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Quotes About Sadness

For my boyhood's friend hath fallen, the pillar of my trust, The true, the wise, the beautiful, is sleeping in the dust.
~ George Stillman Hillard
Personally, I didn't think there was anything wrong with sadness. Just the opposite – hypocrisy made people happy and truth made them sad.
~ Elif Safak
I've always been drawn to Marilyn Monroe, but certain aspects of her story may be too sad to tell.
~ Sherilyn Fenn
It was a very particular loneliness: knowing that people around you were also sad but that you couldn't be sad together.
~ Sherry Turkle
Sadness is poetic. . . . You are lucky to live sad moments. And then I had happy feelings because when you let yourself have sad feelings your body has like antibodies that come rushing in to meet the sad feelings. But because we don't want that first feeling of sad, we push it away with our phones. So you never feel completely happy or completely sad. You just feel kind of satisfied with your products. And then . . . you die.
~ Sherry Turkle
He thought about himself and to the young that always brings sadness.
~ Sherwood Anderson
Till you experience it, you think that grief is one emotion. It isn't; it is many emotions packaged into one. It's like standing at the top of a tall building and having the floor fall out.
~ Shoba Narayan
Youth burdened with full knowledge of just how sad and painful aging is I would not call youth at all.
~ Sigrid Nunez
Quando uno ha troppa tristezza, la magia ci annega dentro, come le persone dentro l'acqua. Però nonna sapeva come si fa. Se pensi forte le cose, loro diventano vere. Ma, se dentro hai la tristezza, tutto quello che ti esce dalla testa è la tristezza.
~ Silvana de Mari
Orks ir tas, kurš priec?jas, kad b?rns cieš, bet v?l laim?g?ks tas ir, ja b?rns mirst.
~ Silvana de Mari
Breaking down in tears won't help her and we don't have time to cycle through the stages of grief. Or, if it will make you feel better, I can do so quickly: This can't be — it's not fair! Why don't you take me instead, God? I'm so sad. But I have to get on with my life.
~ Simon Chesterman
I wonder if things can happen too early or too late or if everything happens at exactly the right time. If so, how sad and beautiful.
~ Simon Van Booy
When hearts break they do not break even.
~ Singer
I think a certain amount of anger has been a fuel of mine, if you want - but also some sort of sadness, and plain mischief, of course.
~ Siouxsie Sioux
Sweetest smile is made saddest tear-drop!
~ Sir Edwin Arnold
The joy of love is too short, and the sorrow thereof, and what cometh thereof, dureth over long.
~ Sir Thomas Malory
It's a song of a merryman, moping mum,Whose soul was sad, and whose glance was glum,Who sipped no sup, and who craved no crumb,As he sighed for the love of a lady.
~ Sir William S. Gilbert
under our love making I felt a bleakness that couldnt be dispelled. The sadness was in both of us, and I think we pitied ourselves that night, as if we were other people looking down on the couple who lay together on the bed
~ Siri Hustvedt
Walking across campus made me feel sad, and I thought to myself, I wasn't happy there. Then, after reading, we walked past Butler Library. It was dark, but the light inside illuminated the windows. Students were reading and working, and those lit windows gave me a wonderful, weightless feeling. I understood for the first time how happy I had been there - in the library.
~ Siri Hustvedt
And the story of love is a long sad tale ending in graves.
~ Jack Kerouac
I love the sad songs with their maudlin, self-deprecating, almost funny lyrics. As an Englishman, they make a lot of sense.
~ Teddy Thompson
There is no hatred in my love for you. Only a sadness I feel all the more strongly for my inability to explain or describe it.
~ David Foster Wallace
Parting is worse than death; it is death of love!
~ John Dryden
It's not because I like him. I'm just disappointed. Disappointed in love.
~ Kim A-joong