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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 is but a wall between two gardens.

Kahlil Gibran

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

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

Sorrow is one of the vibrations that prove the fact of living.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Silence is medication for sorrow.

Arab Proverb quotes

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

'Tis impious in a good man to be sad.

Edward Young

Child of mortality, whence comest thou? Why is thy countenance sad, and why are thine eyes red with weeping?

Mrs. Anna Letitia Barbauld

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

John Greenleaf Whittier

Sadness flies away on the wings of time.

Jean de La Fontaine

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

Anger is just a cowardly extension of sadness. It's a lot easier to be angry at someone than it is to tell them you're hurt.

Tom Gates

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

Katie Gill

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

Carl Gustav Jung

One cannot be deeply responsive to the world without being saddened very often.

Erich Fromm

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

Lord Chesterfield

So much sadness exists in the world that we are all under obligation to contribute as much joy as lies within our powers.

John Sutherland Bonnell

Sadness usually results from one of the following causes either when a man does not succeed, or is ashamed of his success

Seneca

Melancholy is sadness that has taken on lightness

Italo Calvino

It is very sad for a man to make himself servant to a single thing; his manhood all taken out of him by the hydraulic pressure of excessive business.

Theodore Parker

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

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

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