Sadness Quotes

Sadness is no more than a bit of acid transfixed in the cerebellum.

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.

There are days when the melancholy settles on you like a sudden change in weather. The kind of sadness that is intangible. Like the presence of an ache where you can’t pinpoint exactly where it hurts, you just know it does.

My instinct is to put my sadness aside, and give them a smile or a hug, no matter how bad I’m feeling.

What is she like? I was told – she is a melancholy soul.

People who are prone to sadness are more likely to pick up a pen.

Man could not live if he were entirely impervious to sadness. Many sorrows can be endured only by being embraced, and the pleasure taken in them naturally has a somewhat melancholy character.

The Christian conceives of his abode on Earth in no more delightful colors than the Jainist sectarian. He sees in it only a time of sad trial; he also thinks that his true country is not of this world.

I think sadness prevails in Syria now. We don’t feel anything else but sadness because we have this killing every day, whether with chemical or any other kind.

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