sadness
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 wisdom & wit from Joseph Campbell
Sorrows are like thunderclouds, in the distance they look black, over our heads scarcely gray.
18 views from Jean Paul
The flesh, alas, is sad, and I have read all the books.
3 quotes from Stephane Mallarme
However, we might oppose it, abortion is a sad feature of modern life.
5 sayings 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 other views from Chief Joseph
What makes old age so sad is not that our joys but our hopes cease.
18 more views from Jean Paul
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 other sayings from Anne Sullivan
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
I had rather have a fool to make me merry than experience to make me sad and to travel for it too!
81 other quotes 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 more 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 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 sayings from Edmond de Goncourt
Heavy hearts, like heavy clouds in the sky, are best relieved by the letting of a little water.
15 quotes from Christopher Morley
It's both funny and sad which seem to me to be the two basic ingredients of good comedy.
2 more thoughts from Tony Hancock
We never taste a perfect joy our happiest successes are mixed with sadness.
15 quotes from Pierre Corneille
The sad duty of politics is to establish justice in a sinful world.
15 other quotes from Reinhold Niebuhr
In this world, full often, our joys are only the tender shadows which our sorrows cast.
58 more views from Henry Ward Beecher
His death was the first time that Ed Wynn ever made anyone sad.
5 views from Red Skelton
Proud people breed sad sorrows for themselves.
6 thoughts from Emily Bronte
I have a piece of great and sad news to tell you: I am dead.
24 other quotes from Jean Cocteau
The word 'happiness' would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.
19 more thoughts from Carl Jung
Sadness flies away on the wings of time.
15 thoughts from Jean de La Fontaine
Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.
19 quotes from Percy Bysshe Shelley
It is sad to see a woman sacrificing the ties of the affections even to do good.
8 more quotes from Maria Mitchell
Though I know he loves me, tonight my heart is sad his kiss was not so wonderful as all the dreams I had.
6 wisdom & wit from Sara Teasdale
It is a sad thing when men have neither the wit to speak well nor the judgment to hold their tongues.
26 other wisdom & wit 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 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 sayings from Francois Fenelon
Nothing is more sad than the death of an illusion.
4 quotes from Arthur Koestler
Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober not to make us sorry but wise.
19 sayings 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 other 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 more quotes 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 quotes from Hannah Arendt
Morality comes with the sad wisdom of age, when the sense of curiosity has withered.
11 other quotes from Graham Greene
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 other views from Dwight D. Eisenhower
Sadness is also a kind of defence.
2 other quotes from Ivo Andric
I would never have become music director of the Chicago Symphony, which would have been an extremely sad loss.
2 sayings from Georg Solti
It is a very sad thing that nowadays there is so little useless information.
100 views from Oscar Wilde
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 views from Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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 other views from Voltaire
He is a hard man who is only just, and a sad one who is only wise.
78 more views 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 wisdom & wit from William Blake
Dying is only one thing to be sad over... Living unhappily is something else.
2 more quotes from Morrie Schwartz
For all sad words of tongue and pen, The saddest are these, 'It might have been'.
7 sayings from John Greenleaf Whittier
Sad Patience, too near neighbour to despair.
8 thoughts from Matthew Arnold
Better by far you should forget and smile that you should remember and be sad.
4 views from Christina Rossetti
The saddest thing that befalls a soul is when it loses faith in God and woman.
6 wisdom & wit 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
Nobody understands another's sorrow, and nobody another's joy.
5 more wisdom & wit from Franz Schubert
What else does anxiety about the future bring you but sorrow upon sorrow?
12 other quotes from Thomas a Kempis
An ounce of cheerfulness is worth a pound of sadness to serve God with.
45 views from Thomas Fuller
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 more thoughts from Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
The sad souls of those who lived without blame and without praise.
13 quotes from Dante Alighieri
The rose and the thorn, and sorrow and gladness are linked together.
4 quotes from Saadi
Sadness is but a wall between two gardens.
56 quotes from Khalil Gibran
Let my soul smile through my heart and my heart smile through my eyes, that I may scatter rich smiles in sad hearts.
3 other sayings from Paramahansa Yogananda
Oh, I am very weary, Though tears no longer flow My eyes are tired of weeping, My heart is sick of woe.
2 wisdom & wit from Anne Bronte
My lasting impression of Truman Capote is that he was a terribly gentle, terribly sensitive, and terribly sad man.
3 sayings from Alvin Ailey
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 quotes from William S. Burroughs
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
The good times of today, are the sad thoughts of tomorrow.
11 wisdom & wit from Bob Marley
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 views from Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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
Poverty makes you sad as well as wise.
14 more quotes from Bertolt Brecht
Beauty makes idiots sad and wise men merry.
12 more thoughts from George Jean Nathan
A sad soul can kill quicker than a germ.
9 more quotes from John Steinbeck