Quotes about sadness

Wrushank Sorte -

Sadness is a part of life Love is the heart of life But facing pain and to come out strong is the real art of life

Sarah Waters - Fingersmith

I give myself up to darkness and wish I may never again be required to lift my head to the light.

William Shakespeare - Macbeth

Give sorrow words the grief that does not speak knits up the o-er wrought heart and bids it break.

Debasish Mridha -

Be compassionate bring joy to sadness.

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah -

The real you is not you the real you is what is within you. What is behind your joy or your melancholy. What gives you the reason to ponder. What moves or stops you. What makes you you is you

C.S. Lewis - and the Wardrobe

I hope no one who reads this book has been quite as miserable as Susan and Lucy were that night but if you have been - if you've been up all night and cried till you have no more tears left in you - you will know that there comes in the end a sort of quietness. You feel as if nothing is ever going to happen again.

Pat Conroy - The Lords of Discipline

I never seemed to learn from joy I earned my portion of wisdom through sadness.

Debasish Mridha -

Be not in despair let those tears of sadness grow into flowers.

Banana Yoshimoto - Kitchen

In this world there is no place for sadness. No place not one.

Aurora Whittet - Bloodmark

I wanted desperately to be part of our pack I felt a hole inside myself where my pack should have been.

Gary Shteyngart - Little Failure

The simple trill of her laugh has not declined over the years if anything it's been buffeted by her endless sorrows and disappointments.

Charlotte Brontë - Jane Eyre

All the room darkened and my heart again sank inexpressible sadness weighed it down

Jonathan Kellerman - Survival of the Fittest

Through the anger came something I recognized the sadness that can result from too many years absorbing the poison of others. - Alex Delaware on Dr. Lehmann

Munia Khan -

I feel like a real dead one: having neither blood to bleed nor any flesh or bone to feel the scars yet I want to hold on to my spirit.

Mihail Drumeş - Scrisoare de dragoste

I wanted to fall good thing you pushed me.

J.R. Johansson - Cut Me Free

Everything I've ever known is death and pain being drenched in life feels good.

Sanjo Jendayi -

Pain can mask itself as a righteous companion silently forming a barrier between you & all that is good for you. Identify Pain. Now thank Pain for showing you that all of your senses & emotions are working as you send him on his way. Traveling with pain can slow you down & limit the distance you travel.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow -

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

L.M. Montgomery - Anne of the Island

Anne was always glad in the happiness of her friends but it is sometimes a little lonely to be surrounded everywhere by happiness that is not your own.

Denice Envall -

I fell for you and I fell hard. You bruised my knees and my heart to the point where I will do everything in my power never to fall for anyone again. It’s safer to stay on your feet. I would rather walk through life completely without love - empty than crawl through what’s been pumping through my veins one more time.

Paul Simon - Lyrics 1964-2008

And a rock feels no painAnd an island never cries.

Jean Racine -

A tragedy need not have blood and death it's enough that it all be filled with that majestic sadness that is the pleasure of tragedy.

Margo T. Rose - The Words

It's not that I'm angryYou've done nothing wrong.I'm just not sure why I'm stayingWhen you're already gone.

Kevin Bacon -

I think we all have a lot of darkness in our bellies. As an actor, the challenge of tapping into that, reaching down into that sadness or anger, is very therapeutic.

Ellie Goulding -

It's usually a big kind of vent of frustration or anger or sadness that puts me in the right frame of mind to write. It's such a cliche to say that artists write when they're down, but it's true for me. It's a relief to get out what's eating away at my heart or my soul or my head.

Marlee Matlin -

I want roles without anger and feistiness. I want to show weakness and sadness, some love, some happiness.

Siouxsie Sioux -

I think a certain amount of anger has been a fuel of mine, if you want - but also some sort of sadness, and plain mischief, of course.

Ellen DeGeneres -

I have sadness in me. I have anger in me. I have heartbreak in me.

Martin Seligman -

The best therapists can do with sadness, anger, and anxiety is to help patients live in the more comfortable part of their set range.

Chris Hayes -

Successful prime-time television of any genre produces some kind of emotional reaction in the viewers. There are a lot of different emotions to tap into. The emotion of the reward of discovery, the feeling of righteous anger, the feelings of pathos and sadness, or sentimentality of being moved by something.

Michael Caine -

I felt a tremendous sadness for men who can't deal with a woman of their own age.

Anita Brookner -

The essence of romantic love is that wonderful beginning, after which sadness and impossibility may become the rule.

Spike Milligan -

When I get depressed, I try to get something for the terrible sadness that comes over me and create something in terms of poetry.

