Sadness Quotes

I can see the humorous side of things and enjoy the fun when it comes; but look where I will, there seems to me always more sadness than joy in life.

We're taught to be ashamed of confusion, anger, fear and sadness, and to me they're of equal value to happiness, excitement and inspiration.

I don't need to manufacture trauma in my life to be creative. I have a big enough reservoir of sadness or emotional trauma to last me.

I'm happy, I would say that I'm one of the happiest people I know but I've certainly had periods of profound sadness, depression and heartache and those are the kind of things that are interesting to me to write about.

No society has been able to abolish human sadness, no political system can deliver us from the pain of living, from our fear of death, our thirst for the absolute. It is the human condition that directs the social condition, not vice versa.

There is something sinister, something quite biographical about what I do - but that part is for me. It's my personal business. I think there is a lot of romance, melancholy. There's a sadness to it, but there's romance in sadness. I suppose I am a very melancholy person.

The sadness of the incomplete, the sadness that is often Life, but should never be Art.

My parents' divorce left me with a lot of sadness and pain and acting, and especially humour, was my way of dealing with all that.

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.

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

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

Music is amazing. There's some metaphysical comfort where it allows you to be isolated and alone while telling you that you are not alone... truly, the only cure for sadness is to share it with someone else.

Man, I was drowning in sadness. And Angelina, she lifted me right up out of there.

Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better take things as they come along with patience and equanimity.

Experiencing sadness and anger can make you feel more creative, and by being creative, you can get beyond your pain or negativity.

In deep sadness there is no place for sentimentality.

The walls we build around us to keep sadness out also keeps out the joy.

We never taste a perfect joy; our happiest successes are mixed with sadness.

I feel a sense of sadness and joy. Mostly sadness though about what I've experienced and sadness about what others have experienced in reference to the stroke.

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 also a kind of defence.

The rejection that we all take and the sadness and the aggravation and the loss of jobs and all of the things that we live through in our lives, without a sense of humor, I don't know how people make it.

The BBC is part of the glue which binds the United Kingdom together. At those times of national moment - of joy or sadness, in the UK or around the world, at times when the nation wants to celebrate, mourn or just enjoy itself people turn to the BBC.

I felt a tremendous sadness for men who can't deal with a woman of their own age.

In my deepest parts of sadness, I'm always making a joke or being sarcastic.

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.

Today we bury his remains in the earth as a seed of immortality. Our hearts are full of sadness, yet at the same time of joyful hope and profound gratitude.

I actually think sadness and darkness can be very beautiful and healing.

You get used to sadness, growing up in the mountains, I guess.

Vegas means comedy, tragedy, happiness and sadness all at the same time.