Sadness Quotes

"I like everything perfect. Everything has to be neat. My sister is 5, and she's more messy than I am. I make my bed every morning, everything's perfect. My shoes are all arranged. It's sad. I'm a little like Ray, a little bit."

"It is a sad thing when men have neither the wit to speak well nor the judgment to hold their tongues."

"The display of grief makes more demands than grief itself. How few men are sad in their own company."

"Time takes away the grief of men."

"The sadness of the women's movement is that they don't allow the necessity of love. See, I don't personally trust any revolution where love is not allowed."

"Man is subject to innumerable pains and sorrows by the very condition of humanity, and yet, as if nature had not sown evils enough in life, we are continually adding grief to grief and aggravating the common calamity by our cruel treatment of one another."

"Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them - that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like."

"In high school, a teacher once suggested that I be a math major in college. I thought, 'Me? You've got to be joking!' I mean, in junior high, I used to come home and cry because I was so afraid of my math homework. Seriously, I was terrified of math."

"If my world were to cave in tomorrow, I would look back on all the pleasures, excitements and worthwhilenesses I have been lucky enough to have had. Not the sadness, not my miscarriages or my father leaving home, but the joy of everything else. It will have been enough."

"Those who weep for the happy periods which they encounter in history acknowledge what they want not the alleviation but the silencing of misery."

"Grief at the absence of a loved one is happiness compared to life with a person one hates."

"Great grief does not of itself put an end to itself."

"There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when we have not yet known what it is to have suffered and be healed, to have despaired and have recovered hope."

"There were times when I had great times with my brothers, pillow fights and things, but I was, used to always cry from loneliness."

"When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools."

"Good night, good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow, that I shall say good night till it be morrow."

"The good times of today, are the sad thoughts of tomorrow."

"Man is born passionate of body, but with an innate though secret tendency to the love of Good in his main-spring of Mind. But God help us all! It is at present a sad jar of atoms."

"An ounce of cheerfulness is worth a pound of sadness to serve God with."

"Sorrow is a fruit. God does not make it grow on limbs too weak to bear it."