Saturday, May 30, 2015

Sadness Sayings

Sadness (also called heavy-heartedness) is emotional pain associated with, or characterized by feelings of disadvantage, loss, despair, helplessness, disappointment and sorrow.

sadness sayings
An individual experiencing sadness may become quiet or lethargic, and withdraw themselves from others. [wikipedia]

Here is collection of sadness sayings:


"For of all sad words of tongue or pen, the saddest are these: "It might have been!"- John Greenleaf Whittier

"A man's sorrow runs uphill; true it is difficult for him to bear, but it is also difficult for him to keep." - Djuna Barnes

"A moment of time may make us unhappy forever." - John Gay

"Everyone is a moon and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody." - Mark Twain

"Sorrow looks back, worry looks around, faith looks up." - Unknown

"The saddest summary of a life contains three descriptions: could have, might have, and should have." - Louis E. Boone

"The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not. The cure for it is occupation." - George Bernard Shaw

"Sorrows when shared are less burdensome, though joys divided are increased." - Josiah Gilbert Holland

"The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it." - W. M. Lewis

"If you are bitter at heart, sugar in the mouth will not help you." - Yiddish Proverbs

"A wound heals but the scar remains." - Proverb

"Suffering is getting what you do not want while wanting what you do not get." - JI Packer

"The tragedy of life is not so much what men suffer, but rather what they miss." - Thomas Carlyle