sadness
Proud people breed sad sorrows for themselves.
6 sayings from Emily Bronte
Sadness flies away on the wings of time.
15 views from Jean de La Fontaine
The word 'happiness' would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.
19 wisdom & wit from Carl Jung
I have a piece of great and sad news to tell you: I am dead.
24 thoughts from Jean Cocteau
His death was the first time that Ed Wynn ever made anyone sad.
5 thoughts from Red Skelton
Though I know he loves me, tonight my heart is sad his kiss was not so wonderful as all the dreams I had.
6 views 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 quotes from James Baldwin
Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.
19 sayings from Percy Bysshe Shelley
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 sad to see a woman sacrificing the ties of the affections even to do good.
8 thoughts from Maria Mitchell
It is a sad thing when men have neither the wit to speak well nor the judgment to hold their tongues.
26 other sayings from Jean de la Bruyere
Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober not to make us sorry but wise.
19 thoughts from H. G. Wells
It is sad not to love, but it is much sadder not to be able to love.
12 thoughts from Miguel de Unamuno
Your joys and sorrows. You can never tell them. You cheapen the inside of yourself if you do tell them.
4 other quotes from Greta Garbo
Nothing is more sad than the death of an illusion.
4 views from Arthur Koestler
Time takes away the grief of men.
15 more wisdom & wit from Desiderius Erasmus
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 more thoughts from Hannah Arendt
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
It is a very sad thing that nowadays there is so little useless information.
100 other quotes from Oscar Wilde
I would never have become music director of the Chicago Symphony, which would have been an extremely sad loss.
2 quotes from Georg Solti
Morality comes with the sad wisdom of age, when the sense of curiosity has withered.
11 other quotes from Graham Greene
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 more views from Voltaire
Those who gave away their wings are sad not to see them fly.
4 quotes from Antonio Porchia
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
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
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
Of these years nought remains in memory but the sad feeling that we have advanced and only grown older.
3 thoughts from Max Muller
Dying is only one thing to be sad over... Living unhappily is something else.
2 other views from Morrie Schwartz
The saddest thing that befalls a soul is when it loses faith in God and woman.
6 thoughts from Alexander Smith
For all sad words of tongue and pen, The saddest are these, 'It might have been'.
7 other thoughts from John Greenleaf Whittier
The rose and the thorn, and sorrow and gladness are linked together.
4 other thoughts from Saadi
The sad souls of those who lived without blame and without praise.
13 wisdom & wit from Dante Alighieri
Sadness is but a wall between two gardens.
56 quotes from Khalil Gibran
What else does anxiety about the future bring you but sorrow upon sorrow?
12 other wisdom & wit from Thomas a Kempis
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
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
Nobody understands another's sorrow, and nobody another's joy.
5 thoughts from Franz Schubert
My lasting impression of Truman Capote is that he was a terribly gentle, terribly sensitive, and terribly sad man.
3 sayings 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 quotes from Paramahansa Yogananda
An ounce of cheerfulness is worth a pound of sadness to serve God with.
45 more quotes from Thomas Fuller
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 sayings from James Russell Lowell
Poverty makes you sad as well as wise.
14 sayings from Bertolt Brecht
In deep sadness there is no place for sentimentality.
9 more wisdom & wit from William S. Burroughs
Beauty makes idiots sad and wise men merry.
12 more quotes from George Jean Nathan
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
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
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
The good times of today, are the sad thoughts of tomorrow.
11 views from Bob Marley
A sad soul can kill quicker than a germ.
9 other views from John Steinbeck
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
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 views from Chief Joseph
The flesh, alas, is sad, and I have read all the books.
3 quotes from Stephane Mallarme
Sorrows are like thunderclouds, in the distance they look black, over our heads scarcely gray.
18 wisdom & wit from Jean Paul
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 wisdom & wit from Joseph Campbell
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 quotes from Anne Sullivan
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 sayings from William Wordsworth
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 more quotes from William Shakespeare
It's both funny and sad which seem to me to be the two basic ingredients of good comedy.
2 quotes 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 quotes from Edmond de Goncourt
We try to... we are, I suppose to a certain extent all affected and erm, that is both funny and sad I think.
2 other sayings from Tony Hancock
We never taste a perfect joy our happiest successes are mixed with sadness.
15 views from Pierre Corneille
In this world, full often, our joys are only the tender shadows which our sorrows cast.
58 more wisdom & wit from Henry Ward Beecher
The sad duty of politics is to establish justice in a sinful world.
15 quotes from Reinhold Niebuhr