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Quotes About Sadness

It was sad music. But it waved its sadness like a battle flag. It said the universe had done all it could, but you were still alive.
~ Terry Pratchett, Soul Music
Music expresses first of all sadness rather than joy.
~ Ignacy Jan Paderewski
I hope people hear my songs and realize that writing music is kind of easy, or that taking your sadness and turning it into a beautiful song is worthwhile.
~ Frankie Cosmos
I love sad songs. They say so much. I love country music but even the happy songs sound really sad.
~ Beth Ditto
It's a rule that we never listen to sad music, we made that rule early on, songs are as sad as the listener, we hardly ever listen to music.
~ Jonathan Safran Foer
Beauty is an omnipresence of death and loveliness, a smiling sadness that we discern in nature and all things, a mystic communion that the poet feels.
~ Charlie Chaplin
Part of me is drawn to the nature of sadness because I think life is sad, and sadness is not something that should be avoided or denied. It's a fact of life, like contradictions are.
~ Robert Redford
All nature mourns, the skies relent in showers; hushed are the birds, and closed the drooping flowers.
~ Alexander Pope
For the sight of the angry weather saddens my soul and the sight of the town, sitting like a bereaved mother beneath layers of ice, oppresses my heart.
~ Kahlil Gibran
On Man, on Nature, and on Human Life, Musing in solitude, I oft perceive Fair trains of images before me rise, Accompanied by feelings of delight Pure, or with no unpleasing sadness mixed.
~ William Wordsworth
An animal in pain is the saddest thing on Earth.
~ Sanober Khan
Earth is sad, Moon is shy, Sun is happy but wait a moment, I just forgot to tell you that I am the child of open sky.
~ Santosh Kalwar
It was very sad under the trees. Although spring was well advanced, in the deep shade there was nothing but death-rotten leaves, gray and white fungi, and over everything a funeral hush.
~ Nathanael West
Sadness is more or less like a head cold - with patience, it passes. Depression is like cancer.
~ Barbara Kingsolver
Happiness is overrated. It comes and goes just like sadness and miseryboth fleeting. What's important is peace. With all.
~ Hrithik Roshan
Philosophy is a corrective against sadness. Yet there still are people who believe in the profundity of philosophy!
~ Emile M. Cioran
My philosophy is fundamentally sad, but I'm not a sad man, and I don't believe I sadden anyone else.
~ Antonio Machado
Life is sad, life is a bust, all you can do is do what you must.
~ Bob Dylan
I want to turn my life into sad adventure and myths.
~ J. Limbu
My heart is aching for the people of Nice, Italy. I am so sad that I have no words to express my frustration.
~ Debasish Mridha
Living was a sad and empty thing
~ E.E. Holmes, Spirit Ascendancy
Life has sadness, joy, beauty, like poetry.So be passionate and write a great story.
~ Debasish Mridha
Life is Not a perpetual climb towards Greatness.For our family, ourselves, and friends, It is but sad Decay, so, Let every girl die after her Hebé (???).And every man after his Aristeia(????????).
~ Roman Payne
Let us be the wind of love that touches every heart and blows away all of the misery and sadness.
~ Debasish Mridha