Sadness Quotes

For all sad words of tongue and pen, the saddest are these, 'It might have been.

John Greenleaf Whittier

Anger, tears and sadness are only for those who have given up

Katie Gill

There is no worse sorrow than remembering happiness in the day of sorrow.

Alfred De Musset

Sorrow breaks seasons and reposing hours, Makes the night morning, and the noontide night.

William Shakespeare

We gather strength from sadness and from pain Each time we die we learn to live again.

Unknown

I seldom think about my limitations, and they never make me sad. Perhaps there is just a touch of yearning at times; but it is vague, like a breeze among flowers.

Helen Keller

Onions make me sad, a lot of people don't realize that. When I'm cutting onions, I'm sad. Because the plight of onions, it's sad. But people don't realize I'm actually crying - they think I'm just reacting.

Mitch Hedberg

Good humor is the health of the soul, sadness its poison

Lord Chesterfield

It is an unfortunate personal tragedy. However, when compared to the vast ocean of the collective tragedy faced by my people, my illness is merely a pebble. I am deeply sad that I am crippled by this illness, unable to contribute anything substantial towards the alleviation of the immense suffering and oppression of my people.

Anton Balasingham

Man could not live if he were entirely impervious to sadness. Many sorrows can be endured only by being embraced, and the pleasure taken in them naturally has a somewhat melancholy character.

Emile Durkheim

Laugh and the world laughs with you, Weep, and you weep alone; For this brave old earth must borrow its mirth, But has trouble enough of its own.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

The essential sadness is to go through life without loving. But it would be almost equally sad to leave this world without ever telling those you loved that you love them.

Unknown

Tears are words the heart can't express.

Unknown

Silence is medication for sorrow.

Arab Proverb quotes

'Tis impious in a good man to be sad.

Edward Young

It is a time when one's spirit is subdued and sad, one knows not why; when the past seems a storm-swept desolation, life a vanity and a burden, and the future but a way to death.

Mark Twain

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 Wordsworth Longfellow

The walls we build around us to keep out the sadness also keep out the joy.

Jim Rohn

Sadness flies away on the wings of time.

Jean de La Fontaine

The word 'happiness' would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.

Carl Gustav Jung

Sadness is always the legacy of the past; regrets are pains of the memory

Unknown

Sadness is but a wall between two gardens.