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Quotes About Sadness

Time. I'm afraid of time." She had never cared for nostalgia. There was a sadness to looking back, a reminder of time wasted. "Things happen too fast, without enough time to relish them or cherish them, or enjoy them as thoroughly as we should.
~ Theresa Weir
My Son, make it no matter of thine, if thou see others honoured and exalted, and thyself despised and humbled. Lift up thine heart to Me in heaven, and then the contempt of men upon earth will not make thee sad.
~ Thomas a Kempis
Why doth a little thing spoken against thee make thee sad? If it had been more, thou still oughtest not to be moved. But now suffer it to go by; it is not the first, it is not new, and it will not be the last, if thou live long. Thou art brave enough, so long as no adversity meeteth thee. Thou givest good counsel also, and knowest how to strengthen others with thy words; but when tribulation suddenly knocketh at thine own door, thy counsel and strength fail.
~ Thomas a Kempis
The many ways we have felt angry or cheated, rejected or misunderstood, isolated or forgotten, used or abused, only drive us deeper into victimhood, self-pity, and sadness. Our ego is expensive to keep fed, and makes extraordinary demands without ever being satisfied. When the ego becomes more and more inflated, the self is always imploding.
~ Thomas Acklin
It would be wrong to refuse to face the fact that everything is fundamentally sick and sad.
~ Thomas Bernhard
I knew that the tears of adults were wetter, saltier, and much, much sadder than those of a child
~ Thomas Burnett Swann
Oh! once the harp of InnisfailWas strung full high to notes of gladness;But yet it often told a taleOf more prevailing sadness.
~ Thomas Campbell
Isolation is the sum total of wretchedness to a man.
~ Thomas Carlyle
A man willing to work, and unable to find work, is perhaps the saddest sight that fortune's inequality exhibits under this sun.
~ Thomas Carlyle
Mie love ys dedde,Gon to hys death-bedde,Al under the wyllowe-tree.
~ Thomas Chatterton
There's a lot of nerves, a lot of excitement, a little bit of sadness leaving the chapter in Columbus.
~ Zack Steffen
I was sad to leave Monaco, a club that gave me a lot of great moments, but in football, sometimes you need new challenges, and I thought it was time to move on.
~ Fabinho
I still really like newspapers. I'm gonna feel really sad when they go. Or not - maybe I'll be dead.
~ Michael Keaton
My whole career will be about sad things. Happy songs about nightclubs and shots? That's not me.
~ Lapsley
'Blue Nights' is a story of loss: simple, wrenching, inconsolable loss.
~ Cathleen Schine
Death is always sad, but it's also inevitable
~ Nicholas Sparks
A poesia traz grande beleza à vida, mas também uma grande tristeza, e não tenho a certeza se a troca é justa para alguém da minha idade. Um homem deveria gozar outras coisas, se pudesse - devia gastar osseus últimos dias ao sol. Os meus vão ser passados debaixo de uma lâmpada de leitura.
~ Nicholas Sparks
La poesía aporta una gran belleza a la vida, pero también una gran tristeza, y no estoy seguro de que sea un intercambio justo para una persona de mi edad.
~ Nicholas Sparks
When your sad--like really sad--you only want to be with other people who are sad.
~ Nick Hornby
When you get older, it feels like happy memories and sad memories are pretty much the same thing. It is all just emotion in the end. And any of it can make you weep.
~ Nick Hornby
She was trying to say something else; she was trying to say that the inability to articulate what one feels in any satisfactory way is one of our enduring tragedies. It wouldn't have been much, and it wouldn't have been useful, but it would have been something that reflected the gravity and the sadness inside her. Instead, she had snapped at him for being a loser. It was as if she were trying to find a handhold on the boulder of her feelings, and had merely ended up with grit under her nails.
~ Nick Hornby
This is how I feel, every day, and people don't want to know that. They want to know that I'm feeling what Tom Jones makes you feel. Or that Australian girl who used to be in Neighbours. But I feel like this, and they won't play what I feel on the radio, because people that are sad don't fit in.
~ Nick Hornby
he's lonely, and lonely people are the bitterest of them all.
~ Nick Hornby
Man kann sich über jeden lustig machen, der unglücklich ist, man muss nur grausam genug sein.
~ Nick Hornby