Sadness Quotes

• The big difference between human happiness and sadness? Thirty-seven freakin' vibrations.

  

  Michael Tilson Thomas
  • Humans
  • motivation
  • Differences

• These warm lovers of life, born under dancing stars, how without them was life tolerable for those, such as himself, whose bias was towards sadness, their stars cloud-hidden when their spirits woke to life....In this world, surely, there should always be a mating between the lovers of life and the endurers of it, in couples they should find a causeway for their feet and walk it together, the star-shine of the one comforting the darkness of the other.

  

  Elizabeth Goudge
  • Stars
  • Darkness
  • Lovers

• We may thank God that we can feel pain and know sadness, for these are the human sentiments that constitute our glory as well as our grief.

  

  Eugene Kennedy
  • Human
  • Glory
  • Thank God

• No wonder sorrow doesn’t smile much. No wonder sadness is so sad.

  

  Nick Cave The Birthday Party
  • Smile
  • Sorrow
  • Sadness

• Anger, tears and sadness are only for those who have given up.

  

  Katie Gill
  • Sad
  • Tears
  • Given

• The gardener knows how to turn garbage into compost. Therefore our anger, sadness, and fear is the best compost for our compassion.

  

  Kayla Mueller
  • Compassion
  • Turns
  • Garbage

• There are moments when I wish I could roll back the clock and take all the sadness away, but I have a feeling that if I did, the joy would be gone as well. So I take the memories as they come, accepting them all, letting them guide me whenever I can.

  

  Nicholas Sparks
  • Wish
  • Moments
  • Feelings

• The rich man can afford to be happy and wise; the poor man is wiser still, for he understands sadness.

  

  William Henry Chase
  • Rich
  • Poor
  • Intelligence

• If teardrops were pennies and heartaches were gold, I'd have all the treasures my pockets could hold.

  

  Dolly Parton
  • Gold
  • Sadness
  • Heartache

• I felt a tremendous sadness for men who can't deal with a woman of their own age.

  

  Michael Caine
  • Woman
  • Sadness

• The sadness which reigned everywhere was but an excuse for unfailing kindness.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Kindness
  • Sadness
  • Escuse

• She had a moment of engulfing sadness about this, about the way that even when we’re living through tragedy, the language we reach for, the only language available to us, is secondhand.

  

  Brian Morton
  • Language
  • Moment
  • Tragedy

• He thought that everyone should listen to her voice, because there was so much sadness and happiness in it, all at the same time. And he knew she could make the world be quiet, and he thought that maybe the world needed to be quiet. That was the problem with the world—it never stayed quiet long enough to listen.

  

  Benjamin Alire Saenz
  • Problem
  • Happiness
  • Listen

• There are seasons of darkness, yes? Loss and sadness all around.” He tightens his grip. “But if you are patient, the circle turns, and then there is happiness all around, everything good, everyone happy.” He flings a hand out, palm up, as if scattering glitter. “My friend, he just forgot that happiness is part of living too.

  

  Barbara O'Neal
  • Happiness
  • Darkness
  • Patient

• We changed it to emocionó, the way you say in Spanish, "to emotion me" to be moved. That, as opposed to "haunt." We wanted the feeling of sadness and grief and obsession, so we used emocionó.

  

  Sandra Cisneros
  • Feelings
  • Emotion
  • Grief

• Music should use everything. The sadness of life and the fun of life. Anything that provokes a sound that is exciting is good.

  

  Daniel Humair
  • Everything
  • Anything
  • Exciting

• Some people turn sad awfully young. No special reason, it seems, but they seem almost to be born that way. They bruise easier, tire faster, cry quicker, remember longer and, as I say, get sadder younger than anyone else in the world. I know, for I'm one of them.

  

  Ray Bradbury
  • World
  • Remember
  • Reason

• There were hundreds of them spread across the floor, each telling its own tale of triumph or sadness, each letter representing a phase in her life. She had kept them all.

  

  Cecelia Ahern
  • Sadness
  • Letters
  • Spread

• If you want to learn how to be happy, you have to know what is sadness first.

  

  Etgar Keret
  • Want
  • Firsts
  • Sadness

• The nature of life is to be a study of contrasts: joy/sadness, full/empty. The Main Thing is to Keep The Main Thing The Main Thing.

  

  Stephen Covey
  • Life
  • Joy
  • Study

• When she was younger, hannah liked to feel sad, so long as it was artifical sad' that was what she called it when the sadness was about something that wasn't real.

  

  Elizabeth Noble
  • Real
  • Sadness

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