John Greenleaf Whittier Quotes and Sayings
Quotes by John Greenleaf Whittier

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

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Sad Quotes and Sayings

Write your Sad times in Sand,
Write your Good times in Stone.
- George Bernard Shaw

Success is failure recycled.
Life is death reborn.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Love means not ever having to say you're sorry.
- Erich Segal

Life is as easy or as hard as you think it is.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Our lives begin to end the day we become silent
about things that matter.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom.
- Rabindranath Tagore

The way I see it, if you want the rainbow,
you gotta put up with the rain.
- Dolly Parton

What's done is done.
- William Shakespeare

Worry often gives a small thing a big shadow.
- Swedish Proverb

When It's Darkest, Men See the Stars.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

The darkest night is often the bridge to the brightest tomorrow.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Distance cannot matter - ours is a friendship of the heart.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

If I feel depressed I will sing.
If I feel sad I will laugh.
If I feel ill I will double my labor.
If I feel fear I will plunge ahead.
If I feel inferior I will wear new garments.
If I feel uncertain I will raise my voice.
If I feel poverty I will think of wealth to come.
If I feel incompetent I will think of past success.
If I feel insignificant I will remember my goals.
Today I will be the master of my emotions.
- Og Mandino

I leave no trace of wings in the air,
but I am glad I have had my flight.
- Rabindranath Tagore

Misunderstanding arising from ignorance breeds fear,
and fear remains the greatest enemy of peace.
- Lester B. Pearson

Today is your day to laugh at life,
laugh at what's funny - laugh at what's sad,
laugh loud - laugh often,
laugh at me - laugh at you - laugh at life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

A mask tells us more than a face.
- Oscar Wilde

It is darkest just before the dawn.
- Proverb

Conventional people are roused to fury
by departure from convention,
largely because they regard such departure
as a criticism of themselves.
- Bertrand Russell

It isn't the mountain ahead that wears you out;
it's the grain of sand in your shoe.
- Robert W. Service

Regrets are the tears of good deeds left undone
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Speak when you are angry -
and you will make the best speech you'll ever regret.
- Laurence J. Peter

Love: if you have to ask,
it's not the real thing.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Language... has created the word "loneliness"
to express the pain of being alone.
And it has created the word "solitude"
to express the glory of being alone.
- Paul Tillich

At the bottom of enmity between strangers lies indifference.
- Soren Kierkegaard

Sadness is a choice - sadness does not exist.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Time cures all things.
- Proverb

Letting go doesn't mean giving up...
it means moving on.
- Anonymous

Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones,
as the wind blows out the candle and blows up the bonfire.
- Francois de la Rochefoucauld

The hunger for love is
much more difficult to remove
than the hunger for bread.
- Mother Teresa

A moment without joy is an eternity of sadness.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Men occasionally stumble over the truth,
but most of them pick themselves up
and hurry off as if nothing had happened.
- Winston Churchill

Most men lead lives of quiet desperation
and go to the grave with the song still in them.
- Henry David Thoreau

Those who own much have much to fear.
- Rabindranath Tagore

I never considered a difference of opinion
in politics, in religion, in philosophy,
as cause for withdrawing from a friend.
- Thomas Jefferson

Your pain is the breaking of the shell
that encloses your understanding.
- Khalil Gibran

If you love something, set it free;
if it comes backs it's yours,
if it doesn't, it never was.
- Richard Bach

Mistakes are, after all, the foundations of truth,
and if a man does not know what a thing is,
it is at least an increase in knowledge
if he knows what it is not.
- Carl Jung

The regrets and resentments etched in a heart
remain until they are cleansed away with love.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.
- Gilbert (G. K.) Chesterton

O! beware, my lord, of jealousy;
It is the green-eyed monster which
doth mock the meat it feeds on.
- William Shakespeare

It is far better to be alone,
than to be in bad company.
- George Washington

Action is the antidote to dispair.
- Joan Baez

Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth
until the hour of separation.
- Khalil Gibran

Love is never lost. If not reciprocated,
it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.
- Washington Irving

When you reach the end of your rope,
tie a knot and hang on.
- Anonymous Saying
(Sometimes attributed to Franklin D. Roosevelt,
Eleanor Roosevelt, or Thomas Jefferson)

We may have found a cure for most evils;
but we have found no remedy for the worst of them all,
the apathy of human beings.
- Helen Keller

There can be no deep disappointment where there is not deep love.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

A man's good name is his best monument
- from an old churchyard at Lockerbie, Scotland

Those who cannot remember the past
are condemned to repeat it.
- George Santayana

Good Endings precede Good Beginnings.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

A man is not old until his regrets take the place of his dreams.
- Yiddish Proverb

Man plans, God laughs
- Yiddish Proverb

Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
- James Joyce

Good humor is the health of the soul,
sadness is its poison.
- Lord Chesterfield

Love is like the truth,
sometimes it prevails,
sometimes it hurts.
- Victor M. Garcia Jr.

One never notices what has been done;
one can only see what remains to be done.
- Marie Curie

It is sad to grow old but nice to ripen.
- Brigitte Bardot

An insincere and evil friend is more
to be feared than a wild beast;
a wild beast may wound your body,
but an evil friend will wound your mind.
- The Buddha

Humans do have an amazing capacity
for believing what they choose,
and excluding that which is painful.
- Spock (character in Star Trek television series)

Your pain is the breaking of the shell
that encloses your understanding.
Much of your pain is self-chosen.
It is the bitter potion by which the
physician within you heals your sick self.
Therefore trust the physician, and drink
his remedy in silence and tranquility.
- Khalil Gibran

Life is lived in the waiting.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

The Principal Causes of Our Suffering
are Our Expectations and Our Assumptions.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

"You always..." and "you never..." are code phrases for
"you don't meet my expectations,
so I am declaring you inadequate and unacceptable."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow,
it only saps today of its joy.
- Leo Buscaglia

Sadness is nothing more than the absence of joy
in the same way that darkness
is nothing more than the absence of light.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Before moving on, you have to clear away your cherished beliefs.
- Dick Raymond

Anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow...
but only empties today of its strength.
- C. H. Spurgeon

A true friend never gets in your way
unless you happen to be going down.
- Arnold H. Glasgow

My Mama always said you've got to put the past behind you
before you can move on.
- the movie Forrest Gump

An injured friend is the bitterest of foes.
- Thomas Jefferson

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