Sadness Quotes

• People believe a man is in distress because his loved one dies in one day. But his real pain is less futile: it is that he finds out that sadness too does not last. Even pain has no meaning.

  

  Albert Camus
  • Believe
  • Pain
  • Meaning

• Somewhere in him, a shadow turned mournfully over. You had to run with a night like this so the sadness could not hurt

  

  Ray Bradbury
  • Night
  • Running
  • Hurt

• Do not judge men by mere appearances; for the light laughter that bubbles on the lip often mantles over the depths of sadness, and the serious look may be the sober veil that covers a divine peace and joy.

  

  Edwin Hubbell Chapin
  • Joy
  • Judge
  • Laughter

• Sadness is just another word for not enough coffee.

  

  Scott Adams
  • Coffee
  • Sadness

• We changed it to emocionó, the way you say in Spanish, "to emotion me" to be moved. That, as opposed to "haunt." We wanted the feeling of sadness and grief and obsession, so we used emocionó.

  

  Sandra Cisneros
  • Feelings
  • Emotion
  • Grief

• The sadness which reigned everywhere was but an excuse for unfailing kindness.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Kindness
  • Sadness
  • Escuse

• There are seasons of darkness, yes? Loss and sadness all around.” He tightens his grip. “But if you are patient, the circle turns, and then there is happiness all around, everything good, everyone happy.” He flings a hand out, palm up, as if scattering glitter. “My friend, he just forgot that happiness is part of living too.

  

  Barbara O'Neal
  • Happiness
  • Darkness
  • Patient

• Whereas a prolonged life is not necessarily better, a prolonged death is necessarily worse.

  

  Seneca the Younger
  • Life
  • Sad
  • Suicidal

• The rich man can afford to be happy and wise; the poor man is wiser still, for he understands sadness.

  

  William Henry Chase
  • Rich
  • Poor
  • Intelligence

• He thought that everyone should listen to her voice, because there was so much sadness and happiness in it, all at the same time. And he knew she could make the world be quiet, and he thought that maybe the world needed to be quiet. That was the problem with the world—it never stayed quiet long enough to listen.

  

  Benjamin Alire Saenz
  • Problem
  • Happiness
  • Listen

• His sadness was unbearable to watch. Far worse than his rage. He looked so defeated in that sorrow—like he was surrendering, like the battle was too much.

  

  Benjamin Alire Saenz
  • Battle
  • Sorrow
  • Rage

• If teardrops were pennies and heartaches were gold, I'd have all the treasures my pockets could hold.

  

  Dolly Parton
  • Gold
  • Sadness
  • Heartache

• I felt a tremendous sadness for men who can't deal with a woman of their own age.

  

  Michael Caine
  • Woman
  • Sadness

• We had our unhappy moments but they got channelled into the kind of sadness that was necessary for singing a song about going nowhere. So it worked out very well I think.

  

  Tina Weymouth
  • Thinking
  • Song
  • Singing

• If you want to learn how to be happy, you have to know what is sadness first.

  

  Etgar Keret
  • Want
  • Firsts
  • Sadness

• She had a moment of engulfing sadness about this, about the way that even when we’re living through tragedy, the language we reach for, the only language available to us, is secondhand.

  

  Brian Morton
  • Language
  • Moment
  • Tragedy

• Some people turn sad awfully young. No special reason, it seems, but they seem almost to be born that way. They bruise easier, tire faster, cry quicker, remember longer and, as I say, get sadder younger than anyone else in the world. I know, for I'm one of them.

  

  Ray Bradbury
  • World
  • Remember
  • Reason

• There are moments when I wish I could roll back the clock and take all the sadness away, but I have a feeling that if I did, the joy would be gone as well. So I take the memories as they come, accepting them all, letting them guide me whenever I can.

  

  Nicholas Sparks
  • Wish
  • Moments
  • Feelings

• There were hundreds of them spread across the floor, each telling its own tale of triumph or sadness, each letter representing a phase in her life. She had kept them all.

  

  Cecelia Ahern
  • Sadness
  • Letters
  • Spread

• Music should use everything. The sadness of life and the fun of life. Anything that provokes a sound that is exciting is good.

  

  Daniel Humair
  • Everything
  • Anything
  • Exciting

• When she was younger, hannah liked to feel sad, so long as it was artifical sad' that was what she called it when the sadness was about something that wasn't real.

  

  Elizabeth Noble
  • Real
  • Sadness

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