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.
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.
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.
Sadness is almost never anything but a form of fatigue.
Sadness is but a wall between two gardens.
Bad things do happen; how I respond to them defines my character and the quality of my life.
No society has been able to abolish human sadness, no political system can deliver us from the pain of living, from our fear of death, our thirst for the absolute. It is the human condition that directs the social condition, not vice versa.
Beauty and sadness always go together.
All the world is full of suffering. It is also full of overcoming.
Tears come from the heart and not from the brain
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.
Absolute silence leads to sadness. It is the image of death.
When sorrows come, they come not single spies, but in battalions.
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.
My feeling is that there is nothing in life but refraining from hurting others, and comforting those who are sad.
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.
Anger, tears and sadness are only for those who have given up.
The saddest summary of a life contains three descriptions: could have, might have, and should have.
Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness.
You cannot protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from happiness.
Better by far you should forget and smile than that you should remember and be sad.
A man should always consider how much he has more than he wants.
And ever has it been known that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.
Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad.
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.
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