sadness
Morality comes with the sad wisdom of age, when the sense of curiosity has withered.
11 other quotes from Graham Greene
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 wisdom & wit from Oscar Wilde
Time takes away the grief of men.
15 more quotes from Desiderius Erasmus
Sadness is also a kind of defence.
2 more quotes from Ivo Andric
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 thoughts 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 more views from Hannah Arendt
Those who gave away their wings are sad not to see them fly.
4 quotes from Antonio Porchia
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 quotes from William Blake
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 quotes from Voltaire
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 more quotes from Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Dying is only one thing to be sad over... Living unhappily is something else.
2 wisdom & wit from Morrie Schwartz
Better by far you should forget and smile that you should remember and be sad.
4 wisdom & wit from Christina Rossetti
Sad Patience, too near neighbour to despair.
8 more quotes from Matthew Arnold
Of these years nought remains in memory but the sad feeling that we have advanced and only grown older.
3 more wisdom & wit from Max Muller
For all sad words of tongue and pen, The saddest are these, 'It might have been'.
7 quotes from John Greenleaf Whittier
The saddest thing that befalls a soul is when it loses faith in God and woman.
6 wisdom & wit from Alexander Smith
What else does anxiety about the future bring you but sorrow upon sorrow?
12 quotes from Thomas a Kempis
Nobody understands another's sorrow, and nobody another's joy.
5 sayings 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 quotes 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 quotes from Anne Bronte
My lasting impression of Truman Capote is that he was a terribly gentle, terribly sensitive, and terribly sad man.
3 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 quotes from Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
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 views from Saadi
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 more quotes from Dante Alighieri
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
Poverty makes you sad as well as wise.
14 quotes from Bertolt Brecht
The good times of today, are the sad thoughts of tomorrow.
11 more quotes from Bob Marley
A sad soul can kill quicker than a germ.
9 other views from John Steinbeck
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 views from W. H. Auden
In deep sadness there is no place for sentimentality.
9 other quotes from William S. Burroughs
Beauty makes idiots sad and wise men merry.
12 sayings from George Jean Nathan
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 views from W. H. Auden
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
What makes old age so sad is not that our joys but our hopes cease.
18 more quotes from Jean Paul
However, we might oppose it, abortion is a sad feature of modern life.
5 wisdom & wit 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 sayings from Joseph Campbell
The flesh, alas, is sad, and I have read all the books.
3 more wisdom & wit from Stephane Mallarme
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 sayings from Chief Joseph
Sorrows are like thunderclouds, in the distance they look black, over our heads scarcely gray.
18 wisdom & wit from Jean Paul
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
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 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 wisdom & wit from William Wordsworth
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 sayings from William Shakespeare
It's both funny and sad which seem to me to be the two basic ingredients of good comedy.
2 other thoughts from Tony Hancock
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 sayings 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 more wisdom & wit from Edmond de Goncourt
Heavy hearts, like heavy clouds in the sky, are best relieved by the letting of a little water.
15 other quotes from Christopher Morley
We never taste a perfect joy our happiest successes are mixed with sadness.
15 wisdom & wit 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 quotes from Henry Ward Beecher
The word 'happiness' would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.
19 more quotes from Carl Jung
Sadness flies away on the wings of time.
15 wisdom & wit from Jean de La Fontaine
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 other quotes from Jean Cocteau
His death was the first time that Ed Wynn ever made anyone sad.
5 other thoughts from Red Skelton
It is a sad thing when men have neither the wit to speak well nor the judgment to hold their tongues.
26 quotes from Jean de la Bruyere
Do not make best friends with a melancholy sad soul. They always are heavily loaded, and you must bear half.
3 more thoughts from Francois Fenelon
Though I know he loves me, tonight my heart is sad his kiss was not so wonderful as all the dreams I had.
6 other 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 other thoughts from James Baldwin
It is sad to see a woman sacrificing the ties of the affections even to do good.
8 sayings from Maria Mitchell
Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.
19 wisdom & wit from Percy Bysshe Shelley
Nothing is more sad than the death of an illusion.
4 more quotes from Arthur Koestler
Your joys and sorrows. You can never tell them. You cheapen the inside of yourself if you do tell them.
4 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
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