540 private quotes tagged sad

“How sad it is that we give up on people who are just like us.” — Fred Rogers

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“I had rather have a fool to make me merry than experience to make me sad and to travel for it too!” — William Shakespeare

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“I seldom think about my limitations, and they never make me sad. Perhaps there is just a touch of yearning at times but it is vague, like a breeze among flowers.” — Helen Keller

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“The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities.” — Sophocles

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“Sadness is but a wall between two gardens.” — Khalil Gibran

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“The word 'happiness' would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.” — Carl Jung

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“Few women, I fear, have had such reason as I have to think the long sad years of youth were worth living for the sake of middle age.” — Dwight D. Eisenhower

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“Make the most of your regrets never smother your sorrow, but tend and cherish it till it comes to have a separate and integral interest. To regret deeply is to live afresh.” — Henry David Thoreau

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“It's sad, actually, because my anxiety keeps me from enjoying things as much as I should at this age.” — Amanda Seyfried

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“Sad and sweet and wise Here a child reposes Dust is on his eyes, Quietly he lies - Satan, strew Roses.” — Robert Williams Buchanan

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“I hold the world but as the world, Gratiano A stage where every man must play a part, And mine is a sad one.” — William Shakespeare

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“Isn't it sad to go to your grave without ever wondering why you were born? Who, with such a thought, would not spring from bed, eager to resume discovering the world and rejoicing to be part of it?” — Richard Dawkins

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“Man is born passionate of body, but with an innate though secret tendency to the love of Good in his main-spring of Mind. But God help us all! It is at present a sad jar of atoms.” — Lord Byron

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“Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.” — Percy Bysshe Shelley

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“What is sad for women of my generation is that they weren't supposed to work if they had families. What were they going to do when the children are grown - watch the raindrops coming down the window pane?” — Jackie Kennedy

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“I would not know how I am supposed to feel about many stories if not for the fact that the TV news personalities make sad faces for sad stories and happy faces for happy stories.” — Dave Barry

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“When I was a child people simply looked about them and were moderately happy today they peer beyond the seven seas, bury themselves waist deep in tidings, and by and large what they see and hear makes them unutterably sad.” — E. B. White

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“He is a hard man who is only just, and a sad one who is only wise.” — Voltaire

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“One must not let oneself be overwhelmed by sadness.” — Jackie Kennedy

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“We look before and after, And pine for what is not Our sincerest laughter With some pain is fraught Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.” — Percy Bysshe Shelley

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“It is a very sad thing that nowadays there is so little useless information.” — Oscar Wilde

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“He who is not just is severe, he who is not wise is sad.” — Voltaire

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“The old know what they want the young are sad and bewildered.” — Logan P. Smith

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“In this world, full often, our joys are only the tender shadows which our sorrows cast.” — Henry Ward Beecher

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“It is sadder to find the past again and find it inadequate to the present than it is to have it elude you and remain forever a harmonious conception of memory.” — F. Scott Fitzgerald

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