Sad Quotes - Page 6

• An ounce of cheerfulness is worth a pound of sadness to serve God with.

  Thomas Fuller

  Happiness, God, Cheerful

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 49, 1895.

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• Usually when people are sad, they don't do anything. They just cry over their condition. But when they get angry, they bring about a change.

  Malcolm X

  Motivational, Change, Anger

  "Malcolm X Speaks: Selected Speeches and Statements". Book edited by George Breitman, 1965.

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• Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.474, Princeton University Press

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• Everything's complicated, even those things that seem flat in their bleakness or sadness.

  Nick Hornby

  Complicated, Bleakness, Flats

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• A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Men, Want, Conflict

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• Courage and cheerfulness will not only carry you over the rough places in life, but will enable you to bring comfort and help to the weak-hearted and will console you in the sad hours.

  William Osler

  Comfort, Helping, Hours

  Sir William Osler (2001). “Osler's "a Way of Life" and Other Addresses, with Commentary and Annotations”, p.302, Duke University Press

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• Why do beautiful songs make you sad?' 'Because they aren't true.' 'Never?' 'Nothing is beautiful and true.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Beautiful, Song, Sadness

  Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel”, p.43, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I seldom think about my limitations, and they never make me sad. Perhaps there is just a touch of yearning at times; but it is vague, like a breeze among flowers.

  Helen Keller

  Flower, Ex Boyfriend, Positive Attitude

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• Pure and complete sorrow is as impossible as pure and complete joy.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Joy, Sorrow, Impossible

  'War and Peace' (1868-9) bk. 15, ch. 1

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• What a sad era when it is easier to smash an atom than a prejudice.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Xenophobia

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• March on. Do not tarry. To go forward is to move toward perfection. March on, and fear not the thorns, or the sharp stones on life's path.

  Khalil Gibran

  Life, Moving, Learning

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• Sometimes, indeed, there is such a discrepancy between the genius and his human qualities that one has to ask oneself whether a little less talent might not have been better.

  Carl Jung

  Discrepancies Between, Quality, Littles

  Carl Gustav Jung (1953). “Collected Works of C.G. Jung: The development of personality”

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• I can't eat and I can't sleep. I'm not doing well in terms of being a functional human, you know?

  Ned Vizzini

  Depression, Suicide, Sleep

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• Though I know he loves me, tonight my heart is sad; his kiss was not so wonderful as all the dreams I had.

  Sara Teasdale

  Broken Heart, Dream, Kissing

  Sara Teasdale, “The Kiss”

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• Nothing thicker than a knife's blade separates happiness from melancholy.

  Virginia Woolf

  Knives, Orlando, Melancholy

  Virginia Woolf, Michael H. Whitworth (2014). “Orlando: A Biography”, p.28, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Whatever side I take, I know well that I will be
  blamed.

  Keith Richards

  Sides, Wells, Knows

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• I can't wait for the day I learn to live in the now!

  Dana Gould

  Waiting, Live In The Now, I Can

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• Never make someone a priority when all you are to them is an option.

  Maya Angelou

  Positive, Moving On, Uplifting

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• The course of true love never did run smooth.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Life, Summer

  'A Midsummer Night's Dream' (1595-6) act 1, sc. 1, l. 132

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• Sadness is but a wall between two gardens.

  Khalil Gibran

  Wall, Grief, Garden

  Khalil Gibran “The New Frontier and Sand and Foam”, Library of Alexandria

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• Of all the words of mice and men, the saddest are, "It might have been.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Inspirational, Regret, Men

  Kurt Vonnegut (2009). “Cat's Cradle: A Novel”, p.279, Dial Press

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• Tears are words the heart can't express

  Gerard Way

  Heart, Sorrow, Tears

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• We are all so much together, but we are all dying of loneliness.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Lonely, Loneliness, Being Alone

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• Every human walks around with a certain kind of sadness. They may not wear it on their sleeves, but it's there if you look deep.

  Taraji P. Henson

  Looks, May, Kind

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• So sad! This is the saddest part when you lose someone you love- that person keeps changing. And later you wonder, Is this the same person I lost?

  Amy Tan

  Someone You Love, Wonder, Lost

  Amy Tan (2006). “The Kitchen God's Wife”, p.80, Penguin

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