Sadness Quotes

Through this evening of sentences cut short because their completed meaning was always sorrow, of normal life dissolved to tears, the chords of Beethoven sounded serenely.

~ Rebecca West

A life premised upon honest effort and questing for love is bound to generate regret and remorse.

~ Kilroy J. Oldster

Regret comes in four tones that operate in unison to shape our lives. First, we regret the life that we lived, the decisions we made, the words we said in anger, and enduring the shame wrought from experiencing painful failures in work and love. Secondly, we regret the life we did not live, the opportunities missed, the adventures postponed indefinitely, and the failure to become someone else other than whom we now are. American author Shannon L. Alder said, ‘One of the greatest regrets in life is being what others would want you to be, rather than being yourself.’ Third, we regret that parts of our life are over; we hang onto nostalgic feelings for the past. When we were young and happy, everything was new, and we had not yet encountered hardship. As we age and encounter painful setbacks, we experience disillusionment and can no longer envision a joyous future. Fourth, we experience bitterness because the world did not prove to be what we hoped or expected it would be.

~ Kilroy J. Oldster

A man who under the influence of mental pain or unbearably oppressive suffering sends a bullet through his own head is called a suicide; but for those who give freedom to their pitiful, soul-debasing passions in the holy days of spring and youth there is no name in man's vocabulary. After the bullet follows the peace of the grave: ruined youth is followed by years of grief and painful recollections. He who has profaned his spring will understand the present condition of my soul. I am not yet old, or grey, but I no longer live. Psychiaters tell us that a solider, who was wounded at Waterloo, went mad, and afterwards assured everybody - and believed it himself - that he had died at Waterloo, and that what was now considered to be him was only his shadow, a reflection of the past. I am now experiencing something resembling this semi-death..

~ Anton Chekhov

A clean house is a sad house.

~ Marty Rubin

Did we salivate for sadness, or had we only learned to enjoy what we were forced to eat?

~ Viet Thanh Nguyen

Murder can sometimes seem justified, but it is murder all the same. You are truthful and clear-minded--face the truth, mademoiselle! Your friend died in the last resort, because she had not the courage to live. We may sympathize with her. We may pity her. But the fact remains--the act was hers--not another.

~ Agatha Christie

You are not forever in the dark. Look up. There's the Light.

~ Mac Canoza

I'm so ugly,” she whispers through sobs.It throws me because that couldn't be further from the truth. “You're beautiful,” I tell her. “Not on the inside where it counts. My insides are dirty and ugly.” I brush her tears away and look into her eyes. “Then you don't see the parts that I do.

~ Ashley Jade

And then they bid their final goodbye which marked the end of their story. And beginning of two new stories.

~ Crestless Wave

I [Jacob Hunt, Aspie] see it as the next step of evolution: I cannot take away your sadness, so why should I acknowledge it?

~ Jodi Picoult

Everything she heard, everything she saw seemed to be in disagreement with her own manner of understanding and feeling. To her, the sun did not appear red enough, the nights pale enough, the skies deep enough. Her fleeting conception of things and beings condemned her fatally to a perversion of her senses, to vagaries of the spirit and left her nothing but the torment of an unachieved longing, the torture of unfulfilled desires.

~ Octave Mirbeau

Tell me you love me Emma. Even if you don't mean it.-Julian Blackthorn

~ Cassandra Clare

I watched her on the stand in that unfamiliar suit and thought of the soft hairs at the back of her neck, warm and smelling of the sun, and it seemed an impossible thing to me, it seemed the vastest and saddest miracle of my life: I touched her hair, once.

~ Tana French

It's a sadness that has been knocking at my door for a long time, and I finally let it in.

~ Francisco X. Stork

Remembering that moment stirs something inside -- anger, at first, and then a deep, hollow sadness that ripples through me in its own spiderweb pattern.

~ Jeff Garvin

For me, my haters are not the ones who I have done wrong with, but the ones I have fought for.

~ Tara Estacaan

People should never sit alone for too long when they're crying.

~ Dalai Lama Xiv

Happy people do not wake up for breakfast.

~ Tetiana Liubetska

And, as I lie in bed that night looking out into the starless sky, I think about that shadow on my guardian's face. The sadness has been there since the day I met Sidney Grice and I cannot imagine it will ever go away.

~ M.r.c. Kasasian

Crying. Milo was crying. It was a soft, muffled sound, but Jason's ears were quite powerful and the house was otherwise quiet. It sounded something like sobs and something like a dog's throat-whine. Aw. Hell.

~ Eli Easton

There is no point in delaying crying. Sadness is like having a vicious alligator around. You can ignore it for only so long before it begins devouring things and you have to pay attention.

~ Lemony Snicket

Eventually I confess to a friend some details about my weeping—its intensity, its frequency. She says (kindly) that she thinks we sometimes weep in front of a mirror not to inflame self-pity, but because we want to feel witnessed in our despair.

~ Maggie Nelson

She wasn't sad. Not sad, more like... empty.

~ Cecilia Ekbäck

I was desperate to discover what nothing felt like. It was the absence of something that attracted me. It was the start. Everything important originated with nothingness.

~ Augusten Burroughs

He tried not to cry as he wondered if he would ever have a home again.

~ Kayec Jones

92. Eventually I confess to a friend some details about my weeping—its intensity, its frequency. She says (kindly) that she thinks we sometimes weep in front of a mirror not to inflame self-pity, but because we want to feel witnessed in our despair.

~ Maggie Nelson

I wanted to go to him to save me, but he was the one who broke me this time.

~ Nikki Rowe

Deep sadness is an artist of powers that affects people in different ways. To one it comes like the stroke of an arrow, shocking all the emotions to a sharper life. To another, it comes as the blow of a crushing strike.

~ Ambrose Bierce

She touched her fingertip to his wet face and brought away a tear. Amazed, he did the same. He tasted this river his own eyes had rained.It tastes of salt! he exclaimed. It tastes like the sea!Mine too! she laughed through her own tears, and he touched and tasted hers as well. It's as if humans kept a sign of the mother sea in ourselves, a secret token of grief or gladness.

~ Robin Morgan

Everyone has it's own great triumph, has he own story with sadness, madness and reverses. That's how we are build, few are the people which share their story, most cases because of shame.

~ Deyth Banger

I used to think that the worst thing in life was to end up alone. It’s not. The worst thing in life is to end up with people who make you feel alone.

~ Robin Williams

It’s one thing when you lose a friend or when your friends become enemies, but it’s the worst when friends become strangers

~ Hayley Williams

She's going to keep up her public facade of stoicism and generosity and getting on with thungs. She knows she can do it, she can do the stiff upper lip thing. I will survive. But behind closed doors the going is rough. It's when she is alone that it hits her. And she is often alone, too often, she things no one should have to be alone as much as she is. It should have been me: her mind is a morass of old songs now, Errol Brown started it. It should have been me.

~ Kate Pullinger

The memory of how he felt when he cared about her was going to be the most painful thing after he began to hate her.

~ Amy Tintera

I yearned for everything long gone.

~ Osamu Dazai

...shiny trinkets and frivolous spending make people forget what world they're living in.

~ Beth Lewis

A shower is the perfect place for crying. No one can hear you if you do it quietly, into a wash-cloth, with the water running.

~ Suzanne Supplee

I go about saying how pained and tormented, how lonely and sad I feel, but what do I really mean by that? If I were to speak the truth, I would die.

~ Osamu Dazai

I don't like romance, I don't like sadness. The sadness motion is negative one... as much you are sad as more deeper you go and you want to return the thing which you can't.

~ Deyth Banger