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source: George MacDonald (2015). “The Complete Poetry of George MacDonald: A Book of Strife, in the Form of the Diary of an Old Soul + Rampolli: Growths from a Long-planted Root + A Hidden Life Collection and Other Poems”, p.95, e-artnow

topic: Beauty, Sadness, Together, Sadness And Love, Sadness Of Life

Sadness usually results from one of the following causes either when a man does not succeed, or is ashamed of his success.

- Seneca the Younger

topic: Sad, Men, Doe, Sadness And Anger, Sadness Of Life

Usually when people are sad, they don't do anything. They just cry over their condition. But when they get angry, they bring about a change.

- Malcolm X

topic: Anger, People, Cry, Sad Life, Sadness And Anger

A feeling of sadness and longing, That is not akin to pain, And resembles sorrow only As the mist resembles the rain.

- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

topic: Pain, Rain, Sadness, Pain And Sorrow, Sadness And Sorrow

I don’t know what they are called, the spaces between seconds– but I think of you always in those intervals.

- Salvador Plascencia

topic: Love, Sad, Thinking Of You, I Think Of You, Love You Forever

Laugh, and the world laughs with you: Weep, and you weep alone. For the sad old earth must borrow its mirth, But has trouble enough of its own...

- Ella Wheeler Wilcox

topic: Sad, Laughter, Being Alone, Punctual, Sadness Of Life

Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul.

- Oscar Wilde

topic: Inspirational, Life, Spiritual, Reciprocity, Sad Life

Change is certain. Peace is followed by disturbances; departure of evil men by their return. Such recurrences should not constitute occasions for sadness but realities for awareness, so that one may be happy in the interim.

- Percy Bysshe Shelley

topic: Sadness, Reality, Men, Interim, Disturbance

I really believe that all of us have a lot of darkness in our souls. Anger, rage, fear, sadness. I don't think that's only reserved for people who have horrible upbringings. I think it really exists and is part of the human condition. I think in the course of your life you figure out ways to deal with that.

- Kevin Bacon

source: "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Believe, Sadness, Thinking, Rage And Anger, Really Sad

Sadness does not inhere in things; it does not reach us from the world and through mere contemplation of the world. It is a product of our own thought. We create it out of whole cloth.

- Emile Durkheim

topic: Sad, Sorrow, Doe, Joys And Sorrows, Sadness And Sorrow

Sadness is almost never anything but a form of fatigue.

- Andre Gide

topic: Sadness, Self Pity, Misery, Sadness Of Life

Sadness is but a wall between two gardens.

- Khalil Gibran

topic: Wall, Grief, Sadness, Saddest, Joys And Sorrows

I am responsible. Although I may not be able to prevent the worst from happening, I am responsible for my attitude toward the inevitable misfortunes that darken life. Bad things do happen; how I respond to them defines my character and the quality of my life.

- Walter Inglis Anderson

topic: Attitude, Character, Quality, Good Character, Pain And Loss

No society has been able to abolish human sadness, no political system can deliver us from the pain of living, from our fear of death, our thirst for the absolute. It is the human condition that directs the social condition, not vice versa.

- Eugene Ionesco

source: "A Reply to Kenneth Tynan: The Playwright's Role". The Observer, June 29, 1958.

topic: Depression, Death, Pain, Sad Life, Sadness And Love

All the world is full of suffering. It is also full of overcoming.

- Helen Keller

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Courage, Soul Healing, Godlike

Tears come from the heart and not from the brain

- Leonardo da Vinci

source: Leonardo Da Vinci, General Press (2016). “The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci”, p.329, GENERAL PRESS

topic: Inspirational, Life, Sad, Sad Heart, Sadness Of Life

I've cried, and you'd think I'd be better for it, but the sadness just sleeps, and it stays in my spine the rest of my life.

- Conor Oberst

topic: Sadness, Sleep, Thinking, Sad Life, Sadness Of Life

Absolute silence leads to sadness. It is the image of death.

- Jean-Jacques Rousseau

topic: Sad, Death, Silence, Sad Life, Sad Feeling

When sorrows come, they come not single spies, but in battalions.

- William Shakespeare

topic: Sadness, Sorrow, Spy, Horatio, Morality In Hamlet

Courage and cheerfulness will not only carry you over the rough places in life, but will enable you to bring comfort and help to the weak-hearted and will console you in the sad hours.

- William Osler

source: Sir William Osler (2001). “Osler's "a Way of Life" and Other Addresses, with Commentary and Annotations”, p.302, Duke University Press

topic: Sad, Comfort, Helping, Place In Life, Sad Life

My feeling is that there is nothing in life but refraining from hurting others, and comforting those who are sad.

- Olive Schreiner

source: Olive Schreiner (1988). “Olive Schreiner Letters: 1871-1899”, Oxford University Press, USA

topic: Hurt, Sadness, Comforting, Hurting Others, Saddest

Anger, tears and sadness are only for those who have given up.

- Katie Gill

topic: Sadness, Tears, Given, Feeling Down, I'm Sad

The saddest summary of a life contains three descriptions: could have, might have, and should have.

- Louis E. Boone

topic: Live Life, Three, Might, Live Life To Its Fullest, Live To The Fullest

Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better take things as they come along with patience and equanimity.

- Carl Jung

topic: Love, Happiness, Being Happy, Sorrow And Happiness, Inner Peace And Happiness

You cannot protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from happiness.

- Jonathan Safran Foer

source: Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel”, p.180, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

topic: Happiness, Sad, Believe, Protect Yourself, Deep Happiness

Better by far you should forget and smile than that you should remember and be sad.

- Christina Rossetti

source: "Remember" l. 13 (1862)

topic: Happiness, Smile, Sad, Sorrow And Happiness, Sad Life

A man should always consider how much he has more than he wants.

- Joseph Addison

topic: Men, Aggravation, Literature, Sadness And Love, Sadness Of Life

And ever has it been known that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.

- Khalil Gibran

source: Khalil Gibran (2014). “The Prophet - Der Prophet”, p.18, Lulu.com

topic: Love, Relationship, Smile, I Ll Miss You, Make You Cry

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