Quotes About Sadness

The only real sadness, the only real failure, the only great tragedy in life, is not to become a saint."7 As

Inside him was a bitter, futile anger and a sadness that seemed to be choking him. It was finished. The period of agonizing waiting was over, and now he would have been happy to return to it.

Realizing that their parents can't tolerate anger, sadness, or pain, they learn to ignore and deny those feelings, according to Alice Miller, author of The Drama of the Gifted Child. Expressing these emotions means risking Mom's love or making Dad sick. The emotions become enemies, and are numbed or feared.

Sad? — No. But I hate winter. I hate the snow. In weather like this, you'd really think that the world wasn't made for man and that we're here by accident.

They were the only members of their family, and they were both humble, crushed, and thrust aside by life; they were united in sadness and tenderness by a bond of mutual pity and common suffering, borne in secret. With the Kraffts—robust, noisy, brutal, solidly built for living, and living joyously—these two weak, kindly creatures, out of their setting, so to speak, outside life, understood and pitied each other without ever saying anything about it.

But popularity is no guarantee of truth, and human flattery does not bring God's approval. Sadness lies ahead for those who chase after the crowd's praise rather than God's truth.

El desamor es tópico, ridículo, monumentalmente exagerado. Pero duele

There was sadness in everything—in the room, in the ringing bird-calls from the garden, in the lit, golden lawn beyond the window, with its single miraculous cherry-tree breaking in immaculate blossom and tossing long foamy sprays against the sky. She was sad to the verge of tears, and yet the sorrow was rich—a suffocating joy.

She was just glad he hadn't come back to life, which did make her sad. How sad it was not to be sad.

Their love for him, in return, pained him and soothed him. He was thrilled and touched with sadness, he was hungry, and he was practical. He was lonely; he was a priest.

The strong old woman was walking away, and in her step there was the sadness of parting with an old but dangerously foolish friend.

Dawn was sad, calm, and brimming with debt.

There's something sad about people going to bed. You can see they don't give a damn whether they're getting what they want out of life or not, you can see they don't even try to understand what we're here for. They just don't care. Americans or not, they sleep no matter what, they're bloated mollusks, no sensibility, no trouble with their conscience.

There's something sad about people going to bed. You can see they don't give a damn whether they're getting what they want out of life or not, you can see they don't even try to understand what we're here for. They just don't care. Americans or not, they sleep no matter what, they're bloated mollusks, no sensibility, no trouble with their conscience.

La tristeza del mundo se apodera de los seres como puede, pero parece lograrlo casi siempre.

Pero el campo, debo decirlo en seguida, yo nunca he podido apreciarlo, siempre me ha parecido triste, con sus lodazales interminables, sus casas donde la gente nunca está y sus caminos que no van a ninguna parte. Pero, si se le añade la guerra, además, ya es que no hay quien lo soporte.

They smiled at the good, and frowned at the bad, and sometimes they were very sad.

A quanti uomini, presi nel gorgo d'una passione, oppure oppressi, schiacciati dalla tristezza, dalla miseria, farebbe bene pensare che c'è, sopra il soffitto, il cielo, e che nel cielo ci sono le stelle. [...] Contemplandole, s'inabissa la nostra inferma piccolezza, sparisce nella vacuità degli spazii, e non può non sembrarci misera e vana ogni ragione di tormento. Ma bisognerebbe avere in sé, nel momento della passione, la possibilità di pensare alle stelle.

It is so exquisitely funny and sad, the way we view each other; how very little, despite our best efforts, we communicate.

A woman who lives with the stress of an overwhelmed schedule will often ache with the sadness of an underwhelmed soul.

sufletul mi-a fost stricat de lume, am o imaginaÈ›ie f?r? astâmp?r, inima mi-e avid?; pentru mine totul e puÈ›in: m? obiÈ™nuiesc la fel de repede cu tristeÈ›ea ca È™i cu desf?tarea, iar viaÈ›a îmi devine tot mai pustie pe zi ce trece

A ridiculous old age is perhaps the saddest and ultimate surprise human nature may have in store.

Mas a tristeza é necessária à vida, acudiu D. Tomásia, que abrira os olhos logo à entrada do marido. As dores alheias fazem lembrar as próprias, e são um corretivo da alegria, cujo excesso pode engendrar o orgulho.

Tristezas não são comigo. Entretanto, em rapaz — quando fiz versos, nunca os fiz senão tristíssimos. As lágrimas que verti então — pretas, porque a tinta era preta — podiam encher este mundo, vale delas.