Quotes & anectdotes from
the wise,
the foolish,
the courageous &
the drunk

sadness

Proud people breed sad sorrows for themselves.

Sadness flies away on the wings of time.

The word 'happiness' would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.

I have a piece of great and sad news to tell you: I am dead.

His death was the first time that Ed Wynn ever made anyone sad.

Though I know he loves me, tonight my heart is sad his kiss was not so wonderful as all the dreams I had.

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.

Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.

Do not make best friends with a melancholy sad soul. They always are heavily loaded, and you must bear half.

It is sad to see a woman sacrificing the ties of the affections even to do good.

It is a sad thing when men have neither the wit to speak well nor the judgment to hold their tongues.

Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober not to make us sorry but wise.

It is sad not to love, but it is much sadder not to be able to love.

Your joys and sorrows. You can never tell them. You cheapen the inside of yourself if you do tell them.

Nothing is more sad than the death of an illusion.

Time takes away the grief of men.

Sadness is also a kind of defence.

The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil.

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.

It is a very sad thing that nowadays there is so little useless information.

I would never have become music director of the Chicago Symphony, which would have been an extremely sad loss.

Morality comes with the sad wisdom of age, when the sense of curiosity has withered.

He who is not just is severe, he who is not wise is sad.

He is a hard man who is only just, and a sad one who is only wise.

Those who gave away their wings are sad not to see them fly.

Can I see another's woe, and not be in sorrow too? Can I see another's grief, and not seek for kind relief?

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.

Sad Patience, too near neighbour to despair.

Better by far you should forget and smile that you should remember and be sad.

Of these years nought remains in memory but the sad feeling that we have advanced and only grown older.

Dying is only one thing to be sad over... Living unhappily is something else.

The saddest thing that befalls a soul is when it loses faith in God and woman.

For all sad words of tongue and pen, The saddest are these, 'It might have been'.

The rose and the thorn, and sorrow and gladness are linked together.

The sad souls of those who lived without blame and without praise.

Sadness is but a wall between two gardens.

What else does anxiety about the future bring you but sorrow upon sorrow?

Oh, I am very weary, Though tears no longer flow My eyes are tired of weeping, My heart is sick of woe.

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.

Nobody understands another's sorrow, and nobody another's joy.

My lasting impression of Truman Capote is that he was a terribly gentle, terribly sensitive, and terribly sad man.

Let my soul smile through my heart and my heart smile through my eyes, that I may scatter rich smiles in sad hearts.

An ounce of cheerfulness is worth a pound of sadness to serve God with.

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.

Poverty makes you sad as well as wise.

In deep sadness there is no place for sentimentality.

Beauty makes idiots sad and wise men merry.

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.

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.

Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad.

The good times of today, are the sad thoughts of tomorrow.

A sad soul can kill quicker than a germ.

What makes old age so sad is not that our joys but our hopes cease.

However, we might oppose it, abortion is a sad feature of modern life.

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.

The flesh, alas, is sad, and I have read all the books.

Sorrows are like thunderclouds, in the distance they look black, over our heads scarcely gray.

Participate joyfully in the sorrows of the world. We cannot cure the world of sorrows, but we can choose to live in joy.

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.

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.

I hold the world but as the world, Gratiano A stage where every man must play a part, And mine is a sad one.

I had rather have a fool to make me merry than experience to make me sad and to travel for it too!

It's both funny and sad which seem to me to be the two basic ingredients of good comedy.

Heavy hearts, like heavy clouds in the sky, are best relieved by the letting of a little water.

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.

We try to... we are, I suppose to a certain extent all affected and erm, that is both funny and sad I think.

We never taste a perfect joy our happiest successes are mixed with sadness.

In this world, full often, our joys are only the tender shadows which our sorrows cast.

The sad duty of politics is to establish justice in a sinful world.