Sadness - Quotes

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

Boredom, anger, sadness, or fear are not ‘yours,’ not personal. They are conditions of the human mind. They come and go. Nothing that comes and goes is you. - Eckhart Tolle

Every human walks around with a certain kind of sadness. They may not wear it on their sleeves, but it’s there if you look deep. - Taraji P. Henson

It’s sad when someone you know becomes someone you knew. - Henry Rollins

Melancholy is at the bottom of everything, just as at the end of all rivers is the sea. Can it be otherwise in a world where nothing lasts, where all that we have loved or shall love must die? Is death, then, the secret of life? The gloom of an eternal mourning enwraps, more or less closely, every serious and thoughtful soul, as night enwraps the universe. - Henri Frederic Amiel

Never give way to melancholy; resist it steadily, for the habit will encroach. - Sydney Smith

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

Sadness flies away on the wings of time. - Jean de La Fontaine

So much sadness exists in the world that we are all under obligation to contribute as much joy as lies within our powers. - John Sutherland Bonnel

The essential sadness is to go through life without loving. But it would be almost equally sad to go through life and leave this world without ever telling those you loved that you had loved them. - Rev. John Powell