Quotes about Sadness, page 2

No society has been able to abolish human sadness, no political system can deliver us from the pain of living, from our fear of death, our thirst for the absolute. It is the human condition that directs the social condition, not vice versa.

Quote by Eugen Ionescu about sadness

Do you know most of the Jewish songs have the same trend of sadness as Negro spirituals?

Quote by Mahalia Jackson about sadness

There's a certain sadness because things didn't go the way I wanted them to go.

Quote by Billy Joel about sadness

We experience difficulties, weakness, failures and sadness, but we also celebrate joys and successes - these are the things we express in music.

Quote by Billy Joel about sadness

Where grief is fresh, any attempt to divert it only irritates.

Quote by Samuel Johnson about sadness

While grief is fresh, every attempt to divert only irritates. You must wait till it be digested, and then amusement will dissipate the remains of it.

Quote by Samuel Johnson about sadness

After immeasurable joy necessarily comes the sadness, joy makesthe blood boil, and this produces an unpleasant and painful feeling that needs to born the sadness. RightWords Translation

Quote by Mihai Eminescu about sadness

One must not let oneself be overwhelmed by sadness.

Quote by Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis about sadness

After an eternity of seeking the sudden threshold of seeing and finding leaves one filled with a strange paradox of ecstasy and grief. I was born to see.

Quote by Joy Page about sadness

Grief causes suffering and disease.

Quote by Daniel D. Palmer about sadness

There is some sadness for me now about acting because it used to be that there was a reverence for actors.

EQuote by Estelle Parsons about sadness

Great passions may give us a quickened sense of life, ecstasy and sorrow of love, the various forms of enthusiastic activity, disinterested or otherwise, which comes naturally to many of us.

Quote by Walter Pater about sadness

The occasion of this sadness is expressed in a word, but must be considered in many more, as being the principal concernment both of the Text and Time.

Quote by John Pearson about sadness

What reason then can we produce, that the life of a man whom we esteem, should be sorrow to himself, and his death be grief to us.

Quote by John Pearson about sadness

Given a choice between grief and nothing, I'd choose grief.

Quote by William Faulkner about sadness

Everything human is pathetic. The secret source of humor itself is not joy but sorrow. There is no humor in heaven.

Quote by Mark Twain about sadness

Every night when I go to bed, I hope that I may never wake again, and every morning renews my grief.

Quote by Franz Schubert about sadness

No one feels another's grief, no one understands another's joy. People imagine that they can reach one another. In reality they only pass each other by.

Quote by Franz Schubert about sadness

When I wished to sing of love, it turned to sorrow. And when I wished to sing of sorrow, it was transformed for me into love.

Quote by Franz Schubert about sadness

Old age is the supreme evil, for it deprives man of all pleasures while allowing his appetites to remain, and it brings with it every possible sorrow. Yet men fear death and desire old age.

Quote by Giacomo Leopardi about sadness