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Quotes About Sadness

I actually think sadness and darkness can be very beautiful and healing.
~ Duncan Sheik
I'm afraid a boat so small would sink with the weight of all my sorrow.
~ Li Qingzhao
The good life is best construed as a matrix that includes happiness, occasional sadness, a sense of purpose, playfulness, and psychological flexibility, as well autonomy, mastery, and belonging.
~ Robert Biswas-Diener
To be a character who feels a deep emotion, one must go into the memory's vault and mix in a sad memory from one's own life.
~ Albert Finney
For every laugh, there should be a tear.
~ Walt Disney Company
The sadness of the incomplete, the sadness that is often Life, but should never be Art.
~ E. M. Forster
I'm in mourning for my life.
~ Anton Chekhov
Sadness isn't sadness. It's happiness in a black jacket. Tears are not tears. They're balls of laughter dipped in salt. Death is not death. It's life that's jumped off a tall cliff.
~ Paul McCartney
Life is the saddest thing there is, next to death.
~ Edith Wharton
Time heals many wounds but this loss becomes the defining sadness of your life.
~ Claire Cook
Now my ability to notice things and respond to things and be here is far more profound. With that comes happiness, with it comes sadness, but it's a beautiful life.
~ Nicole Kidman
This was an important part of my life. But it was also sad that we didn't play there, cause we had such alot of fans that were waiting for us and Brazilians are great people. It's now my second home.
~ Jim Capaldi
Don't you know that I laugh because it is my last defense against tears?
~ Jim Fergus
It's a sad and beautiful world.
~ Jim Jarmusch
In a sad twist of fate, the bill to reauthorize the Patriot Act was debated on the floor of the House of Representatives the same day that terrorists struck again.
~ Jim Sensenbrenner
E a gente raivava alto, para retardar o surgir do medo — e a tristeza em crú — sem se saber por que, mas que era de todos, unidos malaventurados.
~ João Guimarães Rosa
The sad heart needs work to do.
~ Joan Bauer
Sometimes the gulls came nearer, screaming noisily as they quarreled over small fish in the pools, and sometimes they cried mournfully far away along the beach. Then Anna felt like crying too - not actually, but quietly - inside. They made a sad, and beautiful, and long-ago sound that seemed to remind her of something lovely she had once known - and lost, and never found again. But she did not know what it was.
~ Joan G. Robinson
Juniper laughed for real, but one of those fake smiles he considered a plague of the Caucasian race followed. If you're sad, be sad, he wanted to say.
~ Jo-Ann Mapson
Prófugo de un dolor que ya no existe, llevo 500 noches celebrando la impúdica belleza de estar triste
~ Joaquín Sabina
you can overcome sadness, loneliness, even terrible loss. But guilt goes with you the grave.
~ Jodee Blanco
In Chinese or Japanese artistic tradition, there is nothing wrong with cliches as such. The true test of skill is to redefine the familiar. The paradigm of the Japanese Buddhist belief that beauty is rooted in the evanescence of life and therefore its sadness.
~ Jodi Cobb
I didn't know why she seemed so sad and happy at the same time. To love someone was not what she had expected. It was like falling from somewhere high up and breaking in half, and only one person having the secret to the puzzle of putting her back together.
~ Jodi Lynn Anderson
Sadness is only something that's part of you. Grief becomes you; it wraps you up and changes you and makes everything - every little thing - different than it was before.
~ Jodi Lynn Anderson