Sadness Quotes

She smiles through a thousand tears, and harbors adolescent fears. She dreams of all that she can never be, she wades in insecurity.

It's the poignancy and sadness in things that gets to me.

The nature of life is to be a study of contrasts: joy/sadness, full/empty. The Main Thing is to Keep The Main Thing The Main Thing.

It is so friendly so simply friendly and though inevitable not a sadness and though occurring not a shock.

Luke was a little boy in a growing body that felt pain and sadness and fear for his mum, and he always believed he would be safe with his dad.

Recalling days of sadness, memories haunt me. Recalling days of happiness, I haunt my memories.

After such an emotional day with her own parents, the thought nearly brought Luce to her knees with sadness. Daniel was alone in the world.

There is a deep sadness to American poverty, greater than the sadness of any other kind. It's because America has such an ideology of success.

Though sad at heart, to sing joyfully.

Shattered dreams, worthless years, here I am encased in a hollow shell. Life began, then was done, now I stare into a cold and empty well.

Look upon yourself only with compassion.

It was the in-between time, before day leaves and night comes, a time I’ve never been partial to because of the sadness that lingers in the space between going and coming.

We had our unhappy moments but they got channelled into the kind of sadness that was necessary for singing a song about going nowhere. So it worked out very well I think.

Sadness is not necessarily something bad. Don't judge it as a bad or negative quality.

The only sadnesses that are dangerous and unhealthy are the ones that we carry around in public in order to drown them out with the noise.

What signifies sadness, sir; a man grows lean on it.

Save your tears, you've got years.

Tears are often a gift from God, and sadness is a healthy emotion.

Family likeness has often a deep sadness in it.

One of the failures of cellular communication is that tiredness often comes across as sadness.

It is a sadness of growing older that some of us lose our ardent appreciation of what is new and different and difficult.

It is better to drink of deep grief than to taste shallow pleasures.

The cross of Christ, embraced with love, never brings sadness with it, but joy, the joy of being saved and of doing a little of what he did on the day of his death.

May your happiest days of the past be your saddest days of your future.

I think ethics is always there; it's not always a very thoughtful or reflective ethics.

It is perhaps sad books that best console us when we are sad.

Music expresses first of all sadness rather than joy.

That's one of the great sadnesses of any life - knowing what you know now and then remembering what you did not know then.

Emptiness has its solace in that there's nothing left to take.

There is a certain amount of purpose, acquiescence, and satisfaction in nursing one's melancholy.

Suffering is a big informer, a big catalyst for creation. You take your sadness, your despair, your sense of injustice, and you put it in your work.

Grief alone can teach us what is man.

Tis the only comfort of the miserable to have partners in their woes.

There is a special sadness in achievement, in the knowledge that a long-desired goal has been attained at last, and that life must now be shaped toward new ends.

Serve God joyfully. Let there be no sadness in your life: the only true sorrow is sin.

The power of fortune is confessed only by the miserable, for the happy impute all their success to prudence or merit.

Only after people express their anger and sadness over the broken dreams of material prosperity will they turn to the task of building a sustainable economy.

Walt Disney was not a merchant of sadness.

In our culture I think most people think of grief as sadness, and that's certainly part of it, a large part of it, but there's also this thorniness, these edges that come out.

We laugh and laugh, and nothing can ever be sad, no one can be lost, or dead, or far away: right now we are here, and nothing can mar our perfection, or steal the joy of this perfect moment.

I felt a bottomless sadness. So completely alone. Like one of my stuffed animals at home that I was too old for now, that sat on the shelf in my closet, mashed against the back wall.

I will instruct my sorrows to be proud; for grief is proud, and makes his owner stoop.

Joys as winged dreams fly fast, / Why should sadness longer last? / Grief is but a wound to woe; / Gentlest fair, mourn, mourn no moe.

Success will (a.mel.io.rate), ameliorate all the years of your sadness.

You see all these things that make you feel desperate or sad, but you realize changes can be made, and it doesn't take a lot of money on our part to make a change in people's lives.

a joy that hurts with sadness a sadness that is pleasurable a pleasure full of terror a terror that excites an excitement that calms a calmness that frightens.

I believe in the importance of individuality, but in the midst of grief I also find myself wanting connection - wanting to be reminded that the sadness I feel is not just mine but ours.

Home in her apartment she'd dwell 'til the man from her dreams comes to break the spell.

Writing directly from a feeling of anger or sadness is difficult, but if you distract part of your brain with word games, the ignored emotion often tiptoes in.

That is why I write - to try to turn sadness into longing, solitude into remembrance.