The greater are our affections the deeper are our afflictions, and the more we love the more we have to weep.

People like these have done more to relieve human misery than any prophet with a manifesto ever will. They number in the millions, these mortals, but they don’t make it into the history books much. They don’t do anything sweeping or controversial. They live their lives, contribute their bits of good work, and die quietly in their beds without recognition or reward. Usually.

One should always avoid unnecessary unhappiness. Especially if one is an immortal. They taught us that in school.

Behind every sweet smile, there is a bitter sadness that no one can see and feel.

And oh, god, how could so much regret and so much sweetness and so much sadness all be present in that single moment. I was already dead and missing my unlived life. I was already dead and Tobias was mourning. I tried to smile. For him.

Unhappy is he to whom the memories of childhood bring only fear and sadness.

Unhappy is he to whom the memories of childhood bring only fear and sadness.

It isn’t a sadness, but a joy, that we don’t do the same things for the length of our lives.

Someday, we’ll run into each other again, I know it.
Maybe I’ll be older and smarter and just plain better. If that happens,
that’s when I’ll deserve you. But now, at this moment, you can’t hook
your boat to mine, because I’m liable to sink us both.

No place in life is sadder than an empty bed.

In the midst of sadness, remember that happiness is still possible.

I’m from Port Arthur, Texas! Little guy! Little character guy from one of the saddest oil-refinery towns in America. And here I was driving over to Beverly Hills, to 20th Century Fox, to be on ‘M*A*S*H!’

I thank God for happiness and sadness, If you are never sad you will never know how good happiness is.

Suffering pulls us farther away from other human beings. It builds a wall made of cries and contempt to separate us.

It’s a sad thing not to have friends, but it is even sadder not to have enemies.

I cried because I had no shoes until I met a man who had no feet.

No sadness is greater than in misery to rehearse memories of joy.

Write your Sad times in Sand, Write your Good times in Stone.

Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word ‘happy’ would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness

I am right sorry for your heavinesse.

He doth all things with sadness and with peevishness, slackness and excusation, with idleness and without good will.

I thought nothing at all, but I felt an immense sadness, as when two parts of one’s past existence, which have been anchored near to one.

As long as this exists, this sunshine and this cloudless sky, and as long as I can enjoy it, how can I be sad?

You who wish to conquer pain, you must learn what makes one kind.

Sadly, of course, there is real evil in the world. You watch the news, and you see all of the people suffering and so much cruelty.

I didn’t really want to live, so anything that was an investment in time made me angry… but also I just felt sad. When the hopelessness is hurting you, it’s the fixtures and fittings that finish you off.

When I first went to places where people were suffering from war and persecution, I felt ashamed of my feelings of sadness. I could see more possibilities in my life.

Why do people spend their time being sad when they could be happy?

Dark and lonely, I need somebody to hold me.

Kiss me hard before you go. Summertime sadness. I just wanted you to know. That, baby, you’re the best.

And when you cry, I’ll be right there telling you, you were never anything less than beautiful.

Don’t make me sad, don’t make me cry.

Don’t make me sad, don’t make me cry / Sometimes love is not enough and the road gets tough / I don’t know why.

We strive to further the occurrence of whatever we imagine will lead to Joy, and to avert or destroy what we imagine is contrary to it, or will lead to Sadness.

Sadness diminishes a man’s powers.

I pretend I’m not hurt, I walk about the world like I’m having fun.

Better no rule than cruel rule.

Different things can be sad! It’s not all war!

you deliberately plan on being less than you are capable of being, then I warn you that you’ll be unhappy for the rest of your life.

Depression doesn’t take away your talents—it just makes them harder to find. But I always find it. I learned that my sadness never destroyed what was great about me. You just have to go back to that greatness, find that one little light that’s left.

I think, therefore I am is the statement of an intellectual who underrates toothaches.

How could she feel nostalgia when he was right in front of her? How can you suffer from the absence of a person who is present?