Sadness Quotes

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.

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.

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.

What is the source of sadness, but feebleness of the mind? What giveth it power but the want of reason? Rouse thyself to the combat, and she quitteth the field before thou strikest.

A feeling of sadness and longing, That is not akin to pain, And resembles sorrow only As the mist resembles the rain.

Grief carries its own antidote along with it.
Charles Brockden Brown

Sadness does not inhere in things; it does not reach us from the world and through mere contemplation of the world. It is a product of our own thought. We create it out of whole cloth.
Emile Durkheim

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

Sorrow is like a precious treasure, shown only to friends.
African Proverb quotes

When sorrows come, they come not single spies, but in battalions.
William Shakespeare quotes

Sorrows cannot all be explained away in a life truly lived, grief and loss accumulate like possessions.
Stefan Kanfer

There are moments when, even to the sober eye of Reason, the world of our sad humanity must assume the aspect of Hell

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

You cannot prevent the birds of sadness from passing over your head, but you can prevent their making a nest in your hair

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.

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

Oh the gladness of their gladness when they're glad, And the sadness of their sadness when they're sad; But the gladness of their gladness, and the sadness of their sadness, Are as nothing to their badness when they're bad

What is the source of sadness, but feebleness of the mind? What giveth it power but the want of reason? Rouse thyself to the combat, and she quitteth the field before thou strikest.

Sadness and gladness succeed each other

Sadness does not inhere in things; it does not reach us from the world and through mere contemplation of the world. It is a product of our own thought. We create it out of whole cloth.

Much like the hands of a clock go nowhere fast, anxious thoughts run us round-and-round without taking us anywhere!

The only thing worried thoughts have the power to change is what the next thing will be for you to worry over!







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