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Quotes about Sadness

Some pass their days as though suffering a deep sadness they cannot name. Others are unhappy because life didn't turn out the way they thought it would.
- Joseph Wirthlin
Worry makes you weaker, regret makes you sadder, hate makes you angrier, but hope makes you stronger, and love makes you happier.
- Matshona Dhliwayo
Faith and fear go hand in hand. When the soul looks at God's holiness, he fears. When he looks at God's promises, he believes. A godly man trembles—yet trusts. Fear preserves reverence, faith preserves cheerfulness. Fear keeps the soul from lightness, faith keeps it from sadness.
- Thomas Watson
Facing our grief is essential to combatting and overcoming our despair and powerlessness. The elders taught her that grief is not something to avoid or to be afraid of. And that if we come together and share our sadness, it can be healing." "I absolutely agree," Jane said. "It's really important for us to confront our grief and get over our feelings of helplessness and hopelessness—our very survival
- Jane Goodall
I want the dead lovers of the world to hear our laughter, and grow sad. I want a breath of our passion to stir dust into consciousness, to wake their ashes into pain.
- Oscar Wilde
And I will sing how sad Proserpina Unto a grave and gloomy Lord was wed, And lure the silver-breasted Helena Back from the lotus meadows of the dead, So shalt thou see that awful loveliness For which two mighty Hosts met fearfully in war's abyss! And
- Oscar Wilde
and i temporary and he was the saddest word of all there is nothing else in the world its not despair until time its not even time until it was
- William Faulkner
Child, you are like a flower,So sweet and pure and fair.I look at you, and sadnessTouches me with a prayer.
- Heinrich Heine
I believe that everyone experiences depression to some degree at some time in their lives. And there are probably millions of people who live with a low level of sadness and heaviness day in and day out.
- Joyce Meyer
We can learn many practices to lessen our sadness and our suffering, but the cream of enlightened wisdom is the insight of no birth, no death.
- Thich Nhat Hanh
All through the night, men looked at the sky and were saddened by the stars.
- Joseph Heller
When am I happy and when am I sad and what is the difference? What do I need to know to stay alive? What is true in the world?
- Toni Morrison