Cool Sayings and Quotes

For all sad words of tongue and pen, the saddest are these, ‘It might have been.
- John Greenleaf Whittier

Dying seems less sad than having lived too little.

Sadness flies away on the wings of time.
- Jean de La Fontaine

It is sad to grow old but nice to ripen.

The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.
- W. M. Lewis

I had rather have a fool make me merry, than experience make me sad.

Nobody really cares if you’re miserable, so you might as well be happy.

A sad spectacle. If they be inhabited, what a scope for misery and folly. If they be not inhabited, what a waste of space.

Better by far you should forget and smile than that you should remember and be sad.
- Christina Georgina Rossetti

For all sad words of tongue and pen, the saddest are these, It might have been.

However long the night, the dawn will break.

The walls we build around us to keep out the sadness also keep out the joy.

It is quite gratifying to feel guilty if you haven’t done anything wrong: how noble! Whereas it is rather hard and certainly depressing to admit guilt and to repent.
- Hannah Arendt

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