Sadness Quotes

Ceaseless as the interminable voices of the bell-cricket, all night till dawn my tears flow.

It's strange how sometimes you can be so happy it goes all the way round to sadness.

A frowning face can't bring out the beauty that you are.

Look deep inside, and when you locate the sadness, give it a vacation, and focus on the simple things.

Tell the truth through whichever veil comes to hand - but tell it. Resign yourself to the lifelong sadness that comes from never ­being satisfied.

As he weeps to wicked birds of prey, who pick up on his bread crumb sins, and there are no sins inside the Gates of Eden.

I leave with sadness, but also with pride.

It is always sad when someone leaves home, unless they are simply going around the corner and will return in a few minutes with ice-cream sandwiches.

If you want to learn how to be happy, you have to know what is sadness first.

There's such a thing as too much happiness and sadness. What I'm after is contentment.

Someone left the cake out in the rain. I don't think that I can take it, cause it took so long to bake it, and I'll never have that recipe again. Oh, no.

Sadness is so ungrateful.

I really believe that all of us have a lot of darkness in our souls. Anger, rage, fear, sadness. I don't think that's only reserved for people who have horrible upbringings.

(All the grief she had suffered over her lifetime had moulded her face into a mask of eternal sadness)

I can mourn internally, just be quiet about it. I have my moments but I'm not a real, expressive person, especially when it comes to like sadness.

You know you're in trouble, when the bartender cries.

The smiling portrait of you is still hanging on my frowning wall.

If we are willing, the experience of grief can deepen and widen our ability to participate in life.

Come into my life, here where nothing matters. Come into my life, roll away the gloom.

If you're hung up on nostalgia, pretend today is yesterday and just go out and have one hell of a time.

Don't let them fool you with dope and cocaine, can't do you know harm to feel your own pain.

Love has, at its best, made the inherent sadness of life bearable, and its beauty manifest.

Be content to love, to dazzle in the light, If only for moments… And then be gone, With gladness in your heart, Before the creeping shadows Claim too much your sadness at leaving.

Life is a mosaic of pleasure and pain - grief is an interval between two moments of joy.

In deep sadness there is no place for sentimentality. It is as final as the mountains: a fact. There it is. When you realize it you cannot complain.

Was it the infinite sadness of her eyes that drew him or the mirror of himself that he found in the gorgeous clarity of her mind?

The sadness of the incomplete, the sadness that is often Life, but should never be Art.

I can't eat and I can't sleep. I'm not doing well in terms of being a functional human, you know?

Sadness is but a wall between two gardens.

The real sadness of fifty is not that you change so much but that you change so little.

Sometimes my heart hurts so much, I beat it with my fists. I try to run. But you cannot run from this. It waits for you. Even when you think you have escaped it, it is there.

It's a sad and beautiful world.

When you've suffered a great deal in life, each additional pain is both unbearable and trifling.

Everything's complicated, even those things that seem flat in their bleakness or sadness.

I felt a tremendous sadness for men who can't deal with a woman of their own age.

Why do beautiful songs make you sad?' 'Because they aren't true.' 'Never?' 'Nothing is beautiful and true.

There is nothing so cleansing or reassuring as a vicarious sadness.

Today we bury his remains in the earth as a seed of immortality. Our hearts are full of sadness, yet at the same time of joyful hope and profound gratitude.

I know my mind is made of matter but I need to know exactly what is the matter at it's core? Because my heart is just a muscle and simply put, it's sore.

You know that sadness and rage you feel about your money? That's the way some of us feel about people.

The misery of a child is interesting to a mother, the misery of a young man is interesting to a young woman, the misery of an old man is interesting to nobody.

A woman who lives with the stress of an overwhelmed schedule will often ache with the sadness of an underwhelmed soul.

I was not always free from melancholy; but even melancholy had its charms.

I have learned to cry again and I think perhaps that means I am a human being again. Perhaps that at least. A piece of human being but, yes, a human being.

Wouldn't it be nice if our lives were like VCRs , and we could 'fast forward' through the crummy times?

You can't out-travel sadness. I travel not to get away from my troubles but to see how they look in front of famous buildings

Such is the life of a man. Moments of joy, obliterated by unforgettable sadness. There's no need to tell the children that.

I've lost loved ones in my life who never knew how much I loved them. Now I live with the regret that my true feelings for them never were revealed.

Let tears flow of their own accord; their flowing is not inconsistent with inward peace and harmony.

What a sad business is being funny!