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Quotes About Sadness

Next morning Mariana awoke only to new despondency; she felt herself very solitary; she wished not to see the light of day, but staid in bed, and wept.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
My work as a painter… is the condensation, the concentration of the hidden, but ever present, sadness that is in all people
~ Johannes Meintjes
This place. It was the noise that impressed me first of all. A terrible racket, yells and whistles, hoots of laughter, arguments, sobs. But there are moments of stillness, too, as if a great fear, or a great sadness, has fallen suddenly, striking us all speechless. The air stands motionless in the corridors, like stagnant water.
~ John Banville
Quia tu es Deus fortitudo mea; quare me repulisti, et quare tristis incedo, dum affligit me inimicus?
~ John Bellairs
So time doesn't count, and place does?' I said this to tease her. When I was a man, I liked teasing her and she went along with it, consenting, for it reminded us both of a sadness that had passed.
~ John Berger
Our sadness is an energy we discharge in order to heal. …Sadness is painful. We try to avoid it. Actually discharging sadness releases the energy involved in our emotional pain. To hold it in is to freeze the pain within us. The therapeutic slogan is that grieving is the 'healing feeling.'
~ John Bradshaw
The sound she is making is the sound hearts make after they're in pieces and the fragments dissolve into the overwhelming sadness of the universe. The power to hear it may be the only privilege of the thoroughly dispossessed.
~ John Burdett
At present, likewise, there are among Christians new Stoics who think it a vice not only to groan and weep, but even to be sad or upset. And indeed, these ridiculous ideas generally come from idle men.
~ John Calvin
but David did not want to mix with them, and they in turn saw something sad and distant in him that kept them away.
~ John Connolly
As he listened to her, David wondered again how Jonathan could have betrayed this girl. He must have been so angry and so sad, and that anger and sadness had consumed him.
~ John Connolly
la habitual rutina del bebedor: primero ira, luego sensiblería, tristeza, arrepentimiento, rencor.
~ John Connolly
a sadness that turned the world to gray. He
~ John Connolly
My pal is dead.
~ John Connolly
As virtuous men pass mildly away, and whisper to their souls to go, whilst some of their sad friends do say, the breath goes now, and some say no.
~ John Donne
The wretched have no friends.
~ John Dryden
Every loss of life is terrible.
~ George H. W. Bush
All my life I've always been so blue, born to lose, and now I'm losing you.
~ Ray Charles
I am sick of this way of life. The weariness and sadness of old age make it intolerable. I have walked with death in hand, and death's own hand is warmer than my own. I don't wish to live any longer.
~ W. Somerset Maugham
Oh the piercing sadness of life in the midst of its ordinariness!
~ Iris Murdoch
To me, sadness and humor aren't disrelated and humor is the best tool I've had against the sadness in my life.
~ Mike Mills
This is how sad my life is: I got a scar from scratching my chicken pox too much. That's my big scar story. I really have no major scars.
~ Lewis Black
The saddest thing in life is people with sight, but without vision.
~ Helen Keller
Sadness is an opportunity; a good opportunity to learn the real life!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
But solitude is sadness.' 'Yes; it is sadness. Life, however, has worse than that. Deeper than melancholy lies heart-break.
~ Charlotte Bronte