sadness
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 quotes from Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Those who gave away their wings are sad not to see them fly.
4 views from Antonio Porchia
He who is not just is severe, he who is not wise is sad.
78 quotes from Voltaire
He is a hard man who is only just, and a sad one who is only wise.
78 thoughts 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 other wisdom & wit from William Blake
Better by far you should forget and smile that you should remember and be sad.
4 quotes from Christina Rossetti
Dying is only one thing to be sad over... Living unhappily is something else.
2 views from Morrie Schwartz
The saddest thing that befalls a soul is when it loses faith in God and woman.
6 more views from Alexander Smith
For all sad words of tongue and pen, The saddest are these, 'It might have been'.
7 quotes from John Greenleaf Whittier
Of these years nought remains in memory but the sad feeling that we have advanced and only grown older.
3 thoughts from Max Muller
Sad Patience, too near neighbour to despair.
8 quotes from Matthew Arnold
What else does anxiety about the future bring you but sorrow upon sorrow?
12 quotes from Thomas a Kempis
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
Let my soul smile through my heart and my heart smile through my eyes, that I may scatter rich smiles in sad hearts.
3 other sayings from Paramahansa Yogananda
The sad souls of those who lived without blame and without praise.
13 wisdom & wit from Dante Alighieri
My lasting impression of Truman Capote is that he was a terribly gentle, terribly sensitive, and terribly sad man.
3 other sayings from Alvin Ailey
Nobody understands another's sorrow, and nobody another's joy.
5 other sayings from Franz Schubert
An ounce of cheerfulness is worth a pound of sadness to serve God with.
45 wisdom & wit from Thomas Fuller
Sadness is but a wall between two gardens.
56 more sayings from Khalil Gibran
Oh, I am very weary, Though tears no longer flow My eyes are tired of weeping, My heart is sick of woe.
2 more thoughts from Anne Bronte
The rose and the thorn, and sorrow and gladness are linked together.
4 views from Saadi
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 views from W. H. Auden
Poverty makes you sad as well as wise.
14 quotes from Bertolt Brecht
In deep sadness there is no place for sentimentality.
9 views from William S. Burroughs
The good times of today, are the sad thoughts of tomorrow.
11 other sayings from Bob Marley
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 more views from W. H. Auden
A sad soul can kill quicker than a germ.
9 more views from John Steinbeck
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 other thoughts from Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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 more views from James Russell Lowell
However, we might oppose it, abortion is a sad feature of modern life.
5 quotes from Robert Casey
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 quotes from Chief Joseph
The flesh, alas, is sad, and I have read all the books.
3 more sayings 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 views from Joseph Campbell
Sorrows are like thunderclouds, in the distance they look black, over our heads scarcely gray.
18 more quotes from Jean Paul
What makes old age so sad is not that our joys but our hopes cease.
18 quotes from Jean Paul
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 wisdom & wit from William Shakespeare
I had rather have a fool to make me merry than experience to make me sad and to travel for it too!
81 quotes 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 thoughts from William Wordsworth
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
It's both funny and sad which seem to me to be the two basic ingredients of good comedy.
2 wisdom & wit from Tony Hancock
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 quotes from Tony Hancock
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 more wisdom & wit from Edmond de Goncourt
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 sad duty of politics is to establish justice in a sinful world.
15 more wisdom & wit from Reinhold Niebuhr
In this world, full often, our joys are only the tender shadows which our sorrows cast.
58 other quotes from Henry Ward Beecher
We never taste a perfect joy our happiest successes are mixed with sadness.
15 quotes from Pierre Corneille
Sadness flies away on the wings of time.
15 other quotes from Jean de La Fontaine
Proud people breed sad sorrows for themselves.
6 quotes from Emily Bronte
The word 'happiness' would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.
19 views from Carl Jung
His death was the first time that Ed Wynn ever made anyone sad.
5 other quotes from Red Skelton
I have a piece of great and sad news to tell you: I am dead.
24 more quotes from Jean Cocteau
It is a sad thing when men have neither the wit to speak well nor the judgment to hold their tongues.
26 thoughts from Jean de la Bruyere
Do not make best friends with a melancholy sad soul. They always are heavily loaded, and you must bear half.
3 more wisdom & wit from Francois Fenelon
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
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 thoughts from James Baldwin
It is sad to see a woman sacrificing the ties of the affections even to do good.
8 thoughts from Maria Mitchell
Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.
19 other wisdom & wit from Percy Bysshe Shelley
Your joys and sorrows. You can never tell them. You cheapen the inside of yourself if you do tell them.
4 sayings from Greta Garbo
It is sad not to love, but it is much sadder not to be able to love.
12 thoughts from Miguel de Unamuno
Nothing is more sad than the death of an illusion.
4 thoughts from Arthur Koestler
Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober not to make us sorry but wise.
19 other views from H. G. Wells
Sadness is also a kind of defence.
2 other thoughts from Ivo Andric
It is a very sad thing that nowadays there is so little useless information.
100 other thoughts from Oscar Wilde
Time takes away the grief of men.
15 quotes from Desiderius Erasmus
I would never have become music director of the Chicago Symphony, which would have been an extremely sad loss.
2 other quotes from Georg Solti
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 more quotes from Dwight D. Eisenhower
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
Morality comes with the sad wisdom of age, when the sense of curiosity has withered.
11 other wisdom & wit from Graham Greene