“The word 'happiness' would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.”
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“I had rather have a fool to make me merry than experience to make me sad and to travel for it too!”
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“How sad it is that we give up on people who are just like us.”
“Few women, I fear, have had such reason as I have to think the long sad years of youth were worth living for the sake of middle age.”
“I seldom think about my limitations, and they never make me sad. Perhaps there is just a touch of yearning at times but it is vague, like a breeze among flowers.”
“Sadness is but a wall between two gardens.”
“Make the most of your regrets never smother your sorrow, but tend and cherish it till it comes to have a separate and integral interest. To regret deeply is to live afresh.”
“The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities.”
“It's sad, actually, because my anxiety keeps me from enjoying things as much as I should at this age.”
“The sad thing about artificial intelligence is that it lacks artifice and therefore intelligence.”
“You listen to a piece of music and it will remind you of something - it might make you happy, it might make you sad, but it is very emotive. And I think that Duran Duran have always understood that.”
“Sad and sweet and wise Here a child reposes Dust is on his eyes, Quietly he lies - Satan, strew Roses.”
“An ounce of cheerfulness is worth a pound of sadness to serve God with.”
“Man is born passionate of body, but with an innate though secret tendency to the love of Good in his main-spring of Mind. But God help us all! It is at present a sad jar of atoms.”
“What is sad for women of my generation is that they weren't supposed to work if they had families. What were they going to do when the children are grown - watch the raindrops coming down the window pane?”
“The display of grief makes more demands than grief itself. How few men are sad in their own company.”
“Wondrous is the strength of cheerfulness, and its power of endurance - the cheerful man will do more in the same time, will do it better, will preserve it longer, than the sad or sullen.”
“Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad, but sober; not to make us sorry, but wise.”
“Isn't it sad to go to your grave without ever wondering why you were born? Who, with such a thought, would not spring from bed, eager to resume discovering the world and rejoicing to be part of it?”
“In this world, full often, our joys are only the tender shadows which our sorrows cast.”
“One must not let oneself be overwhelmed by sadness.”
“Can I see another's woe, and not be in sorrow too? Can I see another's grief, and not seek for kind relief?”
“We look before and after, And pine for what is not Our sincerest laughter With some pain is fraught Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.”
“It is sadder to find the past again and find it inadequate to the present than it is to have it elude you and remain forever a harmonious conception of memory.”
“Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.”