Sadness Quotes

3015 Sadness quotes by 1610 unique authors

She seemed imprisoned in her sadness. — Sena Jeter Naslund
I notice the silvery hair at his temples with a tinge of sadness. Why do parents grow old? Life is a castle of lies slowly… — Shan Sa
A man takes his sadness down to the river and throws it in the river                     but then he’s still left with the river. A man… — Richard Siken
When that ineffable compound of depression, sadness (these two are not the same), anxiety, self-hatred, sense of failure and fear for the future begins to… — Kingsley Amis
The way sadness works is one of the strangest riddles of the world. — Daniel Handler
When a person has lived generously and fought fiercely, she deserves more than sadness at the end. — Ruth Reichl
Tears are words that need to be written. — Paulo Coelho
About time, what I really learned from studying English is: time is different with timing. I understand the difference of these two words so well.… — Xiaolu Guo
There's no way for them to take away my sadness, but they can make sure I am not empty of all the other feelings. — David Levithan
...she had regained what I thought she had lost forever, the magical sadness which had drawn me to her, the thwarted look that had seemed… — Evelyn Waugh
There was some sadness in how that could happen, Tai thought: falling out of love with something that had shaped you. Or even people who… — Guy Gavriel Kay
Don't you ever let a soul in the world tell you that you can't be exactly who you are. — Lady Gaga
Sadness to me is the happiest time, When a shining city rises from the ruins of my drunken mind. Those times when I'm silent and… — Rumi
Here was one with an air of high nobility such as Aragorn at times revealed, less high perhaps, yet also less incalculable and remote: one… — J.R.R. Tolkien
For a moment I had a strange intuition that just this, and in a real, profound sense, is life; and perhaps happiness even - love… — Erich Maria Remarque
He wondered what the years had done to his face as he traced the effects on hers. Eyes the same blue-lit green, but where mischievous… — Victoria Hanley
Thousands of lives were suddenly ended by evil, despicable acts of terror. The pictures of airplanes flying into buildings, fires burning, huge structures collapsing, have… — George W. Bush
They've promised that dreams can come true - but forgot to mention that nightmares are dreams, too. — Oscar Wilde
Sadness does not last forever when we walk in the direction of that which we always desired. — Paulo Coelho
The Lord often has his prophets climb mountains to converse with Him. I always wondered why He did that, and now I know the answer:… — Paulo Coelho
There's a hazardous sadness to the first sounds of someone else's work in the morning; it's as if stillness experiences pain in being broken. — Jonathan Franzen
But my sadness is comforting Because it’s right and natural And because it’s what the soul should feel When it already thinks it exists And… — Fernando Pessoa
It would be my greatest sadness to see Zionists (Jews) do to Palestinian Arabs much of what Nazis did to Jews. — Albert Einstein
Toska - noun /ˈtō-skə/ - Russian word roughly translated as sadness, melancholia, lugubriousness. "No single word in English renders all the shades of toska. At… — Vladimir Nabokov
I would not exchange the sorrows of my heart for the joys of the multitude. And I would not have the tears that sadness makes… — Khalil Gibran

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