Sadness Quotes - Page 32

• Not, not mine: it's somebody else's wound; I could never have borne it. So take the thing that happened, hide it, stick it in the ground; whisk the lamps away.

  Anna Akhmatova

  Lamps, Sticks, Misery

  "Requiem". Poem by Anna Akhmatova, translated by D. M. Thomas, 1963.

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• I will instruct my sorrows to be proud; for grief is proud, and makes his owner stoop.

  William Shakespeare

  Grief, Sorrow, Proud

  1596 Constance. KingJohn, act 2, sc.2, l.68-9.

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• That's a miserable and cursed word, to say I had, when what I have is nothing.

  Plautus

  Misery, Miserable, Cursed

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• The power is detested, and miserable the life, of him who wishes to be feared rather than to be loved.

  Cornelius Nepos

  Inspirational, Leadership, Wish

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• If men as individuals surrender to the call of their elementary instincts, avoiding pain and seeking satisfaction only for their own selves, the result for them all taken together must be a state of insecurity, of fear, and of promiscuous misery.

  Albert Einstein

  Pain, Fear, Taken

  Albert Einstein (2000). “Albert Einstein in his own words in two complete books: Relativity-the special and general theory; Out of my later years-the scientist, philosopher and man portrayed through his own words”

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• Who goes a-borrowing goes a-sorrowing.

  Thomas Tusser

  Misery, Borrowing

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• Since hate poisons the soul, don't cherish enmities or grudges: avoid people who make you unhappy.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Hate, People, Soul

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• It is not ignoble to feel that the fuller life which a sad experience
  has brought us is worth our personal share of pain. The growth of higher feeling
  within us is like the growth of faculty, bringing with it a sense of added strength.
  We can no more wish to return to a narrower sympathy than painters or musicians
  can wish to return to their cruder manner, or philosophers to their less complete formulas.

  George Eliot

  Pain, Feelings, Growth

  George Eliot (1884). “George Eliot's Works”

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• IT is reported of Margaret Fuller that she said she accepted the universe. "Gad, she'd better!" retorted Carlyle. Carlyle himself did not accept the universe in a very whole-hearted manner. Looking up at the midnight stars, he exclaimed: "A sad spectacle! If they be inhabited, what a scope for misery and folly; if they be not inhabited, what a waste of space!"

  John Burroughs

  Stars, Science, Space

  John Burroughs (1924). “Accepting the universe”

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• Some people drift through their entire life. They do it one day at a time, one week at a time, one month at a time. It happens so gradually they are unaware of how their lives are slipping away until it's too late.

  Mary Kay Ash

  Life, People, One Day At A Time

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• Going home means getting comfortable being who you are and who your soul really wants to be. There is no strain with that. The strain and tension come when we're not being who our soul wants to be and we're someplace where our soul doesn't feel at home.

  Melody Beattie

  Life, Home, Mean

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• God loves me enough to let me go through all the lessons I came here to learn, even the ones that hurt the most. His presence doesn't deny me. It's always there to help me see and understand what I came to this planet to learn.

  Melody Beattie

  Hurt, Lessons, Helping

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• Sometimes, we don't get what we want. . . But this is a benevolent universe. And once in a while, we do.

  Melody Beattie

  Hope, Trying, Want

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• You don't become happy by pursuing happiness. You become happy by living a life that means something.

  Harold S. Kushner

  Mean, Pursuing Happiness

  Harold S Kushner (2011). “When All You've Ever Wanted Isn't Enough: The Search For a Life That Matters”, p.11, Pan Macmillan

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• And I leave you now, not with sadness but with satisfaction and joy that we came together and walked, arm in arm, through this brief moment of eternity. Who could ask for more?

  Og Mandino

  Joy, Together, Arms

  Og Mandino (1991). “Og Mandino”, Outlet

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• Journey quietly on your pathway to forever with charity & a smile. When you depart it will be said by all that your legacy was a better world than the one you found.

  Og Mandino

  Journey, Forever, Pathways

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• All of us have been dying, hour by hour, since the moment we were born. Realizing this, let all things be placed in their proper perspective. . . . Remember, it is always later than you think.

  Og Mandino

  Life, Hope, Thinking

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• Most people live dejectedly in worldly joys or sorrows. They sit on the sidelines and do not join the dance.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  People, Dancing, Joy

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• May your happiest days of the past be your saddest days of your future.

  Laurence J. Peter

  Happiness, Blessing, Past

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• Talk happiness. The world is sad enough without your woe. No path is wholly rough.

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox

  Happiness, World, Woe

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox (1908). “Poems of power”

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• Sadness is a state of sin.

  Andre Gide

  Sin, States

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• The melancholy days are come, the saddest of the year, Of wailing winds, and naked woods and meadows brown and sear.

  William C. Bryant

  Fall, Autumn, Years

  William Cullen Bryant, “The Death Of The Flowers”

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• Well, it's true that I have been hurt in my life. Quite a bit. But it's also true that I have loved, and been loved. And that carries a weight of its own. A greater weight, in my opinion. It's like that pie chart we talked about earlier. In the end, I'll look back on my life and see that the greatest piece of it was love. The problems, the divorces, the sadness... those will be there too, but just smaller slivers, tiny pieces.

  Sarah Dessen

  Love, Faith, Hurt

  Sarah Dessen (2011). “This Lullaby”, p.187, Hachette UK

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• There is something sinister, something quite biographical about what I do - but that part is for me. It's my personal business. I think there is a lot of romance, melancholy. There's a sadness to it, but there's romance in sadness. I suppose I am a very melancholy person.

  Alexander McQueen

  Inspirational, Thinking, Romance

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• The thing with Disney songs is they're very manipulative, very sentimental, but they do get you, you know - there's a kind of sadness to them and that kind of music doesn't really exist any more.

  Jarvis Cocker

  Song, Sentimental, Kind

  "Paris match" by Lynn Barber, www.theguardian.com. June 9, 2007.

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