Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous
old poignant quotes, poignant sayings, and poignant proverbs, collected over the years from a variety
of sources.
Some old wounds never truly heal, and bleed again at the slightest word.G.R.R. Martin
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It hurts when you have someone in your heart, but you can't have them in your arms.Anonymous
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Sadness grieves the spirit. But sorrow refines soul.Lailah Gifty Akita
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It's a time of sorrow and sadness when we lose a loss of life.George W. Bush
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Sadness is always the legacy of the past; regrets are pains of the memory.Anonymous
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The only real sadness, the only real failure, the only great tragedy in life, is not to become a saint.Leon Bloy
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Sadness is the heart withdrawing to seek shelter from the pain.Richelle E. Goodrich
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Tears shed for another person are not a sign of weakness. They are a sign of a pure heart.Jose N Harris
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The sadness of the world has different ways of getting to people, but it seems to succeed almost every time.Louis-Ferdinand Celine
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Sorrow is one of the vibrations that prove the fact of living.Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
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To hurt is as human as to breathe.J.K. Rowling
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In deep sadness there is no place for sentimentality.William S. Burroughs
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All of our unhappiness comes from our inability to be alone.Jean de la Bruyère
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Sadness does not inhere in things; it does not reach us from the world and through mere contemplation of the world. It is a product of our own thought. We create it out of whole cloth.Emile Durkheim
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Sadness flies away on the wings of time.Jean de la Fontaine
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Sadness flies on the wings of the morning and out of the heart of darkness comes the light.Jean Giraudoux
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Every life has a measure of sorrow and sometimes that is what awakens us.Steven Tyler
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Sadness gives depth. Happiness gives height. Sadness gives roots. Happiness gives branches. Happiness is like a tree going into the sky, and sadness is like the roots going down into the womb of the earth. Both are needed, and the higher a tree goes, the deeper it goes, simultaneously. The bigger the tree, the bigger will be its roots. In fact, it is always in proportion. That's its balance.Osho
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Melancholy is the pleasure of being sad.Victor Hugo
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The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities.Sophocles
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This genuine heart of sadness can teach us great compassion. It can humble us when we're arrogant and soften us when we are unkind.Pema Chodron
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There's no happiness in a situation where there's disparity.Hermann J Steinherr
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So much sadness exists in the world that we are all under obligation to contribute as much joy as lies within our powers.John Sutherland Bonnel
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Sadness usually results from one of the following causes either when a man does not succeed, or is ashamed of his success.Seneca
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Life's missed opportunities, at the end, may seem more poignant to us than those we embraced because in our imagination they have a perfection that reality can never rival.Roger Ebert
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To die is poignantly bitter, but the idea of having to die without having lived is unbearable.Erich Fromm
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A feeling of sadness and longing, that is not akin to pain, and resembles sorrow only as the mist resembles the rain.Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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Some of us think that holding on makes us strong, but sometimes it's letting go.Herman Hesse
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Sadness is almost never anything but a form of fatigue.Andre Gide
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Nobody wants to be depressed everybody's trying to feel better; when they strive and fail, it's all the more poignant.Joel Kinnaman