Quotes & anectdotes from the wise, the foolish, the courageous & the drunk

sadness

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

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

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

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

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

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 more quotes from Anne Sullivan

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 sayings 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 more quotes from William Wordsworth

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

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

It's both funny and sad which seem to me to be the two basic ingredients of good comedy. 2 quotes 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 wisdom & wit from Christopher Morley

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

In this world, full often, our joys are only the tender shadows which our sorrows cast. 58 other quotes from Henry Ward Beecher

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

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

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

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

Sadness flies away on the wings of time. 15 other views from Jean de La Fontaine

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

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

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 other views from James Baldwin

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

I would never have become music director of the Chicago Symphony, which would have been an extremely sad loss. 2 other sayings 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 more views from Dwight D. Eisenhower

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

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

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

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

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 more wisdom & wit from Ella Wheeler Wilcox

He who is not just is severe, he who is not wise is sad. 78 views from Voltaire

He is a hard man who is only just, and a sad one who is only wise. 78 wisdom & wit from Voltaire

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

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 thoughts from William Blake

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

Sad Patience, too near neighbour to despair. 8 more quotes from Matthew Arnold

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

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

The saddest thing that befalls a soul is when it loses faith in God and woman. 6 other wisdom & wit from Alexander Smith

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 quotes from Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

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

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

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

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 views from W. H. Auden

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 sayings from W. H. Auden

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 other sayings 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 other views from James Russell Lowell

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

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

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