Sadness Quotes

She was like a lone angel floating above the surface of the earth, laughing with delight because she could fly but crying out of loneliness.

~ Markus Zusak

You know, he told me once, completely exasperated, you've got one glass of water inside your head, with all the tears for a lifetime. If you waste them over nothing, then you won't be able to cry for real when you need to.

~ Jodi Picoult

This is how sudden things happened that haunted forever.

~ Daniel Woodrell

When she woke up crying for one of her nightmares, the Kolker would stay with her, brush her hair with his hands, collect her tears in thimbles for her to drink the next morning (The only way to overcome sadness is to consume it, he said), and more than that: once her eyes closed and she fell back asleep, he was left to bear the insomnia. There was a complete transfer, like a speeding billiard ball colliding with a resting one. Should Brod feel depressed - she was always depressed - the Kolker would sit with her until he could convince her that it’s OK. It is. Really. And when she would move on with her day, he would stay behind, paralysed with a grief he couldn’t name and that wasn’t his. Should Brod become sick, it was the Kolker that would be bedridden by week’s end. Should Brod feel bored, knowing too many languages, too many facts, with too much knowledge to be happy, the Kolker would stay up all night studying her books, studying the pictures, so the next day he could try to make the kind of small talk that would please his young wife.

~ Jonathan Safran Foer

It wasn't the aloneness that Liz minded. It was the silence. It echoed.

~ Amy Zhang

...sadness is a powerful foe, maybe harder to keep down than happiness...

~ Katherine Hannigan

There is often grief that comes with loving, Moshe. But it is worth it.

~ Bodie Thoene

She thought of Henry and Diana on the stoop gazing at each other with the confusion and sadness of two puppies who have just stumbled into their first puddle and not yet come to understand what has happened to them and found that she wanted to lie extravagantly.

~ Anna Godbersen

Success and failure can both make you lose appetite and concentration, don't let it bother or over-excite you, just think them away as a mere thing that had just happened, and get along with your life.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

Lebedev: A time has come of sorrow and sadness for you. Man, my dear friend, is like a samovar. It doesn't always stand on a shelf in the chill but sometimes they put hot coals in it and it goes psh... psh! This comparison is worthless but you won't think up a cleverer one.

~ Anton Chekhov

He had the same look on his face that I had every day when I looked in the mirror. He was nothing more than a shell of a person.

~ Amy Lichtenhan

A mist is rolling over the fields. Why is a summer mist romantic and autumn mist just sad?

~ Dodie Smith

I gave up the unequal struggle against what appeared to be in my fate, indeed, I welcomed it with more affection. As one embraces a foe one can't defeat and I felt liberated.

~ Alberto Moravia

In every cloud, in every tree – filling the air at night, and caught by glimpses in every object, by day I am surrounded with her image! The most ordinary faces of men, and women – my own features mock me with a resemblance. The entire world is a dreadful collection of memoranda that she did exist, and that I have lost her!

~ Emily Brontë

Idyllic memories are merely a jeweled noose.

~ Orlando Ricardo Menes

Cry as much as you want to, but make sure when you're finished, you never cry for the same reason again

~ Wiz Khalifa

my life is just waiting for you to get started.

~ Nina Lacour

I will do anything. Anything, Blaire, just to be near you. I can’t think about anything else. I can’t focus on anything. So never think you’re inconveniencing me. You need me, I’m there.

~ Abbi Glines

I continue to stare, my eyes missing nothing, remembering the moments we just shared together. But in all that time she does not look back, and I am haunted by the visions of her struggling with unseen enemies. I sit by the bedside with an aching back and start to cry as I pick up the notebook. Allie does not notice. I understand, for her mind is gone. A couple pages fall to the floor, and I bend over to pick them up. I am tired now, so I sit, alone and apart from my wife. And when the nurses come in they see two people they must comfort. A woman shaking in fear from demons in her mind, and the old man who loves her more deeply than life itself, crying softly in the corner, his face in his hands.

~ Nicholas Sparks

Horror is a feeling that cannot last long; human nature is incapable of supporting it. Sadness, whether it be from bereavement, or disappointment, or misfortune of any kind may linger on through life

~ James De Mille

I am...sad and angry. Why is my spirit so sad and angry? I look back at my life and all I can remember is rage and rage and rage.

~ Chris Adrian

Stain my eyes as I may, on all sides all is black.

~ Helen Hunt Jackson

Don't take in no strangers while I'm gone.She sighed deeply. They ain't a soul in this world but what is a stranger to me, she said.

~ Cormac Mccarthy

There should be painless progression, attended by life and peace....Mortals will some day assert their freedom in the name of Almighty God....Dropping their present beliefs, they will recognize harmony and as the spiritual reality and discord as the material unreality. Chapter VII pp. 224 and 228 Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures

~ Mary Baker Eddy

That’s what I’m trying, sir… getting my life.

~ Faraaz Kazi

Is there anything sadder than the scrawniest little piece of uneaten chicken at a dinner party?”“Hmm,” said Jules. “Yes. The Holocaust.

~ Meg Wolitzer

Back then, he'd have to leave at the end of August for the start of school, so the week before Labor Day became it's own tiny season of gloom, like a hundred Sunday nights crowded together.

~ Charles Frazier

The last thing we wanted was for the Machiguenga to be sad again. Sadness appeared to bring out their violence.

~ Tahir Shah

Zapped while zipping.

~ Tim O'brien

Like blood out of a wound, a keening wail rose from the bottom of my heart and ripped through the graveyard. I lowered my face to Hadassah's shoulder and went quietly and thoroughly to pieces.

~ Angela Elwell Hunt

No one can please a man who is not at peace with himself.

~ Bamigboye Olurotimi

Behind every sweet smile, there is a bitter sadness that no one can ever see and feel.

~ 2Pac

I couldn't keep doing this to myself. One day, I was going to wake up and realize that, in my desperate escape from the pain in the present, I'd let the future pass me by.

~ Aly Martinez

There's a lot of beauty to be found in sadness and melancholia. One of the things that you find time and time again - not just with music, but with literature - is that things that appear to be quite depressing on the surface can ironically be very uplifting and touching to other people. When you hear something that really reminds you that you're not alone in feeling sad, depressed, melancholic, angry - I think that can actually be a very cathartic experience.

~ Steven Wilson

Oh on my breast in days hereafterLight the earth should lie,Such weight to bear is now the air,So heavy hangs the sky.(Additional Poems, X)

~ A.e. Housman

They are nothing but a broken bones crawling in the shadow of the past.

~ Bilal

When you're young, you long for things that don't exist; and when you're old, you're sad because you never found them.

~ Marty Rubin

No, I mean really listen. Here's a story, and you don't have to visit manyhouses to find it. One person is talking,the other one is not really listening.someone can look like they are but they'reactually thinking about something they want to say, or their minds are justwandering. Or they're looking at thatlittle box people hold in their hands thesedays. And people get discouraged, so theyquit trying. And the very quiet people,you may have noticed, are often the sadpeople.

~ Mary Oliver

Look, everyone mourns at their own pace. Maybe you're just a little bit ahead of her, but she'll get to you eventually. The important thing is that you keep trying to talk to each other, even if it's difficult at first. It gets easier. I promise.

~ Sarah Dessen

He reminded her of the way male lions look sad, as if their nobility is a terrible weight.

~ Elizabeth Kostova