Michael Leunig -

Existential philosophy, poetry and art - just like sadness - were all unavoidable to a tender young man in the meat works.

Justin Vernon -

Emma is not a person Emma is a place that you get stuck in Emma is a pain that you cannot erase.

Ellen J. Barrier -

Life is a process of changes happy and sad.Life is beautiful and Life is happiness

Precious Kerme -

Sometimes the man of your dream only belongs in your dream.

Mehmet Murat ildan -

Sadness in autumn is an autumn within autumn!

Susie Bright -

I had no idea that mothering my own child would be so healing to my own sadness from my childhood.

Emile Durkheim -

There is a collective as well as an individual humor inclining peoples to sadness or cheerfulness, making them see things in bright or somber lights. In fact, only society can pass a collective opinion on the value of human life; for this the individual is incompetent.

Jane Krakowski -

I think it's hilarious at 40 years old to bring out my roller skates from 'Starlight Express.' I find the humor and even the sadness in it hilarious and something to celebrate.

Mike Mills -

To me, sadness and humor aren't disrelated and humor is the best tool I've had against the sadness in my life.

Marlo Thomas -

The rejection that we all take and the sadness and the aggravation and the loss of jobs and all of the things that we live through in our lives, without a sense of humor, I don't know how people make it.

John Cameron Mitchell -

Humor without sadness underneath it feels cheap and aggressive.

Ric Ocasek -

I love walking down the street and seeing faces and drama and happiness and sadness and dirt and cleanliness.

Mike Mills -

Sadness is a super important thing not to be ashamed about but to include in our lives. One of the bigger problems with sadness or depression is there's so much shame around it. If you have it you're a failure. You are felt as being very unattractive.

Alexander McQueen -

There is something sinister, something quite biographical about what I do - but that part is for me. It's my personal business. I think there is a lot of romance, melancholy. There's a sadness to it, but there's romance in sadness. I suppose I am a very melancholy person.

Sandra Cisneros -

In English, my name means hope. In Spanish, it means too many letters. It means sadness. It means waiting. It is like the number nine, a muddy color.

Stephenie Meyer - The Host

The ticking seconds pulled me toward the end. It was cold when he no longer held me. It got colder every step I took away from him. Just my imagination, of course. It was still summer here. It would always be summer here for me.

Alyssa Milano -

First, accept sadness. Realize that without losing, winning isn't so great.

Don Miguel Ruiz -

Don't Make Assumptions. Find the courage to ask questions and to express what you really want. Communicate with others as clearly as you can to avoid misunderstandings, sadness and drama. With just this one agreement, you can completely transform your life.

Marie Helvin -

When you've been touched by sadness and grief, it makes you vulnerable. And because I am vulnerable, I try to be positive. And when I say 'try,' I really do mean try, because it's an effort.

Chris Cornell -

There's sadness to anyone that dies before their time, and specifically ones that seem to affect people in a positive way. It doesn't matter if it's Whitney Houston or a nameless, faceless person on the street. That's just as big of a tragedy for me.

Erin Gruwell -

Hoping they'd been inspired by the examples of Anne Frank and other teens who had turned negative experiences into something positive by writing about them, I handed out notebooks for my students to journal about their lives. There was some initial resistance. But then the stories poured out of them, full of anger and sadness.

Kris Carr -

If you don't think your anxiety, depression, sadness and stress impact your physical health, think again. All of these emotions trigger chemical reactions in your body, which can lead to inflammation and a weakened immune system. Learn how to cope, sweet friend. There will always be dark days.

Christopher Lee -

There is a dark side in all of us. And for us 'bad' people, the bad side dominates. I think there is a great sadness in villains, and I have tried to put that across. We cannot stop ourselves doing what we are doing.

Jean de La Fontaine -

Sadness flies away on the wings of time.

Sushant Singh Rajput -

For me, the opposite of happiness isn't sadness but boredom.

Pierre Corneille -

We never taste happiness in perfection, our most fortunate successes are mixed with sadness.

Brie Larson -

There is so much to be gained from adulthood! Feelings just become so much deeper. The feeling of sadness and loss is much deeper than when you were a kid, but the feelings of love and happiness have also so much more dimension when you get older... That is what's so hard and exciting about being a human being.

Artie Lange -

Vegas means comedy, tragedy, happiness and sadness all at the same time.

Siri Hustvedt -

All human states are organic brain states - happiness, sadness, fear, lust, dreaming, doing math problems and writing novels - and our brains are not static.

Martin Seligman -

The goal of a life free of dysphoria is a snare and a delusion. A better goal is of good commerce with the world. Authentic happiness, astonishingly, can occur even in the presence of authentic sadness.

