Sadness Quotes (2451 Quotes)

He started feeling real bad in the middle of the night. It's just very sad. I'm totally stunned and devastated.

This is Harry Potter at its finest, even if it is a different Harry Potter from what we have been used to, ... Fear and sadness are expertly portrayed, and no matter how much you love or hate the book you'll have a hard time not getting drawn into this movie.

Sorrow makes us children again.

Christian children all must be Mild, obedient, good as He.... . For He is our childhoods pattern, Day by day like us He grew, He was little, weak, and helpless, Tears and smiles like us He knew And He feeleth for our sadness, And He shareth in our gladness.

In any case life is but a procession of shadows, and God knows why it is that we embrace them so eagerly, and see them depart with such anguish, being shadows.

People who use their erudition to write for a learned minority... don't seem to me favored by fortune but rather to be pitied for their continuous self-torture. They add, change, remove, lay aside, take up, rephrase, show to their friends, keep for nine years and are never satisfied. And their futile reward, a word of praise from a handful of people, they win at such a cost -- so many late nights, such loss of sleep, sweetest of all things, and so much sweat and anguish... their health deteriorates, their looks are destroyed, they suffer partial or total blindness, poverty, ill-will, denial of pleasure, premature old age and early death.

HEAD-MONEY, n. A capitation tax, or poll-tax. In ancient times there lived a king Whose tax-collectors could not wring From all his subjects gold enough To make the royal way less rough. For pleasure's highway, like the dames Whose premises adjoin it, claims Perpetual repairing. So The tax-collectors in a row Appeared before the throne to pray Their master to devise some way To swell the revenue. So great, Said they, are the demands of state A tithe of all that we collect Will scarcely meet them. Pray reflect How, if one-tenth we must resign, Can we exist on t'other nine The monarch asked them in reply; Has it occurred to you to try The advantage of economy; It has, the spokesman said we sold All of our gray garrotes of gold With plated-ware we now compress The necks of those whom we assess. Plain iron forceps we employ To mitigate the miser's joy Who hoards, with greed that never tires, That which your Majesty requires. Deep lines of thought were seen to plow Their way across the royal brow. Your state is desperate, no question Pray favor me with a suggestion. O King of Men, the spokesman said, If you'll impose upon each head A tax, the augmented revenue We'll cheerfully divide with you. As flashes of the sun illume The parted storm-cloud's sullen gloom, The king smiled grimly. I decree That it be so --and, not to be In generosity outdone, Declare you, each and every one, Exempted from the operation Of this new law of capitation. But lest the people censure me Because they're bound and you are free,'Twere well some clever scheme were laid By you this poll-tax to evade. I'll leave you now while you confer With my most trusted minister. The monarch from the throne-room walked And straightway in among them stalked A silent man, with brow concealed, Bare-armed --his gleaming axe revealed --G. J.

I learned from my experiences that most of the prisoners went to prison when they were young, drunk and involved in drugs. The sad thing is that when they are given the time to grow up and clean up, they are people just like us.

... for I will turn their mourning into joy, and will comfort them, and make them rejoice from their sorrow.

This is a sad day, not just for Kansas kids, but for Kansas. We're becoming a laughingstock not only of the nation but of the world.

And if We make him taste a favor after distress has afflicted him, he will certainly say The evils are gone away from me. Most surely he is exulting, boasting Except those who are patient and do good, they shall have forgiveness and a great reward.

I can tell you that it's just a sad day, a sad day for the Latin music industry, ... Tito was known all over the world.

It was the toughest decision I've ever made. It took a lot of thought, anguish and tears.

We started looking for someone in L.A., and what we found was that we were encountering the usual suspects. They're Hollywood kids who have been in the business for a few years. We were looking for someone who was a little raw and a little edgier. And we got a tape from New York with this kid on it. The thing that sold us was his face. He has an incredibly expressive face, and it's older than his years. When you sit and you look at him, it already feels like he's carrying the weight of the world on his shoulders. He looks like his eyes are a little sad, but he's really bright. At this particular point, there's no Hollywood in him.

I swear 'tis better to be lowly born, And range with humble livers in content, Than to be perked up in a glistering grief, And wear a golden sorrow.

I've been working on the government agenda for a few days now. There is no problem (regarding Berlusconi), it doesn't impede our actions. But it's sad.

Oh once the harp of Innisfail Was strung full high to notes of gladness But yet it often told a tale Of more prevailing sadness.

