Sadness Quotes

If there was sadness in this creative world of mine, it was a pleasant sadness. If there were problems, they were humorous problems.

Memories, how they linger in the twilight and in the wee small hours sometimes just before dawn.

Among the problems with shame was that it in fact did not make you shorter or quieter or less visible. You just felt like you were.

Maybe this is the point: to embrace the core sadness of life without toppling headlong into it, or assuming it will define your days.

Don't cry over someone who wouldn't cry over you.

She struggled with her sadness, but tried to conceal it, to divide it into smaller and smaller parts and scatter these in places she thought no one would find them.

A whole tree of lightning stood in the sky. She kept looking out the window, suffused with the warmth from the fire and with the pity and beauty and power of her death. The thunder rolled.

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.

What is the point of roaming the world when it's the same misery everywhere?

Depression is sadness gone wrong

Behind every crime is a story of sadness.

I’m like the child who buries her head in the pillow so as not to see, the child who tells herself that light causes sadness—

Study always to have Joy, for it befits not the servant of God to show before his brother or another sadness or a troubled face.

Deep in my soul, I've been so lonely, all of my hopes fading away. I've longed for love, like everyone else does, I know I'll keep searching after today.

Don't make assumptions. Find the courage to ask questions and to express what you really want.

America is ripe for lies and lethargy. The pure mountain air is going and gone. It is a huge burden and a sadness for us all.

It was the time of year, the time of day, for a small insistent sadness to pass into the texture of things. Dusk, silence, iron chill. Something lonely in the bone.

Now something so sad has hold of us that the breath leaves and we can't even cry.

In the moonlight which is always sad, as the light of the sun itself is--as the light called human life is--at its coming and its going.

One must not let oneself be overwhelmed by sadness.

Hearing him talk about his mother, about his intact family, makes my chest hurt for a second, like someone pierced it with a needle.

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.

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.

If he does go, the change will be doleful. Suppose he should be absent spring, summer, and autumn: how joyless sunshine and fine days will seem!

At times everything grows misty and dark before my eyes, and I feel that the strength of my whole body is oozing away through my finger tips.

Grief can have a quality of profound healing because we are forced to a depth of feeling that is usually below the threshold of awareness.

Keep on shining, keep on smiling, don't lose faith, and don't lose heart. When you're crying, just keep trying to remind yourself, you're a shining star, yes you are.

I love the autumn for its sense of melancholy seems to strike my need for sadness. There is poetry in the dying of the year and mystery as well.

When you feel like you've had it up to here, and you're mad enough to scream, but you're sad enough to tear, that's rock bottom.

Sorrow is better than laughter; for, by the sadness of the countenance, the heart is made better.

I don't feel like myself unless I run. It's how I deal with sadness and happiness. I need it. It's like therapy.

To finish is sadness to a writer — a little death. He puts the last word down and it is done. But it isn't really done. The story goes on and leaves the writer behind, for no story is ever done.

Audiences like their blues singers to be miserable.

Even though sometimes you can control your anger, you can't control your sadness.

Happiness comes in moments, & then it's gone until the next time. Could be years. But sadness settles it.

The world doesn't need any more sadness than it's already got.

A man who is master of himself can end a sorrow as easily as he can invent a pleasure.

I stumbled out into the courtyard to try to flee my misery, but of course we can never flee the misery that is within us.

Not, not mine: it's somebody else's wound; I could never have borne it. So take the thing that happened, hide it, stick it in the ground; whisk the lamps away.

Have you ever been so melancholy, that you wanted to fit in the palm of your beloved's hand? And lie there, for fortnights, or decades, or the length of time between stars? In complete silence?

Weep no more, nor sigh, nor groan, Sorrow calls no time that 's gone; Violets plucked, the sweetest rain Makes not fresh nor grow again.

Love comes quietly... but you know when it is there because suddenly... you are not alone anymore... and there is no sadness in you.

Drifting, On a sea of forgotten teardrops, On a lifeboat, Sailing for Your love

Look, I come from vaudeville, I come from burlesque, I come from heartaches, I come from sadness, I come from gladness, I come from work and sweat and respect for the craft.

The sadness of our existence should not leave us blunted, on the contrary--how to remain thin-skinned, vulnerable and stay alive?

All of us have been dying, hour by hour, since the moment we were born. Realizing this, let all things be placed in their proper perspective. . . . Remember, it is always later than you think.

This genuine heart of sadness can teach us great compassion. It can humble us when we're arrogant and soften us when we are unkind.

Sadness is more or less like a head cold - with patience, it passes. Depression is like cancer.

We laugh, that we may not cry.

A poet should be so crafty with words that he is envied even for his pains.