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Quotes About Sadness

I can't think of anything when I'm depressed. I just want to be alone.
~ James Smith
That's exactly it—I am crazy sad, and somewhere deep inside, all I want is to fly.
~ Jandy Nelson
Because it's still a heartache. And nothing makes you want to die more than that.
~ Lee Nichols
You shy, Francesca?" Javier asks me later on. I shake my head. "Not really." I'm just sad, I want to say. And I'm lonely.
~ Melina Marchetta
Why are you sad, Dorian?" He couldn't lie to her. "The leopard wants you to see it.
~ Nalini Singh
Sometimes my grief is overwhelming, and even though I understand that we will never see each other again, there is a part of me that wants to hold on to you forever.
~ Nicholas Sparks
My heart is breaking," she says. "I want to be strong for you right now but the thought of you leaving is killing me inside.
~ Pittacus Lore
Nothing fills me with deeper sadness than to see a Southerner apologizing for the defense we made of our inheritance.
~ Jefferson Davis
All through the night, men looked at the sky and were saddened by the stars.
~ Joseph Heller, Catch-22
But you've brought him happiness, Eponine; he is happy because of you — and that was my only comfort as I cried and cried, feeling so lonely, in my house of leaves.
~ Susan Fletcher
Grief can make a man careless
~ Susan Heyboer O'Keefe
The day she left this earth was certainly Heaven's finest and the saddest day I'll ever live.
~ Susan May
Imagination turns experiences into anxious feelings, troubles and sadness or, on the flipside, excitement, happiness and contentment. The
~ Susan May
When you are sad, your heart pumps the tragedy all through your body and fills your mind with the story of your suffering, and you tell that story to yourself over and over.
~ Susan Patron
Tears came welling up behind her eyes for a second, then they went back inside for some other time, a sad time. A certain crevice of Lucky's mind wondered if there is some kind of reservoir for tears where they are stored, because sometimes there are so many of them, pouring and pouring out.
~ Susan Patron
That's the difference between people like you and people like me. You think everything's sad. Because all you do is THINK about stuff all the time. If you only think about stuff half the time you're way less sad. What do you do the other half of the time? When you're not thinking? Uh, I don't know, maybe have a life?
~ Susan Perabo
I realized that in depression, nothing matters," she said. "And in sadness, everything matters.
~ Susan Piver
I had never felt so lonely and so sad in my entire life.
~ Susan Smith
Depression is melancholy minus its charms.
~ Susan Sontag
When he awoke it was dawn. Or something like dawn. The light was watery, dim and incomparably sad. Vast, grey, gloomy hills rose up all around them and in between the hills there was a wide expanse of black bog. Stephen had never seen a landscape so calculated to reduce the onlooker to utter despair in an instant. "This is one of your kingdoms, I suppose, sir?" he said. "My kingdoms?" exclaimed the gentleman in surprize. "Oh, no! This is Scotland!
~ Susanna Clarke
it was the smidgen of sadness that, at least for me, always accompanies happiness. The disquieting underbelly of loss that comes with getting something you badly want. The thing I'd always understood, even before my mother got sick, was that anything started will inevitably end, anything loved will be lost.
~ Susanna Daniel
sighing as if he regretted leaving, although I thought not, that sudden oncoming of emptiness and sadness washing over me then, too.
~ Susanna Moore
I was thinking about that, my heart suddenly full of despair.
~ Susanna Moore
I had no idea that mothering my own child would be so healing to my own sadness from my childhood.
~ Susie Bright