Quotes on Sad Life

As a well spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.

The desire to survive and the fear of death are artistic sentiments

Sadness is but a wall between two gardens.

Nothing is miserable unless you think it so.

We are more unhappy to see people ahead of us than happy to see people behind us.

How sad to see a father with money and no joy. The man studied economics, but never studied happiness.

Ah, Evelyn and Vivian, I love you both, I love you for your sad lives, the empty misery of your coming home at dawn. You too are alone, but you are not like Arturo Bandini, who is neither fish, fowl nor good red herring. So have your champagne, because I love you both, and you too, Vivian, even if your mouth looks like it had been dug out with raw fingernails and your old child's eyes swim in blood written like mad sonnets.

It is a time when one’s spirit is subdued and sad, one knows not why; when the past seems a storm-swept desolation, life a vanity and a burden, and the future but a way to death. It is a time when one is filled with vague longings; when one dreams of flight to peaceful islands in the remote solitudes of the sea, or folds his hands and says, What is the use of struggling, and toiling and worrying any more? let us give it all up.

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