Sad Quotes - Page 12

• Grieve not that I die young.
  Is it not well to pass away
  ere life hath lost its brightness?

  Lady Flora Hastings

  Grieving, Passing Away, Brightness

  Swan Song

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• When you get the choice to sit it out or dance, I hope you dance.

  Lee Ann Womack

  Life, Strength, Dance

  Song: I Hope You Dance, Album: I Hope You Dance

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• Beauty and sadness always go together. Nature thought beauty too rich to go forth Upon the earth without a meet alloy.

  George MacDonald

  Beauty, Together, Earth

  George MacDonald (1872). “Within and Without”, p.141

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• Sadness usually results from one of the following causes either when a man does not succeed, or is ashamed of his success.

  Seneca the Younger

  Men, Doe, Succeed

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• Man could not live if he were entirely impervious to sadness. Many sorrows can be endured only by being embraced, and the pleasure taken in them naturally has a somewhat melancholy character.

  Emile Durkheim

  Life, Taken, Character

  Emile Durkheim (2005). “Suicide: A Study in Sociology”, p.333, Routledge

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• There is no worse sorrow than remembering happiness in the day of sorrow.

  Alfred de Musset

  Happy, Sorrow, Remember

  "Le Saule" by Alfred de Musset,

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• The past is as powerless to darken the present moment as is a shadow to reach up and drag down the form that casts it.

  Guy Finley

  Past, Shadow, Moments

  FaceBook post by Guy Finley from Aug 20, 2014

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• It is loneliness that makes the loudest noise. This is true of men as of dogs.

  Eric Hoffer

  I Miss You, Missing You, Heartbroken

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• To die in order to avoid the pains of poverty, love, or anything that is disagreeable, is not the part of a brave man, but of a coward.

  Aristotle

  Suicide, Pain, Men

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• We are more unhappy to see people ahead of us than happy to see people behind us.

  Michel de Montaigne

  People, Unhappy, Behinds

  Michel de Montaigne (1976). “The Complete Essays of Montaigne”

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• I found more joy in sorrow than you could find in joy.

  Sara Teasdale

  Joy, Sorrow, Found

  Sappho, Emily Dickinson, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Amy Lowell, Sara Teasdale (2018). “Wild Nights: Heart Wisdom from Five Women Poets”, p.94, Courier Dover Publications

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• Nothing is miserable unless you think it so.

  Boethius

  Thinking, Misery, Miserable

  Boethius (2012). “The Consolation of Philosophy”, p.24, Courier Corporation

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• There's nothing in this world so sweet as love. And next to love the sweetest thing is hate.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Sweet, Hate, World

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1859). “The Complete Poetical Works”, p.269

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• We are born princes and the civilizing process makes us frogs.

  Eric Berne

  Knowing Who You Are, Civilization, Frogs

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• As memory may be a paradise from which we cannot be driven, it may also be a hell from which we cannot escape.

  John Lancaster Spalding

  Memories, Paradise, May

  John Lancaster Spalding (1901). “Aphorisms and Reflections: Conduct, Culture and Religion”

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• It is sad but unfortunately true that man learns nothing from history.

  Carl Jung

  Men, Cynical, Memories Dreams Reflections

  Carl Gustav Jung (1981). “The Collected Works of C. G. Jung: Structure and dynamics of the psyche”

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• You have the power. You are the magic wand.

  Laura Schlessinger

  Women, Magic, Wands

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• The tragedy of life is what dies in the hearts and souls of people while they live.

  Albert Einstein

  Life, Heart, People

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• As we do at such times I turned on my automatic pilot and went through the motions of normalcy on the outside, so that I could concentrate all my powers on surviving the near-mortal wound inside.

  Sonia Johnson

  Normalcy, Pilots, Normality

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• Ever since that night I've been on the road Travelling and trying to forget That awful night I lost all my friends I see their faces yet.

  Phil Coulter

  Night, Trying, Awful

  Song: Donegal Danny

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• There is nothing so slipperily alluring as sadness; we become sad in the first place by having nothing stirring to do; we continue in it, because we have found a snug sofa at last.

  Herman Melville

  Lasts, Firsts, Found

  Herman Melville (1852). “Pierre; Or, The Ambiguities”, p.352

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• In the midday sun, a bright light will be barely noticed. Yet in the darkest night, even the smallest light can make an enormous difference.

  Ralph Marston

  Night, Light, Differences

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• O little feet! that such long years Must wander on through hopes and fears, Must ache and bleed beneath your load; I, nearer to the wayside inn Where toil shall cease and rest begin, Am weary, thinking of your road!

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Thinking Of You, Feet, Years

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1864). “Tales of a Wayside Inn”, p.224

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• Time takes it all, whether you want it to or not. Time takes it all, time bears it away, and in the end there is only darkness. Sometimes we find others in that darkness, and sometimes we lose them there again.

  Stephen King

  Time, Loneliness, Being Alone

  Stephen King (2010). “The Green Mile: The Complete Serial Novel”, p.363, Simon and Schuster

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• How unhappy is he who cannot forgive himself.

  Publilius Syrus

  Life, Forgiveness, Forgiving

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