Sadness famous quotes

I don't know whether there is anyone else at all who remembers my noble father with such sadness
-- Egon Schiele

#Father #Sadness #Noble

Personally, I didn't think there was anything wrong with sadness. Just the opposite – hypocrisy made people happy and truth made them sad.
-- Elif Safak

#Sadness #Thinking #Opposites

Gradually, everything that happens in the world is coming to be of interest everywhere in the world, and, gradually, thoughtful men and women everywhere are sitting in judgment upon the conduct of all nations.
-- Elihu Root

#Sadness #Thoughtful #Men

Sadness, joy, wonder - all feelings come from a place of grounded strength that comes from trust in yourself. We spend so much time trying to control our feelings out of fear that something may happen, that somebody may not love us, or walk away or die. It's only when you stop living in that fear of what other people might do to you or how they will react, only then are you free to be alive.
-- Elisabeth Shue

#Sadness #People #Joy

It is a sadness of growing older that some of us lose our ardent appreciation of what is new and different and difficult.
-- Elizabeth Aston

#Appreciation #Sadness #Different

A broken heart is not the same as sadness. Sadness occurs when the heart is stone cold and lifeless. On the contrary, there is an unbelievable amount of vitality in a broken heart.
-- Elizabeth Lesser

#Heart #Sadness #Broken

That's the thing I want to make clear about depression: It's got nothing at all to do with life. In the course of life, there is sadness and pain and sorrow, all of which, in their right time and season, are normal-unpleasant, but normal. Depression is an altogether different zone because it involves a complete absence: absence of affect, absence of feeling, absence of response, absence of interest. The pain you feel in the course of a major clinical depression is an attempt on nature's part (nature, after all, abhors a vacuum) to fill up the empty space.
-- Elizabeth Wurtzel

#Pain #Sadness #Space

The measure of our mindfulness, the touchstone for sanity in this society, is our level of productivity, our attention to responsibility, our ability to plain and simple hold down a job. If you're still at the point when you're even just barely going through the motions--showing up at work, paying the bills--you are still okay or okay enough. A desire not to acknowledge sadness in ourselves or those close to us--better known these days as denial, is such a strong urge that plenty of people prefer to think that until you are actually flying out of a window, you don't have a problem.
-- Elizabeth Wurtzel

#Strong #Jobs #Sadness

Talk happiness. The world is sad enough without your woe. No path is wholly rough.
-- Ella Wheeler Wilcox

#Sadness #World #Woe

I had often sought for the peace there is in Christ, but I could not seem to find the freedom I desired. A terrible sadness rested on my heart. I could not think of anything I had done to cause me to feel sad; but it seemed to me that I was not good enough to enter Heaven, that such a thing would be altogether too much for me to expect.
-- Ellen G. White

#Heart #Sadness #Thinking

It is forever unspeakable that man must suffer so. But you learn to control yourself, to work efficiently. ... I used to cry, and want to cry, but what do tears do? I was so proud when first I began to conquer. ... Your cheeks feel white just the same, but inside, not outside. Nobody can tell to look at you. Nobody.
-- Elliott Merrick

#Sadness #Men #White

Everybody gets a tag. If you listen to a Velvet Underground record, you don't think, 'Godfathers of Punk.' You just think, 'This sounds great.' The tags are there in order to help try to sell something by giving it a name that's going to stick in somebody's memory. But it doesn't describe it. So 'depressing' isn't a word I would use to describe my music. But there is some sadness in it -- there has to be, so that the happiness in it will matter.
-- Elliott Smith

#Depressing #Memories #Sadness

It's so easy to write songs about misery and hard times and sadness. It's much more difficult to write songs about happy and chirpy stuff.
-- Elton John

#Song #Writing #Sadness

People with HIV are still stigmatized. The infection rates are going up. People are dying. The political response is appalling. The sadness of it, the waste.
-- Elton John

#Sadness #People #Political

If you cry when you're in love, it sure ain't no disgrace.
-- Elvis Presley

#Sadness #Cry #Disgrace

There is a collective as well as an individual humor inclining peoples to sadness or cheerfulness, making them see things in bright or somber lights. In fact, only society can pass a collective opinion on the value of human life; for this the individual is incompetent.
-- Emile Durkheim

#Sadness #Light #Facts

Melancholy suicide. —This is connected with a general state of extreme depression and exaggerated sadness, causing the patient no longer to realize sanely the bonds which connect him with people and things about him. Pleasures no longer attract;
-- Emile Durkheim

