Explore Quotes on Sadness

You see all these things that make you feel desperate or sad, but you realize changes can be made, and it doesn't take a lot of money on our part to make a change in people's lives.

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.

Being myself animated by feelings of affection toward my fellowmen, I am saddened by the modern system of advertising. Whatever evidence it offers of enterprise, ingenuity, impudence, and resource in certain individuals, it proves to my mind the wide prevalence of that form of mental degradation which is called gullibility.

In the presence of nature, a wild delight runs through the man, in spite of real sorrows.

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!"

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.

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

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

A sad spectacle. If they be inhabited, what a scope for misery and folly. If they be not inhabited, what a waste of space.

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

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

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.

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

In the valley of sorrow, spread your wings.

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.

It is better to drink of deep grief than to taste shallow pleasures.

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.

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

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.

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

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