sadness quotes

• It is a quite remarkable fact that the great religions of the most civilized peoples are more deeply fraught with sadness than the simpler beliefs of earlier societies. This certainly does not mean that the current of pessimism is eventually to submerge the other, but it proves that it does not lose ground and that it does not seem destined to disappear. (Emile Durkheim) [more/sadness/beliefs]
• Man could not live if he were entirely impervious to sadness. Many sorrows can be endured only by being embraced, and the pleasure taken in them naturally has a somewhat melancholy character. So, melancholy is morbid only when it occupies too much place in life; but it is equally morbid for it to be wholly excluded from life. (Emile Durkheim) [sadness/being/pleasure/melancholy]
• Sadness does not inhere in things; it does not reach us from the world and through mere contemplation of the world. It is a product of our own thought. We create it out of whole cloth. (Emile Durkheim) [sadness/reach/product]
• An ounce of cheerfulness is worth a pound of sadness to serve God with. (Thomas Fuller) [sadness/god]
• Well: what we gain by science is, after all, sadness, as the Preacher saith. The more we know of the laws and nature of the Universe the more ghastly a business we perceive it all to be -- and the non-necessity of it. (Thomas Hardy) [science/sadness/more/nature]
• No society has been able to abolish human sadness, no political system can deliver us from the pain of living, from our fear of death, our thirst for the absolute. It is the human condition that directs the social condition, not vice versa. (Eugene Ionesco) [society/human/sadness/system]
• A feeling of sadness and longing that is not akin to pain, and resembles sorrow only as the mist resembles the rain. (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow) [feeling/sadness/pain/sorrow]
• The walls we build around us to keep sadness out also keeps out the joy. (Jim Rohn) [walls/sadness/joy]
• Absolute silence leads to sadness. It is the image of death. (Jean-Jacques Rousseau) [absolute/silence/sadness/death]
• I think we all have a lot of darkness in our bellies. As an actor, the challenge of tapping into that, reaching down into that sadness or anger, is very therapeutic. (Kevin Bacon) [think/darkness/sadness]
• “On the one hand there is definitely rage and anger for the drunken driver of the car mixed with overwhelming sadness for the survivors.” (Gene Kelly) [rage/car/sadness]
• “feel the same angst, confusion, anger, sadness and awkwardness teens always felt. But in 1998, you also worry if the kid in the next locker has a gun, or if your best friend will get pregnant or commit suicide. Teens are forced to be adults the minute they step into a high school hallway.” (Jennifer Hewitt) [sadness/teens/worry/willpower]
• In a world where there is so much sadness and so much to be afraid of, good things do happen to people. Romance is still something we can find even if we're not consciously looking for it. (Kathleen Quinlan) [sadness/people/find]
• If my world were to cave in tomorrow, I would look back on all the pleasures, excitements and worthwhilenesses I have been lucky enough to have had. Not the sadness, not my miscarriages or my father leaving home, but the joy of everything else. It will have been enough. (Audrey Hepburn) [look/sadness/housing/joy]

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