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Deep Sad Quotes

Sorrow is knowledge, those that know the most must mourn the deepest, the tree of knowledge is not the tree of life.

Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

If people would dare to speak to one another unreservedly, there would be a good deal less sorrow in the world a hundred years hence.

Sad people dislike the happy, and the happy the sad; the quick thinking the sedate, and the careless the busy and industrious.

It has been said that our anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow, but only empties today of its strength.

Charles Spurgeon

There is sorrow in the world, but goodness too; and goodness that is not greenness, either, no more than sorrow is.

Herman Melville

The tortures of present death disturb him not, but the recollection of his fall, fills him with a holy sorrow.

John Strachan

It seldom happens that any felicity comes so pure as not to be tempered and allayed by some mixture of sorrow.

Miguel de Cervantes

Sad Quotes About Love

The essence of romantic love is that wonderful beginning, after which sadness and impossibility may become the rule.

Anita Brookner

The sadness of the women's movement is that they don't allow the necessity of love. See, I don't personally trust any revolution where love is not allowed.

Well, the musicals give emphasis to love, longing, melancholy, sadness. All of that is always there.

Ismail Merchant

Great passions may give us a quickened sense of life, ecstasy and sorrow of love, the various forms of enthusiastic activity, disinterested or otherwise, which comes naturally to many of us.

Walter Pater

When I wished to sing of love, it turned to sorrow. And when I wished to sing of sorrow, it was transformed for me into love.

Franz Schubert

Given my last position, that I was the first U.S attorney post 9/11 in New Jersey, I understand acutely the pain and sorrow and upset of the family members who lost loved ones that day at the hands of radical Muslim extremists. And their sensitivities and concerns have to be taken into account.

Chris Christie

I love walking down the street and seeing faces and drama and happiness and sadness and dirt and cleanliness.

Ric Ocasek

I've written several deeply personal songs this year, which I really love. Some of them came out of intense sadness. This has been an extremely difficult year for me.

David Friedman

Short Sad Quotes

The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities.

It is a very sad thing that nowadays there is so little useless information.

He is a hard man who is only just, and a sad one who is only wise.

Sorrow is a fruit. God does not make it grow on limbs too weak to bear it.

The word "happiness" would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.

An ounce of cheerfulness is worth a pound of sadness to serve God with.

Bear and endure: This sorrow will one day prove to be for your good.

He who is not just is severe, he who is not wise is sad.

More Sad Quotes

I hold the world but as the world, Gratiano; A stage where every man must play a part, And mine is a sad one.

William Shakespeare

We never taste happiness in perfection, our most fortunate successes are mixed with sadness.

Pierre Corneille

Here bring your wounded hearts, here tell your anguish; Earth has no sorrow that Heaven cannot heal.

Thomas More

It is so friendly so simply friendly and though inevitable not a sadness and though occurring not a shock.

It is a sad thing when men have neither the wit to speak well nor the judgment to hold their tongues.

Jean de la Bruyere

Good humor is the health of the soul, sadness is its poison.

Lord Chesterfield

Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us sorry but wise.

H. G. Wells

I'm trying to make sure that there's comedy as well as sadness. It makes the sadness more memorable.

Rick Moody

What else does anxiety about the future bring you but sorrow upon sorrow?

Thomas Kempis

They say geniuses mostly have great mothers. They mostly have sad fates.

David Herbert Lawrence

It makes me so desperately sad to witness just how unforgivably wretched our world has become.

Ralph Steadman

The natural effect of sorrow over the dead is to refine and elevate the mind.

Washington Irving

What is the life of man! Is it not to shift from side to side? From sorrow to sorrow? To button up one cause of vexation! And unbutton another!

Laurence Sterne

Most poets in their youth begin in adolescent sadness. I find it more rewarding to end in gladness.

James Broughton

I have lived eighty years of life and know nothing for it, but to be resigned and tell myself that flies are born to be eaten by spiders and man to be devoured by sorrow.

The sad thing about artificial intelligence is that it lacks artifice and therefore intelligence.

Jean Baudrillard

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

Jean Jacques Rousseau

He that raises a large family does, indeed, while he lives to observe them, stand a broader mark for sorrow; but then he stands a broader mark for pleasure too.

Benjamin Franklin

Truly, it is in darkness that one finds the light, so when we are in sorrow, then this light is nearest of all to us.

Meister Eckhart

What makes old age so sad is not that our joys but our hopes cease.

Make the most of your regrets; never smother your sorrow, but tend and cherish it till it comes to have a separate and integral interest. To regret deeply is to live afresh.

Henry David Thoreau

The pleasure that is in sorrow is sweeter than the pleasure of pleasure itself.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

It's sad that we have become so accustomed to bad service that we're shocked when we get good service.

Neil Cavuto

Half of the secular unrest and dismal, profane sadness of modern society comes from the vain ideas that every man is bound to be a critic for life.

Henry Van Dyke

The reason for the sadness of this modern age and the men who live in it is that it looks for the truth in everything and finds it.

Edmond de Goncourt

Sorrow can be alleviated by good sleep, a bath and a glass of wine.

There is no greater sorrow than to recall happiness in times of misery.

Dante Alighieri

Every where the years bring to all enough of sin and sorrow; but in slavery the very dawn of life is darkened by these shadows.

Harriet Ann Jacobs

Of these years nought remains in memory but the sad feeling that we have advanced and only grown older.

Max Muller

People who drink to drown their sorrow should be told that sorrow knows how to swim.

Ann Landers

Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow, it only saps today of its joy.

Leo Buscaglia

Renunciation remains sorrow, though a sorrow borne willingly.

Charles Dickens

I don't know whether there is anyone else at all who remembers my noble father with such sadness.

Egon Schiele

We should feel sorrow, but not sink under its oppression.

The stars are scattered all over the sky like shimmering tears, there must be great pain in the eye from which they trickled.

Georg Buchner

Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them - that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.

The sad duty of politics is to establish justice in a sinful world.

Reinhold Niebuhr

I have a piece of great and sad news to tell you: I am dead.

A sad soul can kill quicker than a germ.

John Steinbeck

The saloon is a liar. It promises good cheer and sends sorrow.

The proud, the cold untroubled heart of stone, that never mused on sorrow but its own.

Thomas Campbell

A tragedy need not have blood and death; it's enough that it all be filled with that majestic sadness that is the pleasure of tragedy.

Jean Racine

Sadness is but a wall between two gardens.

The South is very beautiful but its beauty makes one sad because the lives that people live here, and have lived here, are so ugly.

James Baldwin

Beauty makes idiots sad and wise men merry.

George Jean Nathan

For the poison of hatred seated near the heart doubles the burden for the one who suffers the disease; he is burdened with his own sorrow, and groans on seeing another's happiness.

I had rather have a fool to make me merry than experience to make me sad and to travel for it too!

William Shakespeare

Any mind that is capable of real sorrow is capable of good.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

This collection gathers sad quotes about sadness, heartbreak and difficult moments. Browse sections such as Deep Sad Quotes, Sad Quotes About Love for different moods and perspectives, then follow related themes such as Grief Quotes and Fear Quotes. Quotes are organized by topic and author so readers can move naturally between ideas and voices.