Sad Quotes, Sayings about sadness - Page 2
Every one can master a grief but he that has it.
- William Shakespeare
The greatest griefs are those we cause ourselves.
- Sophocles
He that conceals his grief finds no remedy for it.
- Turkish Proverb
If you suppress grief too much it can well redouble.
- Moliere
There is no grief like the grief that does not speak.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
What’s gone and what’s past help should be past grief.
- William Shakespeare
The end of an ox is beef, and the end of a lie is grief.
- African Proverb
There is no grief which time does not lessen and soften.
- Cicero
Grief remains one of the few things that has the power to silence us.
- Anna Quindlen
The Lord is close to the brokenhearted and saves those who are crushed in spirit.
- Psalm
Death lies on her like an untimely frost upon the sweetest flower of the field.
- William Shakespeare
No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.
- C.S. Lewis
Grief drives men to serious reflection, sharpens the understanding and softens the heart.
- John Adams
Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind.
- Marcel Proust
Even his griefs are a joy long after to one that remembers all that he wrought and endured.
- Homer J Simpson
Only those who avoid love can avoid grief. The point is to learn from grief and remain vulnerable to love.
- John Brantner
There is no pain so great as the memory of joy in present grief.
- Aeschylus
It is dangerous to abandon one’s self to the luxury of grief; it deprives one of courage, and even of the wish for recovery.
- Henri Frederic Amiel
No man can cause more grief than that one clinging blindly to the vices of his ancestors.
- William Faulkner
He is a hard man who is only just, and a sad one who is only wise.
- Voltaire
The walls we build around us to keep out the sadness also keep out the joy.
- Jim Rohn
A sadness in those eyes like water seeping into a hole you’ve dug in the earth.
- Joyce Carol Oates
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story or tell a story about them.
- Isak Dinesen
A man’s sorrow runs uphill; true it is difficult for him to bear, but it is also difficult for him to keep.
- Djuna Barnes
A man should always consider how much he has more than he wants, and how much more unhappy he might be than he really is.
- Joseph Addison
Grief makes one hour ten.
- William Shakespeare
An ounce of cheerfulness is worth a pound of sadness to serve God with.
- Thomas Fuller
Sadness and gladness succeed each other.
- Proverb
Sadness is but a wall between two gardens.
- Kahlil Gibran
Melancholy is sadness that has taken on lightness.
- Italo Calvino
Anger, tears and sadness are only for those who have given up.
- Katie Gill
I too have known joy and sadness, and, on the whole, I prefer joy.
- Ashleigh Brilliant
Sadness is always the legacy of the past; regrets are pains of the memory.
- Anonymous
The word ‘happiness’ would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.
- Carl Gustav Jung
One cannot be deeply responsive to the world without being saddened very often.
- Erich Fromm
If it doesn’t work out there will never be any doubt that the pleasure was worth all the pain.
- Jimmy Buffett
I know I can feel bad, when I get in a bad mood, and the world can look so sad, only you make me feel good.
- Madonna
Smile, even if it’s a sad smile, because sadder than a sad smile is the sadness of not knowing how to smile.
- Anonymous
True fear is not when we’re harmed; it’s when we can never forget the cruel memories that we long lived, to die for.


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