Nothing brings me more happiness than trying to help the most vulnerable people in society. It is a goal and an essential part of my life - a kind of destiny. Whoever is in distress can call on me. I will come running wherever they are.

What I really got from Bob was this unbelievable sadness. He really did know how the world worked, and he really did seem like a wandering guy without a country, like an exile. And it was sad.

The real security of Christianity is to be found in its benevolent morality, in its exquisite adaptation to the human heart, in the facility with which its scheme accommodates itself to the capacity of every human intellect, in the consolation which it bears to the house of mourning, in the light with which it brightens the great mystery of the grave.

It's a sad day when the leaders of the free world engage in such deception and trickery. I voted against this unnecessary war and will continue to argue that the best way to support our troops is to bring them home.

Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.

The mother is everythingshe is our consolation in sorrow, our hope in misery, and our strength in weakness. She is the source of love, mercy, sympathy, and forgiveness. He who loses his mother loses a pure soul who blesses and guards him constantly.

Jenny kiss'd me when we met, Jumping from the chair she sat in Time, you thief, who love to get Sweets into your list, put that in Say I'm weary, say I'm sad, Say that health and wealth have miss'd me, Say I'm growing old, but add, Jenny kiss'd m

The white man's happiness cannot be purchased by the black man's misery.

The position I would have to take is, the filing fee wasn't paid. It's sad. I hate to see that happen to anybody.

It's a sad thing that it takes a celebrity's death to highlight that this is the leading cancer killer of both men and women.

For love was offered me and I shrank from its disillusionment;
Sorrow knocked at my door, but I was afraid;
Ambition called to me, but I dreaded the chances.

What is this I hear of sorrow and weariness,
Anger, discontent and drooping hopes?

I was a little bit scared at first. I was in my 30s when I originally sang those numbers. Now, I am old enough. During the recording, David told me that he thought of Burman as a very big composer, someone like Mozart. I felt sad, because he died 12 years ago and he didn't get the recognition that he deserved while he was alive.

One often learns more from ten days of agony than ten years of contentment.

More and more Americans feel threatened by runaway technology, by large-scale organization, by overcrowding. More and more Americans are appalled by the ravages of industrial progress, by the defacement of nature, by man-made ugliness. If our society continues at its present rate to become less livable as it becomes more affluent, we promise all to end up in sumptuous misery.

Hush, call no echo up in further proof
Of desolation!

In my early days in Hollywood I tried to be economical. I designed my own clothes, much to my mother's distress.

Doing this show is really painful each time I perform it. The degree to which women hate their bodies is profoundly sad. Let's just put off our self-hatred for 10 years, take over the world, and then we can obsess again.

Hang sorrow, carell kill a cat.

It is a scene of some human misery, ... This is ... a serious humanitarian catastrophe.

I am well aware of the Toil and Blood and Treasure, that it will cost us to maintain this Declaration, and support and defend these States. Yet through all the Gloom I can see the Rays of ravishing Light and Glory. I can see that the End is more than worth all the Means. And that Posterity will triumph in that Days Transaction, even although We should rue it, which I trust in God We shall not.

Want of money and the distress of a thief can never be alleged as the cause of his thieving, for many honest people endure greater hardships with fortitude. We must therefore seek the cause elsewhere than in want of money, for that is the miser's passion, not the thief s.

When they make a desolation they call it peace. Ubi solitudinem faciunt pacem appellant.

Everyone says there's a war of ideas out there, and I agree. The sad fact is that we're on the wrong side,

Time draweth wrinkles in a fair face, but addeth fresh colors to a fast friend, which neither heat, nor cold, nor misery, nor place, nor destiny, can alter or diminish.

... And listen carefully, when you don't need the other, you can love. And that love will not bring misery.

Do you know how many countries are represented in the Olympics, and how many sports, and how many athletes ... A lot. A lot. But no Americans in baseball Why Why It's sad. Very sad.

Next to a battle lost, the greatest misery is a battle gained.

Understanding of our fellow human beings...becomes fruitful only when it is sustained by sympathetic feelings in joy and sorrow.

I'm happy, I would say that I'm one of the happiest people I know but I've certainly had periods of profound sadness, depression and heartache and those are the kind of things that are interesting to me to write about.

I am so sad. She was a great person and a genius to work with. We will all miss her.

This is a sad day for Africa for Nigeria to succumb to this.

It was shocking because his mother called me and told me he was in a terrible accident. I didn't know how bad. I got down there and found out he had these tremendous injuries, primarily to his foot, ankle and leg. That day was a sad day throughout the whole area.