sadness quotes

The sadness of the women's movement isthat they don't allow the necessity of love. See, I don't personally trust any revolution where love is not allowed.

- Maya originally MayaJohnson Angelou
  Interview in California Living,14 May. Collected in Conversations with Maya  Angelou (1989).

Adieu tristesse Bonjour tristesse. Farewell sadness Hello sadness.

- Paul pseudonym of  Euge'  ne Grindel EŁ  luard
  Poe  sie et ve  rite , 'La Vie imme  diate'.

Lord, make me an instrument of Your peace. Where there is hatred, let me sow love; Where there is injury, pardon; Where there is doubt, faith; Where there is despair, hope; Where there is darkness, light; Where there is sadness, joy. O divine Master, grant that I may not so much seek To be consoled as to console; To be understood as to understand; To be loved as to love. For it is in giving that we receive; It is in pardoning that we are pardoned; And it is in dying that we are born to eternal life.

- Benjamin Franklin
Attributed prayer, traditionally known as the'Prayer of St Francis'.

What we gain by science is, after all, sadness, as the Preacher saith.Themore weknowofthelaws and nature of the Universe the more ghastly a business we perceive it all to beand the non-necessity of it.

-Thomas Hardy
  Letter to Edward Clodd, 27 Feb.

'Tis true, I'm broke! Vows, oaths, and all I had Of credit lost. And I am now run mad, Or do upon my self some desperate ill; This sadness makes no approaches, but to kill.

- Ben Jonson
The Underwood,'An Elegy', no.40 (published1640).

Make me thy lyre, even as the forest is: What if my leaves are falling like its own! The tumult of thy mighty harmonies Will take from both a deep, autumnal tone, Sweet though in sadness.

- Percy Bysshe Shelley
  'Ode to theWestWind', l.57^61.

Twilight and evening bell, And after that the dark! And may there be no sadness of farewell, When I embark; For though from out our bourne of Time and Place The flood may bear me far, I hope to see my Pilot face to face When I have crossed the bar.

-Tennyson
  'Crossing the Bar', l.9^16.This wasTennyson's last poem.

Sir Henry Wotton†was also a most dear lover, and a frequent practiser of the art of angling; of which he would say,'it was anemployment forhisidletime†a rest to his mind, a cheerer of his spirits, a diverter of sadness, a calmer of unquiet thoughts, a moderator of passions, a procurer of contentedness; and that it begat habits of peace and patience in those that professed and practised it.'

- Izaak Walton
  The Compleat Angler, pt.1, ch.1.

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.

-William Wordsworth
  'The Excursion', preface, l.1^5.