sadness Quotes

“every heart has its secret sorrows, which the world knows not, and oftentimes we call a man cold, when he is only sad.”

― Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Hyperion

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“How much better is it to weep at joy than to joy at weeping!”

― William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing

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“Alas! how sad when reasoners reason wrong.”

― Sophocles, Antigone

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“I knew it wasn't too important, but it made me sad anyway.”

― J. D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

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“I wanted all thingsTo seem to make some sense,So we all could be happy, yes,Instead of tense.And I made up liesSo that they all fit nice,And I made this sad worldA par-a-dise.”

― Kurt Vonnegut, Cat's Cradle

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“I usually find myself among strangers because I drift here and there trying to forget the sad thing that happened to me.”

― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

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“Some people turn sad awfully young . . . No special reason, it seems, but they seem almost to be born that way. They bruise easier, tire faster, cry quicker, remember longer and, as I say, get sadder younger than anyone else in the world. I know,...”

― Ray Bradbury, Dandelion Wine

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“The saddest thing I can imagine is to get used to luxury.”

― Charlie Chaplin, My Autobiography

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“If there were reason for these miseries, then into limits could I bind my woes.”

― William Shakespeare, Titus Andronicus

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“there are two types of people in the world: those who prefer to be sad among others, and those who prefer to be sad alone.”

― Nicole Krauss, The History of Love

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