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Quotes About Sadness

Oh don't torture my heart! I'll die of sadness in one week there. Living among strangers! How can you transplant an old tree?
~ Unknown
I realized that rewards are not the goal- if one seeks the ultimate it will elude you. The reward is life itself, in its richness, in its sadness, and joy.
~ Unknown
He put a dark place in me and I can't forgive him for that. But it's a part of me now and how can I regret what I am - though it often makes me sad.
~ Unknown
never seen before. It made Kit's heart twist with sorrow. For just the tiniest
~ Valerie Tripp
The one quality which counters against longevity is neuroticism. Neuroticism is usually defined as an extra susceptibility to anger, sadness, fear and guilt – all of which can lead to anxiety, hostility, self- consciousness and depression – and there seems no doubt that these are unhealthy personality traits.
~ Unknown
The way grief takes many forms, as tears or pinwheels. The way the word haystack never conjures up the same image twice. The way we assume all tears taste the same. The way our sadness is plural, but grief is singular.
~ Victoria Chang
All beauty of this world is wet with the dew of tears.
~ Theodor Haecker
The cloudy weather melts at length into beauty, and the brightest smiles of the heart are born of its tears.
~ Hosea Ballou
There's a sadness to the human condition that I think music is good for. It gives a counterpoint to the visual beauty, and adds depth to pictures that they wouldn't have if the music wasn't there.
~ Mike Figgis
Sad words are just another beauty. A sad story means, this storyteller is alive
~ Chris Cleave
My best friend ran away with my wife, and let me tell you, I miss him.
~ Henny Youngman
There'll be icicles and birthday clothes And sometimes there'll be sorrow
~ Joni Mitchell
This is our link with all those who have ever loved. This genuine heart of sadness can teach us great compassion.
~ Pema Chodron
This genuine heart of sadness can teach us great compassion. It can humble us when we're arrogant and soften us when we are unkind.
~ Pema Chodron
We have this mistaken idea that either we have regret or we get rid of it. Trungpa Rinpoche talked about holding the sadness of life in our heart while never forgetting the beauty of the world and the goodness of being alive.
~ Pema Chodron
The sunset of all emotions, myself yellowing, subdued to grey sadness in my external self-awareness
~ Pessoa
A terrible, painful sadness clutched at Ellen. More than ever before, she felt that her life—the best part of it, at least, the part that was fresh and fun—was behind her. Recognizing the sensation made her feel guilty, for she read it as proof that she was an unsatisfactory mother, an unsatisfied wife. She hated her life, and hated herself for hating it. She thought of a line from a song Billy played on the stereo: "I'd trade all my tomorrows for a single yesterday.
~ Peter Benchley
Our guests arrive with sadness and broken dreams. Their thoughts eat at them for an entire lifetime. They may have an image of themselves they cannot live up to. Or hold a grudge. Or pine for a love that can never be.
~ Peter Lerangis
Home was that lone house on its great bend of Chatham River, no destination anymore but only the source of a vague sadness he thought of as "homegoing," a returning to the lost paradise of true belonging.
~ Peter Matthiessen
Ve sonunda üzüntünün program?n? buldum." Karanl?k ve küstah bir havaya bürünen yüzü sanki büyük bir zafer kazanm??ças?na tatminkârd?. "Ve her ay iki kez olmak üzere program?ma bu numaray? da katt?m. Bence ayda iki kez olan biten her ÅŸeye üzülmek için yeterli bir süre, sence de öyle deÄŸil mi?
~ Philip K. Dick
Ist die traurigste Realität nicht immer noch besser als die Illusion?
~ Philip K. Dick
Triste?ea e cea mai puternic? emo?ie pe care-o poate sim?i un om, un copil sau un animal. E un sentiment bun.
~ Philip K. Dick
His face fell by degrees
~ Philip K. Dick
Home is so sad. It stays as it was left, / Shaped to the comfort of the last to go / As if to win them back
~ Philip Larkin