sadness
It is a sad thing when men have neither the wit to speak well nor the judgment to hold their tongues.
26 more sayings from Jean de la Bruyere
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
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
Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.
19 other views 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 quotes from Maria Mitchell
Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober not to make us sorry but wise.
19 quotes from H. G. Wells
It is sad not to love, but it is much sadder not to be able to love.
12 sayings 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 sayings from Greta Garbo
Nothing is more sad than the death of an illusion.
4 quotes from Arthur Koestler
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 quotes 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 views from Georg Solti
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 sayings from Desiderius Erasmus
It is a very sad thing that nowadays there is so little useless information.
100 other views from Oscar Wilde
The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil.
9 other quotes from Hannah Arendt
He is a hard man who is only just, and a sad one who is only wise.
78 sayings from Voltaire
He who is not just is severe, he who is not wise is sad.
78 sayings 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 quotes from William Blake
Those who gave away their wings are sad not to see them fly.
4 wisdom & wit 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 other thoughts from Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Of these years nought remains in memory but the sad feeling that we have advanced and only grown older.
3 wisdom & wit from Max Muller
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 quotes from John Greenleaf Whittier
Sad Patience, too near neighbour to despair.
8 quotes from Matthew Arnold
Dying is only one thing to be sad over... Living unhappily is something else.
2 other quotes from Morrie Schwartz
Better by far you should forget and smile that you should remember and be sad.
4 quotes from Christina Rossetti
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 more wisdom & wit from Dante Alighieri
What else does anxiety about the future bring you but sorrow upon sorrow?
12 views from Thomas a Kempis
Sadness is but a wall between two gardens.
56 sayings from Khalil Gibran
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 more wisdom & wit from Alvin Ailey
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 wisdom & wit from Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
Nobody understands another's sorrow, and nobody another's joy.
5 quotes from Franz Schubert
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 quotes from Paramahansa Yogananda
An ounce of cheerfulness is worth a pound of sadness to serve God with.
45 quotes from Thomas Fuller
A sad soul can kill quicker than a germ.
9 other sayings 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 other quotes from James Russell Lowell
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
In deep sadness there is no place for sentimentality.
9 thoughts from William S. Burroughs
Beauty makes idiots sad and wise men merry.
12 quotes from George Jean Nathan
The good times of today, are the sad thoughts of tomorrow.
11 other views from Bob Marley
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 other 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 quotes from W. H. Auden
Poverty makes you sad as well as wise.
14 more quotes from Bertolt Brecht
Sorrows are like thunderclouds, in the distance they look black, over our heads scarcely gray.
18 other thoughts from Jean Paul
The flesh, alas, is sad, and I have read all the books.
3 views 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 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 sayings from Chief Joseph
What makes old age so sad is not that our joys but our hopes cease.
18 more wisdom & wit from Jean Paul
However, we might oppose it, abortion is a sad feature of modern life.
5 sayings from Robert Casey
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 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 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 other quotes 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
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 quotes from Tony Hancock
It's both funny and sad which seem to me to be the two basic ingredients of good comedy.
2 thoughts from Tony Hancock
Heavy hearts, like heavy clouds in the sky, are best relieved by the letting of a little water.
15 more 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 more quotes from Edmond de Goncourt
We never taste a perfect joy our happiest successes are mixed with sadness.
15 more thoughts from Pierre Corneille
The sad duty of politics is to establish justice in a sinful world.
15 more quotes from Reinhold Niebuhr
In this world, full often, our joys are only the tender shadows which our sorrows cast.
58 quotes from Henry Ward Beecher
His death was the first time that Ed Wynn ever made anyone sad.
5 other thoughts from Red Skelton
I have a piece of great and sad news to tell you: I am dead.
24 other wisdom & wit from Jean Cocteau
The word 'happiness' would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.
19 other sayings from Carl Jung
Sadness flies away on the wings of time.
15 sayings from Jean de La Fontaine
Proud people breed sad sorrows for themselves.
6 more quotes from Emily Bronte