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Quotes About Sadness

And I can't cry, I don't even want to cry. My tears would never do justice to this loss.
~ Kate Atkinson
What impropriety or limit can there be in our grief for a man so beloved?.
~ Horace
There are some men who are witty when they are in a bad humor, and others only when they are sad.
~ Joseph Joubert
Poverty is a scorpion; it stings the poor and it also stings the men with high conscience who feel sad about the poverty; the rest is immune to it!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
They say my verse is sad: no wonder; Its narrow measure spans Tears of eternity, and sorrow, Not mine. but man's.
~ A. E. Housman
I'm a poet,' the young man said, 'And it's my job to remember the sadness of things.
~ Clive Barker
I can't even think of the words of what I'm feeling. This man [Prince] was my everything, we had a family. I am beyond deeply saddened and devastated.
~ Madonna Ciccone
She is sadder and sadder, and for a man there is no balm more soothing than the sadness he has caused a woman.
~ Milan Kundera
The only thing man knows instinctively is how to weep.
~ Pliny the Elder
Nature always wears the colors of the spirit. To a man laboring under calamity, the heat of his own fire hath sadness in it.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
I haven't cried since Mom died. I mean, after something like that, what's left to cry about, right? But I let myself cry now. Loss is loss. Doesn't take death to create it. (266)
~ Ellen Hopkins
Money always ends up making you blue.
~ J. D. Salinger
You know that sadness and rage you feel about your money? That's the way some of us feel about people.
~ Larry Wilmore
Many of us live that life where we are only happy when there's a good day passing by, instead of being sad when there's one bad day passing leaving us confused.
~ Auliq Ice
(His) sadness grew; it became a rock inside him, pulling him down. He carried the sadness everywhere, morning, noon, and night. It hurt to breathe.
~ Kevin Henkes
Poor tired Tim! It's sad for him He lags the long bright morning through, Ever so tired of nothing to do.
~ Walter de La Mare
I was scared when I lost my mother, my father, my brother, my sister.
~ Israel Kamakawiwo'ole
My mother's mild-eyed sadness looks at me from the eyes of those I love.
~ Mason Cooley
Where is your mother, Charlie asked. Dead. I'm sorry to hear that Thank you. But she was always dead.
~ Patrick deWitt
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
Being a mother must be the saddest yet the most hopeful thing in the world, falling into a love that, once started, would never end.
~ Yiyun Li
The saddest day of the year is the day baseball season ends.
~ Tommy Lasorda
I never get scared making these kinds of movies because it's all make-believe, but I did cry when I saw the finished version of Man On Fire because it is so sad.
~ Dakota Fanning
This is the saddest, most depressing music I've ever heard. It makes me so happy.
~ Joseph Gordon-Levitt