Sad Quotes for Reflection & Healing – Page 6 | GloryQuotes

I have felt terribly from the beginning when I saw the problems and recognized that they would be ongoing. We were hired to put back the contours of the greens as closely as possible to George Thomas's designs and were real proud of what we did. It's a sad situation now.

Ben Crenshaw

People say, oh it's a shame, you're not nostalgic about the '60s. Well actually, it's quite good, when you think of it. Wouldn't it be sad if I was sitting here wishing it back?

Robert Wyatt

I was never able to get through Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness. I've never been able to make it through. And I love the Smashing Pumpkins, they're one of my favorite bands ever, but I've never been able to listen to the whole thing all the way through.

John Wozniak

Bad things do happen; how I respond to them defines my character and the quality of my life. I can choose to sit in perpetual sadness, immobilized by the gravity of my loss, or I can choose to rise from the pain and treasure the most precious gift I have - life itself.

Walter Anderson

The display of grief makes more demands than grief itself. How few men are sad in their own company.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Old age is not a matter for sorrow. It is matter for thanks if we have left our work done behind us.

Everything human is pathetic. The secret source of humor itself is not joy but sorrow. There is no humor in heaven.

The secret source of humor is not joy but sorrow; there is no humor in Heaven.

It is foolish to tear one's hair in grief, as though sorrow would be made less by baldness.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

The sadness of the incomplete, the sadness that is often Life, but should never be Art.

Only by joy and sorrow does a person know anything about themselves and their destiny. They learn what to do and what to avoid.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil.

Hannah Arendt

That is sad until one recalls how many bad books the world may yet be spared because of the busyness of writers.

Can I see another's woe, and not be in sorrow too? Can I see another's grief, and not seek for kind relief?

A propensity to hope and joy is real riches; one to fear and sorrow real poverty.

If we could read the secret history of our enemies we should find in each man's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Nothing endears so much a friend as sorrow for his death. The pleasure of his company has not so powerful an influence.

It is the youth who must inherit the tribulation, the sorrow... that are the aftermath of war.

Herbert Hoover

We never taste a perfect joy; our happiest successes are mixed with sadness.

Pierre Corneille

Informed by our sad experience of history, we require nothing short of a foundation for lasting democracy.

Ibrahim Babangida

So war is an extremely sad business, because the majority of people don't want to be in it.

Gerald Scarfe

The walls we build around us to keep sadness out also keeps out the joy.

Here in the United States, our profession is much maligned, people simply don't trust or like journalists anymore and that's sad.

Christiane Amanpour

Morality comes with the sad wisdom of age, when the sense of curiosity has withered.

Graham Greene

Everything takes me longer than I expect. It's the sad truth about life.

Donna Tartt

For I have learned to look on nature, not as in the hour of thoughtless youth, but hearing oftentimes the still, sad music of humanity.

William Wordsworth

So far, at least, I haven't found a way to tell my kind of stories without making them both sad and funny.

Todd Solondz

Excess of joy is harder to bear than any amount of sorrow.

Honore de Balzac

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.

James Russell Lowell

When I was in Paris, all of the German refugees began to flow in and it was a very sad time.

Elliott Carter

So many gods, so many creeds, so many paths that wind and wind while just the art of being kind is all the sad world needs.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

It is sad to see a woman sacrificing the ties of the affections even to do good.

Maria Mitchell

The real sadness of fifty is not that you change so much but that you change so little.

Max Lerner

Sometimes I wonder if suicides aren't in fact sad guardians of the meaning of life.

Vaclav Havel

As virtuous men pass mildly away, and whisper to their souls to go, whilst some of their sad friends do say, the breath goes now, and some say no.

John Donne

The excursion is the same when you go looking for your sorrow as when you go looking for your joy.

Eudora Welty

Christmas makes everything twice as sad.

However, we might oppose it, abortion is a sad feature of modern life.

Robert Casey

There is a joy in sorrow which none but a mourner can know.

Sorrow happens, hardship happens, the hell with it, who never knew the price of happiness, will not be happy.

Yevgeny Yevtushenko

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

Christina Rossetti

It is a sad commentary of our times when our young must seek advice and counsel from "Dear Abby" instead of going to Mom and Dad.

Abigail Van Buren

It is sad not to love, but it is much sadder not to be able to love.

Miguel de Unamuno

Excessive sorrow laughs. Excessive joy weeps.

Man is born passionate of body, but with an innate though secret tendency to the love of Good in his main-spring of Mind. But God help us all! It is at present a sad jar of atoms.

For all sad words of tongue and pen, The saddest are these, 'It might have been'.

John Greenleaf Whittier

It is only in sorrow bad weather masters us; in joy we face the storm and defy it.

Amelia Barr

I had never felt so lonely and so sad in my entire life.

Susan Smith