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Quotes About Sadness

There's a kind of grief that just eats one up. It weighs one down.
~ Julia Quinn
It's . . . very difficult . . . when someone dies, and you can only watch, and you can't do anything to stop
~ Julia Quinn
I always felt like the best comedy came out of sadness, and some of my favourite shows growing up - a lot of my influences - have these very sad characters and treat that sadness seriously while also being very funny.
~ Raphael Bob-Waksberg
It is always sad when a player has to drop out injured.
~ Frank de Boer
There's no insects in American cuisine? Not one? I don't think there are. That's so sad.
~ Marcela Valladolid
With any kind of mean girl, or anyone who bullies anyone, there's always a reason for it. There is that sadness in them or insecurity that makes them feel like they need to act out or hurt other people.
~ Maiara Walsh
I take my inspiration for the song writing from little experiences, not even if I've experienced them myself but say if something has made me sad, I will use that emotion. I just use everyday life and write about it.
~ Pixie Lott
The rooms in those days were unfashionably sad enough to commit suicide in, and, in fact, that to me was the Château's charm, that it didn't have any objections to one's committing suicide. Things since then had gone steadily downhill
~ Eve Babitz
Perhaps all our loves are merely hints and symbols; vagabond-language scrawled on gate-posts and paving-stones along the weary road that others have tramped before us; perhaps you and I are types and this sadness which sometimes falls between us springs from disappointment in our search, each straining through and beyond the other, snatching a glimpse now and then of the shadow which turns the corner always a pace or two ahead of us.
~ Evelyn Waugh
That was the change in her from ten years ago; that, indeed, was her reward, this haunting, magical sadness which spoke straight to the heart and struck silence; it was the completion of her beauty.
~ Evelyn Waugh
And the red sun mocks my sadness.
~ Ezra Pound
Wisdom is the beginning of sadness.
~ F. Sionil Jose
How it saddens me to see how quickly men turn against each other.
~ F.E. Higgins
depressions in the ground." "I'll mark
~ Faye Kellerman
El más terrible de todos los sentimientos es el sentimiento de tener la esperanza muerta.
~ Federico Garcia Lorca
You can't look at yourself in the ocean. Your looks fall apart like tendrils of light. Night on earth. - The Great Sadness
~ Federico Garcia Lorca
Para ver que todo se ha ido dame to mudo hueco, ¡amor mío! Nostalgia de academia y cielo triste. ¡Para ver que todo se ha ido!
~ Federico Garcia Lorca
and I remember a sad breeze through the olive trees.
~ Federico Garcia Lorca
Mira el ansia, la angustia de un triste mundo fósil que no encuentra el acento de su primer sollozo.
~ Federico Garcia Lorca
Look at the longing, the anguish of a sad fossil world / that cannot find the accent of its first sob.
~ Federico Garcia Lorca
Mi tristeza era perezosa, pero vivía en mi imaginación con orgullo de poeta incomprendido.
~ Felisberto Hernández
Vivir es negocio triste –pensó mientras orinaba–. Los momentos de felicidad no compensan la desgracia.
~ Fernando Vallejo
A clear Brunian 'coincidence of contraries' has surfaced again, for to be happy when miserable translates Bruno's paradoxical motto which preceded his play Candelaio: 'In tristitia hilaris: in hilaritate tristis'—in sad- ness, happiness and in happiness, sadness.
~ Finn Fordham
you couldn't set a scale to the sadness by knowing what gave rise to it. She didn't understand why some were stuck harder than others, but she knew that it was so.
~ Fiona Shaw