Sadness Quotes

I told myself that if I didn't care, this wouldn't have hurt so much - surely that proved I was alive and human and all those touchy-feely things, for once and for all. But that wasn't a relief, not when I felt like a skyscraper with dynamite on every floor.

Jodi Picoult

He had been for many years, a quiet silent man, associating but little with other men, and used to companionship with his own thoughts. He had never known before the strength of the want in his heart for the frequent recognition of a nod, a look, a word; or the immense amount of relief that had been poured into it by drops through such small means.

Charles Dickens

The sorrows and disasters of Europe always brought fortune to America.

Stephen Leacock

Melancholy is at the bottom of everything, just as at the end of all rivers is the sea. Can it be otherwise in a world where nothing lasts, where all that we have loved or shall love must die? Is death, then, the secret of life? The gloom of an eternal mourning enwraps, more or less closely, every serious and thoughtful soul, as night enwraps the universe.

Henri Frederic Amiel

When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love have always won. There have been tyrants and murderers, and for a time, they can seem invincible, but in the end, they always fall. Think of it--always.

Mahatma Gandhi

I fell in love like you fall asleep, slowly, then all at once.

John Green

There is pleasure in calm remembrance of a past sorrow.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

He looked at her as a man might look at a faded flower he had plucked, in which it was difficult for him to trace the beauty that had made him pick and so destroy it

Leo Tolstoy

She had loved him for such a long time, she thought. How was it that she did now know him at all?

Cassandra Clare

Sorrow has the fortunate peculiarity that it preys upon itself. It dies of starvation. Since it is essentially an interruption of habits, it can be replaced by new habits. Constituting, as it does, a void, it is soon filled up by a real horror vacuum.

J. August Strindberg

We tell our triumphs to the crowds, but our own hearts are the sole confidants of our sorrows.

Edward George BulwerLytton

Where there is sorrow there is holy ground.

Oscar Wilde

The busy have no time for tears.

Lord (George Gordon) Byron

All of our unhappiness comes from our inability to be alone.

Jean de la Bruyere

Cares are often more difficult to throw off than sorrows; the latter die with time, the former grow.

Jean Paul

The deeper the sorrow the less the tongue has it.

The Talmud

Since my earliest childhood a barb of sorrow has lodged in my heart. As long as it stays I am ironic -- if it is pulled out I shall die.

Soren Kierkegaard

When sorrows come, they come not single spies, but in battalions.

William Shakespeare

He felt the loyalty we feel to unhappiness -- the sense that is where we really belong.

Graham Greene