24 quotes about Sadness

Discover quotes about Sadness from writers, philosophers, artists and other notable figures. Words and reflections that illuminate different sides of this human feeling.

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Sadness flies away on the wings of time.)
Fontaine
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To the solemn graves, near a lonely cemetery, my heart like a muffled drum is beating funeral marches.
Baudelaire
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What are heavy? sea-sand and sorrow. What are brief? today and tomorrow. What are frail? spring blossoms and youth. What are deep? the ocean and truth.
Rossetti Christina
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It is sad not to love, but it is much sadder not to be able to love
Unamuno
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The remedy (or psychotherapy) against sadness caused by the world's misery is to do something about it.
Naes Arne
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Your soul is a chosen landscape Where charming masked and costumed figures go Playing the lute and dancing and almost Sad beneath their fantastic disguises.
Verlaine Paul
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Grief must be shared to be endured.
Kalidasa
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Between grief and nothing I will take grief.
Faulkner William
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There is no place for grief in a house which serves the Muse.
Sappho
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Excess of grief for the dead is madness; for it is an injury to the living, and the dead know it not.
Xenophon
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Only people who are capable of loving strongly can also suffer great sorrow, but this same necessity of loving serves to counteract their grief and heals them.
Tolstoy Leo
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A tragedy need not have blood and death; it's enough that it all be filled with that majestic sadness that is the pleasure of tragedy
Racine

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