#Suicide #Sadness #People

Man could not live if he were entirely impervious to sadness. Many sorrows can be endured only by being embraced, and the pleasure taken in them naturally has a somewhat melancholy character.
-- Emile Durkheim

#Taken #Character #Sadness

It is a quite remarkable fact that the great religions of the most civilized peoples are more deeply fraught with sadness than the simpler beliefs of earlier societies. This certainly does not mean that the current of pessimism is eventually to submerge the other, but it proves that it does not lose ground and that it does not seem destined to disappear.
-- Emile Durkheim

#Sadness #Mean #Doe

When you feel like you've had it up to here, and you're mad enough to scream, but you're sad enough to tear, that's rock bottom.
-- Eminem

#Sadness #Rocks #Mad

But I saw the pain and sadness in everything, and swirled it round my mouth like a fine wine.
-- Emma Forrest

#Pain #Wine #Sadness

Is it needy? It's not. We don't need each other. We just really, really enjoy each other. And we're good together. We're good people together. And I have the funniest feeling. I can really, truly touch this all, this happiness and the sadness too, I can trace all of it with my fingers. It isn't theoretical or distant. This feels like me. This is me. I love him, and, for the first time in a relationship, I also like me. Every time he says "I love you," I answer, "I believe you.
-- Emma Forrest

#Believe #Love You #Sadness

What people don't understand when you've already been a suicide and pulled through is that after the sadness comes fear: Where is my mind going with this? I don't want to die. I do not want to die. When you don't have so much control over your own thoughts, over the myriad voices in your head, you don't know where they could go.
-- Emma Forrest

#Suicide #Sadness #Voice

As citizens we have to be more thoughtful and more educated and more informed. I turn on the TV and I see these grown people screaming at each other, and I think, well, if we don't get our civility back, we're in trouble.
-- Emmylou Harris

#Sadness #Thoughtful #Thinking

Behind every crime is a story of sadness.
-- Enrique Pena Nieto

#Sadness #Stories #Crime

I sought my father in the world of the black musician, because it contained wisdom, experience, sadness and loneliness. I was not ever interested in the music of boys. From my youngest years, I was interested in the music of men.
-- Eric Clapton

#Father #Loneliness #Sadness

Creating doesn't make us unhappy, unhappiness makes us creative. To create is to live, and in living, we want only to creat more, to set our foundations depper and reach higher toward the sky. If sadness is what makes us creative, then sadness is nothing else but life.
-- Eric G. Wilson

#Sadness #Creating #Sky

Some of the most unhappy artists in the most difficult situations can create awe-inspiring works of art.
-- Eric Gibbons

#Art #Sadness #Unhappy

The misery of a child is interesting to a mother, the misery of a young man is interesting to a young woman, the misery of an old man is interesting to nobody.
-- Eric Hoffer

#Mother #Children #Sadness

It is loneliness that makes the loudest noise. This is true of men as of dogs.
-- Eric Hoffer

#Dog #Loneliness #Sadness

The end comes when we no longer talk with ourselves. It is the end of genuine thinking and the beginning of the final loneliness. The remarkable thing is that the cessation of the inner dialogue marks also the end of our concern with the world around us. It is as if we noted the world and think about it only when we have to report it to ourselves.
-- Eric Hoffer

#Loneliness #Sadness #Thinking

I convinced myself that sadness and compromise were the ways of the world...
-- Erica Jong

#Sadness #World #Way

One cannot be deeply responsive to the world without being saddened very often.
-- Erich Fromm

#Sadness #Compassion #Curiosity

For a moment I had a strange intuition that just this, and in a real, profound sense, is life; and perhaps happiness even - love with a mixture of sadness, reverence, and silent knowledge.
-- Erich Maria Remarque

#Real #Sadness #Profound

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

#Sadness #Want #Firsts

ought we not, from time to time, open ourselves up to cosmic sadness? ... Give your sorrow all the space and shelter in yourself that is its due, for if everyone bears his grief honestly and courageously, the sorrow that now fills the world will abate. But if you do not clear a decent shelter for your sorrow, and instead reserve most of the space inside you for hatred and thoughts of revenge-from which new sorrows will be born for others-then sorrow will never cease in this world and will multiply.
-- Etty Hillesum

