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Quotes About Sadness

Weddings are notoriously depressing affairs.
~ Anthony Powell
It is a very sad thing for any human being to have to say to himself, — with an earnest belief in his own assertion, — that all the joy of this world is over for him; and is the sadder because such conviction is apt to exclude the hope of other joy.
~ Anthony Trollope
when a man's heart is sad—sad—sad to the core, a few words from a parson at the last moment will never make it all right.
~ Anthony Trollope
Love is pointless. It's the same sad sad story of with the same inevitable ending of miserable deterioration.
~ Arnold Arre
Here was the same sense of awe and mystery, and the sadness of the irrevocably vanished past. Yet the scale here was so much greater, both in time and in space, that the mind was unable to do it justice; after a while, it ceased to respond. Norton wondered if, sooner of later, he would take even Rama for granted.
~ Arthur C Clarke
He did not know that the Old One was his father, for such a relationship was utterly beyond his understanding, but as he looked at the emaciated body he felt a dim disquiet that was the ancestor of sadness.
~ Arthur C. Clarke
There is a special sadness in achievement, in the knowledge that a long-desired goal has been attained at last, and that life must now be shaped towards new ends.
~ Arthur C. Clarke
THERE IS A special sadness in achievement, in the knowledge that a long-desired goal has been attained at last, and that life must now be shaped towards new ends. Alvin knew that sadness as he wandered alone through the forests and fields of Lys. Not even Hilvar accompanied him, for there are times when a man must be apart even from his closest friends. He
~ Arthur C. Clarke
A strong wind sang sadly as it bent the trees in front of the Hall. A half moon shone through the dark, flying clouds on to the wild and empty moor.
~ Arthur Conan Doyle
if it makes you happy, then why the hell are you so sad?
~ Sheryl Crow
If it makes you happy, then why are you so sad?
~ Sheryl Crow
Unfortunately Hill House was a sad house almost from the beginning; Hugh Crain's young wife died minutes before she first was to set eyes on the house, when the carriage bringing her here overturned in the driveway.
~ Shirley Jackson
Beware irony, ignore criticism, look to what is simple, study the small and humble things of the world, do what is difficult precisely because it is difficult, do not search for answers but rather love the questions, do not run away from sadness or depression for these might be the very conditions necessary to your work. Seek solitude, above all seek solitude.
~ Sigrid Nunez
Beware irony, ignore criticism, look to what is simple, study the small and humble things of the world, do what is difficult precisely because it is difficult, do not search for answers but rather love the questions, do not run away from sadness or depression for these might be the very conditions necessary to your work. Seek solitude, above all seek solitude. ?
~ Sigrid Nunez
Youth burdened with the full knowledge of how sad and painful aging is I would not call youth at all
~ Sigrid Nunez
The exhaustion of mourning was my thought.
~ Sigrid Nunez
She knows what it is to be sad and miserable, but those emotions are almost enjoyable. They throw moments of happiness and laughter into sharper relief.
~ Simon Mawer
I still think about him all the time. I just sobbed for an age when I found the note I wrote about his death buried in my computer.
~ Simon Reeve
Mersenne met with the other mathematicians, but he was saddened by their reluctance to talk to him or to each other.
~ Simon Singh
I could see no reason for being sad. It´s just that it makes me unhappy not to feel happy.
~ Simone de Beauvoir
Sadness can be wept away. But the impatience of delight---it is not so easy to get rid of that.
~ Simone de Beauvoir
La tristeza puede llorarse. Pero la impaciencia de la alegría no es fácil de conjurar.
~ Simone de Beauvoir
Es una realidad que la historia de la humanidad es hermosa, es una pena que la del humano sea tan triste.
~ Simone de Beauvoir
Yet, there is hardly a sadder virtue than resignation. It transforms into phantoms and contingent reveries projects which had at the beginning been set up as will and freedom.
~ Simone de Beauvoir