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Quotes about Sadness

My marriage didn't make me sad, but it didn't make me happy either. My husband and I hardly spoke to each other. This wasn't because we were angry. We had nothing to say. I was dying of boredom.
— Marilyn Monroe
It makes me sad because I've never seen such--such beautiful shirts before.
— F Scott Fitzgerald
Our sadness is not sad, but our cheap joys.
— Henry David Thoreau
His face was sad and stern because of the doom that was laid on him, and yet hope dwelt ever in the depths of his heart, from which mirth would arise at times like a spring from a rock.
— JRR Tolkien
A simile committing suicide is always a depressing spectacle.
— Oscar Wilde
Our life is...a time in which sadness and joy kiss each other at every moment.
— Henri Nouwen
She felt a little betrayed and sad, but presently a moving object came into sight. It was a huge horse-chestnut tree in full bloom bound for the Champs Elysees, strapped now into a long truck and simply shaking with laughter - like a lovely person in an undignified position yet confident none the less of being lovely. Looking at it with fascination, Rosemary identified herself with it, and laughed cheerfully with it, and everything all at once seemed gorgeous.
— F Scott Fitzgerald
I suppose all great happiness is a little sad. Beauty means the scent of roses and then the death of roses—
— F Scott Fitzgerald
Her face was sad and lovely with bright things in it
— F Scott Fitzgerald
Beauty and love pass, I know... Oh, there's sadness, too. I suppose all great happiness is a little sad. Beauty means the scent of roses and then the death of roses--
— F Scott Fitzgerald
She looks at him once more, with infinite longing, infinite sadness.
— F Scott Fitzgerald
A woman who lives with the stress of an overwhelmed schedule will often ache with the sadness of an underwhelmed soul.
— Lysa TerKeurst