sadness Quotes

I am sometimes sad when I hear the personal stories of Tibetan refugees who have been tortured or beaten. Some irritation, some anger comes. But it never lasts long. I always try to think at a deeper level, to find ways to console.

Even when a person has all of life's comforts - good food, good shelter, a companion - he or she can still become unhappy when encountering a tragic situation.

It is with an old love as it is with old age a man lives to all the miseries, but is dead to all the pleasures.

The happiness and misery of men depend no less on temper than fortune.

There is many a virtuous woman weary of her trade.

A child miseducated is a child lost.

There is no sadder sight than a young pessimist.

We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.

Perhaps I know best why it is man alone who laughs; he alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter.

Ah, women. They make the highs higher and the lows more frequent.