Sadness Quotes

• 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 had never liked October. Ever since he had first lay in the autumn leaves before his grandmother's house many years ago and heard the wind and saw the empty trees. It had made him cry, without a reason. And a little of that sadness returned each year to him. It always went away with spring. But, it was a little different tonight. There was a feeling of autumn coming to last a million years. There would be no spring. ("The October Game")

  

  Ray Bradbury
  • Different
  • House
  • Reason

• 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

• 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

• 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

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

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Kindness
  • Sadness
  • Escuse

• I'm unhappy as Dylan Thomas was, because I'm not, but I've had my brushes with sadness.

  

  Tom Hollander
  • Sadness
  • Unhappy
  • Brushes

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

  

  Dolly Parton
  • Gold
  • Sadness
  • Heartache

• Everything is nothing when you got no one.

  

  Dolly Parton
  • Sadness

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

  

  Seneca the Younger
  • Life
  • Sad
  • Suicidal

• Are there not some places where we seem to breathe sadness? — why, we cannot tell. It is a chain of recollections — an idea which carries you back to other times, to other places — which, very likely, have no connection with the present time and place.

  

  Alexandre Dumas
  • Ideas
  • Connection
  • Sadness

• 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

• I had no idea that mothering my own child would be so healing to my own sadness from my childhood.

  

  Susie Bright
  • Child
  • Healing
  • Sadness

• The big difference between human happiness and sadness? Thirty-seven freakin' vibrations.

  

  Michael Tilson Thomas
  • Humans
  • Differences
  • motivation

• 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

• 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

• 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

• Sadness is just another word for not enough coffee.

  

  Scott Adams
  • Coffee
  • Sadness

• 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

• 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

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