sadness Quotes

Despair is a narcotic. It lulls the mind into indifference.

For awhile after you quit Keats all other poetry seems to be only whistling or humming.

Family quarrels are bitter things. They don't go according to any rules. They're not like aches or wounds, they're more like splits in the skin that won't heal because there's not enough material.

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.

The faces of most American women over thirty are relief maps of petulant and bewildered unhappiness.

Show me a hero and I'll write you a tragedy.

I admire people who destroy themselves.

Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.

Suffering by nature or chance never seems so painful as suffering inflicted on us by the arbitrary will of another.

Sad people dislike the happy, and the happy the sad; the quick thinking the sedate, and the careless the busy and industrious.