Sadness Of Life Quotes - Page 3

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

  Lord Chesterfield

  Sad, Depressing, Inspiration

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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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• 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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• When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love has always won.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Sad, Peace, Truth

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• In the Book of Life, The answers aren't in the back.

  Charles M. Schulz

  Life, Sad, Wisdom

  Charles M Schulz (2015). “You're Golden, Charlie Brown”, Ballantine Group

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• There are moments when, even to the sober eye of Reason, the world of our sad humanity must assume the aspect of Hell.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Sad, Eye, Humanity

  Edgar Allan Poe (1980). “The Unknown Poe: An Anthology of Fugitive Writings”, p.52, City Lights Books

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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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• 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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• 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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• Joy and grief are never far apart. In the same street the shutters of one house are closed, while the curtains of the next are brushed by shadow of the dance. A wedding-party returns from church, and a funeral winds to its door. The smiles and the sadness of life are the tragi-comedy of Shakespeare. Gladness and sighs brighten and dim the mirror he beholds.

  Robert Aris Willmott

  Party, Grief, Sadness

  Robert Aris Willmott (1907). “Pleasures of Literature”

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• We all build internal sea walls to keep at bay the sadnesses of life and the often overwhelming forces within our minds. In whatever way we do this—through love, work, family, faith, friends, denial, alcohol, drugs, or medication—we build these walls, stone by stone, over a lifetime. One of the most difficult problems is to construct these barriers of such a height and strength that one has a true harbor, a sanctuary away from crippling turmoil and pain, but yet low enough, and permeable enough, to let in fresh seawater that will fend off the inevitable inclination toward brackishness.

  Kay Redfield Jamison

  Wall, Pain, Sadness

  FaceBook post by Kay Redfield Jamison from May 17, 2014

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• Oh the piercing sadness of life in the midst of its ordinariness!

  Iris Murdoch

  Sadness, Piercings, Unhappiness

  Iris Murdoch (2008). “A Word Child”, p.3, Random House

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• Music should use everything. The sadness of life and the fun of life. Anything that provokes a sound that is exciting is good.

  Daniel Humair

  Fun, Sadness, Sound

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• Maybe this is the point: to embrace the core sadness of life without toppling headlong into it, or assuming it will define your days.

  Gail Caldwell

  Sadness, Feeling Sad, Assuming

  Gail Caldwell (2010). “Let's Take the Long Way Home: A Memoir of Friendship”, p.180, Random House

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• I rose as from the death that wipes out the sadness of life, and then dies itself in the new morrow.

  George MacDonald

  Sadness, Rose, Wipe

  George Macdonald (2016). “Phantastes”, p.87, George Macdonald

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• We all build internal sea walls to keep at bay the sadnesses of life and the often overwhelming forces within our minds. In whatever way we do this--through love, work, family, faith, friends, denial, alcohol, drugs, or medication, we build these walls, stone by stone, over a lifetime.

  Kay Redfield Jamison

  Depression, Wall, Sadness

  FaceBook post by Kay Redfield Jamison from Dec 20, 2010

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• There would seem to be nothing more obvious, more tangible and palpable than the present moment. And yet it eludes us completely. All the sadness of life lies in that fact. In the course of a single second, our senses of sight, of hearing, of smell, register (knowingly or not) a swarm of events and a parade of sensations and ideas passes through our head. Each instant represents a little universe, irrevocably forgotten in the next instant.

  Milan Kundera

  Lying, Sadness, Elude Us

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