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Quotes About Sadness

The root of the problem I have is anxiety, and it's all derived from something - I'm just going to say it, some kind of sadness. It manifests in so many different ways and it affects people differently.
~ Vinny Guadagnino
There is a dark side in all of us. And for us 'bad' people, the bad side dominates. I think there is a great sadness in villains, and I have tried to put that across. We cannot stop ourselves doing what we are doing.
~ Christopher Lee
In deep sadness there is no place for sentimentality.
~ William S. Burroughs
There's a sadness about love, a melancholy and a sadness about beauty. It's just part of the human experience of living on this planet.
~ James Newton Howard
I never talk about anything Hollywood or about politics. I will talk about how concerned I am about funding for Planned Parenthood, and how very sad it makes me when I see anything about children being separated from their parents.
~ Ruth Westheimer
The old, sad art colors are gone. Now I paint bright colors. I paint paintings which are happy, where children are laughing and playing with animals. I paint paradise on Earth. I still paint sadness sometimes, but there is sadness in the world, too.
~ Margaret Keane
Sadness is a necessary emotion. It's maybe not the most pleasant one to have, but it's cathartic.
~ Phyllis Smith
I don't like violence, in reel or real life. I prefer the quiet, beautiful genre of movies where everything is rosy and pleasant. I stay away from extreme sadness in my scripts and, somehow, I can't make movies for kids.
~ Anoop Menon
I often have an argument with people. I say name me a classic song that's not sad in some kind of way. And even if you can, you'll have to search pretty far.
~ Danger Mouse
I know a lot of sad people who aren't comedians.
~ Gene Wilder
I believe that you can't know courage without conquering fear, and you can't really know joy without knowing sadness.
~ Sean Hepburn Ferrer
God is in the sadness and the laughter, in the bitter and the sweet.
~ Neale Donald Walsch
I will indulge my sorrows, and give way to all the pangs and fury of despair.
~ Joseph Addison
But sometimes our veils are pushed away for a few moments, like there's a wind blowing it from our faces. And when the veil lifts, we can see the world as it really is, just for those few seconds before it settles down again. We see all the beauty, and cruelty, and sadness, and love. But mostly we are happy not to. Some people learn to lift the veil themselves. Then they don't have to depend on the wind anymore.
~ Rebecca Stead
Sadness can find you anywhere, anytime, so you better have fun when you can.
~ Rebecca Wells
His death was the first time that Ed Wynn ever made anyone sad.
~ Red Skelton
Tussen de vele stemmen van mensen is jouw stem de enige die menselijk is die weet van het verdriet dat langzaam in de bomen groeit gevoed door de aarde tot ze oud worden sterven aan de rand van wilde of onzindelijke tuinen.
~ Remco Campert
Blessed are those who mourn…" This is the first step on the path of blessedness: sadness, discomfort, inner discontent, regret, misery, depression… mourning. If you are happy and carefree, why and how would you ever be motivated to do deep inner work – to heal, to evolve?
~ Ren Lexander
So the very first step on the path to blessedness is to be confronted by the spectre of meaninglessness… by inner discontent, sadness, anxiety, regret, frustration, depression. Confucius put it succinctly: "No vexation, no enlightenment; no anxiety, no illumination." (Analects 7:8)
~ Ren Lexander
Elle pleurait des mots qui se mélangeaient les uns aux autres.
~ René Barjavel
Con frecuencia una falsa alegría vale más que una tristeza cuya causa es verdadera.
~ Rene Descartes
The world is full of heartache," the detective said. Naomi could see the sadness he bore, too. "You got to carve out some happiness for yourself. Otherwise it will take you down.
~ Rene Denfeld
She thinks about how sad it is that we remember the killers and not their victims.
~ Rene Denfeld
Your joy is your sorrow unmasked. And the self-same well from which your laughter rises was often-times filled with your tears.
~ Rene Descartes