sadness
The saddest thing that befalls a soul is when it loses faith in God and woman.
6 more quotes from Alexander Smith
Better by far you should forget and smile that you should remember and be sad.
4 wisdom & wit from Christina Rossetti
Of these years nought remains in memory but the sad feeling that we have advanced and only grown older.
3 sayings from Max Muller
Dying is only one thing to be sad over... Living unhappily is something else.
2 views from Morrie Schwartz
Sad Patience, too near neighbour to despair.
8 quotes from Matthew Arnold
For all sad words of tongue and pen, The saddest are these, 'It might have been'.
7 thoughts from John Greenleaf Whittier
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
The sad souls of those who lived without blame and without praise.
13 quotes from Dante Alighieri
What else does anxiety about the future bring you but sorrow upon sorrow?
12 wisdom & wit from Thomas a Kempis
The rose and the thorn, and sorrow and gladness are linked together.
4 more quotes from Saadi
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
My lasting impression of Truman Capote is that he was a terribly gentle, terribly sensitive, and terribly sad man.
3 quotes from Alvin Ailey
Nobody understands another's sorrow, and nobody another's joy.
5 views from Franz Schubert
Oh, I am very weary, Though tears no longer flow My eyes are tired of weeping, My heart is sick of woe.
2 more quotes from Anne Bronte
Sadness is but a wall between two gardens.
56 more views from Khalil Gibran
An ounce of cheerfulness is worth a pound of sadness to serve God with.
45 wisdom & wit from Thomas Fuller
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
The good times of today, are the sad thoughts of tomorrow.
11 more quotes 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 sayings from W. H. Auden
Poverty makes you sad as well as wise.
14 quotes from Bertolt Brecht
A sad soul can kill quicker than a germ.
9 more 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 quotes from James Russell Lowell
In deep sadness there is no place for sentimentality.
9 sayings from William S. Burroughs
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
Beauty makes idiots sad and wise men merry.
12 quotes from George Jean Nathan
What makes old age so sad is not that our joys but our hopes cease.
18 other views 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 quotes from Chief Joseph
However, we might oppose it, abortion is a sad feature of modern life.
5 thoughts from Robert Casey
Participate joyfully in the sorrows of the world. We cannot cure the world of sorrows, but we can choose to live in joy.
18 other views from Joseph Campbell
Sorrows are like thunderclouds, in the distance they look black, over our heads scarcely gray.
18 quotes from Jean Paul
The flesh, alas, is sad, and I have read all the books.
3 more thoughts from Stephane Mallarme
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 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 quotes 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 quotes from Anne Sullivan
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
It's both funny and sad which seem to me to be the two basic ingredients of good comedy.
2 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 quotes from Edmond de Goncourt
Heavy hearts, like heavy clouds in the sky, are best relieved by the letting of a little water.
15 more views from Christopher Morley
The sad duty of politics is to establish justice in a sinful world.
15 other quotes from Reinhold Niebuhr
We never taste a perfect joy our happiest successes are mixed with sadness.
15 more quotes from Pierre Corneille
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
Proud people breed sad sorrows for themselves.
6 more quotes from Emily Bronte
His death was the first time that Ed Wynn ever made anyone sad.
5 wisdom & wit from Red Skelton
I have a piece of great and sad news to tell you: I am dead.
24 quotes from Jean Cocteau
Sadness flies away on the wings of time.
15 other quotes from Jean de La Fontaine
Though I know he loves me, tonight my heart is sad his kiss was not so wonderful as all the dreams I had.
6 other 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 views from James Baldwin
It is sad to see a woman sacrificing the ties of the affections even to do good.
8 other quotes from Maria Mitchell
Do not make best friends with a melancholy sad soul. They always are heavily loaded, and you must bear half.
3 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 sayings from Jean de la Bruyere
Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.
19 more wisdom & wit from Percy Bysshe Shelley
Nothing is more sad than the death of an illusion.
4 more quotes from Arthur Koestler
Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober not to make us sorry but wise.
19 quotes from H. G. Wells
Your joys and sorrows. You can never tell them. You cheapen the inside of yourself if you do tell them.
4 quotes from Greta Garbo
It is sad not to love, but it is much sadder not to be able to love.
12 quotes from Miguel de Unamuno
Time takes away the grief of men.
15 views from Desiderius Erasmus
The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil.
9 other sayings from Hannah Arendt
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
It is a very sad thing that nowadays there is so little useless information.
100 sayings 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 more quotes from Dwight D. Eisenhower
Morality comes with the sad wisdom of age, when the sense of curiosity has withered.
11 quotes from Graham Greene
Sadness is also a kind of defence.
2 quotes from Ivo Andric
Those who gave away their wings are sad not to see them fly.
4 wisdom & wit from Antonio Porchia
He who is not just is severe, he who is not wise is sad.
78 more views from Voltaire
He is a hard man who is only just, and a sad one who is only wise.
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 more views from Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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 views from William Blake