Sadness Quotes
3015 Sadness quotes by 1610 unique authors
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...to the glory of His name let me witness that in far away lands, in loneliness (deepest sometimes when it seems least so), in times…
— Amy Carmichael
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What is it about sadness that can be so fulfilling?
— Lori Lansens
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Someone I loved once gave me a box full of darkness. It took me years to understand that this too, was a gift.
— Mary Oliver
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I went back to those graves not long afterward and found as I stood there that sadness was a very heavy thing. My body weighed…
— Arthur Golden
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Don't stay in one place too long. It was the only way to stay ahead of the sadness.
— Rick Riordan
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I used to analyze myself down to the last thread, used to compare myself with others, recalled all the smallest glances, smiles and words of…
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
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It was the in-between time, before day leaves and night comes, a time I’ve never been partial to because of the sadness that lingers in…
— Sue Monk Kidd
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Parting with friends is a sadness. A place is only a place.
— Frank Herbert
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The cowboy music twanged in the roadhouse and carried across the fields, all sadness. It was all right with me. I kissed my baby and…
— Jack Kerouac
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Usually she ordered a cup of coffee and a cup of tea, as well as a brownie, propping up her sadness with chocolate and caffeine…
— Lorrie Moore
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The price of a memory, is the memory of the sorrow it brings.
— Pittacus Lore
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The sadness you feel is not your own. It's his sadness you feel in your heart, Amy, for missing you.
— Justin Cronin
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For a moment she'd wondered if the seal around her sockets were tight enough to allow the tears simply to go on and fill up…
— Thomas Pynchon
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It is better to travel with hope in one's heart than to arrive in safety. . . . We should celebrate today's failure because it…
— Jacqueline Kelly
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When you lose your parents, the sadness doesn't go away. It just changes. It hits you sideways sometimes instead of head-on. Like now.
— Judy Blundell
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The two dozen commonplace childhood photographs - snowsuit, pony, tennis racket, looming fender of a Dodge - were an inexhaustible source of wonder for him,…
— Michael Chabon
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She was experiencing the same odd happiness and odd sadness as then. The sadness meant: We are at the last station. The happiness meant: We…
— Milan Kundera
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But solitude is sadness.' 'Yes; it is sadness. Life, however, has worse than that. Deeper than melancholy lies heart-break.
— Charlotte Bronte
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...sadness is a powerful foe, maybe harder to keep down than happiness...
— Katherine Hannigan
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...how do you run and play when you feel like there are bricks of the heaviest sadness weighing down every part of your body? How…
— Katherine Hannigan
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Never an illness, nor the absence of grandeur, no, nothing is able to kill the best in us, that kindness, dear sir, we are afflicted…
— Pablo Neruda
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Maybe this is the point: to embrace the core sadness of life without toppling headlong into it, or assuming it will define your days.
— Gail Caldwell
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The Z’s will kill us all, and then the Z’s will die out and in sixty years there will be no one to remember our…
— John Green
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I believe that many people are unhappy because they have not learned to be grateful. Some carry the burden of bitterness and resentfulness for many…
— Joseph B. Wirthlin
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We had no choice. Sadness was a dangerous as panthers and bears. the wilderness needs your whole attention.
— Laura Ingalls Wilder
Who Wrote These Sadness Quotes
1,610 authors contributed a total of 3,015 Sadness Quotes, led by these top contributors: