Sadness famous quotes

The World is not an idea as asserted by philosophers who have dedicated their entire lives to the exploration of ideas. First and foremost the world is passion. But passion is associated with sadness. Sadness does not only arise from death which makes us face the Eternity, but also from life which causes us to confront the Time.
-- Nikolai Berdyaev

#Passion #Sadness #Ideas

Finally we are being told the truth: life isn’t always easy and pleasant. We already know this to be true, but somehow we tend to go through life thinking that there is something wrong with us when we experience sadness, grief, and physical and emotional pain. The first truth points out that this is just the way it is. There is nothing wrong with you: you have just been born into a realm where pain is a given.
-- Noah Levine

#Pain #Grief #Sadness

It is time to ask: are we Aborigines a serious people? … Do we have the seriousness necessary to maintain our languages, traditions and knowledge? … The truth is that I am prone to bouts of doubt and sadness around these questions. But I have hope. Our hope is dependent upon education. Our hope depends on how serious we become about the education of our people.
-- Noel Pearson

#Sadness #People #Doubt

If there was sadness in this creative world of mine, it was a pleasant sadness. If there were problems, they were humorous problems.
-- Norman Rockwell

#Humorous #Sadness #Creative

It is not true that if we had true faith we would not be sad. Prophets (as), and righteous people experienced a great deal of sadness. The Quran is full of stories in which the central theme is sadness. Sadness is a reality of life. The Quran is not there to eliminate sadness, but to navigate it. Sadness is one of the tests of life, just as happiness, and anger are tests.
-- Nouman Ali Khan

#Sadness #Reality #People

I will welcome happiness for it enlarges my heart; Yet I will endure sadness for it opens my soul. I will acknowledge rewards for they are my due; Yet I will welcome obstacles for they are my challenge.
-- Og Mandino

#Sadness #Heart #Grieving

All of us have been dying, hour by hour, since the moment we were born. Realizing this, let all things be placed in their proper perspective. . . . Remember, it is always later than you think.
-- Og Mandino

#Sadness #Thinking #Perspective

And I leave you now, not with sadness but with satisfaction and joy that we came together and walked, arm in arm, through this brief moment of eternity. Who could ask for more?
-- Og Mandino

#Sadness #Joy #Together

Journey quietly on your pathway to forever with charity & a smile. When you depart it will be said by all that your legacy was a better world than the one you found.
-- Og Mandino

#Sadness #Journey #Forever

In joy or sadness, flowers are our constant friends.
-- Okakura Kakuzo

#Flower #Sadness #Garden

Our mind is the canvas on which the artists lay their colour; their pigments are our emotions; their chiaroscuro the light of joy, the shadow of sadness. The masterpiece is of ourselves, as we are of the masterpiece.
-- Okakura Kakuzo

#Creativity #Sadness #Artist

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

#Hurt #Sadness #Comforting

The effort to feel happy is often precisely the thing that makes us miserable. And that it is out constant efforts to eliminate the negative - insecurity, uncertainty, failure, or sadness - that is what causes us to feel so insecure, anxious, uncertain, or unhappy.
-- Oliver Burkeman

#Sadness #Insecure #Effort

I hide my distress, just likethe blessed birds hide themselveswhen they are preparing to die. Wine! Wine, roses, music and yourindifference to my sadness, my loved-one!
-- Omar Khayyam

#Blessed #Sadness #Wine

I want people to be more open and tolerant. I want them to know that behind every stranger is a backstory that is the common denominator - for we all share in the human experience: pain, sadness, grief, lack of love, and then, with hope and help, step by step achievements.
-- Oprah Winfrey

#Pain #Grief #Sadness

someone's sent a loving note in lines of returning geese and as the moon fills my western chamber as petals dance over the flowing stream again I think of you the two of us living a sadness apart a hurt that can't be removed yet when my gaze comes down my heart stays up
-- Orson Scott Card

#Hurt #Heart #Sadness

Now even if I die, no one will be so grieved as to do himself bodily harm. No [...] I know just how much sadness my death will cause you. Undoubtedly you will weep when you learn the news--apart, of course, from such ornamental sentimentality as you may indulge in--but if you will please try to think of my joy at being liberated completely from the suffering of living and this hateful life itself, I believe that your sorrow will gradually dissolve.
-- Osamu Dazai

#Believe #Sadness #Thinking

It brings me great grief and sadness to hear of the passing of one of the best and most respected trainers of this era, Emanuel Steward. I learned a lot from him during our professional relationship and I will be forever grateful for his help during that time. We were also friends and I know I am going to miss him as so many others will too. He was an important part of our boxing community.
-- Oscar De La Hoya

#Grateful #Grief #Sadness

It is a very sad thing that nowadays there is so little useless information.
-- Oscar Wilde

#Life #Sadness #Littles

Where there is sorrow, there is holy ground.
-- Oscar Wilde

#Sympathy #Grief #Sadness

Freddie experienced the sort of abysmal soul-sadness which afflicts one of Tolstoy's Russian peasants when, after putting in a heavy day's work strangling his father, beating his wife, and dropping the baby into the city's reservoir, he turns to the cupboards, only to find the vodka bottle empty.
-- P. G. Wodehouse

#Baby #Father #Sadness

If we were not so single-minded about keeping our lives moving and for once could do nothing, perhaps a huge silence might interrupt this sadness of never understanding ourselves and of threatening ourselves with death Perhaps the world can teach us as when everything seems dead but later proves to be alive.
-- Pablo Neruda

#Moving #Sadness #Silence

I have an extremely difficult time wrapping my head around such a tragic event as the Elementary school massacre in Connecticut and unbelievable sadness for the parents, families and co-workers effected by this tragedy. We are ALL touched by this either directly or indirectly.... May hearts be comforted at such a devastating time. The world is with you.... I know I am.
-- Pamela Moore

#Heart #School #Sadness

We can all of us be hurt, and no one is exclusively safe from worry and sadness.
-- Patrick deWitt

#Hurt #Sadness #Worry

Architecture begins to matter when it brings delight and sadness and perplexity and awe along with a roof over our heads.
-- Paul Goldberger

#Sadness #Delight #Matter

Home in her apartment she'd dwell 'til the man from her dreams comes to break the spell.
-- Paul McCartney

#Dream #Sadness #Home

No matter how many times you do it, you don't get used to the sadness - for me at least - of coming to the end of a film.
-- Paul Thomas Anderson

#Sadness #Matter #Film

It gave me a sharp kind of sadness to think that no matter how much I loved him and tried to put him back together again, he might stay broken forever.
-- Paula McLain

#Sadness #Thinking #Broken

Words are tears that have been written down. Tears are words that need to be shed. Without them, joy loses all its brilliance and sadness has no end.
-- Paulo Coelho

#Sadness #Joy #Tears

When we are high up, everything looks very small. Our glories and our sadnesses cease to be important. We have left whatever we won or lost down below. From the top of a mountain you can see how large the world is and how wide the horizon.
-- Paulo Coelho

#Life #Sadness #Important

That is why I write - to try to turn sadness into longing, solitude into remembrance.
-- Paulo Coelho

#Sadness #Writing #Remembrance

Sadness does not last forever when we walk in the direction of that which we always desired.
-- Paulo Coelho

#Sadness #Forever #Lasts

Love cannot exist in peace, it will always come accompanied by agonies, ecstasies, intense joys and profound sadnesses.
-- Paulo Coelho

#Life #Sadness #Agony

Hold the sadness and pain of samsara [suffering, confusion] in your heart and at the same time the power and vision of the Great Eastern Sun [fundamental awake human nature]. Then the warrior [brave enough to look at & work with reality] can make a proper cup of tea.
-- Pema Chodron

#Pain #Heart #Sadness

The eighteenth-century view of the garden was that it should lead the observer to the enjoyment of the aesthetic sentiments of regularity and order, proportion, colour and utility, and, furthermore, be capable of arousing feelings of grandeur, gaiety, sadness, wildness, domesticity, surprise and secrecy.
-- Penelope Hobhouse

#Sadness #Garden #Views

Sometimes to realize you were well, someone must come along and hurt you.
-- Perry Farrell

#Hurt #Sadness #Sometimes

The drive of the story is sort of hinted at the beginning, is Joy and Sadness and those two characters. Especially Joy starting to understand that there's more to life than being happy. And so that's based on real life observations and things that we've learned as adults.
-- Pete Docter

#Real #Character #Sadness

I get lost, sometimes. Days pass and this emptiness fills my heart.
-- Peter Gabriel

#Heart #Sadness #Emptiness

There's an elegiac quality in watching [American wilderness] go, because it's our own myth, the American frontier, that's deteriorating before our eyes. I feel a deep sorrow that my kids will never get to see what I've seen, and their kids will see nothing; there's a deep sadness whenever I look at nature now.
-- Peter Matthiessen

#Sadness #Kids #Eye

It is as though some old part of yourself wakes up in you, terrified, useless in the life you have, its skills and habits destructive but intact, and what is left of the present you, the person you have become, wilts and shrivels in sadness or despair: the person you have become is only a thin shell over this other, more electric and endangered self. The strongest, the least digested parts of your experience can rise up and put you back where you were when they occurred; all the rest of you stands back and weeps.
-- Peter Straub

#Sadness #Self #Skills

Since unhappiness excites interest, many, in order to render themselves interesting, feign unhappiness.
-- Philibert Joseph Roux

#Sadness #Order #Interesting

I wonder how it is that so cheerful-looking a tree as the willow should ever have become associated with ideas of sadness.
-- Philip Gilbert Hamerton

#Sadness #Ideas #Tree

You ask me whether I am in good spirits. How could I not be so? As long as Faith gives me strength I will always be joyful. Sadness ought to be banished from Catholic souls... the purpose for which we have been created shows us the path; even if strewn with many thorns, it is not a sad path. It is joyful even in the face of sorrow.
-- Pier Giorgio Frassati

#Faith #Inspiration #Sadness

The price of a memory, is the memory of the sorrow it brings.
-- Pittacus Lore

#Memories #Sadness #Sorrow

That's a miserable and cursed word, to say I had, when what I have is nothing.
-- Plautus

#Sadness #Misery #Miserable

Wine refreshes the stomach, sharpens the appetite, blunts care and sadness, and conduces to slumber.
-- Pliny the Elder

#Sadness #Wine #Care

The cross of Christ, embraced with love, never brings sadness with it, but joy, the joy of being saved and of doing a little of what he did on the day of his death.
-- Pope Francis

#Sadness #Joy #Littles

Our infinite sadness can only be cured by an infinite love.
-- Pope Francis

#Sadness #Infinite #Infinite Love

They say it is better to be poor and happy than rich and miserable, but how about a compromise like moderately rich and just moody?
-- Princess Diana

#Sadness #Poverty #Misery

There are two kinds of hope: the kind you couldn't do anything about and the kind you could. And even if the kind you could do something about wasn't what you'd originally wanted, it was still worth doing. A rainy day is better than no day. A small happiness can make a big sadness less sad.
-- Rachel Simon

#Sadness #Rainy Day #Two

I leave with sadness, but also with pride,
-- Rahul Dravid

#Sadness #Pride

My approach to cricket has been reasonably simple: it was about giving everything to the team, it was about playing with dignity and it was about upholding the spirit of the game. I hope I have done some of that. I have failed at times, but I have never stopped trying. It is why I leave with sadness but also with pride.
-- Rahul Dravid

#Team #Sadness #Pride

Do not assume that he who seeks to comfort you now, lives untroubled among the simple and quiet words that sometimes do you good. His life may also have much sadness and difficulty, that remains far beyond yours. Were it otherwise, he would never have been able to find these words.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke

#Sadness #Simple #Simplicity

The only sadnesses that are dangerous and unhealthy are the ones that we carry around in public in order to drown them out with the noise...
-- Rainer Maria Rilke

#Sadness #Order #Noise

It seems to me that almost all our sadnesses are moments of tension, which we feel as paralysis because we no longer hear our astonished emotions living.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke

#Sadness #Emotion #Moments

The only sadnesses that are dangerous and unhealthy are the ones that we carry around in public in order to drown them out with the noise; like diseases that are treated superficially and foolishly, they just withdraw and after a short interval break out again all the more terribly; and gather inside us and are life, are life that is unlived, rejected, lost, life that we can die of.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke

#Sadness #Order #Disease

Sadness comes, joy comes, and everything passes by. What remains always is the witness. The witness is beyond all polarities.
-- Rajneesh

#Life #Sadness #Joy

When someone you love dies, you get a big bowl of sadness put down in front of you, steaming hot. You can start eating now, or you can let it cool and eat it bit by bit later one. Either way, you end up eating the whole thing. There's really no way around it.
-- Ralph Fletcher

#Sadness #Someone You Love #Way

America is ripe for lies and lethargy. The pure mountain air is going and gone. It is a huge burden and a sadness for us all.
-- Ralph Steadman

#Lying #Sadness #America

Religion in its true sense is the most joyous thing the human soul can know, and when the real religion is realized, we will find it to be an agent of peace, of joy, and of happiness, and never an agent of gloomy, long-faced sadness.
-- Ralph Waldo Trine

#Real #Sadness #Long

Some people turn sad awfully young. No special reason, it seems, but they seem almost to be born that way. They bruise easier, tire faster, cry quicker, remember longer and, as I say, get sadder younger than anyone else in the world. I know, for I'm one of them.
-- Ray Bradbury

#Sadness #People #Special

He had never liked October. Ever since he had first lay in the autumn leaves before his grandmother's house many years ago and heard the wind and saw the empty trees. It had made him cry, without a reason. And a little of that sadness returned each year to him. It always went away with spring. But, it was a little different tonight. There was a feeling of autumn coming to last a million years. There would be no spring. ("The October Game")
-- Ray Bradbury

#Spring #Sadness #Autumn

There's such a thing as too much happiness and sadness. What I'm after is contentment.
-- Ray Charles

#Sadness #Contentment #Too Much

Absence makes the heart grow fonder and tears are only rain to make love grow.
-- Ray Charles

#Rain #Sadness #Heart

I cry out from the ashes, burned with sin and shame. I ask you Lord to make me whole again.
-- Rebecca St. James

#Sadness #Ashes #Sin

Sadness can find you anywhere, anytime, so you better have fun when you can.
-- Rebecca Wells

#Fun #Sadness #Having Fun

Live by this credo: have a little laugh at life and look around you for happiness instead of sadness. Laughter has always brought me out of unhappy situations.
-- Red Skelton

#Happiness #Laughter #Sadness

Self-pity” is just sadness, I think, in the pejorative.
-- Renata Adler

#Sadness #Thinking #Self

Sadness, disappointment, and severe challenges are events in life, not life itself. I do not minimize how hard some of these events are. They can extend over a long period of time, but they should not be allowed to become the confining center of everything you do.
-- Richard G. Scott

#Disappointment #Sadness #Long

Sadness, disappointment, and severe challenge are events in life, not life itself.
-- Richard G. Scott

#Disappointment #Sadness #Challenges

Someone left the cake out in the rain. I don't think that I can take it, cause it took so long to bake it, and I'll never have that recipe again. Oh, no.
-- Richard Harris

#Rain #Sadness #Thinking

I'm happy, I would say that I'm one of the happiest people I know but I've certainly had periods of profound sadness, depression and heartache and those are the kind of things that are interesting to me to write about.
-- Richard Marx

#Depression #Writing #Sadness

There is always a sadness about packing. I guess you wonder if where you're going is as good as where you've been.
-- Richard Proenneke

#Sadness #Wonder #Packing

A man takes his sadness down to the river and throws it in the river but then he still left with the river. A man takes his sadness and throws it away but then he still left with his hands
-- Richard Siken

#Sadness #Men #Rivers

There is not enough darkness in all the world to put out the light of even one small candle.
-- Robert Alden

#Sadness #Light #Darkness

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

#Grief #Party #Sadness

The good life is best construed as a matrix that includes happiness, occasional sadness, a sense of purpose, playfulness, and psychological flexibility, as well autonomy, mastery, and belonging.
-- Robert Biswas-Diener

