Sadness Quotes

3015 Sadness quotes by 1610 unique authors

It would no doubt be very sentimental to argue - but I would argue it nevertheless - that the peculiar combination of joy and sadness… — A. N. Wilson
After I had given up to go, the thoughts of the journey were often attended with unusual sadness, at which times my heart was frequently… — John Woolman
Sorrow happens, hardship happens, the hell with it, who never knew the price of happiness, will not be happy. — Yevgeny Yevtushenko
Life is but a memory Happened long ago. Theatre full of sadness For a long forgotten show. — Nick Drake
Life is too short, or too long, for me to allow myself the luxury of living it so badly. — Paulo Coelho
joy and sorrow are inseparable. . . together they come and when one sits alone with you . . remember that the other is asleep… — Khalil Gibran
Sadness of love without release. — Jonathan Safran Foer
Where there is sorrow, there is holy ground. — Oscar Wilde
So, this is my life. And I want you to know that I am both happy and sad and I'm still trying to figure out… — Stephen Chbosky
When you've suffered a great deal in life, each additional pain is both unbearable and trifling. — Yann Martel
Give sorrow words; the grief that does not speak knits up the o-er wrought heart and bids it break. — William Shakespeare
That was such a wonderful time, even in its strangeness and sadness-and life isn't the same now. It's wonderful, but it isn't the same. — Gregory Maguire
I know that pain is the most important thing in the universes. Greater than survival, greater than love, greater even than the beauty it brings… — Harlan Ellison
...heroine: the artist, the premier mistress writhering in a garden graced w/highly polished blades of grass... release (ethiopium) is the drug...an animal howl says it… — Patti Smith
Every arrangement in life carried with it the sadness, the sentimental shadow, of its not being something else, but only itself. — Lorrie Moore
To live in hearts we leave behind is not to die. — Thomas Campbell
There is nothing sweeter in this sad world than the sound of someone you love calling your name. — Kate DiCamillo
I love heavily tattooed women. I imagine their lives are filled with sensuality and excess, madness and generosity, impulsive natures and fights. They look like… — Margaret Cho
Memories warm you up from the inside. But they also tear you apart. — Haruki Murakami
The sound of distant breakers made her heart ache with melancholy. She was in the mood when the sea has a saddening effect upon the… — Baroness Orczy
I could no more have stopped myself from feeling that sadness than you could stop yourself from smelling an apple that has been cut open… — Arthur Golden
I have the choice of being constantly active and happy or introspectively passive and sad. Or I can go mad by ricocheting in between. — Sylvia Plath
any fool can be happy. It takes a man with real heart to make beauty out of the stuff that makes us weep. — Clive Barker
Don't make everyone know about your sadness. — John Steinbeck
We laugh and laugh, and nothing can ever be sad, no one can be lost, or dead, or far away: right now we are here,… — Audrey Niffenegger

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