"Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not."
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow"My sore throats are always worse than anyone's."
Quotes to Explore
"You cannot protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from happiness."
Jonathan Safran Foer"Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart."
Fyodor Dostoevsky"For all sad words of tongue and pen, the saddest are these, ‘It might have been."
John Greenleaf Whittier"The word ‘happy’ would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness."
Carl Jung"Tears come from the heart and not from the brain."
Leonardo da Vinci"Melancholy is the happiness of being sad."
Victor Hugo"Sadness is also a kind of defence."
Ivo Andric"Every life has a measure of sorrow, and sometimes this is what awakens us."
Steven Tyler"Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought."
Percy Bysshe Shelley"The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities."
Sophocles"Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us sorry but wise."
H. G. Wells"I do believe that if you haven't learnt about sadness, you cannot appreciate happiness."
Nana Mouskouri"The sad truth is that opportunity doesn't knock twice."
Gloria Estefan