Sadness Quotes

Tears are words that need to be written.

See, it's not that I'm jealous of others. I just don't understand why they can be happy and I can't.

For years, I had fought against my heart, because I was afraid of sadness, suffering, and abandonmen...

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

Ester asked why people are sad."That’s simple," says the old man. "They are the prisoners of their p...

Some people appear to be happy, but they simply don't give the matter much thought. Others make plan...

What’s to become of us? We can’t go on like this.”“Yes, we can go on like this,” said Cesare. “We ca...

We look before and after,And pine for what is not;Our sincerest laughterWith some pain is fraught;Ou...

Never such innocence,Never before or since,As changed itself to pastWithout a word--the menLeaving t...

How little our careers express what lies in us, and yet how much time they take up. It's sad, really...

Darling, no one would ever dream of performing an operation on a child without testing it first. And...

Dreadful will be the day when the world becomes contented, when one great universal satisfaction spr...

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

We never taste happiness in perfection, our most fortunate successes are mixed with sadness.

At first I thought he was laughing because his shoulders were shaking, but then he put his palms on ...

It seems to him there area thousand bars, and behind the bars, no world.

I believe that almost all our sadnesses are moments of tension that we find paralyzing because we no...

That is why the sadness passes: the new presence inside us, the presence that has been added, has en...

The only sadnesses that are dangerous and unhealthy are the ones that we carry around in public in o...

Perhaps many things inside you have been transformed; perhaps somewhere, someplace deep inside your ...

So don't be frightened, dear friend, if a sadness confronts you larger than any you have ever known,...

perhaps we would bear our sadnesses with greater trust than we have in our joys

Great sadnesses … they are the moments when something new has entered into us, something unknown; ou...

so much is happening now; you must be patient like someone who is sick, and confident like someone w...

How should we be able to forget those ancient myths that are at the beginning of all peoples, the my...

Perhaps many things inside you have been transformed; perhaps somewhere, someplace deep inside your ...

And that is why it is so important to be solitary and attentive when one is sad: because the seeming...

Were it possible for us to see further than our knowledge reaches, and yet a little way beyond the o...

I went to bed and woke in the middle of the night thinking I heard someone cry, thinking I myself wa...

One day many years ago a man walked along and stood in the sound of the ocean on a cold sunless shor...

Through this evening of sentences cut short because their completed meaning was always sorrow, of no...

Indeed, grief is not the clear melancholy the young believe it. It is like a siege in a tropical cit...

Self-pity” is just sadness, I think, in the pejorative.

People who are less happy, I find, are always consoling those who are more.

I have emotionsthat are like newspapers thatread themselves.I go for days at a timetrapped in the wa...

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

I don't know any sad songs. Except for the funny ones.

That which others hear or read of, I felt and practised myself; they get their knowledge by books, I...

She touched her fingertip to his wet face and brought away a tear. Amazed, he did the same. He taste...

I think the saddest people always try their hardest to make people happy because they know what it’s...

I used to think that the worst thing in life was to end up alone. It’s not. The worst thing in life ...

Sometimes two people will regard each other over a gulf too wide to ever be bridged, and know immedi...

We laugh, that we may not cry.

Remembering bred its own peculiar sorrow. It seemed so unfair: that time should render both sadness ...

How starved they seemed for ordinary kindness

Nothing is forever, he thought beyond closed eyelids somewhere over Asia Minor. Maybe unhappiness is...

But great tragedy is universal

He needed her so badly, to reassure himself of his own existence, that he never comprehended the des...

My mother's death supervened, and this was the greatest blow I had experienced in my life. I worship...

But there are not two laws, that was the next thing I thought I understood, not two laws, one for th...

The tears stream down my cheeks from my unblinking eyes. What makes me weep so? There is nothing sad...

A grief without a pang, void, dark and drear,A drowsy, stifled, unimpassioned grief,Which finds no n...

