Quotes About Sadness

It wasn't exactly what you'd call fear, rather a strange sadness – a sadness that had nothing human about it any more, for it lacked both courage and hope. This was how animals waited to die. It was the way fish caught in a net watch the shadow of the fisherman moving back and forth above them.

She thought sadly, gaiety and laughter are not in my destiny.

It's so sad, all our house seems broken apart, everyone is going.

You are sad. I am always sad.

She thought, this is the end of happiness, darkness begins here.

He felt sad, sad.

I've felt so sad for years about you. My love for you has always had a sad face.

He looked so sad. I never saw him look sad before, he was always so superior, everywhere the king. You once called him a god from elsewhere who had lost his way.

the superiority of some infinite reserve and the mystery of some infinite sadness.

The new world, he thought, the new life, and how sad it is. I suppose I should be congratulating myself, it may even be that later I shall look back on this as heaven.

He wished he was not always young again in his dreams, it made waking up so sad.

In faith I know not why I am so sad. Ludens did not reply to this remark which Gildas often uttered.

Terrible sadness, dread, an agonizing desire for happiness swelled in his heart.

She did not understand music and it upset her, it had only sad, tragic things to say. These leaping forms, these pursuits and insistences, these elusive desperate repetitions, always seemed to her like one long cry of agony. She could not, in this company, allow herself the luxury of self-pitying tears, which was her highest tribute to the art. She looked about her and let the music gather to her the people with whom she was so deeply concerned.

This is perhaps the saddest experience in the demise of love and the most difficult for the imagination to encompass: to come to know that someone who loved you once now regards you as boring and annoying and unimportant. Sheer hatred might even be preferred to this.

The television had been banished with its false sadnesses and its images of war. Perhaps he had nodded off over his book.

Bradley, my marriage is over. I think my life is probably over. What a poor affair it has been.

For years he had been incapable of tears.

This thought was so heavy with despair that she almost began to cry again.

As he reached the door of the chapel and turned back for a last look, he saw that the Virgin too was sad and lonely; the most alone human being God ever put on earth.

Sadness and boredom were more bearable than the effort of living a normal life. Perhaps the idea of death began to hover over her during that period, as a kind of higher order of lassitude in which she would not have to move the blood in her veins or the air in her lungs; her repose would be absolute- not to think, not to feel, not to be.

They were dressed in black, silent, and dry-eyed, as befits the norms of sadness in a country accustomed to the dignity of grief

No era un dolor de músculos entumecidos, sino de tristezas acumuladas y de abandono

La tristeza se había cristalizado en indiferencia.