Quotes by Sadness Sadness is more or less like a head cold - with patience, it passes. Depression is like cancer. Barbara Kingsolver cancer sadness depression Even though sometimes you can control your anger, you can't control your sadness. Barbara Park sadness sometimes The cure for sorrow is to learn something. Barbara Sher sadness sorrow healing The sound of distant breakers made her heart ache with melancholy. She was in the mood when the sea has a saddening effect upon the nerves. It is only when we are very happy that we can bear to gaze merrily upon the vast and limitless expanse of water, rolling on and on with such persistent, irritating monotony to the accompaniment of our thoughts, whether grave or gay. When they are gay, the waves echo their gaiety; but when they are sad, then every breaker, as it rolls, seems to bring additional sadness and to speak to us of hopelessness and of the pettiness of all our joys. Baroness Orczy sadness gay heart The weariest night, the longest day, sooner or later must perforce come to an end. Baroness Orczy sadness ends night When they are gay, the waves echo their gaiety; but when they are sad, then every breaker, as it rolls, seems to bring additional sadness, and to speak to us of hopelessness and of the pettiness of all our joys. Baroness Orczy echoes sadness gay The trouble with boxing is that too often it ends in sadness. Barry McGuigan sadness boxing trouble Sadness diminishes a man's powers Baruch Spinoza diminish sadness men We strive to further the occurrence of whatever we imagine will lead to Joy, and to avert or destroy what we imagine is contrary to it, or will lead to Sadness. Baruch Spinoza sadness communication joy I think sadness prevails in Syria now. We don't feel anything else but sadness because we have this killing every day, whether with chemical or any other kind. Bashar al-Assad sadness kind thinking Comedy doesn't really have any meaning without sadness. The most meaningful comedy comes from some really serious pathos. Becky Stark sadness serious meaningful Laughter keeps you healthy. You can survive by seeing the humor in everything. Thumb your nose at sadness; turn the tables on tragedy. You can’t laugh and be angry, you can’t laugh and feel sad, you can’t laugh and feel envious. Bel Kaufman laughter sadness laughing My grief was a heavy, despairing sadness caused by parting from a companion of many years but, more important, it was a despair rooted in the fear that love did not exist, could not be Bell Hooks sadness grief believe They say time will make all this go away. But it's time that has taken my tomorrows and turned them into yesterdays. Ben Harper sadness taken yesterday Looking for happiness is a sure way to sadness, I think. You have to take each moment as it comes. Benedict Cumberbatch sadness way thinking Among the numerous luxuries of the table...coffee may be considered as one of the most valuable. It excites cheerfulness without intoxication; and the pleasing flow of spirits which it occasions...is never followed by sadness, languor or debility. Benjamin Franklin luxury sadness coffee A light wind blew through here that carried with it scents of sadness and loss, not recognizable odors but smells that corresponded to nothing, chimerical fragrances able to evoke melancholic memories. Bentley Little sadness loss memories Comedy, I imagine, is harder to do consistently than tragedy, but I like it spiced in the wine of sadness. Bernard Malamud sadness wine tragedy Having no children had been a kind of choice up to the moment when, from a choice, it became a sadness. Bernardo Bertolucci sadness choices children Is this what sadness is all about? Is it what comes over us when beautiful memories shatter in hindsight because the remembered happiness fed not just on actual circumstances but on a promise that was not kept? Bernhard Schlink sadness beautiful memories «23456789101112»