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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. (Quote by - Emile Durkheim)

The only one interested in hearing your sad story is . . . you; and even you wish you didn?t have to relive it again! (Quote by - Guy Finley)

For all sad words of tongue and pen, the saddest are these, 'It might have been. (Quote by - John Greenleaf Whittier)

The human mind can bear plenty of reality but not too much intermittent gloom. (Quote by - Margaret Drabble)

A feeling of sadness and longing, That is not akin to pain, And resembles sorrow only As the mist resembles the rain. (Quote by - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)

Anger is just a cowardly extension of sadness. It's a lot easier to be angry at someone than it is to tell them you're hurt. (Quote by - Tom Gates)

Of all tales 'tis the saddest--and more sad, Because it makes us smile. (Quote by - George Gordon Noel Byron)

So much sadness exists in the world that we are all under obligation to contribute as much joy as lies within our powers. (Quote by - John Sutherland Bonnell)

Never let go of that fiery sadness called desire. (Quote by - Patti Smith)

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. (Quote by - Akhenaton)

The past is as powerless to darken the present moment as is a shadow to reach up and drag down the form that casts it. (Quote by - Guy Finley)

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. (Quote by - Eugene Ionesco)

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. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)

Sadness usually results from one of the following causes either when a man does not succeed, or is ashamed of his success (Quote by - Seneca)

No sadder proof can be given by a man of his own littleness, than disbelief in great men. (Quote by - Thomas Carlyle)

The walls we build around us to keep out the sadness also keep out the joy. (Quote by - Jim Rohn )

When sorrows come, they come not single spies, but in battalions. (Quote by - William Shakespeare quotes)

The only thing worried thoughts have the power to change is what the next thing will be for you to worry over! (Quote by - Guy Finley)

Oh the gladness of their gladness when they're glad, And the sadness of their sadness when they're sad; But the gladness of their gladness, and the sadness of their sadness, Are as nothing to their badness when they're bad (Quote by - James Matthew Barrie)

Sadness is but a wall between two gardens. (Quote by - Kahlil Gibran)

Sadness flies on the wings of the morning, and out of the heart of darkness comes the light. (Quote by - Jean Giraudoux)

Sadness is a state of sin. (Quote by - Andre Gide)

It is sad to grow old but nice to ripen. (Quote by - Brigitte Bardot)

Poverty makes you sad as well as wise. (Quote by - Bertolt Brecht)

Silence is medication for sorrow. (Quote by - Arab Proverb )

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