#Revenge #Grief #Sadness

Old age is not a total misery. Experience helps.
-- Euripides

#Sadness #Age #Helping

Fate finds for every man; his share of misery.
-- Euripides

#Sadness #Fate #Men

Deep down, I reckon the sweetest moment will come when it's finally all over. When, at last, I know that I can stop fighting. Of course it'll also be a little sad. The sweetest moments, y'know, always come with just a little sadness.
-- Evander Holyfield

#Sadness #Fighting #Littles

Was it the infinite sadness of her eyes that drew him or the mirror of himself that he found in the gorgeous clarity of her mind?
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald

#Sadness #Eye #Mirrors

I can mourn internally, just be quiet about it. I have my moments but I'm not a real, expressive person, especially when it comes to like sadness.
-- Faith Evans

#Real #Sadness #Quiet

Cuba laments and expresses its profound sadness for the loss of so many innocent lives and expresses our absolute rejection of acts of terrorism, wherever they may come from.
-- Felipe Perez Roque

#Sadness #Loss #Profound

On a feeling and sensitive mind a demolished forest impresses unmingled sadness, whereas its primeval grandeur must inspire anyone to immeasurable delight, who is susceptible to the beauties of nature.
-- Ferdinand von Mueller

#Beauty #Sadness #Inspire

Being tired of all illusions and of everything about illusions – the loss of illusions, the uselessness of having them, the prefatigue of having to have them in order to lose them, the sadness of having had them, the intellectual shame of having had them knowing that they would have to end this way.
-- Fernando Pessoa

#Sadness #Tired #Loss

But my sadness is comforting Because it’s right and natural And because it’s what the soul should feel When it already thinks it exists And the hand pick flowers And the soul takes no notice.
-- Fernando Pessoa

#Flower #Sadness #Thinking

To do justice to a lifelong dream of being a writer, I must give it the intense concentration and focus I gave to track. To do both with excellence is not possible. It is with a sense of sadness and joyous anticipation that I leave track and move on.
-- Florence Griffith Joyner

#Dream #Moving #Sadness

Good Chianti, that aged, majestic and proud wine, enlivens my heart, and frees it painlessly from all fatigue and sadness.
-- Francesco Redi

#Heart #Wine #Sadness

An autumn garden has a sadness when the sun is not shining...
-- Francis Brett Young

#Sadness #Autumn #Garden

Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace. Where there is hatred, let me sow love, Where there is injury, pardon; Where there is doubt, faith; Where there is despair, hope; Where there is darkness, light; And where there is sadness, joy. O Divine Master, grant that I may not so much seek to be consoled as to console, to be understood as to understand, to be loved, as to love.
-- Francis of Assisi

#Prayer #Sadness #Light

Parting with friends is a sadness. A place is only a place.
-- Frank Herbert

#Sadness #Parting

When you're happy you enjoy the music, but when you're sad you understand the lyrics.
-- Frank Ocean

#Sadness #Enjoy

I don't know what other singers feel when they articulate lyrics, but being an 18-karat manic-depressive and having lived a life of violent emotional contradictions, I have an overacute capacity for sadness as well as elation.
-- Frank Sinatra

#Sadness #Emotional #Elation

I carry a deep sadness of the heart which must now and then break out in sound,
-- Franz Liszt

#Heart #Sadness #Sound

Confronting our feelings and giving them appropriate expression always takes strength, not weakness. It takes strength to acknowledge our anger, and sometimes more strength yet to curb the aggressive urges anger may bring and to channel them into nonviolent outlets. It takes strength to face our sadness and to grieve and to let our grief and our anger flow in tears when they need to. It takes strength to talk about our feelings and to reach out for help and comfort when we need it.
-- Fred Rogers

#Grief #Sadness #Grieving

Despair has been called the unforgivable sin-not presumably because God refuses to forgive it, but because it despairs of the possibility of being forgiven.
-- Frederick Buechner

#Sadness #Forgiving #Despair

What, if some day or night a demon were to steal after you into your loneliest loneliness and say to you: 'This life as you now live it and have lived it, you will have to live once more and innumerable times more' ... Would you not throw yourself down and gnash your teeth and curse the demon who spoke thus? Or have you once experienced a tremendous moment when you would have answered him: 'You are a god and never have I heard anything more divine.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche

#Happiness #Loneliness #Sadness

Often, feelings of sadness, uneasiness, and loneliness are vague and unattached to specific events. This makes it more challenging to find ways to turn you mood around. When you find yourself in a funk, focus on what you're feeling.
-- G. Alan Marlatt

