Sad World Quotes

• All the world is full of suffering. It is also full of overcoming.

  Helen Keller

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  Helen Keller (1957). “The Open Door”, Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday

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• Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Life, Happiness, Sad

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• There are two types of people in the world, and I'm one of them.

  Aaron Allston

  Sad, Two, People

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• there are two types of people in the world: those who prefer to be sad among others, and those who prefer to be sad alone.

  Nicole Krauss

  Love, Sad, Two

  Nicole Krauss (2006). “The History of Love: A Novel”, p.155, W. W. Norton & Company

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• The art of being kind is all the world needs.

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox

  Art, Kindness, Eulogy

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox (2012). “Leafs On An Idle Breeze - My Inspirational Poems (Annotated Edition)”, p.36, Jazzybee Verlag

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• There is nothing sweeter in this sad world than the sound of someone you love calling your name.

  Kate DiCamillo

  Sadness, Names, Sound

  Kate DiCamillo (2013). “The Essential Kate DiCamillo Collection”, p.258, Candlewick Press

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• It's a sad world we live in when a human being leaves so little of a mark that no one even realizes it when he's gone

  Alane Ferguson

  Gone, World, Littles

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• In this sad world of ours, sorrow comes to all, and it comes with bitter agony. Perfect relief is not possible, except with the passing of time.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Sympathy, Agony, Perfect

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• It is a strange world, a sad world, a world full of miseries, and woes, and troubles; and yet when King Laugh come he make them all dance to the tune he play. Bleeding hearts, and dry bones of the churchyard, and tears that burn as they fall -- all dance together to the music that he make with that smileless mouth of him.

  Bram Stoker

  Kings, Fall, Heart

  Bram Stoker (2016). “Dracula (Fidia Classics)”, p.171, Bram Stoker

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• I wanted all things to seem to make some sense, So we could all be happy, yes, instead of tense. And I made up lies, so they all fit nice, and I made this sad world a paradise

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Lying, Nice, World

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• In this sad world of ours sorrow comes to all and it often comes with bitter agony. Perfect relief is not possible except with time. You cannot now believe that you will ever feel better. But this is not true. You are sure to be happy again. Knowing this, truly believing it will make you less miserable now. I have had enough experience to make this statement.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Happiness, Depression, Believe

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• So many gods, so many creeds, so many paths that wind and wind while just the art of being kind is all the sad world needs.

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox

  God, Art, Kindness

  'The World's Need'

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• We don't trust anyone who does anything nice. That's just the sad world we live in.

  Sandra Bullock

  Nice, Doe, World

  The Blind Side Press Conference, www.thoughtco.com. August 13, 2012.

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• It is only by enlarging the scope of one’s tastes and one’s fantasies, by sacrificing everything to pleasure, that the unfortunate individual called Man, thrown despite himself into this sad world, can succeed in gathering a few roses among life’s thorns

  Marquis de Sade

  Sacrifice, Men, Sacrificing Everything

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• Charles Dickens' creation of Mr. Pickwick did more for the elevation of the human race - I say it in all seriousness - than Cardinal Newman's Lead Kindly Light Amid the Encircling Gloom. Newman only cried out for light in the gloom of a sad world. Dickens gave it.

  Stephen Leacock

  Light, Race, World

  Stephen Leacock (2012). “Feast of Stephen”, p.111, McClelland & Stewart

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• It's a sad, sad world when a girl will break a boy, just because she can.

  Fiona Apple

  Girl, Boys, Reality

  Song: Criminal, Album: Tidal, 1996

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• The security officer smiled and said, ‘Good afternoon, ma’am,’ to me before I gave him ID.” “It’s a sick world, Eve.” He resisted taking her hand for another squeeze. “A sick, sad world.

  Nora Roberts

  Sick World, Hands, Afternoon

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