Sadness Quotes - Page 16

• It is a very sad thing that nowadays there is so little useless information.

  Oscar Wilde

  Life, Useless Things, Littles

  Oscar Wilde (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Oscar Wilde (Illustrated)”, p.1670, Delphi Classics

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• It would no doubt be very sentimental to argue - but I would argue it nevertheless - that the peculiar combination of joy and sadness in bell music - both of clock chimes, and of change-ringing - is very typical of England. It is of a piece with the irony in which English people habitually address one another.

  A. N. Wilson

  People, Joy, Doubt

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• After I had given up to go, the thoughts of the journey were often attended with unusual sadness, at which times my heart was frequently turned to the Lord with inward breathings for his heavenly support, that I might not fail to follow him wheresoever he might lead me.

  John Woolman

  Heart, Journey, Breathing

  John Woolman (2013). “journal”, p.87, Lulu.com

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• Sorrow happens, hardship happens, the hell with it, who never knew the price of happiness, will not be happy.

  Yevgeny Yevtushenko

  Happiness, Sorrow, Hardship

  Yevgeny Aleksandrovich Yevtushenko (1962). “Selected poems”

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• joy and sorrow are inseparable. . . together they come and when one sits alone with you . . remember that the other is asleep upon your bed.

  Khalil Gibran

  Inspirational, Life, Joy

  Khalil Gibran, “Joy And Sorrow Chapter VIII”

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• Sadness of love without release.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Release

  Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). “Everything Is Illuminated”, p.79, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Life is but a memory Happened long ago. Theatre full of sadness For a long forgotten show.

  Nick Drake

  Memories, Long Ago, Theatre

  Song: Fruit Tree

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• Laugh, and the world laughs with you: Weep, and you weep alone. For the sad old earth must borrow its mirth, But has trouble enough of its own.

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox

  Sad, Laughter, Being Alone

  'Solitude'

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• Give sorrow words; the grief that does not speak knits up the o-er wrought heart and bids it break.

  William Shakespeare

  Grief, Heart, Loss

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• That was such a wonderful time, even in its strangeness and sadness-and life isn't the same now. It's wonderful, but it isn't the same.

  Gregory Maguire

  Wonderful, Strangeness, Wonderful Times

  Gregory Maguire (2011). “Wicked”, p.230, Hachette UK

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• I know that pain is the most important thing in the universes. Greater than survival, greater than love, greater even than the beauty it brings about. For without pain, there can be no pleasure. Without sadness, there can be no happiness. Without misery there can be no beauty. And without these, life is endless, hopeless, doomed and damned. Adult. You have become adult.

  Harlan Ellison

  Pain, Philosophy, Survival

  Harlan Ellison (2014). “Paingod: And Other Delusions”, p.36, Open Road Media

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• ...heroine: the artist, the premier mistress writhering in a garden graced w/highly polished blades of grass... release (ethiopium) is the drug...an animal howl says it all...notes pour into the caste of freedom...the freedom to be intense...to defy social order and break the slow kill monotony of censorship. to break from the long bonds of servitude-ruthless adoration of the celestial shepherd. let us celebrate our own flesh-to embrace not ones race mais the marathon-to never let go of the fiery sadness called desire.

  Patti Smith

  Letting Go, Garden, Artist

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• Every arrangement in life carried with it the sadness, the sentimental shadow, of its not being something else, but only itself.

  Lorrie Moore

  Shadow, Sentimental, Arrangements

  Lorrie Moore (2010). “The Collected Stories of Lorrie Moore”, p.147, Faber & Faber

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• To live in hearts we leave behind is not to die.

  Thomas Campbell

  Sympathy, Death, Memories

  Samuel Rogers, Thomas Campbell, James Montgomery, Charles Lamb, Henry Kirke White (1830). “The poetical works of Rogers, Campbell, J. Montgomery, Lamb, and Kirke White: complete in one volume”, p.169

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• The sound of distant breakers made her heart ache with melancholy. She was in the mood when the sea has a saddening effect upon the nerves. It is only when we are very happy that we can bear to gaze merrily upon the vast and limitless expanse of water, rolling on and on with such persistent, irritating monotony to the accompaniment of our thoughts, whether grave or gay. When they are gay, the waves echo their gaiety; but when they are sad, then every breaker, as it rolls, seems to bring additional sadness and to speak to us of hopelessness and of the pettiness of all our joys.

  Baroness Orczy

  Heart, Gay, Echoes

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• There is nothing sweeter in this sad world than the sound of someone you love calling your name.

  Kate DiCamillo

  Names, Sound, Calling

  Kate DiCamillo (2013). “The Essential Kate DiCamillo Collection”, p.258, Candlewick Press

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• I could no more have stopped myself from feeling that sadness than you could stop yourself from smelling an apple that has been cut open on the table before you.

  Arthur Golden

  Cutting, Apples, Feelings

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• 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, Sad, Happy

  Twitter post from Aug 14, 2015

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• It's so curious: one can resist tears and 'behave' very well in the hardest hours of grief. But then someone makes you a friendly sign behind a window, or one notices that a flower that was in bud only yesterday has suddenly blossomed, or a letter slips from a drawer... and everything collapses.

  Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

  Love, Sad, Broken Heart

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• That she had so completely recovered her sanity was a source of sadness to her. One should never be cured of one's passion.

  Marguerite Duras

  Passion, Sanity, Source

  Marguerite Duras (2013). “The Ravishing of Lol Stein”, p.54, Pantheon

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• Hearts united in pain and sorrow will not be separated by joy and happiness. Bonds that are woven in sadness are stronger than the ties of joy and pleasure. Love that is washed by tears will remain eternally pure and faithful.

  Khalil Gibran

  Spiritual, Pain, Heart

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• Some people turn sad awfully young. No special reason, it seems, but they seem almost to be born that way. They bruise easier, tire faster, cry quicker, remember longer and, as I say, get sadder younger than anyone else in the world. I know, for I'm one of them.

  Ray Bradbury

  Sad, People, Special

  FaceBook post by Ray Bradbury from Jan 16, 2017

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• Dear God," she prayed, "let me be something every minute of every hour of my life. Let me be gay; let me be sad. Let me be cold; let me be warm. Let me be hungry...have too much to eat. Let me be ragged or well dressed. Let me be sincere - be deceitful. Let me be truthful; let me be a liar. Let me be honorable and let me sin. Only let me be something every blessed minute. And when I sleep, let me dream all the time so that not one little piece of living is ever lost.

  Betty Smith

  Dream, Prayer, Liars

  BETTY SMITH (1943). “A Tree Grows in Brooklyn”

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• That was the change in her from ten years ago; that, indeed, was her reward, this haunting, magical sadness which spoke straight to the heart and struck silence; it was the completion of her beauty.

  Evelyn Waugh

  Heart, Years, Silence

  Evelyn Waugh (1958). “The world of Evelyn Waugh”

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• Emotions, in my experience, aren't covered by single words. I don't believe in "sadness", "joy", or "regret". Maybe the best proof that the language is patriarchal is that is oversimplifies feeling. I'd like to have at my disposal complicated hybrid emotions.

  Jeffrey Eugenides

  Regret, Believe, Joy

  Jeffrey Eugenides (2003). “Middlesex”, p.217, A&C Black

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