Max Lerner -

The real sadness of fifty is not that you change so much but that you change so little.

Edmond de Goncourt -

The reason for the sadness of this modern age and the men who live in it is that it looks for the truth in everything and finds it.

Nana Mouskouri -

I do believe that if you haven't learnt about sadness, you cannot appreciate happiness.

Dionne Warwick -

Crying is cleansing. There's a reason for tears, happiness or sadness.

Mike Figgis -

There's a sadness to the human condition that I think music is good for. It gives a counterpoint to the visual beauty, and adds depth to pictures that they wouldn't have if the music wasn't there.

Duncan Sheik -

I actually think sadness and darkness can be very beautiful and healing.

Basil Hume -

Death remains about the one certain fact in the lives of each one of us, and there will be suffering, sorrow, and sadness next week as there was last week.

Barbara Ehrenreich -

My death is incidental, and I worry very much about my loved ones and, you know, would like to make it as easy as possible for them. Or wish I could will away whatever, you know, the sadness they will feel when I die. But for me, nothing. The world goes on.

Patti Davis -

It's a tender and complicated dance, watching our parents age. We become protective in ways we never were before, and we study them with a mix of sadness and curiosity: Is this what we will be like when we are their age? We tell ourselves to be patient - just answer the same question again as if it wasn't answered a moment ago.

Sarah McLachlan -

I think often sadness is a great place to get songs from.

Eugene Ionesco -

No society has been able to abolish human sadness, no political system can deliver us from the pain of living, from our fear of death, our thirst for the absolute. It is the human condition that directs the social condition, not vice versa.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau -

Absolute silence leads to sadness. It is the image of death.

Hans Urs von Balthasar -

Beauty is the disinterested one, without which the ancient world refused to understand itself, a word which both imperceptibly and yet unmistakably has bid farewell to our new world, a world of interests, leaving it to its own avarice and sadness.

Anil Ambani -

Sadness... reflecting on the proud legacy of trust and fair play on which Reliance Industries was founded by my visionary father Dhirubhai Ambani, and how far RIL appeared to have moved away from those original values.

Maya Angelou -

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

Alain de Botton -

The arrogance that says analysing the relationship between reasons and causes is more important than writing a philosophy of shyness or sadness or friendship drives me nuts. I can't accept that.

Carl Jung -

The word 'happy' would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.

Taraji P. Henson -

Every human walks around with a certain kind of sadness. They may not wear it on their sleeves, but it's there if you look deep.

Jim Rohn -

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

Bill Blass -

Red is the ultimate cure for sadness.

Yoko Ono -

Experiencing sadness and anger can make you feel more creative, and by being creative, you can get beyond your pain or negativity.

William S. Burroughs -

In deep sadness there is no place for sentimentality.

Ivo Andric -

Sadness is also a kind of defence.

Conor Oberst -

I've cried, and you'd think I'd be better for it, but the sadness just sleeps, and it stays in my spine the rest of my life.

Comte de Lautreamont -

Melancholy and sadness are the start of doubt... doubt is the beginning of despair despair is the cruel beginning of the differing degrees of wickedness.

Ashley Monroe -

When my dad passed, there's a lot of sadness right below the surface, and I think there will be until the day I die. So, writing sad songs helps it. And when I sing them, it's pure therapy for me.

Evander Holyfield -

Deep down, I reckon the sweetest moment will come when it's finally all over. When, at last, I know that I can stop fighting. Of course it'll also be a little sad. The sweetest moments, y'know, always come with just a little sadness.

Jackie Kennedy -

One must not let oneself be overwhelmed by sadness.

Andy Milonakis -

I had sadness for breakfast.

Jennifer Aniston -

My parents' divorce left me with a lot of sadness and pain and acting, and especially humour, was my way of dealing with all that.

Loretta Lynn -

You get used to sadness, growing up in the mountains, I guess.

Umberto Eco -

Musical compositions can be very sad - Chopin - but you have the pleasure of this sadness. The cheap consolation is: you will be happy. The higher consolation is the pleasure and recognition of your unhappiness, the pleasure of having recognised that fate, destiny and life are such as they are and so you reach a higher form of consciousness.

E. M. Forster -

The sadness of the incomplete, the sadness that is often Life, but should never be Art.

Jerome K. Jerome -

I can see the humorous side of things and enjoy the fun when it comes; but look where I will, there seems to me always more sadness than joy in life.

Mary Gordon -

I think coldness is chic among writers, and particularly ironic coldness. What is absolutely not allowable is sadness. People will do anything rather than to acknowledge that they are sad.

Madeleine Peyroux -

You have to let it all hang out, let go of the ideas that were more comfortable and embrace some of the sadness in your life.