Sad Quotes - Page 17

• Nothing is more seductive for a man than his freedom of conscience, but nothing is a greater cause of suffering.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Men, Seductive, Deep Thought

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (1981). “Grand Inquisitor”, p.10, A&C Black

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• You know that saying about how you don't know what you have until it's gone-I already did know what I had, and now that she's gone, I know even more.

  A.S. King

  Breakup, Gone, Knows

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• Ships that pass in the night, and speak each other in passing, only a signal shown, and a distant voice in the darkness; So on the ocean of life, we pass and speak one another, only a look and a voice, then darkness again and a silence.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Life, Depressing, Loneliness

  Tales of aWayside Inn pt. 3 "The Theologian's Tale: Elizabeth" pt. 4 (1874)

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• Morality is the theory that every human act must be either right or wrong, and that 99 % of them are wrong.

  H. L. Mencken

  Motherhood, Religion, Morality

  H.L. Mencken (2012). “Mencken Chrestomathy”, p.617, Vintage

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• I think most artists create out of despair. The very nature of creation is not a performing glory on the outside, it's a painful, difficult search within.

  Louise Berliawsky Nevelson

  Art, Pain, Thinking

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• I'm trying to make sure that there's comedy as well as sadness. It makes the sadness more memorable.

  Rick Moody

  Memorable, Trying, Comedy

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• Man, I was drowning in sadness. And Angelina, she lifted me right up out of there.

  Billy Bob Thornton

  Sadness, Men, Drowning

  "Quick on the drawl" by Sean O'Hagan, www.theguardian.com. April 27, 2002.

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• They say it's better to bury your sadness in a graveyard or garden that waits for the spring to wake from its sleep and burst into green.

  Conor Oberst

  Spring, Sleep, Garden

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• Wiped the cold dew-drops from his cheek And sought the mourner's side again. "Once more, dear lady, I must speak: Your last remaining son was slain Just at the closing of the fight; Twas he who sent me here to-night." "God knows," the man said afterward, "The fight itself was not so hard."

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox

  Fighting, Son, Night

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox (1912). “Picked Poems”

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• But woman's grief is like a summer storm, Short as it violent is.

  Joanna Baillie

  Summer, Women, Grief

  Joanna Baillie (1853). “The dramatic and poetical works of Joanna Baillie”, p.48

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• The sorrow which has no vent in tears
  may make other organs weep.

  Henry Maudsley

  Inspirational, Grief, Grieving

  Henry Maudsley (1895). “The Pathology of Mind”

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• Is it thy will that I should wax and wane,
  Barter my cloth of gold for hodden grey,
  And at thy pleasure weave that web of pain
  Whose brightest threads are each a wasted day?

  Oscar Wilde

  Pain, Gold, Pleasure

  Oscar Wilde (2007). “The Collected Works of Oscar Wilde”, p.847, Wordsworth Editions

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• In the night of death, hope sees a star, and listening love can hear the rustle of a wing.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Sympathy, Stars, Grief

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.2414, Library of Alexandria

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• I will greet this day with love in my heart. And how will I do this? Henceforth will I look on all things with love and be born again. I will love the sun for it warms my bones; yet I will love the rain for it cleanses my spirit. I will love the light for it shows me the way; yet I will love the darkness for it shows me the stars. I will welcome happiness as it enlarges my heart; yet I will endure sadness for it opens my soul. I will acknowledge rewards for they are my due; yet I will welcome obstacles for they are my challenge.

  Og Mandino

  Love, Life, Happiness

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• Do not judge men by mere appearances; for the light laughter that bubbles on the lip often mantles over the depths of sadness, and the serious look may be the sober veil that covers a divine peace and joy.

  Edwin Hubbel Chapin

  Laughter, Ex Boyfriend, Men

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• If misery loves company, misery has company enough.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Love, Disease, Shrubs

  Henry David Thoreau, Odell Shepard (1961). “The Heart of Thoreau's Journals”, p.56, Courier Corporation

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• Write your Sad times in Sand,
  Write your Good times in Stone.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Encouragement, Writing, Stones

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• Man knows so much and does so little.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Men, Hypocrisy, Doe

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• The moral arc of the universe bends at the elbow of justice.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Justice, Elbows, Moral

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• And lastly from that period I remember riding in a taxi one afternoon between very tall buildings under a mauve and rosy sky; I began to bawl because I had everything I wanted and knew I would never be so happy again.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Happiness, Sky, Riding

  F. Scott Fitzgerald, James L. W. West (2005). “Fitzgerald: My Lost City: Personal Essays, 1920-1940”, p.111, Cambridge University Press

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• If a man wants you, nothing can keep him away. If he doesn't want you, nothing can make him stay.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Men, Romance, Want

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• When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love has always won.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Peace, Truth, Evil Love

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• Love can be magic. But magic can sometimes... just be an illusion.

  Javan

  Break Up, Broken Heart, Heartbroken

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• It was one of those times you feel a sense of loss, even though you didn't have something in the first place. I guess that's what disappointment is- a sense of loss for something you never had.

  Deb Caletti

  Disappointment, Loss, Firsts

  Deb Caletti (2010). “Nature of Jade”, p.36, Simon and Schuster

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• It is salutary to train oneself to be no more affected by censure than by praise.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Courage, Praise, Oneself

  W. Somerset Maugham (2010). “The Summing Up”, p.220, Random House

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