Sadness Quotes

Sadness flies away on the wings of time. (Jean de La Fontaine)
I had no idea that mothering my own child would be so healing to my own sadness from my childhood. View quote
Susie Bright
Good humor is the health of the soul, sadness is its poison. View quote
Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield
We never taste happiness in perfection, our most fortunate successes are mixed with sadness. View quote
Pierre Corneille
One must not let oneself be overwhelmed by sadness. View quote
Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
Unhappy is he to whom the memories of childhood bring only fear and sadness. View quote
H. P. Lovecraft
In deep sadness there is no place for sentimentality. View quote
William S. Burroughs
Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better take things as they come along with patience and equanimity. View quote
Carl Jung
Sadness is almost never anything but a form of fatigue. View quote
André Gide
Sadness is but a wall between two gardens. View quote
Kahlil Gibran
Never let go of that fiery sadness called desire. (Patti Smith)
First, accept sadness. Realize that without losing, winning isn't so great. View quote
Alyssa Milano
After I had given up to go, the thoughts of the journey were often attended with unusual sadness, at which times my heart was frequently turned to the Lord with inward breathings for his heavenly support, that I might not fail to follow him wheresoever he might lead me. View quote
John Woolman
Don't Make Assumptions. Find the courage to ask questions and to express what you really want. Communicate with others as clearly as you can to avoid misunderstandings, sadness and drama. With just this one agreement, you can completely transform your life. View quote
Miguel Ángel Ruiz
An ounce of cheerfulness is worth a pound of sadness to serve God with. View quote
Thomas Fuller
Family likeness has often a deep sadness in it. Nature, that great tragic dramatist, knits us together by bone and muscle, and divides us by the subtler web of our brains blends yearning and repulsion and ties us by our heart-strings to the beings that jar us at every movement. View quote
George Eliot
God sent his Singers upon earth With songs of sadness and of mirth, That they might touch the hearts of men, And bring them back to heaven again. View quote
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
A feeling of sadness and longing That is not akin to pain, And resembles sorrow only As the mist resembles the rain. View quote
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Sadness makes you God's prisoner. View quote
Emil Cioran
The sadness of the women's movement is that they don't allow the necessity of love. See, I don't personally trust any revolution where love is not allowed. View quote
Maya Angelou
Reading is pleasure and happiness to be alive or sadness to be alive and above all it's knowledge and questions. (Roberto Bolaño)
Call a truce, then to our labors - let us feast with friends and neighbors And be merry as the custom of our caste For if faint and forced the laughter, and if sadness follow after, We are richer by one mocking Christmas past. View quote
Rudyard Kipling
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. View quote
Eugène Ionesco
The sadness will last forever. View quote
Vincent van Gogh
She was experiencing the same odd happiness and odd sadness as then. The sadness meant: We are at the last station. The happiness meant: We are together. The sadness was form, the happiness content. Happiness filled the space of sadness. View quote
Milan Kundera