Quotes About Sadness

Bach felt the beauty and sadness of the moment. These men who defied the power of the Russian heavy artillery, these coarse, hardened soldiers who were dispirited by their lack of ammunition and tormented by vermin and hunger had all understood at once that what they needed more than anything in the world was not bread, not bandages, not ammunition, but these tiny branches twined with useless tinsel, these orphanage toys.

Instead of valour or gallantry, you could hear the sadness of a soul parting with everything that it loved, calling on its nearest and dearest to wake up, to lift their heads from their pillows and hear for the last time the voice of a father, a husband, a son or a brother . . .

The choice was whether to be sad and foolish or sad and reasonable.

Melancholy is the happiness of being sad.

The sadness which reigned everywhere was but an excuse for unfailing kindness.

The reduction of the universe to the compass of a single being, and the extension of a single being until it reaches God - that is love. Love is the salute of the angels to the stars. How sad is the heart when rendered sad by love! How great is the void created by the absence of the being who alone fills the world.

Desiring always to be in mourning, he clothed himself with night.

She was sad with an obscure sadness of which she had not the secret herself. There was in her whole person the stupor of a life ended but never commenced.

The cruel of heart have their own black happiness.

winter always carries with it something of our sadness; then April came, that daybreak of summer, fresh like every dawn, gay like every childhood; weeping a little sometimes like the infant that it is. Nature in this month has charming gleams which pass from the sky, the clouds, the trees, the fields, and the flowers, into the heart of man.

It is painful to break the sad links to the past

This is one of those rare moments when, while doing that which it is one's duty to do, one feels something which disconcerts one, and which would dissuade one from proceeding further; one persists, it is necessary, but conscience, though satisfied, is sad, and the accomplishment of duty is complicated with a pain at the heart.

Produce una inmensa tristeza pensar que la naturaleza habla mientras el género humano no escucha.

The bowed frame of an old man is the settlement in the architecture of life. Nature had formed him for sadness.

He was a friendly but sad figure. People said of him: 'A rich man who is not proud. A fortunate man who does not look happy.

the winter always bears away with it a portion of our sadness;

In spring, sad souls grow light, as light falls into cellars at midday.

There is one thing sadder than to see one's children die; it is to see them leading an evil life.

This took place in the depths of a forest, at night, in winter, far from all human sight; she was a child of eight: no one but God saw that sad thing at the moment. And her mother, no doubt, alas! For there are things that make the dead open their eyes in their graves.

All four of them seemed to be standing at the four corners of old age, which are decrepitude, decay, ruin, and sadness.

We live in a sad society. Succeed - that is the advice which falls drop by drop from the overhanging corruption.

Qué triste está el alma cuando está triste por el amor! ¡Qué vacío tan inmenso es la ausencia del ser que llena el mundo! ¡Oh! ¡Cuán verdadero es que el ser amado se convierte en Dios!

And maybe that was how love was supposed to be, how life unfolded when you lived it long enough. Joy and sadness were part of the package; the trick, perhaps, was to let yourself feel all of it, but to hold on to the joy just a little more tightly because you never knew when a strong heart could just give out.

Leni heard her mother start to cry, and somehow that made it worse, as if her tears watered this ugliness, made it grow.