Sadness Of Life Quotes - Page 2

• Dying seems less sad than having lived too little.

  Gloria Steinem

  Inspiring, Sad, Death

  Gloria Steinem (2012). “Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions”, p.232, Open Road Media

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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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• 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.

  Eugene Ionesco

  Depression, Death, Pain

  "A Reply to Kenneth Tynan: The Playwright's Role". The Observer, June 29, 1958.

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• All the world is full of suffering. It is also full of overcoming.

  Helen Keller

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  Helen Keller (1957). “The Open Door”, Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday

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• Sadness is but a wall between two gardens.

  Khalil Gibran

  Sad, Wall, Grief

  Khalil Gibran “The New Frontier and Sand and Foam”, Library of Alexandria

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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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• I don’t know what they are called, the spaces between seconds– but I think of you always in those intervals.

  Salvador Plascencia

  Love, Sad, Thinking Of You

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

  Lord Chesterfield

  Sad, Depressing, Inspiration

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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  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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