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What signifies sadness; a man grows lean upon it.
A feeling of sadness that is not akin to pain, resembles sorrow only as the mist resembles rain.
Longfellow
It was a saying of Aristotle, that all noble-minded men are inclined to sadness. It is not merely the feeling that their lot is a hard one which oppresses them; it is something more it is their inward sympathy and consciousness of participation in the sufferings of the human race to which they belong.
Guesses at Truth
He whose days in willful woe are worn, the grace of his creator doth despise, that will not use his gifts for thankless niggardise.
Spenser
By sadness you destroy the divine image in your soul. God is joy. All nature rejoices in him, and would you be sad? A true joy makes the heart fear God.
Lombez
We ask God to forgive us for our evil thoughts and evil temper, but rarely, if ever, ask him to forgive us for our sadness. Joy is regarded as a happy accident of the Christain life, an ornament and a luxury rather than a duty.
R.W.Dale
Ah, this beautiful world! Indeed, I know not what to think of it. Sometimes it is all gladness and sunshine, and heaven itself lies not far off; and then it suddenly changes and is dark and sorrowful, and the clouds shut out the day. In the lives of the saddest of us there are bright days when we feel as if we could take the great world in our arms. Then come the gloomy hours, when all without and within is dismal, cold, and dark. Believe me, every heart has its secret sorrows, which the world knows not; and oftentimes we call a man cold when he is only sad.
Longfellow.
The deep undertone of the world is sadness a solemn bass, occurring at measured intervals and heard through all other tones. Ultimately, all the strains of this world’s music resolve themselves into the cross, and the cross alone, interprets the mournful mystery of life, the sorrow of the Highest that lord of life, the result of error and sin, but ultimately remedial, purifying and exalting.
F.W. Robertson.
Take my word for it, the saddest thing under the sky is a soul incapable of sadness.
Countess de Gasparin.
“Keep aloof from sadness” says an Icelandic writer, “for sadness is a sickness of the soul.” Life has, indeed, many ills, but the mind that views every object in its most cheering aspect, and every doubtful dispensation as replete with latent good, bears within itself a powerful and perpetual antidote. The gloomy soul aggravates misfortune, while a cheerful smile often dispels those mists that portend a storm.
Mrs. Sigourney.
I wonder many times that ever a child of God should have a sad heart, considering what the Lord a preparing for him.
Rutherford
It is quite deplorable to see how many rational creatures mistake suffering for sanctity, and think a sad face and a gloomy habit of mind propitious offerings to that Deity whose works are all light and luster and harmony and loveliness.
Lady Morgan
Tis impious in a good man to be sad.
Young
Of all the sad words of tongue or pen, the saddest are these; “It might have beeb”.
Whittier
Gloom and sadness are poison to us, the origin of hysterics, which is a disease of the imagination caused by vexation, and supported by fear
Sevigne.
Mackenzie
A feeling of sadness that is not akin to pain, resembles sorrow only as the mist resembles rain.
Longfellow
It was a saying of Aristotle, that all noble-minded men are inclined to sadness. It is not merely the feeling that their lot is a hard one which oppresses them; it is something more it is their inward sympathy and consciousness of participation in the sufferings of the human race to which they belong.
Guesses at Truth
He whose days in willful woe are worn, the grace of his creator doth despise, that will not use his gifts for thankless niggardise.
Spenser
By sadness you destroy the divine image in your soul. God is joy. All nature rejoices in him, and would you be sad? A true joy makes the heart fear God.
Lombez
We ask God to forgive us for our evil thoughts and evil temper, but rarely, if ever, ask him to forgive us for our sadness. Joy is regarded as a happy accident of the Christain life, an ornament and a luxury rather than a duty.
R.W.Dale
Ah, this beautiful world! Indeed, I know not what to think of it. Sometimes it is all gladness and sunshine, and heaven itself lies not far off; and then it suddenly changes and is dark and sorrowful, and the clouds shut out the day. In the lives of the saddest of us there are bright days when we feel as if we could take the great world in our arms. Then come the gloomy hours, when all without and within is dismal, cold, and dark. Believe me, every heart has its secret sorrows, which the world knows not; and oftentimes we call a man cold when he is only sad.
Longfellow.
The deep undertone of the world is sadness a solemn bass, occurring at measured intervals and heard through all other tones. Ultimately, all the strains of this world’s music resolve themselves into the cross, and the cross alone, interprets the mournful mystery of life, the sorrow of the Highest that lord of life, the result of error and sin, but ultimately remedial, purifying and exalting.
F.W. Robertson.
Take my word for it, the saddest thing under the sky is a soul incapable of sadness.
Countess de Gasparin.
“Keep aloof from sadness” says an Icelandic writer, “for sadness is a sickness of the soul.” Life has, indeed, many ills, but the mind that views every object in its most cheering aspect, and every doubtful dispensation as replete with latent good, bears within itself a powerful and perpetual antidote. The gloomy soul aggravates misfortune, while a cheerful smile often dispels those mists that portend a storm.
Mrs. Sigourney.
I wonder many times that ever a child of God should have a sad heart, considering what the Lord a preparing for him.
Rutherford
It is quite deplorable to see how many rational creatures mistake suffering for sanctity, and think a sad face and a gloomy habit of mind propitious offerings to that Deity whose works are all light and luster and harmony and loveliness.
Lady Morgan
Tis impious in a good man to be sad.
Young
Of all the sad words of tongue or pen, the saddest are these; “It might have beeb”.
Whittier
Gloom and sadness are poison to us, the origin of hysterics, which is a disease of the imagination caused by vexation, and supported by fear
Sevigne.
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