Quotes and anectdotes from the wise to the foolish, and the courageous to the drunk

sad

So many gods, so many creeds, so many paths that wind and wind while just the art of being kind is all the sad world needs. 6 wisdom & wit from Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Those who gave away their wings are sad not to see them fly. 4 sayings from Antonio Porchia

He who is not just is severe, he who is not wise is sad. 78 wisdom & wit from Voltaire

He is a hard man who is only just, and a sad one who is only wise. 78 other quotes from Voltaire

Can I see another's woe, and not be in sorrow too? Can I see another's grief, and not seek for kind relief? 32 quotes from William Blake

Better by far you should forget and smile that you should remember and be sad. 4 wisdom & wit from Christina Rossetti

Dying is only one thing to be sad over... Living unhappily is something else. 2 sayings from Morrie Schwartz

The saddest thing that befalls a soul is when it loses faith in God and woman. 6 more quotes from Alexander Smith

For all sad words of tongue and pen, The saddest are these, 'It might have been'. 7 more quotes from John Greenleaf Whittier

Of these years nought remains in memory but the sad feeling that we have advanced and only grown older. 3 quotes from Max Muller

Sad Patience, too near neighbour to despair. 8 other wisdom & wit from Matthew Arnold

What else does anxiety about the future bring you but sorrow upon sorrow? 12 quotes from Thomas a Kempis

I love my past, I love my present. I am not ashamed of what I have had, and I am not sad because I no longer have it. 9 wisdom & wit from Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

Let my soul smile through my heart and my heart smile through my eyes, that I may scatter rich smiles in sad hearts. 3 quotes from Paramahansa Yogananda

The sad souls of those who lived without blame and without praise. 13 thoughts from Dante Alighieri

My lasting impression of Truman Capote is that he was a terribly gentle, terribly sensitive, and terribly sad man. 3 other wisdom & wit from Alvin Ailey

Nobody understands another's sorrow, and nobody another's joy. 5 more views from Franz Schubert

An ounce of cheerfulness is worth a pound of sadness to serve God with. 45 sayings from Thomas Fuller

Sadness is but a wall between two gardens. 56 more quotes from Khalil Gibran

Oh, I am very weary, Though tears no longer flow My eyes are tired of weeping, My heart is sick of woe. 2 more quotes from Anne Bronte

The rose and the thorn, and sorrow and gladness are linked together. 4 sayings from Saadi

It's a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money writing or talking about his art than he can by practicing it. 21 views from W. H. Auden

Poverty makes you sad as well as wise. 14 quotes from Bertolt Brecht

In deep sadness there is no place for sentimentality. 9 quotes from William S. Burroughs

The good times of today, are the sad thoughts of tomorrow. 11 more quotes from Bob Marley

It is a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money writing or talking about his art than he can by practicing it. 21 more quotes from W. H. Auden

A sad soul can kill quicker than a germ. 9 thoughts from John Steinbeck

Beauty makes idiots sad and wise men merry. 12 quotes from George Jean Nathan

Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad. 26 wisdom & wit from Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Usually when people are sad, they don't do anything. They just cry over their condition. But when they get angry, they bring about a change. 24 quotes from James Russell Lowell

However, we might oppose it, abortion is a sad feature of modern life. 5 other wisdom & wit from Robert Casey

Hear me, my chiefs! I am tired. My heart is sick and sad. From where the sun now stands, I will fight no more forever. 17 quotes from Chief Joseph

The flesh, alas, is sad, and I have read all the books. 3 quotes from Stephane Mallarme

Participate joyfully in the sorrows of the world. We cannot cure the world of sorrows, but we can choose to live in joy. 18 thoughts from Joseph Campbell

Sorrows are like thunderclouds, in the distance they look black, over our heads scarcely gray. 18 thoughts from Jean Paul

What makes old age so sad is not that our joys but our hopes cease. 18 wisdom & wit from Jean Paul

I hold the world but as the world, Gratiano A stage where every man must play a part, And mine is a sad one. 81 other quotes from William Shakespeare

I had rather have a fool to make me merry than experience to make me sad and to travel for it too! 81 thoughts from William Shakespeare

For I have learned to look on nature, not as in the hour of thoughtless youth, but hearing oftentimes the still, sad music of humanity. 21 other quotes from William Wordsworth

We all like stories that make us cry. It's so nice to feel sad when you've nothing in particular to feel sad about. 2 quotes from Anne Sullivan

It's both funny and sad which seem to me to be the two basic ingredients of good comedy. 2 quotes from Tony Hancock

We try to... we are, I suppose to a certain extent all affected and erm, that is both funny and sad I think. 2 thoughts from Tony Hancock

The reason for the sadness of this modern age and the men who live in it is that it looks for the truth in everything and finds it. 2 quotes from Edmond de Goncourt

Heavy hearts, like heavy clouds in the sky, are best relieved by the letting of a little water. 15 more sayings from Christopher Morley

The sad duty of politics is to establish justice in a sinful world. 15 quotes from Reinhold Niebuhr

In this world, full often, our joys are only the tender shadows which our sorrows cast. 58 more wisdom & wit from Henry Ward Beecher

We never taste a perfect joy our happiest successes are mixed with sadness. 15 more thoughts from Pierre Corneille

Sadness flies away on the wings of time. 15 more quotes from Jean de La Fontaine

Proud people breed sad sorrows for themselves. 6 quotes from Emily Bronte

The word 'happiness' would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. 19 thoughts from Carl Jung

His death was the first time that Ed Wynn ever made anyone sad. 5 quotes from Red Skelton

I have a piece of great and sad news to tell you: I am dead. 24 sayings from Jean Cocteau

It is a sad thing when men have neither the wit to speak well nor the judgment to hold their tongues. 26 quotes from Jean de la Bruyere

Do not make best friends with a melancholy sad soul. They always are heavily loaded, and you must bear half. 3 more quotes from Francois Fenelon

Though I know he loves me, tonight my heart is sad his kiss was not so wonderful as all the dreams I had. 6 wisdom & wit from Sara Teasdale

The South is very beautiful but its beauty makes one sad because the lives that people live here, and have lived here, are so ugly. 3 views from James Baldwin

It is sad to see a woman sacrificing the ties of the affections even to do good. 8 quotes from Maria Mitchell

Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought. 19 thoughts from Percy Bysshe Shelley

Your joys and sorrows. You can never tell them. You cheapen the inside of yourself if you do tell them. 4 other quotes from Greta Garbo

It is sad not to love, but it is much sadder not to be able to love. 12 wisdom & wit from Miguel de Unamuno

Nothing is more sad than the death of an illusion. 4 quotes from Arthur Koestler

Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober not to make us sorry but wise. 19 quotes from H. G. Wells

Sadness is also a kind of defence. 2 views from Ivo Andric

It is a very sad thing that nowadays there is so little useless information. 100 quotes from Oscar Wilde

Time takes away the grief of men. 15 quotes from Desiderius Erasmus

I would never have become music director of the Chicago Symphony, which would have been an extremely sad loss. 2 other views from Georg Solti

Few women, I fear, have had such reason as I have to think the long sad years of youth were worth living for the sake of middle age. 33 views from Dwight D. Eisenhower

The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil. 9 thoughts from Hannah Arendt

Morality comes with the sad wisdom of age, when the sense of curiosity has withered. 11 more quotes from Graham Greene