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Quotes About Sadness

Christmas is the beachhead of God's campaign against sin and sadness, darkness and death, fear and frustration.
~ Tullian Tchividjian
Rejoicing is the essence of genuine worship. A sad face (apart from remorse for sin or regret concerning the pain of others) is an affront to a gracious and generous God.
~ Max Anders
If I've got the powers of a god, then why am I so..." "Lame?" Sadie suggested. "Shut up," I said.
~ Rick Riordan
Some people habitually wear sadness, like a garment, and think it a becoming grace. God loves a cheerful worshipper.
~ Edwin Hubbel Chapin
This was his world, he said to himself, the sad, oppressive world that God had provided for him, and he was responsible to it.
~ Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Be of good cheer, for sadness cannot heal the national wounds.
~ Dorothea Dix
Something special is ending, and you're sad, but you can't be that said because, hey, it was good while it lasted, and there'll be other vacations, other good times.
~ Gayle Forman
Dying in unfamiliar surroundings miles away from home, it cannot possibly be good. There is a great sadness about that I think.
~ Ian Mcewan
I used to come here on my own sometimes... Id' stay down here for ages." Her voice was barely audible. "It's a good place for sadness.
~ Kevin Brooks
I have a piece of great and sad news to tell you: I am dead.
~ Jean Cocteau
When most people think of Woodrow Wilson, they see a dour minister's son who never cracked a smile, where in fact he was a man of genuine joy and great sadness.
~ A. Scott Berg
Don't let the sadness from the past and fear of the future ruin the happiness of the present.
~ Kid Cudi
I love walking down the street and seeing faces and drama and happiness and sadness and dirt and cleanliness.
~ Ric Ocasek
If there were no valleys of sadness and death, we could never really appreciate the sunshine of happiness on the mountain top.
~ Roy Rogers
I disliked the unfamiliar happiness more than the familiar sadness
~ Tablo
One should be either sad or joyful. Contentment is a warm sty for eaters and sleepers.
~ Eugene O'Neill
The big difference between human happiness and sadness? Thirty-seven freakin' vibrations.
~ Michael Tilson Thomas
Happiness comes in moments, & then it's gone until the next time. Could be years. But sadness settles it.
~ Dennis Lehane
I don't feel like myself unless I run. It's how I deal with sadness and happiness. I need it. It's like therapy.
~ Kara Goucher
I cried, for happiness, for sadness, but most of all, for emptiness.
~ Daul Kim
There's such a thing as too much happiness and sadness. What I'm after is contentment.
~ Ray Charles
Passively accepting your sadness is the same as forgetting to build your own happiness. Happiness is more than a mood. It's a long-lasting state that is more accurately called well-being.
~ Deepak Chopra
May your happiest days of the past be your saddest days of your future.
~ Laurence J. Peter
It is a sad thing to want for happiness, but it is a terrible thing to see another groping about blindly for it, when it is almost within the grasp.
~ Theodore Dreiser