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 quotes 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 views 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 wisdom & wit 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 try to... we are, I suppose to a certain extent all affected and erm, that is both funny and sad I think.
2 views from Tony Hancock
Heavy hearts, like heavy clouds in the sky, are best relieved by the letting of a little water.
15 other thoughts 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 quotes from Edmond de Goncourt
It's both funny and sad which seem to me to be the two basic ingredients of good comedy.
2 other quotes from Tony Hancock
We never taste a perfect joy our happiest successes are mixed with sadness.
15 views from Pierre Corneille
The sad duty of politics is to establish justice in a sinful world.
15 other thoughts from Reinhold Niebuhr
In this world, full often, our joys are only the tender shadows which our sorrows cast.
58 thoughts from Henry Ward Beecher
The word 'happiness' would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.
19 more quotes from Carl Jung
Sadness flies away on the wings of time.
15 more quotes from Jean de La Fontaine
His death was the first time that Ed Wynn ever made anyone sad.
5 other wisdom & wit from Red Skelton
I have a piece of great and sad news to tell you: I am dead.
24 views 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 other 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 sayings 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 other 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 more quotes from Sara Teasdale
It is sad to see a woman sacrificing the ties of the affections even to do good.
8 quotes from Maria Mitchell
Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.
19 sayings from Percy Bysshe Shelley
It is sad not to love, but it is much sadder not to be able to love.
12 other quotes from Miguel de Unamuno
Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober not to make us sorry but wise.
19 other wisdom & wit from H. G. Wells
Nothing is more sad than the death of an illusion.
4 other views from Arthur Koestler
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 a very sad thing that nowadays there is so little useless information.
100 other 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 views from Desiderius Erasmus
Morality comes with the sad wisdom of age, when the sense of curiosity has withered.
11 other thoughts from Graham Greene
I would never have become music director of the Chicago Symphony, which would have been an extremely sad loss.
2 more quotes from Georg Solti
Sadness is also a kind of defence.
2 wisdom & wit 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 other views from Hannah Arendt
He who is not just is severe, he who is not wise is sad.
78 views 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 wisdom & wit from Ella Wheeler Wilcox
He is a hard man who is only just, and a sad one who is only wise.
78 other wisdom & wit 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 more views from Antonio Porchia
Sad Patience, too near neighbour to despair.
8 other quotes from Matthew Arnold
Better by far you should forget and smile that you should remember and be sad.
4 quotes from Christina Rossetti
The saddest thing that befalls a soul is when it loses faith in God and woman.
6 quotes 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 other quotes from John Greenleaf Whittier
Dying is only one thing to be sad over... Living unhappily is something else.
2 other views from Morrie Schwartz
The sad souls of those who lived without blame and without praise.
13 more thoughts from Dante Alighieri
What else does anxiety about the future bring you but sorrow upon sorrow?
12 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 quotes 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 thoughts 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 thoughts from Anne Bronte
Nobody understands another's sorrow, and nobody another's joy.
5 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 thoughts 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 more views 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 other thoughts 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 more wisdom & wit from Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
A sad soul can kill quicker than a germ.
9 other views 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 other thoughts 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 more sayings from Bertolt Brecht
In deep sadness there is no place for sentimentality.
9 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 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 more quotes from Robert Casey
Sorrows are like thunderclouds, in the distance they look black, over our heads scarcely gray.
18 more wisdom & wit 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 wisdom & wit from Chief Joseph
The flesh, alas, is sad, and I have read all the books.
3 more views 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 sayings from Joseph Campbell