Sadness Of Life Quotes by Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Iris Murdoch, Chuck Palahniuk, Kay Redfield Jamison, Joseph Addison, Katie Gill and many others.

Absolute silence leads to sadness. It is the image of death.
Oh the piercing sadness of life in the midst of its ordinariness!
It’s easy to cry when you realize that everyone you love will reject you or die.
We all build internal sea walls to keep at bay the sadnesses of life and the often overwhelming forces within our minds. In whatever way we do this–through love, work, family, faith, friends, denial, alcohol, drugs, or medication, we build these walls, stone by stone, over a lifetime.
A man should always consider how much he has more than he wants.
Anger, tears and sadness are only for those who have given up.
Sadness flies away on the wings of time.
Maybe this is the point: to embrace the core sadness of life without toppling headlong into it, or assuming it will define your days.
Real artists take the misery and sadness of life and translate it into art.
Laugh and the world laughs with you!
No society has been able to abolish human sadness, no political system can deliver us from the pain of living, from our fear of death, our thirst for the absolute. It is the human condition that directs the social condition, not vice versa.
Sadness usually results from one of the following causes either when a man does not succeed, or is ashamed of his success.
Every human walks around with a certain kind of sadness. They may not wear it on their sleeves, but it’s there if you look deep.
What you must understand about me is that I’m a deeply unhappy person.
Tears are words the heart can’t express
I’ve cried, and you’d think I’d be better for it, but the sadness just sleeps, and it stays in my spine the rest of my life.
It is a time when one’s spirit is subdued and sad, one knows not why; when the past seems a storm-swept desolation, life a vanity and a burden, and the future but a way to death.