Sadness Quotes

I've crossed lines of word and wire and both have cut me deep. I've been frozen out and I've been on fire, and the tears are mine to weep.

By freely choosing to believe God's promises, a person's faith may be more strongly embraced and, therefore, less likely to falter in times of struggle, sadness, or other such difficulties.

Appalling things can happen to children. And even a happy childhood is filled with sadnesses.

Some people, every now and then, simply had to have One Too Many, go drifty voiced and slouch mouthed, swimming willfully around in their own sadness as if it were hot springs.

Creativity starts with humanity when were being human we feel - joys, sadness, when we're sick, when we're nervous

I wanna outrace the speed of pain.

Sometimes the purpose of a day is to merely feel our sadness, knowing that as we do, we allow whole layers of grief, like old skin cells to drop off us

Sadness is just a place on the map. Don't try to avoid it, resist it or escape through substances. Settle it, allow it, and it will go.

So much of the deep lingering sadness over President Kennedy's assassination is about the unfinished promise: unspoken speeches, unfulfilled hopes, the wondering about what might have been.

Maybe sadness was a kind of hunger, she thought. Maybe the two went together.

In an expression of true gratitude, sadness is conspicuous only by its absence

I’m glad to be part of the war on sadness. I’m a part time employee of the illusion that keeps people stupid.

Hurt that's not supposed to show, and tears that fall when no one knows.

May the angels protect you, and sadness forget you.

My mother died when I was five, and all I did was sit and cry. I cried and cried and cried all day, until the neighbors went away.

I made a vow that I would never need another person ever. Turned my heart into a cage, a victim of a kind of rage.

Now that I am conscious of the world of chronic pain, when I see somebody walking down the street who's having trouble, I feel a sadness for them. I notice.

I'm really depressing. Some people watch comedy to relax. I watch 21 Grams. I can recognize sadness and tragedy really easily because it's been with me forever.

School just speeds things up... Without school it might take 70 years before you wake up and are able to count.

I have to be very careful about how I do any stuff on sadness 'cause the crowd gets really sad and concerned for me.

What is it about sadness that can be so fulfilling?

All these types of love come out of duty, respect, and gratitude. Most of them, as the women in my county know, are sources of sadness, rupture, and brutality.

There are moments where we don't understand the world we live in - where we don't understand our own lives, our sadness or our joy.

There’s a moment of profound sadness that can be dispelled only by summoning my anger.

Sadness puts my heart in a prison.

There is nothing else for people to do. They do not think. They feel no passion, no hatred, no sadness; they feel nothing but fear, and a desire to control. So they watch, and poke, and pry.

So consumed in all your doom, trying hard to fill the emptiness.

A wonderful book . . . Full of sadness, hope, and ultimately love. I found it very moving.

Old age is not a total misery. Experience helps.

Cuba laments and expresses its profound sadness for the loss of so many innocent lives and expresses our absolute rejection of acts of terrorism, wherever they may come from.

And I sing and sing of awful things The pleasure that my sadness brings.

While it is important to trash the governor, it should be done in the context of regret, sadness and balance.

The blues will be blue, and the jealousies green, but when love picks its color it demands to be seen.

Let there be sunshine, let there be rain, let the broken hearted love again.

I'm a poet,' the young man said, 'And it's my job to remember the sadness of things.

The microscopes that magnified the tears, studied warts and all. Still life flows on.

I think part of the sadness of Hamlet is given different circumstances, this guy had the capability of being something really great and not ending up poisoned on the ground.

I tend to equate sadness with intelligence.

I rose as from the death that wipes out the sadness of life, and then dies itself in the new morrow.

Isolation of the caretaker role is a real danger. That way lies sadness.

That was such a wonderful time, even in its strangeness and sadness-and life isn't the same now. It's wonderful, but it isn't the same.

All truth contains an echo of sadness.

It is with hearts full of sadness that we have decided to separate.

There was some sadness in how that could happen, falling out of love with something that had shaped you. Or even people who had.

The only thing worried thoughts have the power to change is what the next thing will be for you to worry over!

What Flaubert refers to as the “mélancholies du voyage” is like the sadness I feel as one season departs and another arrives.

No one is exempt from grief.

Sadness is the matrix from which wit and irony spring; sadness is uncomfortable and creative, which is why consumer society cannot tolerate it.

Not to believe in love is a great sign of dullness. There are some people so indirect and lumbering that they think all real affection rests on circumstantial evidence.

The Sarajevans have a very particular world view - a mordant wit coupled with this unbearable sadness and... truckloads of guts, you know.