(1279 quotes found)
“There's no excuse to be bored. Sad, yes. Angry, yes. Depressed, yes. Crazy, yes. But there's no excuse for boredom, ever.”
Viggo Mortensen
“How sad and bad and mad it was - / But then, how it was sweet!”
Robert Browning
“The love that lasts the longest is the love that is never returned.”
William Somerset Maugham
“Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better take things as they come along with patience and equanimity.”
Carl Gustav Jung
“I've cried, and you'd think I'd be better for it, but the sadness just sleeps, and it stays in my spine the rest of my life.”
Conor Oberst
“You expected to be sad in the fall. Part of you dies each year when the leaves fell from the trees and their branches were bare against the wind and the cold, wintry light. But you knew there would always be the spring, as you knew the river would flow again after it was frozen. When the cold rains kept on and killed the spring, it was as though a young person had died for no reason.”
Ernest Hemingway
“There is no such thing as death. In nature nothing dies. From each sad remnant of decay, some forms of life arise so shall his life be taken away before he knoweth that he hath it.”
Charles Mackay
“It's a sad house where the hen crows louder than the cock.”
Scottish Proverb
“Melancholy is sadness that has taken on lightness”
Italo Calvino
“When I am dead, my dearest, Sing no sad songs for me”
Christina G. Rossetti
