logo

Quotes About Sadness

La grandeza de una bella puesta de sol me entristece con toda su hermosura. Ante ella suelo decir: el que es feliz debe sentirse contento al ver esto.
~ Fernando Pessoa
I am not a pessimist, I am merely sad.
~ Fernando Pessoa
When I put away my artifices and lovingly arrange in a corner all my toys, words, images and phrases, so dear to me I feel like kissing them, then I become so small and innocuous, so alone in a room so large and sad, so profoundly sad!
~ Fernando Pessoa
A vida, para a maioria dos homens, é uma maçada passada sem se dar por isso, uma coisa triste composta de intervalos alegres, (...) Achei sempre fútil considerar a vida como um vale de lágrimas: é um vale de lágrimas, sim, mas onde raras vezes se chora. Disse Heine que, depois das grandes tragédias, acabamos sempre por nos assoar.
~ Fernando Pessoa
Oggi la mia anima è triste fino al corpo. Tutto me stesso mi duole: la memoria, gli occhi, le braccia.
~ Fernando Pessoa
Yet my sadness is a comfort For it is natural and right And is what should fill the soul Whenever it thinks it exists
~ Fernando Pessoa
A glória de um poente belo, com a sua beleza entristece-me . Ante ele eu digo sempre: como quem é feliz se deve sentir contente ao ver isto!
~ Fernando Pessoa
Vivemos só de recordar. Na nossa alma entristecida Há um som de reza a invocar A morta vida;
~ Fernando Pessoa
Las grandes melancolías, las tristezas llenas de tedio no pueden existir sino en un ambiente confortable y de lujo sobrio.
~ Fernando Pessoa
Tenho uma grande tristeza Acrescentada à que sinto. Quero dizer-ma mas pesa O quanto comigo minto.
~ Fernando Pessoa
So many times, so many, like now, it has oppressed me to feel myself feel – to feel anguish just because it's a feeling, restlessness because I'm here, nostalgia for something I've never known, the sunset of all emotions, myself yellowing, subdued to grey sadness in my external selfawareness.
~ Fernando Pessoa
La manía por el absurdo y la paradoja es la alegría animal de los tristes.
~ Fernando Pessoa
Sinto a tristeza tanto - uma sensação física de cansaço mental.
~ Fernando Pessoa
The great melancholies, the sadnesses filled with tedium, can exist only in an atmosphere of comfort and sober luxury.
~ Fernando Pessoa
it was all as mysterious as a sad thought in a moment of joy, prophesying what I do not know.
~ Fernando Pessoa
I'm sad, but not with a definite sadness, nor even with an indefinite sadness. I'm sad down there, on the street littered with packing crates.
~ Fernando Pessoa
I saw dawn break and felt happy; today I see dawn break, feel happy, and become sad. The child is still there but has fallen silent. I see the way I saw, but from behind my eyes I see myself seeing, and that is enough to darken the sun, to make the green of the trees old, and to wilt the flowers before they open.
~ Fernando Pessoa
There is something of my own disquiet in the steady drip and patter by which the day vainly empties out its sadness upon the earth.
~ Fernando Pessoa
Only the happy govern, because to be sad it is necessary to feel.
~ Fernando Pessoa
No genuine Irishman could relax in comfort and feel at home in a pub unless he was sitting in deep gloom on a hard seat with a very sad expression on his face, listening to the drone of bluebottle squadrons carrying out a raid on the yellow cheese sandwich.
~ Flann O'Brien
Emotions fascinate me, just being able to express myself through acting. I love that. And I think, in everyday life, you're always trying to repress your emotions. Like if you're sad, you don't want to show it to someone else.
~ Jodie Comer
It's cool to be in your feelings, and it's cool to be sad, and it's cool to feel all of these things.
~ Cuco
No one is drawn to writing about being happy or feelings of joy.
~ Bret Easton Ellis
To make this announcement fills me with great sadness, but I know I have been blessed in so many ways to have experienced what I have with the England rugby team.
~ Jonny Wilkinson