Sadness Quotes
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I'm unhappy as Dylan Thomas was, because I'm not, but I've had my brushes with sadness.
Tom Hollander
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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
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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
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The rich man can afford to be happy and wise; the poor man is wiser still, for he understands sadness.
William Henry Chase
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The sadness which reigned everywhere was but an excuse for unfailing kindness.
Victor Hugo
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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
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I felt a tremendous sadness for men who can't deal with a woman of their own age.
Michael Caine
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If teardrops were pennies and heartaches were gold, I'd have all the treasures my pockets could hold.
Dolly Parton
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Whereas a prolonged life is not necessarily better, a prolonged death is necessarily worse.
Seneca the Younger
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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
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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
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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
