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Quotes About Sadness

All children are sad, but some get over it.
~ Louise Penny
Maybe this was now normal for Olivier. Maybe every now and then he simply wept. Not in pain or sadness. The tears were just overwhelming memories, rendered into water, seeping out.
~ Louise Penny
They'd crossed over to that continent where grieving parents lived. It looked the same as the rest of the world, but wasn't. Colors bled pale. Music was just notes. Books no longer transported or comforted, not fully. Never again. Food was nutrition, little more. Breaths were sighs. And they knew something the rest didn't. They knew how lucky the rest of the world was.
~ Louise Penny
They'd crossed over to that continent where grieving parents lived. It looked the same as the rest of the world, but wasn't. Colors bled pale. Music was just notes. Books no longer transported or comforted, not fully. Never again. Food was nutrition, little more. Breaths were sighs.
~ Louise Penny
I don't know, Armand. It made me sick. And sad. And glad I live far—" "From the madding crowd?" Vincent Gilbert smiled and nodded. "Yes. I peek out every now and then, then scuttle back to my little cabin, where I hope so-called civilization won't find me.
~ Louise Penny
I'm sorry, but I have bad news. Your aunt was found dead today.' 'Oh, no,' she responded, with all the emotion one greets a stain on an old T-shirt.
~ Louise Penny
It had great joy and great sadness and the ability to accept both and be content.
~ Louise Penny
She put another small log on the fire and listened to the quiet murmur of Peter and Ben. She couldn't make out the words, just the familiarity. Another wave of sadness enveloped her. She'd lost her murmuring partner. The one with whom she made comforting noises.
~ Louise Penny
The sadness of the world has different ways of getting to people, but it seems to succeed almost every time.
~ Louis-Ferdinand Celine
All great humorists are sad.... I cannot help seeing beyond the tinsel of humour, and recognising the pitiful basis of jest--the world is indeed comic, but the joke is on mankind.
~ Unknown
How empty seems the town now you are gone! A wilderness of sad streets, where gaunt walls Hide nothing to desire.
~ Unknown
My heart is tuned to sorrow, and the strings Vibrate most readily to minor chords, Searching and sad; my mind is stuffed with words Which voice the passion and the ache of things: Illusions beating with their baffled wings Against the walls of circumstance.
~ Unknown
Sierra laughed and looked so happy that it touched his heart. It didn't dawn on him until now that she always looked a little sad. And perhaps lost. Well, if she were lost, he had just found her, and he wasn't about to let her go.
~ Unknown
they will empty your eyes of everything you love
~ Lucille Clifton
Deine Liebe macht mich zum glücklichsten und zum unglücklichsten zugleich.
~ Ludwig van Beethoven
It turns out that there's something even harder than not being able to be with the person you love when you're happy: not being able to comfort her when she's sad.
~ Jodi Picoult
Loss is more than just death, and grief is the gray shape-shifter of emotion.
~ Jodi Picoult
I wonder, when women who buy beautiful ivory jewelry fasten those elaborate pendants around their throats, if they are choked by sadness.
~ Jodi Picoult
It wasn't her throat, and it wasn't a fever, but it hurt all the same to be heartbroken.
~ Jodi Picoult
I think my heart can't possibly hurt any more than it already does.
~ Jodi Picoult
It turned out people truly did cry into their coffee cups.
~ Jodi Picoult
This man has the same kind of charm, the kind that suggests weakness, the kind that indicates how sad he will always make her feel. There is something dependable, unfailing in this sort of sadness.
~ Joe Meno
No one knows what it is to lie here alone day after day, in silence and darkness, without hearing a voice or seeing a ray of light. Sad thoughts come over me, and I do not feel sometimes as if I could bear it any longer or as if it could ever be light again.
~ Johanna Spyri
No one knows what it is to lie here alone day after day, in silence and darkness, without hearing a voice or seeing a ray of light. Sad thoughts come over me, and I do not feel sometimes as if I could bear it any longer or as if it could ever be light again. But when you come and read those words to me, then I am comforted and my heart rejoices once more.
~ Johanna Spyri