Sadness Quotes

Those who are unhappy have no need for anything in this world but people capable of giving them their attention.

Simone Weil

There are seeds of self-destruction in all of us that will bear only unhappiness if allowed to grow.

Dorothea Brande

Clearly God was in some kind of mood on my birthday.

Jodi Picoult

To fight aloud is very brave, but gallanter, I know, who charge within the bosom, the Cavalry of Woe.

Emily Dickinson

Nothing is funnier than unhappiness, I grant you that. Yes, yes, it's the most comical thing in the world.

Samuel Beckett

I walked a mile with Pleasure.She chattered all the way,But left me none the wiserFor all she had to say.I walked a mile with Sorrow,And ne

Robert Browning Hamilton, Along

A sad reality that exists in the world persists among many. I lived in one as a child as well. It's very nightmarish thinking back.

James Dye

We gather strength from sadness and from pain Each time we die we learn to live again.

Source Unknown

The boy was lying, fast asleep, on a rude bed upon the floor; so pale with anxiety, and sadness, and the closeness of his prison, that he looked like death; not death as it shews in shroud and coffin, but in the guise it wears when life has just departed; when a young and gentle spirit has, but an instant, fled to Heaven: and the gross air of the world has not had time to breathe upon the changing dust it hallowed.

Charles Dickens

Unhappiness is best defined as the difference between our talents and our expectations.

Edward de Bono

I often wish I'd got on better with your father,' he said.But he never liked anyone who--our friends,' said Clarissa; and could have bitten her tongue for thus reminding Peter that he had wanted to marry her.Of course I did, thought Peter; it almost broke my heart too, he thought; and was overcome with his own grief, which rose like a moon looked at from a terrace, ghastly beautiful with light from the sunken day. I was more unhappy than I've ever been since, he thought. And as if in truth he were sitting there on the terrace he edged a little towards Clarissa; put his hand out; raised it; let it fall. There above them it hung, that moon. She too seemed to be sitting with him on the terrace, in the moonlight.

Virginia Woolf

Don't worry about the war. It's all over but the shooting.

Samuel Goldwyn

What, if some day or night a demon were to steal after you into your loneliest loneliness and say to you: 'This life as you now live it and have lived it, you will have to live once more and innumerable times more' ... Would you not throw yourself down and gnash your teeth and curse the demon who spoke thus? Or have you once experienced a tremendous moment when you would have answered him: 'You are a god and never have I heard anything more divine.

Friedrich Nietzsche

But now the joy is gone and the sadness is back, the sadness feels like something deserved, the price of some not-quite-forgotten betrayal.

Stephen King

The times that were most fun seemed always to be followed by sadness now, because it was when life started to feel like it did when she was with us that we realized how utterly gone she was.

John Green

Because memories fall apart, too. And then you're left with nothing, left not even with a ghost but with its shadow. In the beginning she haunted me, haunted my dreams, but even now, just weeks later, she was slipping away, falling apart in my memory and everyone else's, dying again.

John Green

A broken heart is a very pleasant complaint for a man in London if he has a comfortable income.

George Bernard Shaw

It is a curious sensation: the sort of pain that goes mercifully beyond our powers of feeling. When your heart is broken, your boats are burned: nothing matters any more. It is the end of happiness and the beginning of peace.

George Bernard Shaw

Unhappiness is not knowing what we want, and killing ourselves to get it.

Don Herold

If you optimize everything, you will always be unhappy.

Don Knuth