Sad Quotes - Page 4

• Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Love, Inspirational, Being Alone

  Mahatma Gandhi, Jawaharlal Nehru, Rabindranath Tagore (1968). “Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi, Nehru, Tagore: Being a Treasury of Over Ten Thousand Invaluable and Inspiring Thoughts, Views, and Obervations on about Eight Hundred Subjects of Popular Interest, Collected from the Speeches and Writings of These Three Great Leaders of Modern India”

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

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Inspirational, Motivational, Peace

  "Fictional character: Mahatma Gandhi". "Gandhi", 1982.

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• And perhaps there is a limit to the grieving that the human heart can do. As when one adds salt to a tumbler of water, there comes a point where simply no more will be absorbed.

  Sarah Waters

  Moving On, Grief, Heart

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• Love is the distance between reality and pain.

  Robyn Hitchcock

  Pain, Distance, Reality

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• In human intercourse the tragedy begins, not when there is misunderstanding about words, but when silence is not understood.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Live Life, Silence, Tragedy

  Henry David Thoreau, Carl Hovde (1980). “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers”, p.278, Princeton University Press

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  And ever has it been known that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.

  Khalil Gibran

  Love, Relationship, Smile

  Khalil Gibran (2014). “The Prophet - Der Prophet”, p.18, Lulu.com

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• Red is the ultimate cure for sadness.

  Bill Blass

  Broken Heart, Depressing, Red

  "Rich and red, tomatoes may help cut your cancer risk" by Jaime Harder, www.cnn.com. October 12, 2006.

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• I talk to God but the sky is empty.

  Sylvia Plath

  God, Faith, Christian

  Sylvia Plath (2013). “Johnny Panic and the Bible of Dreams: and other prose writings”, p.162, Faber & Faber

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• In the English language there are orphans and widows, but there is no word for the parents who loses a child.

  Jodi Picoult

  Children, Parent, Widows

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “My Sister's Keeper: A Novel”, p.493, Simon and Schuster

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• To dare to live alone is the rarest courage; since there are many who had rather meet their bitterest enemy in the field, than their own hearts in their closet.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Broken Heart, Lonely, Loneliness

  Charles Caleb Colton (1836). “Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.211

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  Let my soul smile through my heart and my heart smile through my eyes, that I may scatter rich smiles in sad hearts.

  Paramahansa Yogananda

  Inspirational, Change, Smile

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• Sorrow is one of the vibrations that prove the fact of living.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Sorrow, Vibrations, Facts

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• I'm sorry for the anguished hearts that break with passion's strain, But I'm sorrier for the poor starved souls that never knew love's pain, Who hunger on through barren years not tasting joys they crave, For sadder far is such a lot than weeping o'er a grave.

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox

  Pain, Sorry, Passion

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox (2016). “Complete Poetical Works of Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Delphi Classics)”, p.1002, Delphi Classics

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• Aid my disillusionment, my friend!

  Herman Melville

  Aids, Disillusionment, My Friends

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• Laugh, and the world laughs with you: Weep, and you weep alone. For the sad old earth must borrow its mirth, But has trouble enough of its own.

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox

  Laughter, Being Alone, Laughing

  'Solitude'

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• I'm just a little bit tired If you know what I mean Don't want to be in a crowd When I can be in a dream.

  Jim Steinman

  Dream, Tired, Mean

  Song: Dance In My Pants, Album: Bad for Good

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• She wasn't bitter. She was sad, though. But it was a hopeful kind of sad. The kind of sad that just takes time.

  Stephen Chbosky

  I Hate You, Hopeful, Bitter

  Stephen Chbosky (2013). “The Perks of Being a Wallflower YA edition”, p.187, Simon and Schuster

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• Fashion is what you adopt when you don't know who you are.

  Quentin Crisp

  Fashion, Being Yourself, Teenage

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• Don't cry over someone who wouldn't cry over you.

  Lauren Conrad

  Love, Heartbreak, Life And Death

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• Solitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strong.

  Winston Churchill

  Being Strong, Lonely, Entrepreneur

  Winston Churchill (2012). “The River War: An Account of the Reconquest of the Sudan”, p.21, Courier Corporation

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• Sorrow makes us all children again -
  destroys all differences of intellect.
  The wisest know nothing.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Children, Condolences, Grief

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Joel Porte (1982). “Emerson in His Journals”, p.277, Harvard University Press

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• When It's Darkest, Men See the Stars.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Motivational, Encouragement, Stars

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• Sad people have the gift of time, while the world dizzies everyone else; they remain stagnant, their bodies refusing to follow pace with the universe. With these kind of people everything aches for too long, everything moves without rush, wounds are always wet.

  Warsan Shire

  Time, Moving, Long

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• Deep in earth my love is lying And I must weep alone.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Lying, Love Is, Bereavement

  Edgar Allan Poe, Thomas Ollive Mabbott (1969). “Complete Poems”, p.396, University of Illinois Press

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• Some people turn sad awfully young. No special reason, it seems, but they seem almost to be born that way. They bruise easier, tire faster, cry quicker, remember longer and, as I say, get sadder younger than anyone else in the world. I know, for I'm one of them.

  Ray Bradbury

  People, Special, Bruises

  FaceBook post by Ray Bradbury from Jan 16, 2017

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