| Author |
Quotes |
| Akhenaton | What is the source of sadness, but feebleness of the mind? What giveth it power but the want of reason? Rouse thyself to the combat, and she quitteth the field before thou strikest. |
| Edward Young | 'Tis impious in a good man to be sad. |
| Emile Durkheim | Sadness does not inhere in things; it does not reach us from the world and through mere contemplation of the world. It is a product of our own thought. We create it out of whole cloth. |
| Eugene Ionesco | 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. |
| Jerome K Jerome | I can see the humorous side of things and enjoy the fun when it comes; but look where I will, there seems to me always more sadness than joy in life. |
| John Heyl Vincent | There can be no rainbow without a cloud and a storm. |
| Margaret Drabble | The human mind can bear plenty of reality but not too much intermittent gloom. |
| Mrs Anna Letitia Barbauld | Child of mortality, whence comest thou? Why is thy countenance sad, and why are thine eyes red with weeping? |
| Percy Bysshe Shelley | 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. |
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow | A feeling of sadness and longing, That is not akin to pain, And resembles sorrow only As the mist resembles the rain. |
| William Shakespeare | Yet be sad, good brothers, For, by my faith, it very well becomes you. Sorrow so royally in you appears That I will deeply put the fashion on And wear it in my heart. |
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