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Quotes About Sadness

Better by far you should forget and smile than you should remember and be sad.
~ Christina Rossetti
For if the darkness and corruption leave A vestige of the thoughts that once I had, Better by far you should forget and smile Than that you should remember and be sad.
~ Christina Rossetti
We're cool," I say calmly, although I feel something else. I feel... sad. Like I've lost something I never quite had.
~ Christine Seifert
I've always found D Minor to be the sad key.
~ Christopher Guest
Kävellessäni rannalla auringonkalpea yksinäisyyteni seuranani västäräkin poikanen sen minulle kuiskasi: Iloisilla ihmisillä elämä on iloista surullisilla surullista ja keikutti pyrstöään
~ Heidi Liehu
Žmogus be li?desio nebe žmogus.
~ Heinrich Boll
Child, you are like a flower,So sweet and pure and fair.I look at you, and sadnessTouches me with a prayer.
~ Heinrich Heine
I wept in my dreams. I dreamed you lay in the grave; I awoke, and the tears still poured down my cheeks. I wept in my dreams, I dreamed you had left me; I awoke and I went on weeping long and bitterly. I wept in my dreams, I dreamed you were still kind to me; I awoke, and still the flow of my tears streams on.
~ Heinrich Heine
Done any more robberies?" he asked with a nervous grin. You look a right berk," I told him, ignoring his question. I'd learnt from Tam that cruelty was an effective method against sadness. I'd cried much less since I'd known her.
~ Helen Cross
In England Have My Bones White wrote one of the saddest sentences I have ever read: 'Falling in love is a desolating experience, but not when it is with a countryside.' He could not imagine a human love returned.
~ Helen Macdonald
Here's a word. Bereavement. Or, Bereaved. Bereft. It's from the Old English bereafian, meaning 'to deprive of, take away, seize, rob'.
~ Helen Macdonald
On the way home I felt a great and simple sadness. I missed my dad. I missed him very much.
~ Helen Macdonald
An obscure shame grips me. I had a fixed idea of what a goshawk was, just as those Victorian falconers had, and it was not big enough to hold what goshawks are. No one had ever told me goshawks played. It was not in the books. I had not imagined it was possible. I wondered if it was because no one had ever played with them. The thought made me terribly sad.
~ Helen Macdonald
To you who eat a lot of rice because you are lonely To you who sleep a lot because you are bored To you who cry a lot because you are sad I write this down. Chew on your feelings that are cornered Like you would chew on rice. Anyway life is something that you need to digest. From 'Rice' by Chun Yang Hee
~ Helen Oyeyemi
To you who eat a lot of rice because you are lonely To you who sleep a lot because you are bored To you who cry a lot because you are sad I write this down. Chew on your feelings that are cornered Like you would chew on rice. Anyway life is something that you need to digest. —CHUN YANG HEE
~ Helen Oyeyemi
quiet, unprovocative, unfailingly polite to one another and to them, and whose occasional sadness bore the stamp of a dignity their jailers could never emulate and were reluctantly compelled to admire'.
~ Helen Rappaport
Tu pleures, tant ta peine est grande, Dans un désert, sans rien savoir… Et moi, debout auprès du soir, Je suis triste comme une offrande
~ Henri Barbusse
They felt that everything was fleeting, that everything wore out, that everything that was not dead would die, and that even the illusory ties holding them together would not endure. Their sadness did not bring them together. On the contrary, they were separated by all the force of their two sorrows. To suffer together, alas, what disunion!
~ Henri Barbusse
C'est tellement triste quand le bonheur s'arrête que je suis pas sûr qu'il vaille le coup.
~ Henri Loevenbruck
To be misunderstood even by those whom one loves is the cross and bitterness of life. It is the secret of that sad and melancholy smile on the lips of great men which so few understand.
~ Henri-Frédéric Amiel
Nothing is sadder than someone who has lost his memory, and the church which has lost its memory is in the same state of senility.
~ Henry Chadwick
War is very sad and small life is pathetically fragile at times.
~ Henry Rollins
There's a small part of my heart that's always sad Part of me that walks with a slow aching step Forever longing The beauty of that To be forever longing Too much joy makes the time pass too quickly A bit of sadness slows things down so you can see it
~ Henry Rollins
Half of the secular unrest and dismal, profane sadness of modern society comes from the vain ideas that every man is bound to be a critic for life.
~ Henry Van Dyke