# Quotes about sadness

- Quotes: 11
- Authors: 9
- Topic page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/sadness

## Quotes

> In the morning there was a big wind blowing and the waves were running high up on the beach and he was awake a long time before he remembered that his heart was broken.

[Ernest Hemingway](https://www.leafyquotes.com/ernest-hemingway.md) · [Men Without Women](https://www.leafyquotes.com/ernest-hemingway/men-without-women.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/ernest-hemingway/men-without-women/in-the-morning.md)

Topics: [suffering](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/suffering.md), [sadness](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/sadness.md)

> There's enough sorrow in the world, isn't there, without trying to invent it.

[E.M. Forster](https://www.leafyquotes.com/em-forster.md) · [A Room with a View](https://www.leafyquotes.com/em-forster/a-room-with-a-view.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/em-forster/a-room-with-a-view/theres-enough-sorrow.md)

Topics: [sadness](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/sadness.md)

> Moping melancholy
>
> And moon-struck madness.

[John Milton](https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-milton.md) · [Paradise Lost](https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-milton/paradise-lost.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-milton/paradise-lost/moping-melancholy-and.md)

Topics: [sadness](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/sadness.md)

> Thrice he assay'd, and thrice in spite of scorn
>
> Tears, such as angels weep, burst forth.

[John Milton](https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-milton.md) · [Paradise Lost](https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-milton/paradise-lost.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-milton/paradise-lost/thrice-he-assayd.md)

Topics: [sadness](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/sadness.md)

> Unhappiness is our element. We come to believe we can't function without it.

[Erica Jong](https://www.leafyquotes.com/erica-jong.md) · [How to Save Your Own Life](https://www.leafyquotes.com/erica-jong/how-to-save-your-own-life.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/erica-jong/how-to-save-your-own-life/unhappiness-is-our.md)

Topics: [sadness](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/sadness.md)

> I convinced myself that sadness and compromise were the ways of the world...

[Erica Jong](https://www.leafyquotes.com/erica-jong.md) · [How to Save Your Own Life](https://www.leafyquotes.com/erica-jong/how-to-save-your-own-life.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/erica-jong/how-to-save-your-own-life/i-convinced-myself.md)

Topics: [sadness](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/sadness.md)

> He had wished to convince himself that Comarre was evil. Now he knew that it was not. There would always be, even in Utopia, some for whom the world had nothing to offer but sorrow and disillusion.

[Arthur C. Clarke](https://www.leafyquotes.com/arthur-c-clarke.md) · [The Collected Stories Of Arthur C. Clarke](https://www.leafyquotes.com/arthur-c-clarke/the-collected-stories-of-arthur-c-clarke.md) · p. 151 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/arthur-c-clarke/the-collected-stories-of-arthur-c-clarke/he-had-wished.md)

Topics: [sadness](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/sadness.md), [disappointment](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/disappointment.md)

> No quiero para mí tantas desgracias.
>
> No quiero continuar de raíz y de tumba,
>
> de subterráneo solo, de bodega con muertos
>
> ateridos, muriéndome de pena.

[Pablo Neruda](https://www.leafyquotes.com/pablo-neruda.md) · [Residencia en la Tierra / Residence on Earth](https://www.leafyquotes.com/pablo-neruda/residencia-en-la-tierra-residence-on-earth.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/pablo-neruda/residencia-en-la-tierra-residence-on-earth/no-quiero-para.md)

Topics: [suffering](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/suffering.md), [sadness](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/sadness.md)

> Nothing could be more heartrending than this mute and motionless despair.

[Emile Zola](https://www.leafyquotes.com/emile-zola.md) · [Thérèse Raquin](https://www.leafyquotes.com/emile-zola/therese-raquin.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/emile-zola/therese-raquin/nothing-could-be-more.md)

Topics: [suffering](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/suffering.md), [sadness](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/sadness.md)

> Tom appeared on the sidewalk with a bucket of whitewash and a long-handled brush. He surveyed the fence, and all gladness left him and a deep melancholy settled down upon his spirit. Thirty yards of board fence nine feet high. Life to him seemed hollow, and existence but a burden.

[Mark Twain](https://www.leafyquotes.com/mark-twain.md) · [The Adventures of Tom Sawyer](https://www.leafyquotes.com/mark-twain/the-adventures-of-tom-sawyer.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/mark-twain/the-adventures-of-tom-sawyer/tom-appeared-on-the.md)

Topics: [work](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/work.md), [sadness](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/sadness.md)

> Waste forces within him, and a desert all around, this man stood still on his way across a silent terrace, and saw for a moment, lying in the wilderness before him, a mirage of honourable ambition, self-denial, and perseverance. In the fair city of this vision, there were airy galleries from which the loves and graces looked upon him, gardens in which the fruits of life hung ripening, waters of Hope that sparkled in his sight. A moment, and it was gone. Climbing to a high chamber in a well of houses, he threw himself down in his clothes on a neglected bed, and its pillow was wet with wasted tears.

[Charles Dickens](https://www.leafyquotes.com/charles-dickens.md) · [A Tale of Two Cities](https://www.leafyquotes.com/charles-dickens/a-tale-of-two-cities.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/charles-dickens/a-tale-of-two-cities/waste-forces-within.md)

Topics: [sadness](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/sadness.md), [disappointment](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/disappointment.md)