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Quotes About Sadness

I'd love to be able to write again, but I'm so repetitive. And it was all about fear. Never positive. Just indulgent about my sadness.
~ Charlotte Gainsbourg
Allow beauty and sadness to touch you. This is love, not fear.
~ Colleen Saidman
After writing a story I was always empty and both sad and happy, as though I had made love.
~ Ernest Hemingway
Whenever I'm sad I'm going to die, or so nervous I can't sleep, or in love with somebody I won't be seeing for a week, I slump down just so far and then I say: 'I'll go take a hot bath.
~ Sylvia Plath
I've never thought about songwriting as a weapon. I've only thought about it as a way to help me get through love and loss and sadness and loneliness and growing up.
~ Taylor Swift
Rivers of tear drops, these sharp pains in my heart, if this was the way that you love, you never should have loved me
~ Ashanti
The announcement to mother: Don't be sad, mother. God betrayed me. I am His widow. I've become ageless and all my memories are smothered.
~ Max Ernst
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
Youthful cynicism is sad to observe, because it indicates not so much knowledge learned from bitter experiences as insufficient trust even to attempt the future.
~ Maya Angelou
Tragedy, no matter how sad, becomes boring to those not caught in its addictive caress.
~ Maya Angelou
I gave in to sadness because I had no choice.
~ Maya Angelou
Maya Angelou @DrMayaAngelou Our Summer's gone The golden days are through The rosy dawn I used to wait with you Has turned to gray My life has turned to blue.- Maya Angelou's poem with Nancy Wilson's song My Life Has Turned To Blue. We send our deepest condolences to the family of #NancyWilson
~ Maya Angelou
And that makes Mia sad. But it's okay. She'll have Bethany. And me.
~ Maya Banks
But she also saddened easily, and hungered for clarity, security, and purpose.
~ Meg Gardiner
Do you ever sense a little silver sliver of sadness around your happiest memories? I'm not sure I know what you mean... I do. There's something about remembering that just isn't the same as the real thing. No matter how happy it makes you feel. When you remember something, you have to recognize that the moment will never happen again.
~ Melissa de la Cruz
I feel numb. Or I cry. Or I sit and stare. I listen to the same songs over and over. I can't work," I tell the therapist. "I can't get on with my life." What's her advice? "If you feel sad, cry. If you feel numb, feel that. Ninety-five dollars, please." It's the best money I ever spent, but it takes time to understand.
~ Melody Beattie
Caroline smiled and waved and blew kisses to both of them as she exited the building. But once outside she felt sad and let down, like the party was over and it was time to go home. And yet she remembered her promise to God. She was going to trust that he knew what was best for her.
~ Melody Carlson
sometimes good people [are] helpless... terrible things happen... to good people... there [are] sad endings as well as happy ones.
~ Mercedes Lackey
It is only a fairy tale. They always end sadly.
~ Mercedes Lackey
I sometimes look into the face of my dog Stan and see a wistful sadness and existential angst, when all he is actually doing is slowly scanning the ceiling for flies.
~ Merrill Markoe
I looked at sky this morning and realized summer is almost gone which really made me sad because it doesn't seem as though its been here at all.
~ Beatrice Sparks
Alone. The saddest word in the world.
~ Beatrice Sparks
Isolation and loneliness are central causes of depression and despair.
~ bell hooks
My grief was a heavy, despairing sadness caused by parting from a companion of many years but, more important, it was a despair rooted in the fear that love did not exist, could not be found. And even if it were lurking somewhere, I might never know it in my lifetime. It had become hard for me to continue to believe in love's promise when everywhere I turned the enchantment of power of the terror of fear overshadowed the will to love.
~ bell hooks