Sadness Quotes

• I am thinking of George Michael's family, friends and fans. He was so loved and I hope he knew it because the sadness today is beyond words. Devastating. What a beautiful voice he had and his music will live on as a testament to his talent. I can't believe he is gone. I hope the Buddha will hold him in his arms. NMRK.

  

  Boy George Culture Club
  • Believe
  • Thinking
  • Today

• I think one of the things that is essential for happiness in life, or at least for non-sadness, is producing something. I guess that's why I spend so much time and agony writing books. But working on carpentry is sort of like all the pleasure with none of the agony.

  

  Ethan Canin
  • Happiness
  • Books
  • Agony

• The sadness will last forever.

  

  Vincent Van Gogh
  • Forever
  • Sad
  • Lasts

• I have learned to cry again and I think perhaps that means I am a human being again. Perhaps that at least. A piece of human being but, yes, a human being.

  

  William Styron
  • Thinking
  • Mean
  • Sadness

• Even among the angels, there is the sadness of division.

  

  Nicole Krauss
  • Sadness
  • Angels
  • Division

• And if you've ever wondered what happens when a person close to you is taken too soon-and it's always too soon-you may find other truths here, truths that may break the grip of sadness in your life, that may set you free from guilt, that may even bring you back to this world from wherever you are hiding. And then you will never fell alone.

  

  Ben Sherwood
  • Guilt
  • Truths
  • Wondered

• Sadness creeping from the shadows will get less and less until it crushes her no more than a petal might her breath.

  

  Nicola Morgan
  • Sadness
  • Breath
  • Less

• May the stars carry your sadness away, may the flowers fill your heart with beauty, may hope forever wipe away your tears. And, above all, may silence make you strong.

  

  Chief Dan George
  • Heart
  • Forever
  • Flower

• Once you can open yourself to joy, you feel as if you've transformed your sadness into illumination, which is really all that art is. All we want to do is transform the negative emotions into light. We want to compost them into light.

  

  Sandra Cisneros
  • Art
  • Joy
  • Emotion

• The sadness of our existence should not leave us blunted, on the contrary--how to remain thin-skinned, vulnerable and stay alive?

  

  Montgomery Clift
  • Existence
  • Vulnerable
  • Contrary

• Architecture begins to matter when it brings delight and sadness and perplexity and awe along with a roof over our heads.

  

  Paul Goldberger
  • Architecture
  • Sadness
  • Roof

• Live by this credo: have a little laugh at life and look around you for happiness instead of sadness. Laughter has always brought me out of unhappy situations.

  

  Red Skelton
  • Happiness
  • Look
  • Situations

• I see the President almost every day. I see very plainly Abraham Lincoln's dark brown face with its deep-cut lines, the eyes always to me with a deep latent sadness in the expression. None of the artists or pictures has caught the deep, though subtle and indirect expression of this man's face. There is something else there. One of the great portrait painters of two or three centuries ago is needed.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • President
  • Artists
  • Painters

• Sadness is just a place on the map. Don't try to avoid it, resist it or escape through substances. Settle it, allow it, and it will go.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Place
  • Sadness
  • Resist

• I’m a big fan of history—applying the lessons as well as the joys and sadness. If we pay attention, we would see how we affect each other. In terms of time, we are not that far from one another. If we were to look back a century, it would seem like a long time; but, if we look at it by decades then it’s only 10 years, and by generations it’s only five.

  

  Yolande Cornelia "Nikki" Giovanni, Jr.
  • Long
  • Attention
  • Joy

• Streets paved with opal sadness, Lead me counterclockwise, to pockets of joy, And jazz.

  

  Bob Kaufman
  • Joy
  • Jazz
  • Sadness

• I figured out that letting ‘the world’ hurt me served a few functions extremely well: It provided me with a kind of nurturing I didn’t otherwise know how to attract, I couldn’t be pinned with total responsibility, and it provided physical pain, a reason to cry that others could understand. So much easier than trying to explain all the accumulated rage and numbness and sadness.

  

  Ben Sherwood
  • Pain
  • Responsibility
  • Hurt

• being funny is a way of being liked and a way of dealing with sadness.

  

  Wendy Wasserstein
  • Funny
  • Sadness

• I'm trying to make sure that there's comedy as well as sadness. It makes the sadness more memorable.

  

  Rick Moody
  • Trying
  • Sadness
  • Memorable

• Allow beauty and sadness to touch you. This is love, not fear.

  

  Colleen Saidman
  • Love
  • Fear
  • Beauty

• In the first few seconds an aching sadness wrenched his heart, but it soon gave way to a feeling of sweet disquiet, the excitement of gypsy wanderlust.

  

  Mikhail Bulgakov
  • Time
  • Heart
  • Way

• Got those moods a swinging, tears a slinging, nothing fits me, when it hits me, ranting, raving, misbehaving, PMS blues.

  

  Dolly Parton
  • Tears
  • Sadness
  • Fit

• A wonderful book . . . Full of sadness, hope, and ultimately love. I found it very moving.

  

  Esther Freud
  • Book
  • Moving
  • Wonderful

• My presence isn't simply about "character" - I'm present in every part and particle of the thing, in the sound and rhythm of the sentences, in the shifting tones and the selection of details, in the comedy, the sadness, and the confusion. For the space of an essay, I'm the air you breathe, everywhere and nowhere. With a personal essay, I don't think you'd want it any other way. You ought to have the sense of an encounter, the impression of having met someone. In my essays, for better or worse, that someone is me.

  

  Charles D'Ambrosio
  • Character
  • Comedy
  • Breathe

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