Sadness Of Life Quotes

• Real artists take the misery and sadness of life and translate it into art.

  Josh Peck

  Art, Real, Sadness

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• Love has, at its best, made the inherent sadness of life bearable, and its beauty manifest.

  Kay Redfield Jamison

  Sadness, Made, Manifest

  Kay Redfield Jamison (2009). “An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness”, p.215, Vintage

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• Courage and cheerfulness will not only carry you over the rough places in life, but will enable you to bring comfort and help to the weak-hearted and will console you in the sad hours.

  William Osler

  Sad, Comfort, Helping

  Sir William Osler (2001). “Osler's "a Way of Life" and Other Addresses, with Commentary and Annotations”, p.302, Duke University Press

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• It's easy to cry when you realize that everyone you love will reject you or die.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Sad, Rejects You, Rejection

  Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Fight Club”, p.17, Random House

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• I can see the humorous side of things and enjoy the fun when it comes; but look where I will, there seems to me always more sadness than joy in life.

  Jerome K. Jerome

  Sad, Fun, Humorous

  Jerome K. Jerome (2015). “My Life and Times”, p.14, Read Books Ltd

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• Every man has his secret sorrows.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Sad, Depression, Being Happy

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• We ask God to forgive us for our evil thoughts and evil temper, but rarely, if ever ask Him to forgive us for our sadness.

  Robert William Dale

  Sad, Evil, Forgiving

  Robert William Dale (1877). “Nine Lectures on Preaching: Delivered at Yale College, New Haven, Connecticut”

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  Nobody deserves your tears, but whoever deserves them will not make you cry.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Sad, Stay Strong, Tears

  FaceBook post by Gabriel García Márquez from Jun 29, 2011

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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

  Sad, Beauty, Together

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

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• Absolute silence leads to sadness. It is the image of death.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Sad, Death, Silence

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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

  Sad, Men, Doe

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

  William Shakespeare

  Sympathy, Sadness, Sad Life

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 4, sc. 5, l. [78]

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• Change is certain. Peace is followed by disturbances; departure of evil men by their return. Such recurrences should not constitute occasions for sadness but realities for awareness, so that one may be happy in the interim.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Sadness, Reality, Men

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• Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul.

  Oscar Wilde

  Inspirational, Life, Spiritual

  Oscar Wilde (2007). “Epigrams of Oscar Wilde”, p.215, Wordsworth Editions

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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

  Sad, Laughter, Being Alone

  'Solitude'

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• A feeling of sadness and longing, That is not akin to pain, And resembles sorrow only As the mist resembles the rain.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Pain, Rain, Sadness

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1988). “Selected Poems”, p.302, Penguin

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• What is the source of sadness, but feebleness of the mind? What giveth it power but the want of reason? Rouse thyself to the combat, and she quitteth the field before thou strikest.

  Akhenaton

  Sadness, Mind, Fields

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• Tears are words the heart can't express

  Gerard Way

  Sad, Heart, Sorrow

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• I've cried, and you'd think I'd be better for it, but the sadness just sleeps, and it stays in my spine the rest of my life.

  Conor Oberst

  Sadness, Sleep, Thinking

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• Usually when people are sad, they don't do anything. They just cry over their condition. But when they get angry, they bring about a change.

  Malcolm X

  Motivational, Change, Sad

  "Malcolm X Speaks: Selected Speeches and Statements". Book edited by George Breitman, 1965.

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• I really believe that all of us have a lot of darkness in our souls. Anger, rage, fear, sadness. I don't think that's only reserved for people who have horrible upbringings.

  Kevin Bacon

  Believe, Sadness, Thinking

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Bad things do happen; how I respond to them defines my character and the quality of my life.

  Walter Inglis Anderson

  Thankful, Character, Responsibility

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• Sadness does not inhere in things; it does not reach us from the world and through mere contemplation of the world. It is a product of our own thought. We create it out of whole cloth.

  Emile Durkheim

  Sad, Sorrow, World

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• Beauty and sadness always go together.

  George MacDonald

  Beauty, Sadness, Together

  George MacDonald (2015). “The Complete Poetry of George MacDonald: A Book of Strife, in the Form of the Diary of an Old Soul + Rampolli: Growths from a Long-planted Root + A Hidden Life Collection and Other Poems”, p.95, e-artnow

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• What you must understand about me is that I’m a deeply unhappy person.

  John Green

  Hipster, Sadness, Alaska

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