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Quotes About Sadness

Onions make me sad, a lot of people don't realize that. When I'm cutting onions, I'm sad. Because the plight of onions, it's sad. But people don't realize I'm actually crying - they think I'm just reacting.
~ Mitch Hedberg
Smile, even if it's a sad smile, because sadder than a sad smile is the sadness of not knowing how to smile.
~ Unknown
Oh the gladness of their gladness when they're glad, And the sadness of their sadness when they're sad; But the gladness of their gladness, and the sadness of their sadness, Are as nothing to their badness when they're bad
~ James Matthew Barrie
You cannot prevent the birds of sadness from passing over your head, but you can prevent their making a nest in your hair.
~ Chinese Proverbs
Sadness is always the legacy of the past; regrets are pains of the memory
~ Unknown
It is an unfortunate personal tragedy. However, when compared to the vast ocean of the collective tragedy faced by my people, my illness is merely a pebble. I am deeply sad that I am crippled by this illness, unable to contribute anything substantial towards the alleviation of the immense suffering and oppression of my people.
~ Unknown
What is the source of sadness, but feebleness of the mind? What giveth it power but the want of reason? Rouse thyself to the combat, and she quitteth the field before thou strikest.
~ Akhenaton
I can see the humorous side of things and enjoy the fun when it comes; but look where I will, there seems to me always more sadness than joy in life.
~ Unknown
Melancholy is sadness that has taken on lightness
~ Italo Calvino
Sadness usually results from one of the following causes either when a man does not succeed, or is ashamed of his success
~ Seneca
Good humor is the health of the soul, sadness its poison
~ Lord Chesterfield
Sadness flies away on the wings of time.
~ Jean de La Fontaine
Child of mortality, whence comest thou? Why is thy countenance sad, and why are thine eyes red with weeping?
~ Unknown
We gather strength from sadness and from pain Each time we die we learn to live again.
~ Unknown
Man could not live if he were entirely impervious to sadness. Many sorrows can be endured only by being embraced, and the pleasure taken in them naturally has a somewhat melancholy character.
~ Émile Durkheim
Sadness is but a wall between two gardens.
~ Kahlil Gibran
The walls we build around us to keep out the sadness also keep out the joy.
~ Jim Rohn
There is sorrow in repentance but not necessarily repentance in sorrow. Just because you're sad doesn't mean you're changing for the better.
~ Unknown
I gave you my heart and you just crushed it with out a care in the world.
~ Unknown
Every time I look at you, I want to cry, remembering everything that we had, and the fact that it's all gone.
~ Unknown
One of the saddest things about a relationship ending is when you know you'll always be fondly and platonically there for that person, but they coldly turn away, never to hear from nor see them again.
~ Unknown
The saddest part of walking away, is knowing you wont be chasing after me.
~ Unknown
Sad when a friendships go sour because of miscommunication...
~ Unknown
Now that you're gone, I'm feeling lonely and sad. I never thought that love could make me feel this way.
~ Unknown