Quotes about Sadness

Travelling is a fool's paradise. We owe to our first journeys the discovery that place is nothing. At home I dream that at Naples, at Rome, I can be intoxicated with beauty, and lose my sadness. I pack my trunk, embrace my friends, embark on the sea, and at last wake up in Naples, and there beside me is the stern Fact, the sad self, unrelenting identical that I fled from.

Tozer wrote, When the followers of Jesus Christ lose their interest in heaven they will no longer be happy Christians, and when they are no longer happy Christians they cannot be a powerful force in a sad and sinful world.

I can choose to sit in perpetual sadness, immobilized by the gravity of my loss, or I can choose to rise from the pain and treasure the most precious gift I have - life itself

How sad to see a worthless man who claims to know God confirm by running back to the road of self-righteousness that he never met Him.

God can and will wipe all that shame and sadness away if you will only repent.

On Man, on Nature, and on Human Life, Musing in solitude, I oft perceive Fair trains of images before me rise, Accompanied by feelings of delight Pure, or with no unpleasing sadness mixed.

Sadness is more or less like a head cold - with patience, it passes. Depression is like cancer.

The moment we cry in a film is not when things are sad but when they turn out to be more beautiful than we expected them to be.

Study always to have Joy, for it befits not the servant of God to show before his brother or another sadness or a troubled face.

Christmas is the beachhead of God's campaign against sin and sadness, darkness and death, fear and frustration.