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Quotes About Sadness

Alas my love you do me wrong, To cast me of discurteously; And I have loved you so long, Delighting in your company.
~ Anonymous, Greensleeves
Post coitum omne animal triste [Every creature is sad after coitus].
~ Anonymous: Latin
Algumas tristezas nunca deixam de existir.
~ Anthony Doerr
And then I feel the Big Sadness coming on, like there's a shiny and sharp axe blade buried inside my chest. The only way I can stay alive is to remain absolutely motionless so instead of whispering Dear God how could you do this to me, I only whisper Amen
~ Anthony Doerr
All that sadness. All that anger. It is the smoke that gets into your eyes. If you do not blow it away, how can you hope to see?
~ Anthony Horowitz
But Pünd took his time leaving the house. Fraser knew that he was not so much searching for clues as sensing the atmosphere – he had often heard him talk about the memory of crime, the supernatural echoes left behind by sadness and violent death. There was even a chapter in that book of his. 'Information and Intuition' or something like that.
~ Anthony Horowitz
I'd go into the pub and start crying even before I'd had my first drink.
~ Ricky Hatton
Human curation allows you to have the emotion and feel music, because it is a very emotional thing. It makes you feel happy; it helps you when you are feeling sad, gets you pumped up, calms you down.
~ Bozoma Saint John
I hold Mad Season very fondly to my heart, and there's a lot of sadness in that, too.
~ Mike McCready
Football is a sad game.
~ George Best
Take a look at Mila Kunis. When you see her performance in 'Forgetting Sarah Marshall,' you see a beauty there, and also a sadness.
~ Rod Lurie
I have a very high frequency of anger, and a very high frequency of sadness.
~ Jonathan Majors
Wrestling is an opportunity to go to a show, be a part of it, and feel the emotions from anger to frustration to sadness to pain - everything that music can make you feel.
~ Baron Corbin
This is the saddest story I have ever heard.
~ Ford Madox Ford
as poison. To let a sad thought or a bad one get into your mind is as dangerous as letting a scarlet fever
~ Frances Hodgson Burnett
Everything is an illusion; that is the whole thing about it - illusion, immitation, a mirage. It makes me too sad. Its having like a good dream, you know you are going to wake up.
~ Francesca Lia Block
Whatever love meant there was some version of it that I felt for Winter. And it didn't matter if he felt that for me or not or if it was real love or just my sadness about my dad that had turned into longing. Love, that elusive leading lady, plays too many parts to be typecast.
~ Francesca Lia Block
The way Carl's face lit up just then made Elizabeth realize that their brief encounter was probably one of the happiest moments of his life. How sad for him, she thought, her heart beginning to go out to this pitiable man.
~ Francine Pascal
Oh, God! It was Carl, the sad-looking, lonely hospital orderly.
~ Francine Pascal
Isolated in the attic, Anne could only examine her own history and her own conscience, and try to locate the wellspring of her sadness and her rage.
~ Francine Prose
Sadness crept over me—a sadness I didn't question, a sadness so profound I understood it could not have come from life, or any source within my conceptual scope, but instead seeped into me from the very air, from the whole extant universe in which I was less than a speck, sadness that was not emotion but the awareness of vast emptinesses.
~ Frank Conroy
Parting with friends is a sadness. A place is only a place.
~ Frank Herbert
He felt the inability to grieve as a terrible flaw.
~ Frank Herbert
Grief is the price of victory
~ Frank Herbert