Sad Quotes for Reflection & Healing – Page 2 | GloryQuotes

The old know what they want; the young are sad and bewildered.

Logan P. Smith

I've been getting into Nick Drake lately, the folk singer. Sad, gorgeous stuff.

Anthony Doerr

A marriage is no amusement but a solemn act, and generally a sad one.

Queen Victoria

The sad souls of those who lived without blame and without praise.

Dante Alighieri

A sorrow's crown of sorrow is remembering happier times.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

It's sad that the most glorious of sexual experiences can make us feel guilty, ashamed, embarrassed, and abnormal.

Sue Johanson

There's so much more to life than that, though I think that acting is fascinating because you can forget your own sorrow as you act and become somebody else.

Beatrice Wood

Sadness flies away on the wings of time.

Jean de La Fontaine

There is no worse sorrow than remembering happiness in the day of sorrow.

Alfred de Musset

In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice that I am not a Republican.

There must be something solemn, serious, and tender about any attitude which we denominate religious. If glad, it must not grin or snicker; if sad, it must not scream or curse.

We all like stories that make us cry. It's so nice to feel sad when you've nothing in particular to feel sad about.

Anne Sullivan

In deep sadness there is no place for sentimentality.

William S. Burroughs

My sorrow, when she's here with me, thinks these dark days of autumn rain are beautiful as days can be; she loves the bare, the withered tree; she walks the sodden pasture lane.

Those who gave away their wings are sad not to see them fly.

Antonio Porchia

Not in sorrow freely is never to open the bosom to the sweets of the sunshine.

William Gilmore Simms

Mankind is like dogs, not gods - as long as you don't get mad they'll bite you - but stay mad and you'll never be bitten. Dogs don't respect humility and sorrow.

Jack Kerouac

There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when we have not yet known what it is to have suffered and be healed, to have despaired and have recovered hope.

Let us remember that sorrow alone is the creator of great things.

Ernest Renan

Watergate provides a model case study of the interaction and powers of each of the branches of government. It also is a morality play with a sad and dramatic ending.

When sparrows build and the leaves break forth My old sorrow wakes and cries.

Jean Ingelow

Our common liberty is consecrated by a common sorrow.

George William Curtis

Because the sad fact is that the Enron Corporation and others manipulated with unfortunately great effect the energy market in the West Coast starting in 2000.

Jay Inslee

It's very simple, I just tell my sad story, and people weep.

Corazon Aquino

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.

It's incredible that they censor films. It's sad.

Dario Argento

The rose and the thorn, and sorrow and gladness are linked together.

Saadi

Parting is such sweet sorrow.

William Shakespeare

Nothing is more sad than the death of an illusion.

Arthur Koestler

Three conditions are necessary for Penance: contrition, which is sorrow for sin, together with a purpose of amendment; confession of sins without any omission; and satisfaction by means of good works.

Hear me, my chiefs! I am tired. My heart is sick and sad. From where the sun now stands, I will fight no more forever.

There's no such thing as old age, there is only sorrow.

Fay Weldon

Does the world have nothing inside but sorrow?

Andrei Platonov

The heart forgets its sorrow and ache.

James Russell Lowell

If future generations are to remember us more with gratitude than sorrow, we must achieve more than just the miracles of technology. We must also leave them a glimpse of the world as it was created, not just as it looked when we got through with it.

Lyndon B. Johnson

I had no idea that mothering my own child would be so healing to my own sadness from my childhood.

Susie Bright

In a sad twist of fate, the bill to reauthorize the Patriot Act was debated on the floor of the House of Representatives the same day that terrorists struck again.

Jim Sensenbrenner

Pain and sorrow and misery have a right to our assistance: compassion puts us in mind of the debt, and that we owe it to ourselves as well as to the distressed.

Joseph Butler

Since my earliest childhood a barb of sorrow has lodged in my heart. As long as it stays I am ironic if it is pulled out I shall die.

Soren Kierkegaard

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

The great sadness of my life is that I never achieved the hour newscast, which would not have been twice as good as the half-hour newscast, but many times as good.

Walter Cronkite

As this world was not intended to be a state of any great satisfaction or high enjoyment, so neither was it intended to be a mere scene of unhappiness and sorrow.

Joseph Butler

I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.

Agatha Christie

We're sad about some of the losses of members of great seniority and distinction in the Congress, and some very new members, who will no longer be serving with us.

Nancy Pelosi

Well in the end the world can crank itself up to sanctions, as it has with Zimbabwe, another sad case.

Helen Clark

Sorrow makes an ugly face odious.

Samuel Richardson

Proud people breed sad sorrows for themselves.

Emily Bronte

Above all things let us never forget that mankind constitutes one great brotherhood; all born to encounter suffering and sorrow, and therefore bound to sympathize with each other.

Albert Pike