sadness Quotes

“Of all the words of mice and men, the saddest are, 'It might have been.'”

― Kurt Vonnegut, Cat's Cradle

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“You cannot protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from happiness.”

― Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud Incredibly Close

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“No reflection was to be allowed now: not one glance was to be cast back; not even one forward. Not one thought was to be given either to the past or the future. The first was a page so heavenly sweet—so deadly sad—that to read one line of it...”

― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

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“Your time may come. Do not be too sad, Sam. You cannot be always torn in two. You will have to be one and whole, for many years. You have so much to enjoy and to be, and to do.”

― J. R. R. Tolkien, The Return of the King

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“I live in the crowds of jollity, not so much to enjoy company as to shun myself, and am only loud and merry to conceal my sadness.”

― Samuel Johnson, The History of Rasselas

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“His life has much trouble and sadness, and remains far behind yours. If it were otherwise, he would never have been able to find those words.”

― Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet

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“She says nothing at all, but simply stares upward into the dark sky and watches, with sad eyes, the slow dance of the infinite stars.”

― Neil Gaiman, Stardust

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“Everything was eternally dreary, dismal, damned. Even the weather was insolent and bitchy.”

― Charles Bukowski, Ham on Rye

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“The only sadnesses that are dangerous and unhealthy are the ones that we carry around in public in order to drown them out with the noise”

― Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet

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“She was experiencing the same odd happiness and odd sadness as then. The sadness meant: we are at the last station. The happiness meant: we are together. The sadness was form, the happiness content.”

― Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

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