Sadness Quotes

The largest part of what we call 'personality' is determined by how we've opted to defend ourselves against anxiety and sadness".

There is nothing sweeter in this sad world than the sound of someone you love calling your name.

If you do not answer the noise and urgency of your gifts, they will turn on you. Or drag you down with their immense sadness at being abandoned.

Forget your sadness, anger, grudges and hatred. Let them pass like smoke caught in a breeze. Do not indulge yourself in such feelings.

I oscillate between life and death, happiness and sadness, good and evil.

There's a sadness to all kinds of music if you want to hear it. There's also happiness to it if you want to hear it.

They say it is better to be poor and happy than rich and miserable, but how about a compromise like moderately rich and just moody?

In the valley of sorrow, spread your wings.

It isn't a coincidence that prayer was commanded right after the year of sadness. The prayer was the greatest comfort.

It seems to me that almost all our sadnesses are moments of tension, which we feel as paralysis because we no longer hear our astonished emotions living.

joy and sorrow are inseparable. . . together they come and when one sits alone with you . . remember that the other is asleep upon your bed.

I'm strong because I know my weaknesses. I'm wise because I've been foolish. I laugh because I've known sadness.

Alas, the very name of picture produces a sadness of heart I cannot describe.

Tears are God's gift to us. Our holy water. They heal us as they flow.

One cannot be deeply responsive to the world without being saddened very often.

You can't keep the birds of sadness from flying over your head, but you can keep them from nesting in your hair.

Sadness is also a kind of defence.

Usually she ordered a cup of coffee and a cup of tea, as well as a brownie, propping up her sadness with chocolate and caffeine so that it became an anxiety.

The thought of a happiness that comes from outside the person, brings him sadness. But the recognition in the value of one's will and the freedom granted by its uplifting, brings great joy.

I disliked the unfamiliar happiness more than the familiar sadness

We're always experiencing joy or sadness. But there are lots of people who've closed down. And there are times in one's life when one has to close down just to regroup.

Man could not live if he were entirely impervious to sadness. Many sorrows can be endured only by being embraced, and the pleasure taken in them naturally has a somewhat melancholy character.

Hold the sadness and pain of samsara in your heart and at the same time the power and vision of the Great Eastern Sun. Then the warrior can make a proper cup of tea.

If teardrops were pennies and heartaches were gold, I'd have all the treasures my pockets could hold.

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

People with HIV are still stigmatized. The infection rates are going up. People are dying. The political response is appalling. The sadness of it, the waste.

One need not be a chamber to be haunted.

Intoxicated with madness, I'm in love with my sadness

I hide my distress, just likethe blessed birds hide themselveswhen they are preparing to die. Wine! Wine, roses, music and yourindifference to my sadness, my loved-one!

I'd like to combine melancholy and sunshine... There's a sadness in Provence which no one has expressed... I'd like to put reason in the grass and tears in the sky, like Poussin.

Sadness diminishes a man's powers

Then summer fades and passes and October comes. We'll smell smoke then, and feel an unexpected sharpness, a thrill of nervousness, swift elation, a sense of sadness and departure.

Long after you’ve forgotten someone’s voice, you can still remember the sound of their happiness or their sadness. You can feel it in your body.

Feel no sadness because of evil thoughts: it only strengthens them.

Guilt, regret, resentment, sadness & all forms of nonforgiveness are caused by too much past & not enough presence.

Joy came always after pain.

The best thing for being sad ... is to learn something.

What is the source of sadness, but feebleness of the mind? What giveth it power but the want of reason? Rouse thyself to the combat, and she quitteth the field before thou strikest.

A feeling of sadness and longing, That is not akin to pain, And resembles sorrow only As the mist resembles the rain.

Even if times are tough and you're enduring a terrible heartache, it's important to focus your anger on a vibrator, not another person.

I can choose to sit in perpetual sadness, immobilized by the gravity of my loss, or I can choose to rise from the pain and treasure the most precious gift I have-life itself.

If you cry when you're in love, it sure ain't no disgrace.

Entering Malibu, I was overwhelmed by a feeling of nostalgia and long lost sadness, like seeing a home I had left a long time ago and had returned to.

A broom is drearily sweeping up the broken pieces of yesterday's life.

All the sorrow, all the bitterness, all the sadness, I forget them and ignore them in the joy of working.

If I have brightened up one single sad childhood, then I have at least accomplished something in my life.

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.

Human misery must somewhere have a stop; there is no wind that always blows a storm.

There's a feeling of elation that comes after getting off stage and then there's a feeling of utter sadness that comes after getting off the stage.

Dance is your pulse, your heartbeat, your breathing. It's the rhythm of your life. It's the expression in time and movement,in happiness, joy, sadness and envy.