sadness

I hold the world but as the world, Gratiano A stage where every man must play a part, And mine is a sad one.

We all like stories that make us cry. It's so nice to feel sad when you've nothing in particular to feel sad about.

2 more wisdom & wit from Anne Sullivan

I had rather have a fool to make me merry than experience to make me sad and to travel for it too!

For I have learned to look on nature, not as in the hour of thoughtless youth, but hearing oftentimes the still, sad music of humanity.

21 more quotes from William Wordsworth

We try to... we are, I suppose to a certain extent all affected and erm, that is both funny and sad I think.

2 quotes from Tony Hancock

Heavy hearts, like heavy clouds in the sky, are best relieved by the letting of a little water.

15 views from Christopher Morley

The reason for the sadness of this modern age and the men who live in it is that it looks for the truth in everything and finds it.

2 wisdom & wit from Edmond de Goncourt

It's both funny and sad which seem to me to be the two basic ingredients of good comedy.

2 more sayings from Tony Hancock

We never taste a perfect joy our happiest successes are mixed with sadness.

15 quotes from Pierre Corneille

The sad duty of politics is to establish justice in a sinful world.

15 more quotes from Reinhold Niebuhr

In this world, full often, our joys are only the tender shadows which our sorrows cast.

58 quotes from Henry Ward Beecher

The word 'happiness' would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.

19 quotes from Carl Jung

Sadness flies away on the wings of time.

15 quotes from Jean de La Fontaine

His death was the first time that Ed Wynn ever made anyone sad.

5 quotes from Red Skelton

I have a piece of great and sad news to tell you: I am dead.

24 wisdom & wit from Jean Cocteau

Proud people breed sad sorrows for themselves.

6 thoughts from Emily Bronte

Do not make best friends with a melancholy sad soul. They always are heavily loaded, and you must bear half.

3 wisdom & wit from Francois Fenelon

It is a sad thing when men have neither the wit to speak well nor the judgment to hold their tongues.

26 views from Jean de la Bruyere

The South is very beautiful but its beauty makes one sad because the lives that people live here, and have lived here, are so ugly.

3 views from James Baldwin

Though I know he loves me, tonight my heart is sad his kiss was not so wonderful as all the dreams I had.

6 quotes from Sara Teasdale

It is sad to see a woman sacrificing the ties of the affections even to do good.

8 views from Maria Mitchell

Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.

19 wisdom & wit from Percy Bysshe Shelley

It is sad not to love, but it is much sadder not to be able to love.

12 thoughts from Miguel de Unamuno

Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober not to make us sorry but wise.

19 other quotes from H. G. Wells

Nothing is more sad than the death of an illusion.

4 quotes from Arthur Koestler

Your joys and sorrows. You can never tell them. You cheapen the inside of yourself if you do tell them.

4 wisdom & wit from Greta Garbo

It is a very sad thing that nowadays there is so little useless information.

100 wisdom & wit from Oscar Wilde

Few women, I fear, have had such reason as I have to think the long sad years of youth were worth living for the sake of middle age.

33 quotes from Dwight D. Eisenhower

Time takes away the grief of men.

15 wisdom & wit from Desiderius Erasmus

Morality comes with the sad wisdom of age, when the sense of curiosity has withered.

11 more wisdom & wit from Graham Greene

I would never have become music director of the Chicago Symphony, which would have been an extremely sad loss.

2 more wisdom & wit from Georg Solti

Sadness is also a kind of defence.

2 more quotes from Ivo Andric

The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil.

9 wisdom & wit from Hannah Arendt

He who is not just is severe, he who is not wise is sad.

78 sayings from Voltaire

So many gods, so many creeds, so many paths that wind and wind while just the art of being kind is all the sad world needs.

6 more sayings from Ella Wheeler Wilcox

He is a hard man who is only just, and a sad one who is only wise.

78 quotes from Voltaire

Can I see another's woe, and not be in sorrow too? Can I see another's grief, and not seek for kind relief?

32 quotes from William Blake

Those who gave away their wings are sad not to see them fly.

4 thoughts from Antonio Porchia

Sad Patience, too near neighbour to despair.

8 more quotes from Matthew Arnold

Better by far you should forget and smile that you should remember and be sad.

4 wisdom & wit from Christina Rossetti

The saddest thing that befalls a soul is when it loses faith in God and woman.

6 sayings from Alexander Smith

Of these years nought remains in memory but the sad feeling that we have advanced and only grown older.

3 quotes from Max Muller

For all sad words of tongue and pen, The saddest are these, 'It might have been'.

7 sayings from John Greenleaf Whittier

Dying is only one thing to be sad over... Living unhappily is something else.

2 other quotes from Morrie Schwartz

The sad souls of those who lived without blame and without praise.

13 views from Dante Alighieri

What else does anxiety about the future bring you but sorrow upon sorrow?

12 other quotes from Thomas a Kempis

The rose and the thorn, and sorrow and gladness are linked together.

4 more quotes from Saadi

Sadness is but a wall between two gardens.

56 other sayings from Khalil Gibran

I love my past, I love my present. I am not ashamed of what I have had, and I am not sad because I no longer have it.

9 wisdom & wit from Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

Oh, I am very weary, Though tears no longer flow My eyes are tired of weeping, My heart is sick of woe.

2 more sayings from Anne Bronte

Nobody understands another's sorrow, and nobody another's joy.

5 other views from Franz Schubert

My lasting impression of Truman Capote is that he was a terribly gentle, terribly sensitive, and terribly sad man.

3 more quotes from Alvin Ailey

Let my soul smile through my heart and my heart smile through my eyes, that I may scatter rich smiles in sad hearts.

3 quotes from Paramahansa Yogananda

An ounce of cheerfulness is worth a pound of sadness to serve God with.

45 quotes from Thomas Fuller

Beauty makes idiots sad and wise men merry.

12 more quotes from George Jean Nathan

Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad.

26 other wisdom & wit from Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

A sad soul can kill quicker than a germ.

9 more thoughts from John Steinbeck

Usually when people are sad, they don't do anything. They just cry over their condition. But when they get angry, they bring about a change.

24 quotes from James Russell Lowell

The good times of today, are the sad thoughts of tomorrow.

11 views from Bob Marley

Poverty makes you sad as well as wise.

14 wisdom & wit from Bertolt Brecht

In deep sadness there is no place for sentimentality.

9 other quotes from William S. Burroughs

It's a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money writing or talking about his art than he can by practicing it.

21 other quotes from W. H. Auden

It is a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money writing or talking about his art than he can by practicing it.

21 sayings from W. H. Auden

What makes old age so sad is not that our joys but our hopes cease.

18 quotes from Jean Paul

However, we might oppose it, abortion is a sad feature of modern life.

5 other wisdom & wit from Robert Casey

Sorrows are like thunderclouds, in the distance they look black, over our heads scarcely gray.

18 quotes from Jean Paul

Hear me, my chiefs! I am tired. My heart is sick and sad. From where the sun now stands, I will fight no more forever.

17 more views from Chief Joseph

The flesh, alas, is sad, and I have read all the books.

3 more thoughts from Stephane Mallarme

Participate joyfully in the sorrows of the world. We cannot cure the world of sorrows, but we can choose to live in joy.

18 more quotes from Joseph Campbell