Sadness Quotes - Page 31

• Whereas a prolonged life is not necessarily better, a prolonged death is necessarily worse.

  Seneca the Younger

  Sad, Suicidal, Life Is

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• There is only one prospect worse than being chained to an intolerable existence: The nightmare of a botched attempt to end it.

  Arthur Koestler

  Sad, Suicidal, Nightmare

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• Pain is a more terrible lord of mankind than even death itself.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Sad, Pain, Suicidal

  On the Edge of the Primeval Forest Ch. 5

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• I can get sad, I can get frustrated, I can get scared, but I never get depressed - because there's joy in my life.

  Michael J. Fox

  Live Life, Joy, Frustrated

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• Goodbye, my friend, goodbye
  My love, you are in my heart.
  It was preordained we should part
  And be reunited by and by.
  Goodbye: no handshake to endure.
  Let's have no sadness - furrowed brow.
  There's nothing new in dying now
  Though living is no newer.

  Sergei Yesenin

  Goodbye, Suicide, Love You

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• Prayer is the place of refuge for every worry, a foundation for cheerfulness, a source of constant happiness, a protection against sadness.

  Saint John Chrysostom

  Prayer, Worry, Foundation

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• O Jesus! Remember the sadness that Thou didst experience when, contemplating in the light of Thy divinity the predestination of those who would be saved by the merits of Thy sacred passion, thou didst see at the same time the great multitude of reprobates who would be damned for their sins, and Thou didst complain bitterly of those hopeless, lost, and unfortunate sinners.

  Brigit of Kildare

  Jesus, Passion, Light

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• My days are in the yellow leaf; The flowers and fruits of love are gone; The worm, the canker, and the grief, Are mine alone!

  Lord Byron

  Sad, Grief, Flower

  'On This Day I Complete my Thirty-Sixth Year' (1824).

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• I will welcome happiness for 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

  Heart, Grieving, Challenges

  Og Mandino (2009). “The Greatest Secret in the World”, p.22, Bantam

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• There's nothing in this world so sweet as love. And next to love the sweetest thing is hate.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Sad, Sweet, Hate

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1859). “The Complete Poetical Works”, p.269

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• This is the forest primeval. The murmuring pines and the hemlocks, Bearded with moss, and in garments green, indistinct in the twilight, Stand like Druids of eld, with voices sad and prophetic, Stand like harpers hoar, with beards that rest on their bosoms. Loud from its rocky caverns, the deep-voiced neighboring ocean Speaks, and in accents disconsolate answers the wail of the forest.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Ocean, Twilight, Voice

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1867). “The Poetical Works of H. W. Longfellow. Complete Edition”, p.98

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• The many-voiced song of the river echoed softly. Siddhartha looked into the river and saw many pictures in the flowing water. The river's voice was sorrowful. It sang with yearning and sadness, flowing towards its goal ... Siddhartha was now listening intently...to this song of a thousand voices ... then the great song of a thousand voices consisted of one word: Om - Perfection ... From that hour Siddhartha ceased to fight against his destiny.

  Hermann Hesse

  Song, Rain, Fighting

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• The old happiness is unreturning. Boy's griefs are not so grievous as youth's yearning. Boys have no sadness sadder than our hope.

  Wilfred Owen

  Hope, Grief, Boys

  Wilfred Owen (1965). “The Collected poems of Wilfred Owen”, p.93, New Directions Publishing

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• The value of ourselves is but the value of our melancholy and our disquiet.

  Maurice Maeterlinck

  Misery, Melancholy, Values

  Maurice Maeterlinck (2015). “The Treasure of the Humble: Works of Maeterlinck”, p.36, 谷月社

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• What a miserable thing life is: you're in clover; only the clover isn't good enough.

  Bertolt Brecht

  Life, Gratitude, Misery

  Bertolt Brecht (1966). “Jungle of Cities: And Other Plays”, p.50, Grove Press

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• Once you have known the generosity of existence you will never feel miserable.

  Rajneesh

  Generosity, Misery, Miserable

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• Keep busy at something: a busy person never has time to be unhappy.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Unhappy, Misery, Busy

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• Don't feel bad when I die; I've been dead for a long time.

  Dorothy Parker

  Long, Misery, Feels

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• It's always winter but it's never Christmas.

  C. S. Lewis

  Winter, Misery

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• Despair has been called the unforgivable sin-not presumably because God refuses to forgive it, but because it despairs of the possibility of being forgiven.

  Frederick Buechner

  Sins Not, Unforgivable Sin, Forgiving

  FaceBook post by Frederick Buechner from Jun 30, 2016

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• Not to believe in love is a great sign of dullness. There are some people so indirect and lumbering that they think all real affection rests on circumstantial evidence.

  George Santayana

  Real, Believe, Love Is

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• Let tears flow of their own accord; their flowing is not inconsistent with inward peace and harmony.

  Seneca the Younger

  Tears, Flow, Inward

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• In great cities men are more callous both to the happiness and the misery of others, than in the country; for they are constantly in the habit of seeing both extremes.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Country, Men, Cities

  Charles Caleb Colton (1836). “Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.356

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• In the valley of sorrow, spread your wings.

  Susan Sontag

  Wings, Sorrow, Valleys

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• Melancholy and remorse forms the deep leaden keel which enables us to sail into the wind of reality.

  Cyril Connolly

  Reality, Wind, Misery

  "The Unquiet Grave". Book by Cyril Connolly, 1944.

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