Sadness Quotes

For a second I feel a rush of sadness: for the horizons that vanish behind us, for the people we leave behind, the tiny-doll selves that get stored away and ultimately buried.

I don't want you to cook my bread, I don't want you to make my bed. I don't want you to because I'm sad and blue, I just want to make love to you.

Happiness is the summit of a high mountain; we can visit it, but we can't stay there! We are forced to go down to the valleys of sadness.

Out-worn heart, in a time out-worn, Come clear of the nets of wrong and right; Laugh, heart, again in the grey twilight, Sigh, heart, again in the dew of the morn.

Nobody but a Southerner knows the wrenching rinsing sadness of the cities of the North.

Sometimes, we don't get what we want. . . But this is a benevolent universe. And once in a while, we do.

Cry later, but for now, let's enjoy the laughter.

It's sadness coming on like the old days, the vast seamless hopeless weight of sadness looking for a place to rest.

Blue. My God! I'm so blue that if I were a dog, I'd sit on my haunches and howl and howl and howl...

The tragedy of life is not so much what men suffer, but rather what they miss.

In the first few seconds an aching sadness wrenched his heart, but it soon gave way to a feeling of sweet disquiet, the excitement of gypsy wanderlust

Most people live dejectedly in worldly joys or sorrows. They sit on the sidelines and do not join the dance.

If it were possible to heal sorrow by weeping and to raise the dead with tears, gold were less prized than grief.

People believe a man is in distress because his loved one dies in one day. But his real pain is less futile: it is that he finds out that sadness too does not last. Even pain has no meaning.

Now my ability to notice things and respond to things and be here is far more profound. With that comes happiness, with it comes sadness, but it's a beautiful life.

Architecture begins to matter when it brings delight and sadness and perplexity and awe along with a roof over our heads.

We never taste a perfect joy; our happiest successes are mixed with sadness.

Laughter has always brought me out of unhappy situations.

The quieter we are, the more patient and open we are in our sadnesses, the more deeply and serenely the new presence can enter us, and the more we can make it our own, the more it becomes our fate.

Our infinite sadness can only be cured by an infinite love.

Sadness does not last forever when we walk in the direction of that which we always desired.

People should never sit alone for too long when they're crying.

In Japanese and Italian, the response to ["How are you?"] is "I'm fine, and you?" In German it's answered with a sigh and a slight pause, followed by "Not so good.

After a while, though, even the deepest sorrow faltered, even the most penetrating despair lost its scalpel edge.

too much happiness always overflowed into tears of sorrow.

They say it's better to bury your sadness in a graveyard or garden that waits for the spring to wake from its sleep and burst into green.

If a man cannot understand the beauty of life, it is probably because life never understood the beauty in him.

Do you understand the sadness of geography?

A clown needn't be the same out of the ring as he has to be when he's in it. If you look at photographs of clowns when they're just being ordinary men, they've got quite sad faces.

Stain my eyes as I may, on all sides all is black.

It’s how I fill the time when nothing’s happening. Thinking too much, flirting with melancholy.

To be mad is to feel with excruciating intensity the sadness and joy of a time which has not arrived or has already been.

Nostalgia is a way of remembering people and places and things, and wishing things hadn't changed. It has a sweetness to it. Sadness is just--well--being sad.

No one to hear, you might as well scream.

Every life, even the best ones, ends in sadness. Books hold out hope that things may end otherwise.

God must have something to do with joy ... and with sadness.

The manifestation of the disease of fear is anger, hate, sadness, envy, and hypocrisy; the result of the disease is all the emotions that make humans suffer.

Let other pens dwell on guilt and misery.

I followed all life's pleasures wherever they would lead, but someone I can treasure is all I really need.

I got worries by the ton, getting cancer's only one. Over taxed and alimonied, tired of eating fried baloney.

No wonder sorrow doesn’t smile much. No wonder sadness is so sad.

I get lost, sometimes. Days pass and this emptiness fills my heart.

There are no grounds for supposing that one can live a life without pain and sadness, but is it wrong to believe that somehow, somewhere, this is possible?

Got those moods a swinging, tears a slinging, nothing fits me, when it hits me, ranting, raving, misbehaving, PMS blues.

There is sadness of when you're watching someone enjoy something that you think is substandard. The ineffable sadness when someone is happy and something is not as good as it should be.

I don't know whether there is anyone else at all who remembers my noble father with such sadness

Beware of parting! The true sadness is not in the pain of the parting; it is in the when and the how you are to meet again with the face about to vanish from your view.

A sad spectacle. If they be inhabited, what a scope for misery and folly. If they be not inhabited, what a waste of space.

Who goes a-borrowing goes a-sorrowing.

The path of sorrow, and that path alone, leads to the land where sorrow is unknown.