sadness
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 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 wisdom & wit from Edmond de Goncourt
It's both funny and sad which seem to me to be the two basic ingredients of good comedy.
2 more quotes from Tony Hancock
In this world, full often, our joys are only the tender shadows which our sorrows cast.
58 quotes from Henry Ward Beecher
We never taste a perfect joy our happiest successes are mixed with sadness.
15 thoughts from Pierre Corneille
The sad duty of politics is to establish justice in a sinful world.
15 thoughts from Reinhold Niebuhr
Proud people breed sad sorrows for themselves.
6 quotes from Emily Bronte
I have a piece of great and sad news to tell you: I am dead.
24 sayings from Jean Cocteau
His death was the first time that Ed Wynn ever made anyone sad.
5 quotes from Red Skelton
Sadness flies away on the wings of time.
15 quotes from Jean de La Fontaine
The word 'happiness' would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.
19 other quotes from Carl Jung
Though I know he loves me, tonight my heart is sad his kiss was not so wonderful as all the dreams I had.
6 sayings from Sara Teasdale
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 thoughts from Maria Mitchell
Do not make best friends with a melancholy sad soul. They always are heavily loaded, and you must bear half.
3 more quotes 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 thoughts 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 wisdom & wit from James Baldwin
Nothing is more sad than the death of an illusion.
4 other views from Arthur Koestler
Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober not to make us sorry but wise.
19 other quotes 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 views from Greta Garbo
It is sad not to love, but it is much sadder not to be able to love.
12 thoughts from Miguel de Unamuno
Time takes away the grief of men.
15 views from Desiderius Erasmus
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 other views from Dwight D. Eisenhower
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
Sadness is also a kind of defence.
2 quotes from Ivo Andric
Morality comes with the sad wisdom of age, when the sense of curiosity has withered.
11 wisdom & wit from Graham Greene
I would never have become music director of the Chicago Symphony, which would have been an extremely sad loss.
2 quotes from Georg Solti
He who is not just is severe, he who is not wise is sad.
78 other sayings from Voltaire
Those who gave away their wings are sad not to see them fly.
4 quotes from Antonio Porchia
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 quotes from Ella Wheeler Wilcox
He is a hard man who is only just, and a sad one who is only wise.
78 quotes 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 other thoughts from William Blake
Better by far you should forget and smile that you should remember and be sad.
4 other views from Christina Rossetti
Of these years nought remains in memory but the sad feeling that we have advanced and only grown older.
3 views from Max Muller
The saddest thing that befalls a soul is when it loses faith in God and woman.
6 more wisdom & wit from Alexander Smith
For all sad words of tongue and pen, The saddest are these, 'It might have been'.
7 more thoughts from John Greenleaf Whittier
Sad Patience, too near neighbour to despair.
8 thoughts from Matthew Arnold
Dying is only one thing to be sad over... Living unhappily is something else.
2 more sayings from Morrie Schwartz
What else does anxiety about the future bring you but sorrow upon sorrow?
12 quotes from Thomas a Kempis
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 quotes from Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
An ounce of cheerfulness is worth a pound of sadness to serve God with.
45 more quotes from Thomas Fuller
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 other sayings from Saadi
Oh, I am very weary, Though tears no longer flow My eyes are tired of weeping, My heart is sick of woe.
2 views from Anne Bronte
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 views from Paramahansa Yogananda
My lasting impression of Truman Capote is that he was a terribly gentle, terribly sensitive, and terribly sad man.
3 other thoughts from Alvin Ailey
Nobody understands another's sorrow, and nobody another's joy.
5 more quotes from Franz Schubert
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 other wisdom & wit from Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Beauty makes idiots sad and wise men merry.
12 more sayings 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
A sad soul can kill quicker than a germ.
9 other wisdom & wit 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 wisdom & wit from James Russell Lowell
The good times of today, are the sad thoughts of tomorrow.
11 other sayings from Bob Marley
Poverty makes you sad as well as wise.
14 more views from Bertolt Brecht
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 quotes from W. H. Auden
In deep sadness there is no place for sentimentality.
9 quotes from William S. Burroughs
What makes old age so sad is not that our joys but our hopes cease.
18 other quotes from Jean Paul
Sorrows are like thunderclouds, in the distance they look black, over our heads scarcely gray.
18 quotes from Jean Paul
However, we might oppose it, abortion is a sad feature of modern life.
5 more thoughts from Robert Casey
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
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 other quotes from Stephane Mallarme
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 other wisdom & wit 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 quotes from William Shakespeare
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 quotes from Anne Sullivan