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Quotes About Sadness

And she had those things that one likes about magicians: she was disgustingly bright and rather sad and slightly askew.
~ Lev Grossman
Please don't tell me you're going to go to Fillory so you can get more homework done," Alice said. "Because that would be the saddest thing I've ever heard.
~ Lev Grossman
Nothing is as sad as seeing a person who used to have power have none.
~ Abraham A. Ribicoff
I think a good dollop of sadness is quite a useful thing in comedy sometimes. I think if everyone's happy all the time, it's a bit dull. It's like salt and caramel - you wouldn't imagine they would go well together, but they do.
~ Olivia Colman
'Blue Valentine' was a really sad movie, but I loved the moments when they're discovering each other for the first time.
~ Sam Heughan
There is a collective as well as an individual humor inclining peoples to sadness or cheerfulness, making them see things in bright or somber lights. In fact, only society can pass a collective opinion on the value of human life; for this the individual is incompetent.
~ Émile Durkheim
Me acostaba llorando, me despertaba llorando y me pasaba el día escondiéndome de la gente, para poder llorar.
~ Javier Cercas
Sadness flies away on the wings of time.
~ Jean de La Fontaine
It is strange how sad it can be - sunlight in the afternoon, don't you think?
~ Jean Rhys
That was when it was sad, when you lay awake at night and remembered things. That was when it was sad, when you stood by the bed and undressed, thinking, "When he kisses me, shivers run up my back. I am hopeless, resigned, utterly happy. Is that me? I am bad, not good any longer, bad. That has no meaning, absolutely none. Just words. But something about the darkness of the streets has a meaning.
~ Jean Rhys
Why are you sad?
~ Jean Rhys
I thought about the dog and was suddenly very sad; sad for her death, for my death, for all the inevitable dying that comes with change. There's no choice that doesn't mean a loss.
~ Jeanette Winterson
I thought about the dog and was suddenly very sad; sad about her death, for my death, for all the inevitable dying that comes with change. There's no choice that doesn't mean a loss.
~ Jeanette Winterson
O t?cere des?vârÅŸit? te îndeamn? la tristeÈ›e, e ca o icoan? a morÈ›ii.
~ Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Lina didn't really feel cold but she did feel sad, which was in a way the same.
~ Jeanne DuPrau
Suffering is a big informer, a big catalyst for creation. You take your sadness, your despair, your sense of injustice, and you put it in your work.
~ Madonna Ciccone
When sadness happens in the middle of work, I separate my personal grief from my train of thought.
~ Sergio Aragones
There's a hazardous sadness to the first sounds of someone else's work in the morning; it's as if stillness experiences pain in being broken.
~ Jonathan Franzen
The saddest object in civilization, and to my mind the greatest confession of its failure, is the man who can work, who wants work, and who is not allowed to work.
~ Robert Louis Stevenson
All my work shares a kind of balance between black comedy and sad and despairing melancholy.
~ Martin McDonagh
O, if there be any kind of life most sad, and deepest in the scale of pity, it is the dry, cold impotence of one, who has honestly set to the work of his own self-redemption.
~ Horace Bushnell
The sad heart needs work to do.
~ Joan Bauer
There's a strong melancholic streak in me.
~ Miriam Margolyes
It's not that I don't experience absolute sadness, which is very unentertaining, but I think - when I'm being really honest about myself - I think there's, like, a really performative streak in my personality.
~ Caroline Calloway