Sadness Quotes

On a street of right and wrong in every inch of sadness, rocks and tanks go hand in hand with madness.

I woke up and one of us was crying.

The sadness from reading letters that you know you can't help because it's a person who's in extremis and their problems are not soluble by an advice column.

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.

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

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.

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

I often make movies that involve depression or deep holes of sadness, although there are also these other great things in 'New Moon,' like this epic set-piece at the end of the film in Italy.

I spent my childhood alone, overweight and ugly, angry at everything, and knowing nothing of a life beyond this 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.

No one is exempt from grief.

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

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

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

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

All truth contains an echo of sadness.

One of the great sadnesses of my life, as I take stock at middle age, is the sense that the adventure largely ended by the time I was twenty-five.

I gathered up my sorrows and I sold them all for gold. And I gathered up the gold, and I threw it all away.

I shouldn't have named the chimps. It wasn't scientific. I didn't know. I knew nothing. And worse sin of all was that I was ascribing to them emotions like happiness, sadness and so forth.

Though the night seems long, you're tears won't fall forever.

The thing with Disney songs is they're very manipulative, very sentimental, but they do get you, you know - there's a kind of sadness to them and that kind of music doesn't really exist any more.

A flood of emotions rushes into me. Pain and anger. Sadness and pity. But most surprising of all, hope.

I'd like to have a word for 'the sadness inspired by failing restaurants' as well as for 'the excitement of getting a room with a minibar.

The proverbial Englishman, we know from old chronicler Froissart, takes his pleasures sadly, and the Englishwoman goes a step further and takes her pleasures in sadness itself.

So time doesn't count, and place does?' I said this to tease her. When I was a man, I liked teasing her and she went along with it, consenting, for it reminded us both of a sadness that had passed.

Sadness is a powerful foe, maybe harder to keep down than happiness.

The joy you bring us is so much greater than the sadness we feel about your illness.

It's one of the great fallacies, it seems to me, that time gives much of anything but years and sadness to man.

Human beings have an almost unlimited capacity for self-delusion. We can justify any amount of sadness if it fits our own particular standard of reality.

Inside your own self pity there you swim, in sinking down to drown her voice still haunts you, and only with your laughter can you win.

Well, I never lived through the Great Depression, sometimes I feel as though I did.

When a rap song glorifies violence, death and sadness and loss is inflicted because of the violence.

The sadness you feel is not your own. It's his sadness you feel in your heart, Amy, for missing you.

We have a choice at every moment. We can engage in sadness, anger or fear or we can choose joy, love, and peace.

You feed it all your woes, the ghostly garden grows.

I spent my life learning to feel less. Every day I felt less. Is that growing old? Or is it something worse? You cannot protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from happiness.

I wanted to touch him, to tell him that even if everyone left everyone, I would never leave him, he talked and talked, his words fell through him, trying to find the floor to his sadness.