Sadness Quotes

3015 Sadness quotes by 1610 unique authors

Nothing thicker than a knife's blade separates happiness from melancholy. — Virginia Woolf
A vast silence reigned over the land. The land itself was a desolation, lifeless, without movement, so lone and cold that the spirit of it… — Jack London
Some say it is best not to go near the center of time. Life is a vessel of sadness, but is noble to live life… — Alan Lightman
People worry about kids playing with guns, and teenagers watching violent videos; we are scared that some sort of culture of violence will take them… — Nick Hornby
The greatness comes not when things go always good for you. But the greatness comes when you're really tested, when you take some knocks, some… — Richard M. Nixon
Freddie experienced the sort of abysmal soul-sadness which afflicts one of Tolstoy's Russian peasants when, after putting in a heavy day's work strangling his father,… — P.G. Wodehouse
My own idea, for what it is worth, is that all sadness which is not either arising from the repentance of a concrete sin and… — C.S. Lewis
The tragedy of life is not so much what men suffer, but rather what they miss. — Thomas Carlyle
I wish for a moment that time would lift me out of this day, and into some more benign one. But then I feel guilty… — Audrey Niffenegger
Ho! Ho! Ho! To the bottle I go To heal my heart and drown my woe Rain may fall, and wind may blow And many… — J.R.R. Tolkien
They say when you are missing someone that they are probably feeling the same, but I don't think it's possible for you to miss me… — Edna St. Vincent Millay
Ignore those that make you fearful and sad, that degrade you back towards disease and death. — Unknown Author
We never do anything consciously for the last time without sadness of heart. — Samuel Johnson
What, if some day or night a demon were to steal after you into your loneliest loneliness and say to you: 'This life as you… — Friedrich Nietzsche
The sad truth is the truth is sad. — Daniel Handler
It's a time of sorrow and sadness when we lose a loss of life. — George W. Bush
My heart sobbed a lament that was hard to ignore. — Katie MacAlister
You cannot protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from happiness. — Jonathan Safran Foer
There are times in your life when, despite the steel weight of your memories and the sadness that seems to lie at your feet like… — Kevin Brockmeier
Traveling is a fool's paradise. Our first journeys discover to us the indifference of places. At home I dream that at Naples, at Rome, I… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
If we were not so single-minded about keeping our lives moving and for once could do nothing, perhaps a huge silence might interrupt this sadness… — Pablo Neruda
I know it is a bad thing to break a promise, but I think now that it is a worse thing to let a promise… — Jennifer Donnelly
It is always sad when someone leaves home, unless they are simply going around the corner and will return in a few minutes with ice-cream… — Daniel Handler
...Sadness of not knowing enough words to [express what you mean]... — Jonathan Safran Foer
No sadness is greater than in misery to rehearse memories of joy. — Dante Alighieri

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