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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• 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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• 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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• 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, Sad

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

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• Better by far you should forget and smile than that you should remember and be sad.

  Christina Rossetti

  Happiness, Smile, Sad

  "Remember" l. 13 (1862)

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  You cannot protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from happiness.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Happiness, Sad, Being Happy

  Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel”, p.180, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• My feeling is that there is nothing in life but refraining from hurting others, and comforting those who are sad.

  Olive Schreiner

  Sad, Hurt, Kindness

  Olive Schreiner (1988). “Olive Schreiner Letters: 1871-1899”, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness.

  Carl Jung

  Happiness, Sad, Happy

  "The Art of Living". Interview with Gordon Young in 1960. "C.G. Jung Speaking". Book edited by William McGuire and R.F.C. Hull, archive.org. 1977.

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• Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Life, Happiness, Sad

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• Anger, tears and sadness are only for those who have given up.

  Katie Gill

  Sad, Feeling Down, Tears

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• Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better take things as they come along with patience and equanimity.

  Carl Jung

  Love, Happiness, Sad

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• The saddest summary of a life contains three descriptions: could have, might have, and should have.

  Louis E. Boone

  Life, Sad, Fear

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• A man should always consider how much he has more than he wants.

  Joseph Addison

  Men, Aggravation, Literature

  Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele (1826). “The Spectator; with Notes, and a General Index”, p.346

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• There is no greater sorrow than to recall happiness in times of misery.

  Dante Alighieri

  Inspirational, Happiness, Sad

  Dante Alighieri, Stanley Lombardo (2009). “Inferno”, p.26, Hackett Publishing

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• Reject your sense of injury, and the injury itself disappears.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Happiness, Sad, Broken Heart

  "Meditations". Book by Marcus Aurelius (circa 170), p. 19, 1995 edition.

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• Good humor is the health of the soul, sadness is its poison.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Sad, Depressing, Inspiration

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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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• I can choose to sit in perpetual sadness, immobilized by the gravity of my loss, or I can choose to rise from the pain and treasure the most precious gift I have-life itself.

  Walter Inglis Anderson

  Thankful, Pain, Grief

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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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• Tears are words the heart can't express

  Gerard Way

  Sad, Heart, Sorrow

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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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• Sadness flies on the wings of the morning, and out of the heart of darkness comes the light.

  Jean Giraudoux

  Happiness, Broken Heart, Heartbreak

  Jean Giraudoux (1974). “The Madwoman of Chaillot: Comedy in Two Acts”, p.65, Dramatists Play Service Inc

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• Laugh, and the world laughs with you. Weep, an' it keeps on laughin'.

  Kin Hubbard

  Laughter, Laughing, Advice

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• Laugh and the world laughs with you!

  Grant Morrison

  Laughter, Sleep, Insomnia

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