#Loneliness #Sadness #Focus

There is no true joy and compassion except through the difficult emotions - all we get without the experience of fear, anger, and sadness are cheap imitations of joy and compassion - pleasantness and sentimentality.
-- Gabrielle Roth

#Sadness #Compassion #Joy

Compassion is a chameleon: it can wear the face of fear, anger, sadness, joy or even dispassion, depending on what's needed at the time. The compassionate Buddha has a smile in one eye and a tear in the other, and our Buddha mission is to lead people to true freedom, not to hold their hand and tell them that everything is going to be all right. In teaching, compassion means doing whatever needs to be done to get to the next phase.
-- Gabrielle Roth

#Teaching #Sadness #Mean

And hard times are good in their own way, too. Because the only way you can achieve true happiness is if you experience true sadness as well. It's all about light and shade. Balance.
-- Gabrielle Williams

#Sadness #Hard Times #Light

With each sadness a woman gets more beautiful. I wonder if with each sadness a man gets stronger.
-- Gackt

#Beautiful #Sadness #Men

The only education in grief that any of us ever gets is a crash course. Until Caroline had died I had belonged to that other world, the place of innocence, and linear expectations, where I thught grief was a simple, wrenching realm of sadness and longing that graduallu receded. What that definition left out was the body blow that loss inflicts, as well as the temporary madness, and a range of less straightforward emotions shocking in their intensity.
-- Gail Caldwell

#Grief #Sadness #Loss

Maybe this is the point: to embrace the core sadness of life without toppling headlong into it, or assuming it will define your days.
-- Gail Caldwell

#Sadness #Feeling Sad #Assuming

Did you ever see a one eyed woman cry? You know the saddest thing about the woman, the tears don't come out just one eye.
-- Gary B.B. Coleman

#Sadness #Eye #Tears

The black asphalt wouls shimmer with vapors I had a theory about those vapors...not released by the sun but by a huge onion buried under the city. This onion made us cry... I thought about the giant onion, that remarkable bulb of sadness.
-- Gary Soto

#Sadness #Cities #Black

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

#Sadness #Boredom #Joy

The BBC is part of the glue which binds the United Kingdom together. At those times of national moment - of joy or sadness, in the UK or around the world, at times when the nation wants to celebrate, mourn or just enjoy itself people turn to the BBC.
-- Gavyn Davies

#Sadness #People #Joy

Hoping a situation will change keeps you at a distance from your true feelings-sadness, anger, fear. Each of these feelings is best appreciated up close. Feel them deeply, and they will cease to bother you. Hope they'll go away, and they'll bother you all day.
-- Gay Hendricks

#Distance #Sadness #Compassion

You know, all the evil in the world, all the sadness comes from not having a good answer to that question: What do I do next? You just keep thinking of good things to do, lad. You'll be all right. We'll all be all right. I wanted you to know that.
-- Geoff Ryman

#Sadness #Thinking #Evil

I have seen him set fire to his wigwam and smooth over the graves of his fathers... clap his hand in silence over his mouth, and take the last look over his fair hunting ground, and turn his face in sadness to the setting sun.
-- George Catlin

#Father #Sadness #Hunting

It is not ignoble to feel that the fuller life which a sad experience has brought us is worth our personal share of pain. The growth of higher feeling within us is like the growth of faculty, bringing with it a sense of added strength. We can no more wish to return to a narrower sympathy than painters or musicians can wish to return to their cruder manner, or philosophers to their less complete formulas.
-- George Eliot

#Pain #Sadness #Feelings

There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when we have not yet known what it is to have suffered and be healed, to have despaired and have recovered hope.
-- George Eliot

#Hope #Learning #Sadness

Family likeness has often a deep sadness in it. Nature, that great tragic dramatist, knits us together by bone and muscle, and divides us by the subtler web of our brains; blends yearning and repulsion; and ties us by our heart-strings to the beings that jar us at every movement.
-- George Eliot

#Sadness #Heart #Ties

The microscopes that magnified the tears, studied warts and all. Still life flows on.
-- George Harrison

#Sadness #Tears #Flow

The smile on your face is sometimes out of place, don't mind no frowns, cheer down.
-- George Harrison

#Cheer #Sadness #Mind

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

#Hurt #Sadness

If drinking don't kill me, her memory will.
-- George Jones

#Memories #Drinking #Sadness

As in all sweetest music, a tinge of sadness was in every note. Nor do we know how much of the pleasures even of life we owe to the intermingled sorrows. Joy cannot unfold the deepest truths, although deepest truth must be deepest joy.
-- George MacDonald