In English, my name means hope. In Spanish, it means too many letters. It means sadness. It means wa...

She knew I could tell with one glance, one look, one simple instant. It was her eyes. Despite the th...

Look, everyone mourns at their own pace. Maybe you're just a little bit ahead of her, but she'll get...

I think often sadness is a great place to get songs from.

Oh, God,” Wilhelm prayed, “Let me out of my trouble. Let me out of my thoughts, and let me do someth...

One always has to wait until the sugar melts, the memory dies, the wound scars over, the sun sets, t...

I couldn’t even tell if I had any sadness of my own, because I was so full of Abuelita’s sadness.

When I get depressed, I try to get something for the terrible sadness that comes over me and create ...

Toward dawn we shared with youyour hour of desolation,the huge lingering passionof your unearthly ou...

The interesting thing about grief, I think, is that it is its own size. It is not the size of you. I...

Same shit, different day, he thinks, but now the joy is gone and the sadness is back, the sadness th...

But now the joy is gone and the sadness is back, the sadness feels like something deserved, the pric...

Frightened people live in their own special hell.

My first feeling was that there was no way to continue. Writing isn't like math;in math, two plus tw...

The ticking seconds pulled me toward the end. It was cold when he no longer held me. It got colder e...

When she enters the room she immediately shuts the window and draws the shade with a quick, hard pul...

I had no idea that mothering my own child would be so healing to my own sadness from my childhood.

Prim... Rue... aren't they the very reason I have to try to fight? Because what has been done to the...

Sorry excuses for hunters and friends. Both of us.

Cookies. A pin. I'm getting all kinds of gifts today. Madge gives me one more. A kiss on the cheek. ...

The last thing I remember ia an exquisitely beautiful green and silver moth landing on the curve of ...

I could feel the tears brimming and sloshing in me like water in a glass that is unsteady and too fu...

It seemed silly to wash one day when I would only have to wash again the next.It made me tired just ...

We’ll take up where we left off, Esther’, she had said, with her sweet martyr’s smile. ‘We’ll act as...

I didn't know why I was going to cry, but I knew that if anybody spoke to me or looked at me too clo...

Not easy to state the change you made.If I'm alive now, I was dead,Though, like a stone, unbothered ...

I am drowning in negativism, self-hate, doubt, madness - and even I am not strong enough to deny the...

I wish to cry. Yet, I laugh, and my lipstick leaves a red stain like a bloody crescent moon on the t...

Daily Reminders1) Never compare myself to other people. It is comparing my behind the scenes to thei...

Schizophrenia is just a catch-all term for forms of mental behaviour that we don’t understand. In th...

I know in a way I never knew before that there is nowhere for me to go, nothing for me to do, and no...

Zapped while zipping.

She knew Paul D was adding something to her life—something she wanted to count on but was scared to....

Musical compositions can be very sad - Chopin - but you have the pleasure of this sadness. The cheap...

I am living in a nightmare, from which from time to time I wake in sleep.

That's the worst of sorrow . . . it's always a vicious circle. It makes one tense and hard and disag...

But when I do feel all the strength go out of me, and I fall to my knees beside the table and I thin...

He still smiles all the time, but now his smiles look like they're made out of water, about to drip ...

I don't want to cry for Edward- at least not in the deep, personal way that you cry for a friend or ...

Hearing him talk about his mother, about his intact family, makes my chest hurt for a second, like s...

I think we cry to release the animal parts of us without losing our humanity. Becauseinside me is a ...

La tristesse durera toujours.]

The sadness will last forever.

If one is to deal with people on a large scale and say what one thinks, how can one avoid melancholy...

The voice had an extraordinary sadness. Pure from all body, pure from all passion, going out into th...

I often wish I'd got on better with your father,' he said.But he never liked anyone who--our friends...

This susceptibility to impressions had been his undoing, no doubt. Still at his age he had, like a b...

Nothing thicker than a knife's blade separates happiness from melancholy.