540 private quotes tagged sad

“Melancholy and sadness are the start of doubt... doubt is the beginning of despair despair is the cruel beginning of the differing degrees of wickedness.” — Isidore Ducasse Lautreamont

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“Sadness flies away on the wings of time.” — Jean de La Fontaine

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“I've cried, and you'd think I'd be better for it, but the sadness just sleeps, and it stays in my spine the rest of my life.” — Conor Oberst

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“When I seemed to be irritable or sad, my father would quote the learned Dr. Knight, and then say, 'Just go to sleep.' Like all smart aleck kids, I thought the advice was silly. But as I've grown older, I've realized just how smart Knight was.” — Ben Stein

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“You know, I think we Indians are afraid to show and celebrate our happiness, lest things change around. But I feel that it's okay to be sad and okay to show when you are happy.” — Shahrukh Khan

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“We tell our triumphs to the crowds, but our own hearts are the sole confidants of our sorrows.” — Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

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“It doesn't hurt to feel sad from time to time.” — Willie Nelson

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“Sorrows are like thunderclouds, in the distance they look black, over our heads scarcely gray.” — Jean Paul

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“And I remember going to the record studio and there was a park across the street and I'd see all the children playing and I would cry because it would make me sad that I would have to work instead.” — Michael Jackson

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“Oh, I am very weary, Though tears no longer flow My eyes are tired of weeping, My heart is sick of woe.” — Anne Bronte

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“A sad soul can kill quicker than a germ.” — John Steinbeck

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“God is in the sadness and the laughter, in the bitter and the sweet.” — Neale Donald Walsch

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“Nobody understands another's sorrow, and nobody another's joy.” — Franz Schubert

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“Sad will be the day for any man when he becomes contented with the thoughts he is thinking and the deeds he is doing - where there is not forever beating at the doors of his soul some great desire to do something larger which he knows he was meant and made to do.” — Phillips Brooks

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“You get used to sadness, growing up in the mountains, I guess.” — Loretta Lynn

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“Those who gave away their wings are sad not to see them fly.” — Antonio Porchia

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“They say it's better to bury your sadness in a graveyard or garden that waits for the spring to wake from its sleep and burst into green.” — Conor Oberst

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“Actually, the moment of victory is wonderful, but also sad. It means that your trip is ended.” — Bill Toomey

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“The excursion is the same when you go looking for your sorrow as when you go looking for your joy.” — Eudora Welty

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“Every human walks around with a certain kind of sadness. They may not wear it on their sleeves, but it's there if you look deep.” — Taraji P. Henson

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“One should either be sad or joyful. Contentment is a warm sty for eaters and sleepers.” — Eugene O'Neill

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“First, accept sadness. Realize that without losing, winning isn't so great.” — Alyssa Milano

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“Sadness is also a kind of defence.” — Ivo Andric

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“Red is the ultimate cure for sadness.” — Bill Blass

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“As somebody who, in my second marriage, insisted on a prenuptial agreement, I can also testify that sometimes it is an act of love to chart the exit strategy before you enter the union, in order to make sure that not only you, but your partner as well, knows that there will be no World War III should hearts and minds, for any sad reason, change.” — Elizabeth Gilbert

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