sadness
In this world, full often, our joys are only the tender shadows which our sorrows cast.
58 quotes from Henry Ward Beecher
The sad duty of politics is to establish justice in a sinful world.
15 other views from Reinhold Niebuhr
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 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 other views from Carl Jung
I have a piece of great and sad news to tell you: I am dead.
24 more quotes from Jean Cocteau
His death was the first time that Ed Wynn ever made anyone sad.
5 more 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 more 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
Do not make best friends with a melancholy sad soul. They always are heavily loaded, and you must bear half.
3 views from Francois Fenelon
Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.
19 thoughts from Percy Bysshe Shelley
It is sad to see a woman sacrificing the ties of the affections even to do good.
8 sayings 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 sayings from Jean de la Bruyere
Nothing is more sad than the death of an illusion.
4 other wisdom & wit from Arthur Koestler
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 more quotes from Miguel de Unamuno
Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober not to make us sorry but wise.
19 sayings from H. G. Wells
It is a very sad thing that nowadays there is so little useless information.
100 more thoughts from Oscar Wilde
Sadness is also a kind of defence.
2 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 thoughts from Hannah Arendt
Morality comes with the sad wisdom of age, when the sense of curiosity has withered.
11 quotes from Graham Greene
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 wisdom & wit 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
Those who gave away their wings are sad not to see them fly.
4 more quotes 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 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 thoughts 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 other sayings from Ella Wheeler Wilcox
The saddest thing that befalls a soul is when it loses faith in God and woman.
6 other views from Alexander Smith
For all sad words of tongue and pen, The saddest are these, 'It might have been'.
7 other quotes from John Greenleaf Whittier
Better by far you should forget and smile that you should remember and be sad.
4 other quotes from Christina Rossetti
Sad Patience, too near neighbour to despair.
8 quotes from Matthew Arnold
Of these years nought remains in memory but the sad feeling that we have advanced and only grown older.
3 other wisdom & wit from Max Muller
Dying is only one thing to be sad over... Living unhappily is something else.
2 other wisdom & wit from Morrie Schwartz
Oh, I am very weary, Though tears no longer flow My eyes are tired of weeping, My heart is sick of woe.
2 thoughts from Anne Bronte
Sadness is but a wall between two gardens.
56 other quotes from Khalil Gibran
The rose and the thorn, and sorrow and gladness are linked together.
4 quotes from Saadi
The sad souls of those who lived without blame and without praise.
13 views from Dante Alighieri
What else does anxiety about the future bring you but sorrow upon sorrow?
12 more views from Thomas a Kempis
An ounce of cheerfulness is worth a pound of sadness to serve God with.
45 other sayings from Thomas Fuller
Nobody understands another's sorrow, and nobody another's joy.
5 quotes from Franz Schubert
My lasting impression of Truman Capote is that he was a terribly gentle, terribly sensitive, and terribly sad man.
3 more wisdom & wit 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 quotes from Paramahansa Yogananda
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 other quotes from Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
In deep sadness there is no place for sentimentality.
9 more 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 quotes from Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Beauty makes idiots sad and wise men merry.
12 more thoughts from George Jean Nathan
Poverty makes you sad as well as wise.
14 wisdom & wit from Bertolt Brecht
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
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
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 more sayings from W. H. Auden
A sad soul can kill quicker than a germ.
9 quotes from John Steinbeck
The good times of today, are the sad thoughts of tomorrow.
11 thoughts from Bob Marley
What makes old age so sad is not that our joys but our hopes cease.
18 sayings from Jean Paul
Sorrows are like thunderclouds, in the distance they look black, over our heads scarcely gray.
18 more thoughts 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 quotes from Chief Joseph
The flesh, alas, is sad, and I have read all the books.
3 wisdom & wit 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 quotes from Joseph Campbell
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 more 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 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 had rather have a fool to make me merry than experience to make me sad and to travel for it too!
81 other views 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 views 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 sayings from Tony Hancock