#sadness

"There is a collective as well as an individual humor inclining peoples to sadness or cheerfulness, making them see things in bright or somber lights. In fact, only society can pass a collective opinion on the value of human life; for this the individual is incompetent."

"Any fool can be happy. It takes a man with real heart to make beauty out of the stuff that makes us weep."

"The girl I used to love is no longer a girl, and this saddens me more than our separation. It puts my own mortality vividly on display, in contrast to my eternally youthful memories."

"A tragedy need not have blood and death; it's enough that it all be filled with that majestic sadness that is the pleasure of tragedy."

"The more death, the more birth. People are entering, others are exiting. The cry of a baby, the mourning of others. When others cry, the other are laughing and making merry. The world is mingled with sadness, joy, happiness, anger, wealth, poverty, etc."

"the saddest thing is to bea minute to someone,when you've made them your eternity."

"In search of Truth the hopeful zealot goes,But all the sadder tums, the more he knows!"

"At the end of the day your ability to connect with your readers comes down to how you make them feel."

"After every storm, there is a rainbow. If you have eyes, you will find it. If you have wisdom, you will create it. If you have love for yourself and others, you won’t need it."

"There is no beauty in sadness. No honor in suffering. No growth in fear. No relief in hate. It’s just a waste of perfectly good happiness."

"Laugh, and the world laughs with you;Weep, and you weep alone;For the sad old earth must borrow its mirth,But has trouble enough of its own."

"That which others hear or read of, I felt and practised myself; they get their knowledge by books, I mine by melancholizing."

"I don't think all writers are sad, she said.I think it's the other way around—all sad people write."

"She had loved him for such a long time, she thought. How was it that she did now know him at all?"

"One of the greatest tragedies in life is to lose your own sense of self and accept the version of you that is expected by everyone else."

"What you must understand about me is that I’m a deeply unhappy person."

"When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love have always won. There have been tyrants and murderers, and for a time, they can seem invincible, but in the end, they always fall. Think of it--always."

"I have so much in me, and the feeling for her absorbs it all; I have so much, and without her it all comes to nothing."

"there are two types of people in the world: those who prefer to be sad among others, and those who prefer to be sad alone."

"Absence is a house so vast that inside you will pass through its walls and hang pictures on the air."