Sadness Quotes

3015 Sadness quotes by 1610 unique authors

Change is certain. Peace is followed by disturbances; departure of evil men by their return. Such recurrences should not constitute occasions for sadness but realities… — Percy Bysshe Shelley
My father's death, my move, and my frightening and difficult delivery created a tremendous amount of stress, pain, and sadness for me. I was practically… — Brooke Shields
I think ethics is always there; it's not always a very thoughtful or reflective ethics. — Peter Singer
Live by this credo: have a little laugh at life and look around you for happiness instead of sadness. Laughter has always brought me out… — Red Skelton
Never let go of that fiery sadness called desire. — Patti Smith
Tell the truth through whichever veil comes to hand - but tell it. Resign yourself to the lifelong sadness that comes from never being satisfied. — Zadie Smith
A lot of me is very up, and you have to have light and shade. They are both important and you have to be able… — Imelda Staunton
It is so friendly so simply friendly and though inevitable not a sadness and though occurring not a shock. — Gertrude Stein
I don't need to manufacture trauma in my life to be creative. I have a big enough reservoir of sadness or emotional trauma to last… — Sting
The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone. — Harriet Beecher Stowe
I've never thought about songwriting as a weapon. I've only thought about it as a way to help me get through love and loss and… — Taylor Swift
The power of fortune is confessed only by the miserable, for the happy impute all their success to prudence or merit. — Jonathan Swift
37 is a lumpy number, a bit like porridge. Six is very small and dark and cold, and whenever I was little trying to understand… — Daniel Tammet
In my deepest parts of sadness, I'm always making a joke or being sarcastic. — Lea Thompson
If misery loves company, misery has company enough. — Henry David Thoreau
Boredom, anger, sadness, or fear are not 'yours,' not personal. They are conditions of the human mind. They come and go. Nothing that comes and… — Eckhart Tolle
Life is not an easy matter... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism unless you have before you a great idea… — Leon Trotsky
There is no sadder sight than a young pessimist. — Mark Twain
It is the great sadness of our species that we have not found a way to eliminate the conflict and to eliminate violence as a… — Neale Donald Walsch
God is in the sadness and the laughter, in the bitter and the sweet. — Neale Donald Walsch
Crying is cleansing. There's a reason for tears, happiness or sadness. — Dionne Warwick
I had often sought for the peace there is in Christ, but I could not seem to find the freedom I desired. A terrible sadness… — Ellen G. White
For all sad words of tongue and pen, The saddest are these, 'It might have been'. — John Greenleaf Whittier
Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul. — Oscar Wilde
It is a very sad thing that nowadays there is so little useless information. — Oscar Wilde

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