Sadness Quotations | Page 6

Sadness diminishes a man's powers

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.

Even though sometimes you can control your anger, you can't control your sadness.

The cure for sorrow is to learn something.

So that's what I'm here to become. And suddenly, this word fills me with a brand of sadness I haven't felt since childhood. The kind of sadness you feel at the end of summer. When the fireflies are gone, the ponds have dried up and the plants are wilted, weary from being so green.

I felt a bottomless sadness. So completely alone. Like one of my stuffed animals at home that I was too old for now, that sat on the shelf in my closet, mashed against the back wall.

If you're hung up on nostalgia, pretend today is yesterday and just go out and have one hell of a time.

It meant nothing to him any longer, only a faint tinge of sadness--and somewhere within him, a drop of pain moving briefly and vanishing, like a raindrop on the glass of a window, its course in the shape of a question mark.

I though I knew what sadness was. But I didn't.

Sadness, disappointment, and severe challenge are events in life, not life itself.