Sadness Quotes

3015 Sadness quotes by 1610 unique authors

There are two kinds of hope: the kind you couldn't do anything about and the kind you could. And even if the kind you could… — Rachel Simon
Dying seems less sad than having lived too little. — Gloria Steinem
You have to protect yourself from sadness. Sadness is very close to hate. Let me tell you this. This is the thing I learned. If… — Michael Ondaatje
So sadness is a place?' Giovanni asked. 'Sometimes people live there for years,'I said. — Elizabeth Gilbert
He who has felt the deepest grief is best able to experience supreme happiness. — Alexandre Dumas
She must have sensed she never really had him. That was a sadness of hers, he knew. — Ann Brashares
Each leaf that brushed his face deepened his sadness and dread. Each leaf he passed he'd never pass again. They rode over his face like… — Cormac McCarthy
One of the failures of cellular communication is that tiredness often comes across as sadness. — Rachel Cohn
The strength I'm looking for isn't the type where you win or lose. I'm not after a wall that'll repel power coming from outside. What… — Haruki Murakami
And of course she understood now why her body wanted to run whenever he appeared. It was a correct instinct, for there was nothing to… — Kristin Cashore
The largest part of what we call 'personality' is determined by how we've opted to defend ourselves against anxiety and sadness". — Alain de Botton
I won't waste your time with the injuries of my childhood, with my loneliness, or the fear and sadness of the years I spent inside… — Nicole Krauss
It's strange how sometimes you can be so happy it goes all the way round to sadness. — David Walliams
For a second I feel a rush of sadness: for the horizons that vanish behind us, for the people we leave behind, the tiny-doll selves… — Lauren Oliver
Avoiding problems doesn't make them go away - you think it does, but it really doesn't. They're just postponed. Those problems just stay inside your… — Sully Erna
I want the following word: splendor, splendor is fruit in all its succulence, fruit without sadness. I want vast distances. My savage intuition of myself. — Clarice Lispector
She struggled with her sadness, but tried to conceal it, to divide it into smaller and smaller parts and scatter these in places she thought… — Nicole Krauss
This is my wish for you: Comfort on difficult days, smiles when sadness intrudes, rainbows to follow the clouds, laughter to kiss your lips, sunsets… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
When you do something noble and beautiful and nobody noticed, do not be sad. For the sun every morning is a beautiful spectacle and yet… — John Lennon
Are there not some places where we seem to breathe sadness? — why, we cannot tell. It is a chain of recollections — an idea… — Alexandre Dumas
And I watch my words from a long way off. They are more yours than mine. They climb on my old suffering like ivy. It… — Pablo Neruda
...the greatest source of misery in the world, the greatest cause of anguish and hatred and sadness and death, was neither disease nor race nor… — Shalom Auslander
I'm overwhelmed with sadness for everything that was lost, and filled with anger toward the people who took it away. My people-or at least, my… — Lauren Oliver
If you want to learn how to be happy, you have to know what is sadness first. — Etgar Keret
Nobody but a Southerner knows the wrenching rinsing sadness of the cities of the North. — Walker Percy

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