Sadness Quotes

In English, my name means hope. In Spanish, it means too many letters. It means sadness. It means waiting. It is like the number nine, a muddy color.

~ Sandra Cisneros

Humor without sadness underneath it feels cheap and aggressive.

~ John Cameron Mitchell

I think it's hilarious at 40 years old to bring out my roller skates from 'Starlight Express.' I find the humor and even the sadness in it hilarious and something to celebrate.

~ Jane Krakowski

To me, sadness and humor aren't disrelated and humor is the best tool I've had against the sadness in my life.

~ Mike Mills

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.

~ Marlo Thomas

There is a collective as well as an individual humor inclining peoples to sadness or cheerfulness, making them see things in bright or somber lights. In fact, only society can pass a collective opinion on the value of human life; for this the individual is incompetent.

~ Émile Durkheim

Sadness is a super important thing not to be ashamed about but to include in our lives. One of the bigger problems with sadness or depression is there's so much shame around it. If you have it you're a failure. You are felt as being very unattractive.

~ Mike Mills

I love walking down the street and seeing faces and drama and happiness and sadness and dirt and cleanliness.

~ Ric Ocasek

I had no idea that mothering my own child would be so healing to my own sadness from my childhood.

~ Susie Bright

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

~ Duncan Sheik

Absolute silence leads to sadness. It is the image of death.

~ Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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.

~ Eugène Ionesco

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.

~ Basil Hume

My death is incidental, and I worry very much about my loved ones and, you know, would like to make it as easy as possible for them. Or wish I could will away whatever, you know, the sadness they will feel when I die. But for me, nothing. The world goes on.

~ Barbara Ehrenreich

There's a sadness to the human condition that I think music is good for. It gives a counterpoint to the visual beauty, and adds depth to pictures that they wouldn't have if the music wasn't there.

~ Mike Figgis

I think often sadness is a great place to get songs from.

~ Sarah Mclachlan

It's a tender and complicated dance, watching our parents age. We become protective in ways we never were before, and we study them with a mix of sadness and curiosity: Is this what we will be like when we are their age? We tell ourselves to be patient - just answer the same question again as if it wasn't answered a moment ago.

~ Patti Davis

The real sadness of fifty is not that you change so much but that you change so little.

~ Max Lerner

The reason for the sadness of this modern age and the men who live in it is that it looks for the truth in everything and finds it.

~ Edmond De Goncourt

I do believe that if you haven't learnt about sadness, you cannot appreciate happiness.

~ Nana Mouskouri

Crying is cleansing. There's a reason for tears, happiness or sadness.

~ Dionne Warwick

We never taste happiness in perfection, our most fortunate successes are mixed with sadness.

~ Pierre Corneille

For me, the opposite of happiness isn't sadness but boredom.

~ Sushant Singh Rajput

There is so much to be gained from adulthood! Feelings just become so much deeper. The feeling of sadness and loss is much deeper than when you were a kid, but the feelings of love and happiness have also so much more dimension when you get older... That is what's so hard and exciting about being a human being.

~ Brie Larson

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

~ Artie Lange

All human states are organic brain states - happiness, sadness, fear, lust, dreaming, doing math problems and writing novels - and our brains are not static.

~ Siri Hustvedt

The goal of a life free of dysphoria is a snare and a delusion. A better goal is of good commerce with the world. Authentic happiness, astonishingly, can occur even in the presence of authentic sadness.

~ Martin Seligman

Sadness flies away on the wings of time.

~ Jean De La Fontaine

Sorrow for sin is indeed necessary, but it should not be an endless preoccupation. You must dwell also on the glad remembrance of God's loving-kindness; otherwise, sadness will harden the heart and lead it more deeply into despair.

~ Saint Bernard

God is in the sadness and the laughter, in the bitter and the sweet.

~ Neale Donald Walsch

You know what I hate? I hate people who give me plants. The whole giving someone plants - it's like giving someone a pet. I'm giving you responsibility, I'm giving you a thing that you now have to take care of for, like, a year until it dies, and then I'm giving you sadness and guilt.

~ Chelsea Cain

When you experience the emotion of sadness, there will be changes in facial expression, and your body will be closed in, withdrawn. There are also changes in your heart, your guts: they slow down. And there are hormonal changes.

~ Antonio Damasio

37 is a lumpy number, a bit like porridge. Six is very small and dark and cold, and whenever I was little trying to understand what sadness is I would imagine myself inside a number six and having that experience of cold and darkness. Similarly, number four is a shy number.

~ Daniel Tammet

Unhappy is he to whom the memories of childhood bring only fear and sadness.

~ H. P. Lovecraft

Censorship is the tool of those who have the need to hide actualities from themselves and from others. Their fear is only their inability to face what is real, and I can't vent any anger against them; I only feel this appalling sadness. Somewhere in their upbringing, they were shielded against the total facts of our existence.

~ Charles Bukowski

Boredom, anger, sadness, or fear are not 'yours,' not personal. They are conditions of the human mind. They come and go. Nothing that comes and goes is you.

~ Eckhart Tolle

Don't Make Assumptions. Find the courage to ask questions and to express what you really want. Communicate with others as clearly as you can to avoid misunderstandings, sadness and drama. With just this one agreement, you can completely transform your life.

~ Don Miguel Ruiz

First, accept sadness. Realize that without losing, winning isn't so great.

~ Alyssa Milano

There is a dark side in all of us. And for us 'bad' people, the bad side dominates. I think there is a great sadness in villains, and I have tried to put that across. We cannot stop ourselves doing what we are doing.

~ Christopher Lee

If you don't think your anxiety, depression, sadness and stress impact your physical health, think again. All of these emotions trigger chemical reactions in your body, which can lead to inflammation and a weakened immune system. Learn how to cope, sweet friend. There will always be dark days.

~ Kris Carr