Sadness Quotes

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

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

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

Unhappy is he to whom the memories of childhood bring only fear and sadness.

i want to give up my bearings, slip out of who i am, shed everything, the way a snake discards old skin.

True confessions are written with tears only. But my tears would drown the world, as my inner fire would reduce it to ashes.

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

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.

I have fooled life and life has fooled me. We are quits. I say good-bye. Think sometimes in the hour of happiness of your poor, comical fool who loved you truly and so well.

The happiest she'd ever been was with him, and the saddest. Was that the true test of love?

Pity, I've learned, is like a fart. You can tolerate your own, but you simply can't stand anyone else's.

On the beach, Roran stood alone, watching them go. Then he threw back his head and uttered a long, aching cry, and the night echoed with the sound of his loss.

At the heart of memory, is the stillness of time.

When you have feelings like sadness or anger about your cancer or your plight, to mask them is to lead an artificial life.

Having no children had been a kind of choice up to the moment when, from a choice, it became a sadness.

...she had regained what I thought she had lost forever, the magical sadness which had drawn me to her, the thwarted look that had seemed to say, "Surely I was made for some other purpose than this?

Chronocanine Envy: Sadness experienced when one realized that, unlike one's dog, one cannot live only in the present tense. As Kierkegaard said, "Life must be lived forward.

There is no love; There are only the various envies, all of them sad.

An autumn garden has a sadness when the sun is not shining.

There is some sadness for me now about acting because it used to be that there was a reverence for actors.

It'll leave you feeling hollow and helpless, and there is where you'll stay. Ain't it funny child, love sometimes leaves you as dead as yesterday.

The older I get the more I realize that a significant portion of a parent's happiness or sadness in middle-age will be directly impacted by how closely our children are walking with the Lord.

I know there will be no more tears in heaven.

Victory does not feel so good as losing feels bad. When you have a son, you are happy. But it's no comparison to the sadness you feel losing a son.

People don't die from suicide, they die from sadness.

And I believe happiness is the exact opposite of sadness, bitterness, and hatred: happiness should remain unexamined as long as possible.

There's a hazardous sadness to the first sounds of someone else's work in the morning; it's as if stillness experiences pain in being broken.

The great sadness of my life is that I never achieved the hour newscast, which would not have been twice as good as the half-hour newscast, but many times as good.

I don't choose stay in the state of sadness, any more than I would choose to stay in a room with the smoke alarm going off.

Sadness is very close to hate.

Sometimes I think it's a shame, when I get feeling better when I'm feeling no pain.

Allow beauty and sadness to touch you. This is love, not fear.

I think sadness and anger are really fertile ground for comedy. No one is really interested in a happy person doing comedy.

Sadness of not knowing enough words to [express what you mean].

I've never thought about songwriting as a weapon. I've only thought about it as a way to help me get through love and loss and sadness and loneliness and growing up.

No matter how many times you do it, you don't get used to the sadness - for me at least - of coming to the end of a film.

Miserable mortals who like leaves at one moment flame with life eating the produce of the land and at another moment weakly perish.

Sometimes sadness is appropriate. Not something to run from, not something to numb...just something to feel.

The rich man can afford to be happy and wise; the poor man is wiser still, for he understands sadness.

Some women's faces are, in their brightness, a prophecy; and some, in their sadness, a history.

Take this sorrow to thy heart and make it part of thee, and it shall nourish thee till thou art strong again.

A ship in dock, surrounded by quays and the walls of warehouses, has the appearance of a prisoner meditating upon freedom in the sadness of a free spirit put under restraint.

When a lovely flame dies, Smoke gets in your eyes.

There's nothing like the comfort of a silence that's comfortable.

I'd love to be able to write again, but I'm so repetitive. And it was all about fear. Never positive. Just indulgent about my sadness.

Suffering accepted and vanquished. . . . will give you a serenity which may well prove the most exquisite fruit of your life.

A broken heart is not the same as sadness. Sadness occurs when the heart is stone cold and lifeless. On the contrary, there is an unbelievable amount of vitality in a broken heart.

A person can't know what happiness is without experiencing sadness. And I think that's healthy.

Our sadness is not sad, but our cheap joys.

I want to take this opportunity to express, one more time, my deep sadness to those countrymen who feel, rightly, that they were victims of my government.