3,622 Quotes About Sadness

After lunch - one short nap:On waking up - two cups of tea.Raising my head, I see the sun's lightOnce again slanting to the south-west.Those who are happy regret the shortness of the day;Those who are sad tire of the year's sloth.But those whose hearts are devoid of joy or sadnessJust go on living, regardless of 'short' or 'long'.-After Lunch

You ache with it all; and the more mysterious it is, the more you ache.

There isn't enough sadness in the world to keep the robins from singing.

For so long, I kept her on a pedestal," he says, "holding her in the highest regard. I think it was because of how high I raised her, how high we all raised her, that I couldn't see her for what she is. Turns out my admiration only serves the show, the act, the game she's playing with all of us. With the entire Land of Five. Now that I see past it, all of it, it's clear. She's poison masquerading as medicine.

Silence reveals everything.

Emotions in my opinion are not something we should act on rather they are cryptic messages that we need to understand.

...He was wrong about the sadness though: far better to have it when you're young. A sad pretty girl inspires the urge to console, unlike a sad old crone.

I do not just want you at your best.I almost do not carewhere your Happiness lives,but please,let me visit your pain? Take me to the placewhere your sadness goes,and show me the tragedythat no one knows.

Is that what lives on longest, the sadness? The proof of our being weak, not the proof of our being strong?