Sadness Quote by Elizabeth Gilbert

“After all, life was like that for most of us – the small unpleasantnesses rather than the great tragedies; the little useless longings rather…

— Barbara Pym

“There were a few years there, lost in borderless despair, when I used to experience all the world’s sadness as my own.”

— Elizabeth Gilbert

“and i temporary and he was the saddest word of all there is nothing else in the world its not despair until time its…

— William Faulkner

“Everywhere, it seemed, in the tress and water and sky, a great worldwide sadness came pressing down on me, a crushing sorrow, sorrow like…

— Tim O'Brien

“Much that for us is fraught with with happiness or misery, remains almost unnoticed by the rest of the world.”

— Marcel Proust

“There is no greater sorrow than thinking back upon a happy time in misery--”

— Dante Alighieri

“They felt that everything was fleeting, that everything wore out, that everything that was not dead would die, and that even the illusory ties…

— Henri Barbusse

“And occasionally I became very sad over that happiness, because I was well aware it couldn’t last. I wasn’t meant to exist in the…

— Hermann Hesse

“It wasn't the disappearance of happiness so much as the appearance of sadness.”

— Alia Yunis

“There is no greater sorrow Than to recall a happy time When miserable.”

— Dante Alighieri

“that life was full of small comforts which were all the time making for happiness, and that we did not sufficiently appreciate them.”

— Katrina Avilla Munichiello

“It is very difficult to be wholly joyous or wholly sad on this earth.”

— Joseph Conrad