Sadness Quote by Paul Bowles

“Somehow this wasn't the same as melancholy. It was something else, about how melancholy and nostalgia weren't relevant in the slightest. Things just happened.…

— Ali Smith

“...bars can't build better men and misery can only break what goodness remains.”

— Stuart Turton

“It wasn't that they were unpleasant people; indeed, they were the sweetest things ever; they just enjoyed melancholy and seemed to take heart and…

— Howard Fast

“Melancholy is a private thing. It's not something you just show to everybody.”

— C.M. Stunich

“Depression is melancholy minus its charms.”

— Susan Sontag

“It was as if all the melancholy I’d ever known, all the nights I sat alone thinking life sucked, had added up to our…

— Tiffanie DeBartolo

“What was sad in the world he did not superficially gainsay; what was glad in it he did not cynically slur; and all which…

— Herman Melville

“But this was the thought of a depressive. An aspiring depressive, at the time. That was the odd thing about Leonard’s disease, the almost…

— Jeffrey Eugenides

“There is a melancholy that stems from greatness of mind.”

— Anonymous

“There were times when the bad and the sad could have weighed me down. But to drink life from only the good is to…

— E.L. Konigsburg

“... what an ennobling sadness you lent to my evening's enjoyment.”

— Colette

“We know only that in some strange and melancholy way we have become a waste land. All the same, we are not often sad.”

— Erich Maria Remarque