring people closer to the church but so do funerals. — Clarence Darrow
I find sadness and strife to be so much more interesting with an upbeat melody. — Zooey Deschanel
They say it is better to be poor and happy than rich and miserable, but how about a compromise like moderately rich and just moody? — Princess Diana
I'm worth more dead than alive. Don't cry for me after I'm gone; cry for me now. — Marlene Dietrich
Art is the stored honey of the human soul, gathered on wings of misery and travail. — Theodore Dreiser
Sadness does not inhere in things; it does not reach us from the world and through mere contemplation of the world. It is a product… — Emile Durkheim
Half of the secular unrest and dismal, profane sadness of modern society comes from the vain ideas that every man is bound to be a… — Henry Van Dyke
Musical compositions can be very sad - Chopin - but you have the pleasure of this sadness. The cheap consolation is: you will be happy.… — Umberto Eco
The thought that all experience will be lost at the moment of my death makes me feel pain and fear... What a waste, decades spent… — Umberto Eco
So much of the deep lingering sadness over President Kennedy's assassination is about the unfinished promise: unspoken speeches, unfulfilled hopes, the wondering about what might… — Marian Wright Edelman
There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when we have not yet known… — George Eliot
I can mourn internally, just be quiet about it. I have my moments but I'm not a real, expressive person, especially when it comes to… — Faith Evans
Human misery must somewhere have a stop; there is no wind that always blows a storm. — Euripides
It is sadder to find the past again and find it inadequate to the present than it is to have it elude you and remain… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
Sadness flies away on the wings of time. — Jean de La Fontaine

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