sadness Quotes, Quotations, and Sayings

22 sadness Quotes
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“If you see a friend without a smile; give him one of yours.”
Proverb Quotes
“Nobody deserves your tears, but whoever deserves them will not make you cry.”
Gabriel Garcia Marquez Quotes
“All good things must come to an end, but all bad things can continue forever.”
Jim Rohn Quotes
“Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad.”
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes
“It's easy to cry when you realize that everyone you love will reject you or die.”
Chuck Palahniuk Quotes
“Smile, even if it's a sad smile, because sadder than a sad smile is the sadness of not knowing how to smile.”
Tom Gates Quotes
“Anger, tears and sadness are only for those who have given up”
Katie Gill Quotes
“Sad are only those who understand”
Arab Proverb Quotes
“Child of mortality, whence comest thou? Why is thy countenance sad, and why are thine eyes red with weeping?”
Mrs. Anna Letitia Barbauld Quotes
Source: Hymns in Prose (XIII)
“Of all tales 'tis the saddest--and more sad, Because it makes us smile.”
Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron) Quotes
Source: Don Juan (canto XIII, st. 9)
“A feeling of sadness and longing, That is not akin to pain, And resembles sorrow only As the mist resembles the rain.”
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes
Source: The Day is Done (st. 3)
“Yet be sad, good brothers, For, by my faith, it very well becomes you. Sorrow so royally in you appears That I will deeply put the fashion on And wear it in my heart.”
William Shakespeare Quotes
Source: King Henry the Fourth, Part II (King Henry at V, ii)
“We look before and after, And pine for what is not, Our sincerest laughter With some pain is fraught: Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.”
Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes
Source: To a Skylark (st. 18)
“It takes your enemy and your friend, working together, to hurt you to the heart: the one to slander you and the other to get the news to you.”
Mark Twain (pseudonym of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) Quotes
Source: Following the Equator (ch. 45)
“'Tis impious in a good man to be sad.”
Edward Young Quotes
Source: Night Thoughts (night IV, l. 676)
“The human mind can bear plenty of reality but not too much intermittent gloom.”
Margaret Drabble Quotes
“We gather strength from sadness and from pain Each time we die we learn to live again.”
Source Unknown Quotes
“There can be no rainbow without a cloud and a storm.”
John Heyl Vincent Quotes
“What is the source of sadness, but feebleness of the mind? What giveth it power but the want of reason? Rouse thyself to the combat, and she quitteth the field before thou strikest.”
Akhenaton Quotes
“I can see the humorous side of things and enjoy the fun when it comes; but look where I will, there seems to me always more sadness than joy in life.”
Jerome K. Jerome Quotes
“No society has been able to abolish human sadness, no political system can deliver us from the pain of living, from our fear of death, our thirst for the absolute. It is the human condition that directs the social condition, not vice versa.”
Eugene Ionesco Quotes
“Sadness does not inhere in things; it does not reach us from the world and through mere contemplation of the world. It is a product of our own thought. We create it out of whole cloth.”
Emile Durkheim Quotes