Sad Quotes - Page 5

• any fool can be happy. It takes a man with real heart to make beauty out of the stuff that makes us weep.

  Clive Barker

  Love, Happy, Art

  Twitter post from Aug 14, 2015

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• What is deservedly suffered must be borne with calmness, but when the pain is unmerited, the grief is resistless.

  Ovid

  Pain, Grief, Calmness

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• They say when you are missing someone that they are probably feeling the same, but I don't think it's possible for you to miss me as much as I'm missing you right now

  Edna St. Vincent Millay

  Love, I Miss You, Missing You

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• Better by far you should forget and smile than that you should remember and be sad.

  Christina Rossetti

  Happiness, Smile, Regret

  "Remember" l. 13 (1862)

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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, Two, People

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

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• My feeling is that there is nothing in life but refraining from hurting others, and comforting those who are sad.

  Olive Schreiner

  Hurt, Kindness, Feelings

  Olive Schreiner (1988). “Olive Schreiner Letters: 1871-1899”, Oxford University Press, USA

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• The sadness will last forever.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Sadness, Forever, Lasts

  Vincent van Gogh, Victoria Charles (2014). “Vincent van Gogh”, p.450, Parkstone International

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• She dwelt among the untrodden ways Beside the springs of Dove, A maid whom there were none to praise And very few to love.

  William Wordsworth

  Love, Spring, Obscurity

  'She dwelt among the untrodden ways' (1800)

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• I believe that the horrifying deterioration in the ethical conduct of people today stems from the mechanization and dehumanization of our lives. A disastrous by-product of the development of the scientific and technical mentality. We are guilty. Man grows cold faster than the planet he inhabits.

  Albert Einstein

  Believe, Men, People

  letter to Dr. Otto Fullisburger, cited in: Journal of Public Policy & Marketing, p. 75, 2004.

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• The deep pain that is felt
  at the death of every friendly soul
  arises from the feeling that there is
  in every individual something
  which is inexpressible,
  peculiar to him alone,
  and is, therefore,
  absolutely and irretrievably lost.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Death, Pain, Grief

  Arthur Schopenhauer, E. F. J. Payne (1974). “Parerga and Paralipomena: Short Philosophical Essays”, p.585, Oxford University Press

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• I can see the humorous side of things and enjoy the fun when it comes; but look where I will, there seems to me always more sadness than joy in life.

  Jerome K. Jerome

  Fun, Humorous, Joy

  Jerome K. Jerome (2015). “My Life and Times”, p.14, Read Books Ltd

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• Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness.

  Carl Jung

  Happiness, Happy, Patience

  "The Art of Living". Interview with Gordon Young in 1960. "C.G. Jung Speaking". Book edited by William McGuire and R.F.C. Hull, archive.org. 1977.

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• Sad will be the day when the American people forget their traditions and their history, and so longer remember that the country they love, the institutions they cherish, and the freedom they hope to preserve, were born from the throes of armed resistance to tyranny, and nursed in the rugged arms of fearless men.

  Roger Sherman

  Love, Country, Memories

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• Distance cannot matter - ours is a friendship of the heart.

  Mary Anne Radmacher

  Friendship, Distance, Heart

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• "Don't you want to join us?" I was recently asked by an acquaintance when he ran across me alone after midnight in a coffeehouse that was already almost deserted. "No, I don't," I said.

  Franz Kafka

  Midnight, Want, Said

  Franz Kafka “1914-1923. Tr. by Martin Greenberg, with the co-operation of Hannah Arendt”

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• We ask God to forgive us for our evil thoughts and evil temper, but rarely, if ever ask Him to forgive us for our sadness.

  Robert William Dale

  Evil, Forgiving, Temper

  Robert William Dale (1877). “Nine Lectures on Preaching: Delivered at Yale College, New Haven, Connecticut”

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• We are stripped bare by the curse of plenty.

  Winston Churchill

  Wealth, Consumerism, Curse

  Sir Winston Churchill, Jack Fishman (1974). “If I lived my life again”, W.H. Allen

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• The greatest and noblest pleasure which we have in this world is to discover new truths, and the next is to shake off old prejudices.

  Frederick The Great

  Truth, Diversity, Prussia

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• In the Book of Life, The answers aren't in the back.

  Charles M. Schulz

  Life, Wisdom, Educational

  Charles M Schulz (2015). “You're Golden, Charlie Brown”, Ballantine Group

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• Her court was pure, her life serene; God gave her peace; her land reposed; A thousand claims to reverence closed.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Land, Claims, Court

  Alfred Tennyson Tennyson, Baron, Alfred Lord Tennyson (2014). “Fifty Poems”, p.2, Cambridge University Press

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• If you can't get what you want, you end up doing something else, just to get some relief. Just to keep from going crazy. Because when you're sad enough, you look for ways to fill you up.

  Laura Pritchett

  Life, Crazy, Way

  Laura Pritchett (2011). “Sky Bridge: A Novel”, p.86, Milkweed Editions

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• There must be quite a few things that a hot bath won't cure, but I don't know many of them.

  Sylvia Plath

  Inspirational, Women, Stress

  Sylvia Plath (2016). “The Bell Jar”, p.12, Hamilton Books

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• The psychiatrist's office: the only place I can be sure my story will be treated as sad, but interesting.

  Mason Cooley

  Interesting, Office, Stories

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• We the willing, led by the unknowing, are doing the impossible for the ungrateful. We have done so much, with so little, for so long, we are now qualified to do anything, with nothing.

  Mother Teresa

  Long, Ungrateful, Done

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• Sadness does not inhere in things; it does not reach us from the world and through mere contemplation of the world. It is a product of our own thought. We create it out of whole cloth.

  Emile Durkheim

  Sorrow, World, Doe

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