Sadness Quotes

3015 Sadness quotes by 1610 unique authors

If you wish to experience peace, provide peace for another. If you wish to know that you are safe, cause another to know that they… — Dalai Lama
O Jesus! Remember the sadness that Thou didst experience when, contemplating in the light of Thy divinity the predestination of those who would be saved… — Brigit of Kildare
I will welcome happiness for it enlarges my heart; Yet I will endure sadness for it opens my soul. I will acknowledge rewards for they… — Og Mandino
The many-voiced song of the river echoed softly. Siddhartha looked into the river and saw many pictures in the flowing water. The river's voice was… — Hermann Hesse
Melancholy and remorse forms the deep leaden keel which enables us to sail into the wind of reality. — Cyril Connolly
Not, not mine: it's somebody else's wound; I could never have borne it. So take the thing that happened, hide it, stick it in the… — Anna Akhmatova
I will instruct my sorrows to be proud; for grief is proud, and makes his owner stoop. — William Shakespeare
That's a miserable and cursed word, to say I had, when what I have is nothing. — Plautus
The power is detested, and miserable the life, of him who wishes to be feared rather than to be loved. — Cornelius Nepos
A sad spectacle. If they be inhabited, what a scope for misery and folly. If they be not inhabited, what a waste of space. — Thomas Carlyle
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

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