(1308 quotes found)
“Good humor is the health of the soul, sadness its poison”
Lord Chesterfield
“We live by encouragement and die without it - slowly, sadly, angrily”
Celeste Holm
“Sadness and gladness succeed each other”
Proverb
“Lord, make me an instrument of your peace; where there is hatred, let me sow love; where there is injury, pardon; where there is doubt, faith; where there is despair, hope; where there is darkness, light; and where there is sadness, joy.”
St. Francis of Assisi
“Come, let's have one other gaudy night. Call to me. All my sad captains. Fill our bowls once more. Let's mock the midnight bell.”
William Shakespeare
“The love that lasts the longest is the love that is never returned.”
William Somerset Maugham
“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
“Grief and sadness knits two hearts in closer bonds than happiness ever can; and common sufferings are far stronger than common joys”
Alphonse de Lamartine
“We never taste happiness in perfection, our most fortunate successes are mixed with sadness.”
Pierre Corneille
“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