Sad Quotes - Page 10

• If you board the wrong train, it is no use running along the corridor in the other direction.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Running, Depressing, Religion

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• Never despair, but if you do, work on in despair.

  Edmund Burke

  Inspiring, Perseverance, Work

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• When you can't remember why you're hurt, that's when you're healed.

  Jane Fonda

  Hurt, Memories, Reality

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• As I've gotten older, I find I am able to be nourished more by sorrow and to distinguish it from depression.

  Robert Bly

  Sorrow, Able

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• It weren’t too loo long before I seen something in me, had changed. A bitter seed was planted inside of me. And I just didn’t feel so, accepting, anymore.

  Kathryn Stockett

  Depression, Long, Bitter

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• Melancholy: an appetite no misery satisfies.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Misery, Melancholy, Appetite

  Emile M. Cioran (1999). “All Gall is Divided: Gnomes and Apothegms”, p.51, Arcade Publishing

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• When the heart grows weary, all things seem dreary; When the burden grows heavy, the way seems long. Thank God for sending kind death as an ending, Like a grand Amen to a minor song.

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox

  Song, Heart, Long

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox (2016). “Complete Poetical Works of Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Delphi Classics)”, p.1451, Delphi Classics

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• Things have dropped from me. I have outlived certain desires; I have lost friends, some by death... others through sheer inability to cross the street.

  James Thurber

  Death, Desire, Inability

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• I know what it's like to have someone coming home who looks at you not in the way they used to in the old days, and I've seen my own face contorted with sadness and rage in the mirror.

  Jane Birkin

  Home, Mirrors, Looks

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• I'll never wake up in a good mood again. I'm tired of these stinky boots

  Jim Morrison

  Tired, Wake Up, Boots

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• Tears come from the heart and not from the brain

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Inspirational, Life, Passion

  Leonardo Da Vinci, General Press (2016). “The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci”, p.329, GENERAL PRESS

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• Life isn't fair. It's just fairer than death, that's all.

  William Goldman

  Life, Death, Failure

  William Goldman (2013). “The Princess Bride: An Illustrated Edition of S. Morgenstern's Classic Tale of True Love and High Adventure”, p.364, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• All good things must come to an end.

  Geoffrey Chaucer

  Good Night, Goodnight, Gossip Girl

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• . . . owning a dog always ended with this sadness because dogs just don't live as long as people do.

  John Grogan

  Dog, Long, People

  John Grogan (2008). “Marley & Me tie-in: Life and Love with the World's Worst Dog”, William Morrow Paperbacks

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• Human salvation lies in the hands of the creatively maladjusted.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Business, Lying, Creativity

  Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2012). “A Gift of Love: Sermons from Strength to Love and Other Preachings”, p.37, Beacon Press

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• I know that it's easier to look at death than it is to look at pain, because while death is irrevocable, and the grief will lessen in time, pain is too often merely relentless and irreversible.

  Robert Goolrick

  Pain, Grief, Loss

  Robert Goolrick (2008). “The End of the World as We Know It: Scenes from a Life”, p.213, Algonquin Books

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• When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.

  Winston Churchill

  Witty, Powerful, War

  Winston Churchill (1959). “Memoirs of the Second World War: An Abridgement of the Six Volumes of the Second World War”

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• There's nothing in this world so sweet as love. And next to love the sweetest thing is hate.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Sweet, Hate, World

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1859). “The Complete Poetical Works”, p.269

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• Love is also like a coconut which is good while it is fresh, but you have to spit it out when the juice is gone, what's left tastes bitter.

  Bertolt Brecht

  Love, Gone, Juice

  Bertolt Brecht (1964). “Baal, A Man's a Man, and The Elephant Calf: Early Plays by Bertolt Brecht”

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• What greater pain could mortals have than this: To see their children dead before their eyes?

  Euripides

  Children, Pain, Eye

  Euripides (1958). “Euripides: Rhesus, translated by R. Lattimore. The suppliant women, translated by F. Jones. Orestes, translated by W. Arrowsmith. Iphigenia in Aulis, translated by C. R. Walker”

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• Each departed friend is a magnet that attracts us to the next world.

  Jean Paul

  Friendship, Departed, World

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• You have the power. You are the magic wand.

  Laura Schlessinger

  Women, Magic, Wands

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• A lot of you cared, just not enough.

  Jay Asher

  Suicide, Tragedy, Apathy

  Jay Asher (2011). “Thirteen Reasons Why”, p.280, Penguin

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• As memory may be a paradise from which we cannot be driven, it may also be a hell from which we cannot escape.

  John Lancaster Spalding

  Memories, Paradise, May

  John Lancaster Spalding (1901). “Aphorisms and Reflections: Conduct, Culture and Religion”

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• The way sadness works is one of the strange riddles of the world. If you are stricken with a great sadness, you may feel as if you have been set aflame, not only because of the enormous pain, but also because your sadness may spread over your life, like smoke from an enormous fire.

  Daniel Handler

  Pain, Fire, Over You

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