Sad Quotes - Page 12

• When you get the choice to sit it out or dance, I hope you dance.

  Lee Ann Womack

  Life, Strength, Dance

  Song: I Hope You Dance, Album: I Hope You Dance

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• Beauty and sadness always go together. Nature thought beauty too rich to go forth Upon the earth without a meet alloy.

  George MacDonald

  Beauty, Together, Earth

  George MacDonald (1872). “Within and Without”, p.141

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• Sadness usually results from one of the following causes either when a man does not succeed, or is ashamed of his success.

  Seneca the Younger

  Men, Doe, Succeed

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• Man could not live if he were entirely impervious to sadness. Many sorrows can be endured only by being embraced, and the pleasure taken in them naturally has a somewhat melancholy character.

  Emile Durkheim

  Life, Taken, Character

  Emile Durkheim (2005). “Suicide: A Study in Sociology”, p.333, Routledge

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• There is no worse sorrow than remembering happiness in the day of sorrow.

  Alfred de Musset

  Happy, Sorrow, Remember

  "Le Saule" by Alfred de Musset,

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• We are more unhappy to see people ahead of us than happy to see people behind us.

  Michel de Montaigne

  People, Unhappy, Behinds

  Michel de Montaigne (1976). “The Complete Essays of Montaigne”

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• In depression . . . faith in deliverance, in ultimate restoration, is absent. The pain is unrelenting, and what makes the condition intolerable is the foreknowledge that no remedy will come - - not in a day, an hour, a month, or a minute . . . It is hopelessness even more than pain that crushes the soul.

  William Styron

  Depression, Crush, Pain

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• One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul, and yet no one ever comes to sit by it.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Lonely, Loneliness, Being Alone

  Letter to Theo van Gogh from Cuesmes, www.vangoghletters.org. June 22-24, 1880.

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• She laughed so easily when she was happy. But also when she was sad.

  Janet Fitch

  Laughed

  Janet Fitch (2013). “White Oleander”, p.131, Hachette UK

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• It is sad but unfortunately true that man learns nothing from history.

  Carl Jung

  Men, Cynical, Memories Dreams Reflections

  Carl Gustav Jung (1981). “The Collected Works of C. G. Jung: Structure and dynamics of the psyche”

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• You eventually erase her contact info from your phone but not the pictures you took of her in bed while she was naked and asleep, never those.

  Junot Diaz

  Breakup, Phones, Bed

  Junot Diaz (2012). “This Is How You Lose Her”, p.112, Faber & Faber

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• Heartbreak could be lived with if it weren't accompanied by regret.

  Laura Kasischke

  Motivational, Heartbroken, Regret

  Laura Kasischke (2011). “The Raising”, p.178, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• The past is as powerless to darken the present moment as is a shadow to reach up and drag down the form that casts it.

  Guy Finley

  Past, Shadow, Moments

  FaceBook post by Guy Finley from Aug 20, 2014

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• Nothing is miserable unless you think it so.

  Boethius

  Thinking, Misery, Miserable

  Boethius (2012). “The Consolation of Philosophy”, p.24, Courier Corporation

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• I have been smashed and put back together so many times nothing works right. Nothing is where it should be, heavy thumping in my shoulder where my heart now beats.

  Elizabeth Scott

  Heart, Together, Beats

  Elizabeth Scott (2009). “Living Dead Girl”, p.156, Simon and Schuster

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• Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary, Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore--While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping, As if some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door. "'Tis some visitor," I muttered, "tapping at my chamber door--Only this and nothing more.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Rap, Doors, Visitors

  "The Raven" l. 1 (1845)

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• I found more joy in sorrow than you could find in joy.

  Sara Teasdale

  Joy, Sorrow, Found

  Sappho, Emily Dickinson, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Amy Lowell, Sara Teasdale (2018). “Wild Nights: Heart Wisdom from Five Women Poets”, p.94, Courier Dover Publications

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• Behind joy and laughter there may be a temperament, coarse, hard and callous. But behind sorrow there is always sorrow. Pain, unlike pleasure, wears no mask. ... For this reason there is no truth comparable to sorrow. There are times when sorrow seems to me to be the only truth. Other things may be illusions of the eye or the appetite, made to blind the one and cloy the other, but out of sorrow have the worlds been built, and at the birth of a child or a star there is pain.

  Oscar Wilde

  Stars, Pain, Laughter

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• How unhappy is he who cannot forgive himself.

  Publilius Syrus

  Life, Forgiveness, Forgiving

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• Sometimes it's like you're a big pie settin' on the table, and everybody runs up and gets their piece of you. When it's over' the plate's empty.

  Loretta Lynn

  Running, Pie, Tables

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• Just as a stream flows smoothly on as long as it encounters no obstruction, so the nature of man and animal is such that we never really notice or become conscious of what is agreeable to our will; if we are to notice something, our will has to have been thwarted, has to have experienced a shock of some kind.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Men, Animal, Long

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2004). “On the Suffering of the World”, p.6, Penguin UK

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• The tragedy of life is what dies in the hearts and souls of people while they live.

  Albert Einstein

  Life, Heart, People

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• Then hate me when thou wilt, if ever, now.

  William Shakespeare

  Hate, Ifs, Sadness

  William Shakespeare (1973). “Shakespeare’s Sonnets: The Problems Solved”, p.186, Springer

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• Tired with all these for restful death I cry, As to behold desert a beggar born, And needy nothing trimmed in jollity, And purest faith unhappily forsworn.

  William Shakespeare

  Tired, Desert, Cry

  Sonnet 66

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• God made poor woman with no heart, But gave her skill, and tact, and art, And so she lives, and plays her part. We must not blame, but pity her.

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox

  Art, Play, Skills

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox (2016). “Complete Poetical Works of Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Delphi Classics)”, p.325, Delphi Classics

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