#Sadness #Joy #Sorrow

Always there's that space between what you feel and what you do, and in that gap, all human sadness lies.
-- George Rodrigue

#Lying #Sadness #Space

Thousands of lives were suddenly ended by evil, despicable acts of terror. The pictures of airplanes flying into buildings, fires burning, huge structures collapsing, have filled us with disbelief, terrible sadness and a quiet, unyielding anger.
-- George W. Bush

#Airplane #Sadness #Fire

Sadness came into the world with Satan that world our Saviour never prayed for, the world you say I do not know. Oh, it is not so difficult to recognize: it is the world that prefers cold to warmth! What can God find to say to those who, of their own free will, of their own weight incline towards sadness and turn instinctively towards the night?
-- Georges Bernanos

#Sadness #Night #World

The Sarajevans have a very particular world view - a mordant wit coupled with this unbearable sadness and... truckloads of guts, you know.
-- Geraldine Brooks

#Sadness #Views #World

From that moment our love became sad, and sadness is a disease which gives the death-blow to affection.
-- Giacomo Casanova

#Sadness #Blow #Giving

The Family is the Country of the heart. There is an angel in the Family who, by the mysterious influence of grace, of sweetness, and of love, renders the fulfillment of duties less wearisome, sorrows less bitter. The only pure joys unmixed with sadness which it is given to man to taste upon earth are, thanks to this angel, the joys of the Family.
-- Giuseppe Mazzini

#Love #Country #Sadness

Sadness is a very interesting idea, this idea of sadness being some kind of default setting that artists will go into. And then I started thinking about this idea of sadness and happiness, and the idea that sadness is very loud, and happiness is quiet.
-- Glen Hansard

#Sadness #Artist #Thinking

I spent my childhood alone, overweight and ugly, angry at everything, and knowing nothing of a life beyond this sadness.
-- Gloria Estefan

#Sadness #Knowing #Childhood

I don't choose stay in the state of sadness, any more than I would choose to stay in a room with the smoke alarm going off.
-- Gloria Jones

#Women #Sadness #Alarms

Rainy day people all know there's no sorrow they can't rise above.
-- Gordon Lightfoot

#Sadness #Rainy Day #People

Sometimes a broken dream will make you sad or make you mean. Sometimes things ain't bad as they seem.
-- Gordon Lightfoot

#Dream #Sadness #Mean

Sometimes I think it's a shame, when I get feeling better when I'm feeling no pain.
-- Gordon Lightfoot

#Pain #Sadness #Feel Better

You can get addicted to a certain kind of sadness, Like resignation to the end, Always the end.
-- Gotye

#Sadness #Kind #Ends

I AM happy”. They understood what we english people have long forgot. We're not our sadness. We're not our happiness or our pain but our language hypnotizes us and traps us in little labelled boxes ()
-- Grant Morrison

#Pain #Sadness #Long

To live without experiencing some shame and blushes of admiration would surely be a wretched life.
-- Gregor Mendel

#Sadness #Misery #Admiration

I really love that dynamic between beauty and sadness...theres always these moments of quiet alienation, the sense of disconnect, but also, these moments of possibility.
-- Gregory Crewdson

#Sadness #Quiet #Moments

That was such a wonderful time, even in its strangeness and sadness-and life isn't the same now. It's wonderful, but it isn't the same.
-- Gregory Maguire

#Sadness #Wonderful

What Flaubert refers to as the “mélancholies du voyage” is like the sadness I feel as one season departs and another arrives.
-- Gretel Ehrlich

#Sadness #Voyages #Feels

All through autumn we hear a double voice: one says everything is ripe; the other says everything is dying. The paradox is exquisite. We feel what the Japanese call "aware"--an almost untranslatable word meaning something like "beauty tinged with sadness.
-- Gretel Ehrlich

#Sadness #Autumn #Voice

The angels in heaven covered their eyes with their hands and sobbed loudly, because that is what they always do when a man hits his wife. A profound sadness settled over the earth...God was silent in every language. The angels tried to dry their tears, but their handkerchiefs were so soaked through that is started raining even in the deserts.
-- Guus Kuijer

#Rain #Sadness #Eye

The past is as powerless to darken the present moment as is a shadow to reach up and drag down the form that casts it.
-- Guy Finley

#Sadness #Past #Shadow

Much like the hands of a clock go nowhere fast, anxious thoughts run us round-and-round without taking us anywhere!
-- Guy Finley

#Running #Sadness #Hands