Sadness Quotes

There's sadness to anyone that dies before their time, and specifically ones that seem to affect people in a positive way. It doesn't matter if it's Whitney Houston or a nameless, faceless person on the street. That's just as big of a tragedy for me.

~ Chris Cornell

Hoping they'd been inspired by the examples of Anne Frank and other teens who had turned negative experiences into something positive by writing about them, I handed out notebooks for my students to journal about their lives. There was some initial resistance. But then the stories poured out of them, full of anger and sadness.

~ Erin Gruwell

When you've been touched by sadness and grief, it makes you vulnerable. And because I am vulnerable, I try to be positive. And when I say 'try,' I really do mean try, because it's an effort.

~ Marie Helvin

The sadness of the women's movement is that they don't allow the necessity of love. See, I don't personally trust any revolution where love is not allowed.

~ Maya Angelou

Sadness... reflecting on the proud legacy of trust and fair play on which Reliance Industries was founded by my visionary father Dhirubhai Ambani, and how far RIL appeared to have moved away from those original values.

~ Anil Ambani

Beauty is the disinterested one, without which the ancient world refused to understand itself, a word which both imperceptibly and yet unmistakably has bid farewell to our new world, a world of interests, leaving it to its own avarice and sadness.

~ Hans Urs Von Balthasar

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

~ E. M. Forster

The arrogance that says analysing the relationship between reasons and causes is more important than writing a philosophy of shyness or sadness or friendship drives me nuts. I can't accept that.

~ Alain De Botton

The word 'happy' would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.

~ Carl Jung

Every human walks around with a certain kind of sadness. They may not wear it on their sleeves, but it's there if you look deep.

~ Taraji P. Henson

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

~ Jim Rohn

Red is the ultimate cure for sadness.

~ Bill Blass

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

~ Yoko Ono

In deep sadness there is no place for sentimentality.

~ William S. Burroughs

Sadness is also a kind of defence.

~ Ivo Andrić

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.

~ Conor Oberst

When my dad passed, there's a lot of sadness right below the surface, and I think there will be until the day I die. So, writing sad songs helps it. And when I sing them, it's pure therapy for me.

~ Ashley Monroe

Deep down, I reckon the sweetest moment will come when it's finally all over. When, at last, I know that I can stop fighting. Of course it'll also be a little sad. The sweetest moments, y'know, always come with just a little sadness.

~ Evander Holyfield

One must not let oneself be overwhelmed by sadness.

~ Jackie Kennedy

I had sadness for breakfast.

~ Andy Milonakis

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.

~ Jennifer Aniston

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

~ Loretta Lynn

Musical compositions can be very sad - Chopin - but you have the pleasure of this sadness. The cheap consolation is: you will be happy. The higher consolation is the pleasure and recognition of your unhappiness, the pleasure of having recognised that fate, destiny and life are such as they are and so you reach a higher form of consciousness.

~ Umberto Eco

I think women should be seductive, not triste. There's enough sadness in life now without making women look sad, too.

~ Azzedine Alaia

They say it's better to bury your sadness in a graveyard or garden that waits for the spring to wake from its sleep and burst into green.

~ Conor Oberst

Part of me is drawn to the nature of sadness because I think life is sad, and sadness is not something that should be avoided or denied. It's a fact of life, like contradictions are.

~ Robert Redford

I can usually tell when a woman is going through a divorce because they look so gaunt and tired and sad. It's just a huge sadness. It's horrible. It's like death. You mourn, but the person's still there.

~ Andie Macdowell

It's a source of great sadness to me that my father died without having seen me do anything worthwhile. He was constantly having to make excuses for me.

~ Daniel Day-Lewis

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

~ Pierre Corneille

A sad person who is so involved with his sadness that he mistakes it for reality will have a hard time seeing himself as anything but sad. For him, the sadness is not a feeling that he experiences - it is him.

~ Mary Gaitskill

I think everyone feels alone in their sadness, and there's a certain value to hearing other people's sad stories.

~ Brandon Stanton

I love sad. Sadness makes you feel more than anything.

~ Jeff Ament

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.

~ Jerome K. Jerome

I think coldness is chic among writers, and particularly ironic coldness. What is absolutely not allowable is sadness. People will do anything rather than to acknowledge that they are sad.

~ Mary Gordon

You have to let it all hang out, let go of the ideas that were more comfortable and embrace some of the sadness in your life.

~ Madeleine Peyroux

Everything's complicated, even those things that seem flat in their bleakness or sadness.

~ Nick Hornby

An ounce of cheerfulness is worth a pound of sadness to serve God with.

~ Thomas Fuller

The essence of romantic love is that wonderful beginning, after which sadness and impossibility may become the rule.

~ Anita Brookner

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

~ Michael Caine

When I get depressed, I try to get something for the terrible sadness that comes over me and create something in terms of poetry.

~ Spike Milligan