Sadness Quotes

3015 Sadness quotes by 1610 unique authors

So time doesn't count, and place does?' I said this to tease her. When I was a man, I liked teasing her and she went… — John Berger
But it is a melancholy of mine own, compounded of many simples, extracted from many objects, and indeed the sundry contemplation of my travels, which,… — William Shakespeare
And then I felt sad because I realized that once people are broken in certain ways, they can't ever be fixed, and this is something… — Douglas Coupland
Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that… — Albert Einstein
With one long breath, caught and held in his chest, he fought his sadness over his solitary life. Don't cry, you idiot! Live or die,… — Saul Bellow
In the first few seconds an aching sadness wrenched his heart, but it soon gave way to a feeling of sweet disquiet, the excitement of… — Mikhail Bulgakov
When I was a girl, my life was music that was always getting louder. Everything moved me. A dog following a stranger. That made me… — Jonathan Safran Foer
There is not much talking now. A silence falls upon them all. This is no time to talk of hedges and fields, or the beauties… — Alan Paton
Our sadness is an energy we discharge in order to heal. …Sadness is painful. We try to avoid it. Actually discharging sadness releases the energy… — John Bradshaw
I sometimes look into the face of my dog Stan and see a wistful sadness and existential angst, when all he is actually doing is… — Merrill Markoe
Melancholy is sadness that has taken on lightness. — Italo Calvino
The reason it hurts so much to separate is because our souls are connected. — Nicholas Sparks
So that's what I'm here to become. And suddenly, this word fills me with a brand of sadness I haven't felt since childhood. The kind… — Augusten Burroughs
The burning of a book is a sad, sad sight, for even though a book is nothing but ink and paper, it feels as if… — Daniel Handler
But nobody ever forgot anything, not really, though sometimes they pretended, when it suited them. Memories were permanent. Sorrowful ones remained sad even with the… — Rohinton Mistry
From being quite sure of himself and his future he becomes not at all sure. If he be an imaginative boy a door is torn… — Sherwood Anderson
The tears stream down my cheeks from my unblinking eyes. What makes me weep so? There is nothing saddening here. Perhaps it is liquefied brain. — Samuel Beckett
Why do beautiful songs make you sad?' 'Because they aren't true.' 'Never?' 'Nothing is beautiful and true. — Jonathan Safran Foer
I wanted to touch him, to tell him that even if everyone left everyone, I would never leave him, he talked and talked, his words… — Jonathan Safran Foer
I read Naoko's letter again and again, and each time I read it I would be filled with the same unbearable sadness I used to… — Haruki Murakami
Do not assume that he who seeks to comfort you now, lives untroubled among the simple and quiet words that sometimes do you good. His… — Rainer Maria Rilke
Sadness is the matrix from which wit and irony spring; sadness is uncomfortable and creative, which is why consumer society cannot tolerate it. — Germaine Greer
Here was a thing that would grow old; here was a thing that would turn beautiful and lose that beauty, that would inherit the grace… — Andrew Sean Greer
We couldn't imagine the emptiness of a creature who put a razor to her wrists and opened her veins, the emptiness and the calm. — Jeffrey Eugenides
Every widow wakes one morning, perhaps after years of pure and unwavering grieving, to realize she slept a good night's sleep, and will be able… — Jonathan Safran Foer

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