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"For I have learned to look on nature, not as in the hour of thoughtless youth, but hearing oftentimes the still, sad music of humanity."

William Wordsworth on Sad

More quotes about Sad

• "When you are joyous, look deep into your heart and you shall find it is only that which has given you sorrow that is giving you joy. When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight."

  Khalil Gibran on Sad

• "Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad."

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow on Sad

• "I seldom think about my limitations, and they never make me sad. Perhaps there is just a touch of yearning at times but it is vague, like a breeze among flowers."

  Helen Keller on Sad

• "If my world were to cave in tomorrow, I would look back on all the pleasures, excitements and worthwhilenesses I have been lucky enough to have had. Not the sadness, not my miscarriages or my father leaving home, but the joy of everything else. It will have been enough."

  Audrey Hepburn on Sad

• "Sadness is but a wall between two gardens."

  Khalil Gibran on Sad

More quotes by William Wordsworth

• "The mind that is wise mourns less for what age takes away than what it leaves behind."

• "But an old age serene and bright, and lovely as a Lapland night, shall lead thee to thy grave."

• "Pictures deface walls more often than they decorate them."

• "The human mind is capable of excitement without the application of gross and violent stimulants and he must have a very faint perception of its beauty and dignity who does not know this."

• "That best portion of a man's life, his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and love."