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Quotes About Sadness

What will you do now?" "Live until it gives me away, of course. And drink only the best champagne. There's not time for anything else." His face was delicate and sensitive-looking, like a well-bred cat's. He also had rich brown eyes that seemed to want to laugh at the idea of sadness or self-pity.
~ Paula McLain
How sadness and shame are more than feelings; they're an illness, a terrible cancer that spins through the world taking lives in a hidden cyclical way that might never end.
~ Paula McLain
Tis a dream that I in sadness Here am bound, the scorn of fate;
~ Pedro Calderon de la Barca
Tis a dream that I in sadness Here am bound, the scorn of fate; 'Twas a dream that once a state I enjoyed of light and gladness. What is life? 'Tis but a madness. What is life? A thing that seems, A mirage that falsely gleams, Phantom joy, delusive rest, Since is life a dream at best, And even dreams themselves are dreams.
~ Pedro Calderon de la Barca
Pink clouds of plum blossoms and their magnificent aroma languished in their wake, leaving a snow-drift of petals stuck to the windshield. They look like dead butterflies, she said, with a touch of sadness, and turned on the radio so she wouldn't start crying, so she could run away from there, escape from that burst of happiness into the bewitched halo of the bolero.
~ Unknown
Life speeds by and no matter how much joy there is, there is sadness.
~ Penn Jillette
Change is certain. Peace is followed by disturbances; departure of evil men by their return. Such recurrences should not constitute occasions for sadness but realities for awareness, so that one may be happy in the interim
~ Percy Bysshe Shelley
Like the ghost of a dear friend dead Is Time long past. A tone which is now forever fled, A hope which is now forever past, A love so sweet it could not last, Was Time long past. There were sweet dreams in the night Of Time long past: And, was it sadness or delight, Each day a shadow onward cast Which made us wish it yet might last - That Time long past
~ Percy Bysshe Shelley
Soon, sweet madness was poured upon my heart, a soft and thrilling sadness
~ Percy Bysshe Shelley
GözyaÅŸlar? için fazla derin" bir keder bu.
~ Percy Bysshe Shelley
It's sad when people break up.
~ Pete Townshend
We didn't need light & shade, irony or humor. An iconic Daltrey bellow could convey an extrodinary range of human emotion; withering sadness, self pity, loneliness, abandonment, spiritual desperation, the loss of childhood, as well as the more obvious rage & frustration, joy & triumph.
~ Pete Townshend
It is sad to be an exception. But not to be one is even sadder.
~ Peter Altenberg
While funerals are among the saddest events that we humans can participate in, at least they are definitive moments marking change: from living to dead. But perhaps even sadder is the life near its end, such as a human with a fatal malady given a highly definitive death sentence.
~ Unknown
I have this rage that I can't explain. It's sad.
~ Unknown
is literally going to die of a broken heart.
~ Unknown
He constructed a shell to hide his aloneness, and it hardened on his back. I know of no sadder story.
~ Unknown
It grieves my heart.
~ Peter Høeg
There is nothing more depressing than toast that no one eats.
~ Peter Hedges
The sadness of our world, it underlies everything like a water.
~ Peter Heller
The history of the human race doesn't make happy reading, does it? I've seen a lot of sadness during my time, but I've seen seen a lot of things that have kept my faith in humanity alive too. If there were no bad things in the world, we'd have nothing to measure the good against, would we? The light can only shine in darkness.
~ Peter James
a mournful of stained, crooked teem,
~ Peter James
So he asked the officials of Pharaoh who were in custody with him in his masterís house, “Why are your faces so downcast today?”
~ Genesis 40:7
So Ahab went to his palace, sullen and angry because Naboth the Jezreelite had told him, “I will not give you the inheritance of my fathers.” He lay down on his bed, turned his face away, and refused to eat.
~ 1 Kings 21:4