#Good Life #Sadness #Psychology

Recalling days of sadness, memories haunt me. Recalling days of happiness, I haunt my memories.
-- Robert Breault

#Memories #Sadness

A terrific sadness swept over Jerry. As if somebody had died. The way he felt standing in the cemetry that day they buried his mother. And nothing you could do about it.
-- Robert Cormier

#Mother #Sadness #Way

He was swept with a sadness, a sadness deep and penetrating, leaving him desolate like someone washed up on a beach, a lone survivor in a world full of strangers.
-- Robert Cormier

#Beach #Sadness #Leaving

Since hate poisons the soul, don't cherish enmities or grudges: avoid people who make you unhappy.
-- Robert Louis Stevenson

#Hate #Sadness #People

Keep busy at something: a busy person never has time to be unhappy.
-- Robert Louis Stevenson

#Sadness #Unhappy #Misery

We don't want to live in the dark moods of imponderable mystery, but neither do we want to miss them altogether. they allow us to emerge from the tender sadness of the manger to sing with the angels in the skies above...
-- Robert Morgan

#Inspiration #Sadness #Angel

Come into my life, here where nothing matters. Come into my life, roll away the gloom.
-- Robert Plant

#Sadness #Matter #Nothing Matters

Sad memories often contain an element of nostalgia.
-- Robert R. Blake

#Memories #Sadness #Elements

I sometimes use a lot of light greens and greys when I feel there is sadness in the painting.
-- Robert Ryan

#Sadness #Light #Use

Listening to music, I always have exactly the same feeling: something’s missing. Never will I learn the cause of this gentle sadness, never will I wish to investigate it.
-- Robert Walser

#Sadness #Missing #Feelings

Reading is pleasure and happiness to be alive or sadness to be alive and above all it's knowledge and questions.
-- Roberto Bolano

#Reading #Sadness #Alive

Its good to leave each day behind, like flowing water, free of sadness. Yesterday is gone and its tale told. Today new seeds are growing.
-- Rumi

#Sadness #Yesterday #Water

Ignore those that make you fearful and sad, that degrade you back towards disease and death.
-- Rumi

#Inspirational #Spiritual #Sadness

Now, what is the left's worldview in general? What is it? If you had to attach not a philosophy but an attitude to a leftist worldview, it's one of pessimism and darkness, sadness. They're never happy, are they? They're always angry about something. No matter what they get, they're always angry.
-- Rush Limbaugh

#Attitude #Philosophy #Sadness

When a person has lived generously and fought fiercely, she deserves more than sadness at the end.
-- Ruth Reichl

#Sadness #Ends #Persons

Prayer is the place of refuge for every worry, a foundation for cheerfulness, a source of constant happiness, a protection against sadness.
-- Saint John Chrysostom

#Prayer #Sadness #Worry

There would be no sequel to the sadness
-- Salvador Plascencia

#Sadness #Would Be

Everyone has sadness-I just get mine out in my music so that I can laugh and joke and flirt with you!
-- Sam Smith

#Sadness #Flirting #Laughing

Alas, the very name of picture produces a sadness of heart I cannot describe.
-- Samuel Morse

#Sadness #Heart #Names

My Lord Jesus has fully recompensed my sadness with his joys, my losses with his own presence.  I find it a sweet and rich thing to exchange my sorrows with Christ's joys, my afflictions with that sweet peace I have with himself.
-- Samuel Rutherford

#Sweet #Jesus #Sadness

When you have your heart broken wide, you are also open to things of beauty as well as things of sadness. Once people are not here physically, the spiritual remains, we still connect, we can communicate, we can give and receive love and forgiveness. There is love after someone dies.
-- Sandra Cisneros

#Spiritual #Heart #Sadness

Walk out backwards if you must go, but please don't wave good-bye.
-- Sara Evans

#Sadness #Bye #Wave

I found more joy in sorrow than you could find in joy.
-- Sara Teasdale

#Sadness #Joy #Sorrow