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Quotes About Sadness

Grief is sort of the allowance of feeling.
~ Carrie Brownstein
Grief is exhausting.
~ Ciaran Hinds
Grief is an emotion that's almost unplayable because you're in a separate emotional state; it's an inconsolable emotion.
~ Nicolas Roeg
With grief, you have reason to despair; it's a human thing.
~ Kay Redfield Jamison
For a culture that has such a problem with death, we seem to deal with it in a quite bizarre way. We see people shot, killed and blown up, and we find it funny and sexy and all those things. But, the reality of it is that every day people die, and people are really sad and they grieve and they go through a really difficult process with it.
~ Michael Sheen
I've never lost a grown-up child, but I have known loss.
~ Penelope Wilton
I just wanted Sadness to be true, to come from a real place. I tried to work from the inside out, going from my gut all the time. I didn't over-analyze it. I just did it.
~ Phyllis Smith
Half the time during the day, I'm just depressed.
~ Bernard Tomic
Some of the emotions of winter are hurt, anger, and disappointment, often accompanied by loneliness and a sense of rejection.
~ Gary Chapman
Christine, you must love me!" And Christine's voice, infinitely sad and trembling, as though accompanied by tears, replied: "How can you talk like that? When I sing only for you!
~ Gaston Leroux
None will ever be a true Parisian who has not learned to wear a mask of gaiety over his sorrows and one of sadness, boredom or indifference over his inward joy.
~ Gaston Leroux
No había nada más frío, nada mas muerto que su corazón.
~ Gaston Leroux
Celui-là ne sera jamais Parisien qui n'aura point appris à mettre un masque de joie sur ses douleurs et le « loup » de la tristesse, de l'ennui ou de l'indifférence sur son intime allégresse.
~ Gaston Leroux
No one will ever be a Parisian without learning to put a mask of joy over his sorrows and a mask of sadness, boredom, or indifference over his inner joy. . . Parisians are always at a masked ball . . .
~ Gaston Leroux
Nothing moved except the white bird, which flew back and forth with a slow, sad motion that seemed so weary that every time two wings rose I felt that it was about to fall into the sea, and the Short Sun, which crept down to the empty horizon as remorselessly as every man creeps toward his grave.
~ Gene Wolfe
It is something cruelly incomprehensible to youthful natures, this sombre sameness in middle-aged and elderly people, whose life has resulted in disappointment and discontent, to whose faces a smile becomes so strange that the sad lines all about the lips and brow seem to take no notice of it, and it hurries away again for want of a welcome.
~ George Eliot
Maggie actually forgot that she had any special cause of sadness this morning, as she stood on a chair to look at a remarkable series of pictures representing the Prodigal Son in the costume of Sir Charles Grandison, except that, as might have been expected from his defective moral character, he had not, like that accomplished hero, the taste and strength of mind to dispense with a wig.
~ George Eliot
Beware of sadness It can hit you It can hurt you Make you sore and what is more That is not what you are here for.
~ George Harrison
Be Beware of sadness It can hit you It can hurt you Make you sore and what is more That is not what we are here for.
~ George Harrison
I look back with a mix of emotions: sadness for the people who are gone, nostalgia for times that have passed, but immense gratitude for the wonderful opportunities that came my way.
~ Dick Van Patten
So much of the deep lingering sadness over President Kennedy's assassination is about the unfinished promise: unspoken speeches, unfulfilled hopes, the wondering about what might have been.
~ Marian Wright Edelman
Life is never all one thing. It bounces around. Certainly, my own life has. Look at Woody Allen's funny movies - all the humor comes out of sad stuff. Sometimes you have to laugh, no matter what life deals you.
~ Tim O'Brien
Beauty is the disinterested one, without which the ancient world refused to understand itself, a word which both imperceptibly and yet unmistakably has bid farewell to our new world, a world of interests, leaving it to its own avarice and sadness.
~ Hans Urs von Balthasar
I work a lot in the slums of Tondo, Manila, and the life there is poor and very sad. And I've always taught to myself to look for the beauty of it and look in the beauty of the faces of the children and to be grateful.
~ Catriona Gray