Sadness Quotes

"They say geniuses mostly have great mothers. They mostly have sad fates."

"War is very sad and small life is pathetically fragile at times."

"I would not know how I am supposed to feel about many stories if not for the fact that the TV news personalities make sad faces for sad stories and happy faces for happy stories."

"Sad people dislike the happy, and the happy the sad the quick thinking the sedate, and the careless the busy and industrious."

"Christmas makes everything twice as sad."

"I don't have many sad days."

"I didn't really want to live, so anything that was an investment in time made me angry... but also I just felt sad. When the hopelessness is hurting you, it's the fixtures and fittings that finish you off."

"It is a very sad thing that nowadays there is so little useless information."

"My parents' divorce left me with a lot of sadness and pain and acting, and especially humour, was my way of dealing with all that."

"The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities."

"Can I see another's woe, and not be in sorrow too? Can I see another's grief, and not seek for kind relief?"

"Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober not to make us sorry but wise."

"Make the most of your regrets never smother your sorrow, but tend and cherish it till it comes to have a separate and integral interest. To regret deeply is to live afresh."

"It's sad when someone you know becomes someone you knew."

"Sadness is but a wall between two gardens."

"I seldom think about my limitations, and they never make me sad. Perhaps there is just a touch of yearning at times but it is vague, like a breeze among flowers."

"Our religion is itself profoundly sad - a religion of universal anguish, and one which, because of its very catholicity, grants full liberty to the individual and asks no better than to be celebrated in each man's own language - so long as he knows anguish and is a painter."

"Wondrous is the strength of cheerfulness, and its power of endurance - the cheerful man will do more in the same time, will do it better, will preserve it longer, than the sad or sullen."

"I cry, sometimes, because I'm not 20 years younger, and I'm not healthy. But if I were, I would even sacrifice my writing to enter politics."

"In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for as for me, I rejoice that I am not a Republican."