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Quotes About Sadness

Kenneth Wood was sitting on the windowsill looking at him sardonically, yet with that sadness that always happened when they looked at each other - as though there was something they knew that nobody else knew, a crazy sorrowful knowledge of themselves in the middle of the pitiable world.
~ Jack Kerouac
I don't go on the Internet. I never go on the Internet. I don't go on Twitter. I'm not on Facebook. I've seen friends go into dark, dark holes of sadness because of that. Frankly, I don't have the time or the attention span for it.
~ Amy Sherman-Palladino
Elaine is just in pain. I think Elaine has become very, very sad woman. She is someone who is in deep need of many hours of analysis and I like to think that I'm not that type of person.
~ Julia Louis-Dreyfus
It would no doubt be very sentimental to argue - but I would argue it nevertheless - that the peculiar combination of joy and sadness in bell music - both of clock chimes, and of change-ringing - is very typical of England. It is of a piece with the irony in which English people habitually address one another.
~ A. N. Wilson
Music is about truth, and truth contains the ugliness and the dark and evil and hate and sadness as well as the happiness and beauty and everything in between. Having all those extremes is itself a satisfying, positive thing.
~ Andrew W.K.
When we arrived in London, my sadness at leaving Paris was turned into despair. After my long stay in the French capital, huge, ponderous, massive London seemed to me as ugly a thing as man could contrive to make.
~ James Weldon Johnson
The unhappiest memories are of losing my mother when I was 14. Alter six months, my father remarried. The thought that somebody was taking the place of my mother was unacceptable. It is sad because, after that, my father also changed.
~ Sushma Swaraj
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
With about a dozen assorted ongoing conflicts in the news every day, and with the stories becoming more horrific, the level of sadness becomes unbearable. And what becomes of our planet when that sadness becomes apathy? Because we feel helpless. And we turn our heads and turn the page.
~ Eddie Vedder
School was unbelievably painful. It was five years of being pretty sad.
~ Adwoa Aboah
I am a divorced child, of divided, uncertain background. Within this division I - supposed fruit of their love - no longer exist. It happened nearly forty years ago, yet to me, nothing is sadder than my parents' divorce.
~ Sylvia Kristel
War is very sad and small life is pathetically fragile at times.
~ Henry Rollins
I think as an American society, when we're paying too many taxes or dealing with war, we don't want to see sad things at the movies.
~ Zoe Saldana
I'm glad to be part of the war on sadness. I'm a part time employee of the illusion that keeps people stupid.
~ Marc Maron
Tracer lighting up the sky.It's another families' turn to die.A child afraid to even cry out says, He has been here.And I see no bravery, No bravery in your eyes anymore.Only sadness.
~ James Blunt
My wife and I went back to the hotel where we spent our wedding night. Only this time, I stayed in the bathroom and cried.
~ Henny Youngman
A wedding is one of the most lamentable spectacles on earth.
~ Kate Chopin
Sure as I am breathing, sure as I'm sad I'll keep this wisdom in my flesh I leave here believing more than I had This love has got no ceiling
~ Eddie Vedder
True wisdom comes from the overcoming of suffering and sin. All true wisdom is therefore touched with sadness.
~ Whittaker Chambers
Sadness isn't a kilesha , a habit pattern evoked by challenge. Sadness is what the mind feels when it is bereaved or bereft. All the wisdom in the world about the inevitability of change or the lawfulness of karma does not ease the heaviness in the mind that we feel when we lose someone, or something, we hold dear [p. 148].
~ Sylvia Boorstein
The end of health or of vigor is sad. [p. 149]
~ Sylvia Boorstein
I have become more passionate, not less. When I am delighted, which is often, I am ecstatic. When I am sad, I cry easily. Nothing is a big deal. It's whatever it is, and then it's something else.
~ Sylvia Boorstein
I have the choice of being constantly active and happy or introspectively passive and sad. Or I can go mad by ricocheting in between.
~ Sylvia Plath
All the things that happen to people in the industry today, the actors, what they have to put up with, all the people wanting to know every single moment of their lives - I think it's really sad.
~ Tab Hunter