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.
81 other sayings from William Shakespeare
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 other quotes 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!
81 views from William Shakespeare
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 thoughts 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 more views from Tony Hancock
Heavy hearts, like heavy clouds in the sky, are best relieved by the letting of a little water.
15 more quotes 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 other 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 quotes from Tony Hancock
We never taste a perfect joy our happiest successes are mixed with sadness.
15 sayings from Pierre Corneille
The sad duty of politics is to establish justice in a sinful world.
15 quotes from Reinhold Niebuhr
In this world, full often, our joys are only the tender shadows which our sorrows cast.
58 wisdom & wit 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 sayings from Jean de La Fontaine
His death was the first time that Ed Wynn ever made anyone sad.
5 views from Red Skelton
I have a piece of great and sad news to tell you: I am dead.
24 thoughts from Jean Cocteau
Proud people breed sad sorrows for themselves.
6 quotes from Emily Bronte
Do not make best friends with a melancholy sad soul. They always are heavily loaded, and you must bear half.
3 more thoughts 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 quotes 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 other thoughts from Maria Mitchell
Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.
19 other quotes from Percy Bysshe Shelley
It is sad not to love, but it is much sadder not to be able to love.
12 wisdom & wit from Miguel de Unamuno
Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober not to make us sorry but wise.
19 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 other sayings from Greta Garbo
It is a very sad thing that nowadays there is so little useless information.
100 more views 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 other views from Desiderius Erasmus
Morality comes with the sad wisdom of age, when the sense of curiosity has withered.
11 thoughts from Graham Greene
I would never have become music director of the Chicago Symphony, which would have been an extremely sad loss.
2 sayings from Georg Solti
Sadness is also a kind of defence.
2 sayings 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 quotes from Hannah Arendt
He who is not just is severe, he who is not wise is sad.
78 more thoughts 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 other views from Ella Wheeler Wilcox
He is a hard man who is only just, and a sad one who is only wise.
78 sayings 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 thoughts from William Blake
Those who gave away their wings are sad not to see them fly.
4 other sayings from Antonio Porchia
Sad Patience, too near neighbour to despair.
8 other thoughts 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 views from Alexander Smith
Of these years nought remains in memory but the sad feeling that we have advanced and only grown older.
3 sayings from Max Muller
For all sad words of tongue and pen, The saddest are these, 'It might have been'.
7 quotes from John Greenleaf Whittier
Dying is only one thing to be sad over... Living unhappily is something else.
2 quotes from Morrie Schwartz
The sad souls of those who lived without blame and without praise.
13 wisdom & wit from Dante Alighieri
What else does anxiety about the future bring you but sorrow upon sorrow?
12 views from Thomas a Kempis
The rose and the thorn, and sorrow and gladness are linked together.
4 views from Saadi
Sadness is but a wall between two gardens.
56 views 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 quotes 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 thoughts from Anne Bronte
Nobody understands another's sorrow, and nobody another's joy.
5 other thoughts from Franz Schubert
My lasting impression of Truman Capote is that he was a terribly gentle, terribly sensitive, and terribly sad man.
3 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 views from Paramahansa Yogananda
An ounce of cheerfulness is worth a pound of sadness to serve God with.
45 more views from Thomas Fuller
Beauty makes idiots sad and wise men merry.
12 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 quotes from Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
A sad soul can kill quicker than a germ.
9 sayings 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 views from James Russell Lowell
The good times of today, are the sad thoughts of tomorrow.
11 other wisdom & wit from Bob Marley
Poverty makes you sad as well as wise.
14 quotes from Bertolt Brecht
In deep sadness there is no place for sentimentality.
9 other thoughts 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 quotes 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 quotes from Robert Casey
Sorrows are like thunderclouds, in the distance they look black, over our heads scarcely gray.
18 thoughts 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 wisdom & wit from Chief Joseph
The flesh, alas, is sad, and I have read all the books.
3 quotes 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 quotes from Joseph Campbell