Sadness famous quotes

There was some sadness in how that could happen, falling out of love with something that had shaped you. Or even people who had.
-- Guy Gavriel Kay

#Falling In Love #Fall #Sadness

There was some sadness in how that could happen, Tai thought: falling out of love with something that had shaped you. Or even people who had? But if you didn't change at least a little, where were the passages of a life? Didn't learning, changing, sometimes mean letting go of what had once been seen as true?
-- Guy Gavriel Kay

#Letting Go #Falling In Love #Sadness

Sadness is so ungrateful.
-- Han Suyin

#Sadness #Ungrateful

It's all over but the crying.
-- Hank Williams, Jr.

#Sadness #Cry

Some were beggars, some were kings, and some were masters of the arts. But in their shame they're all the same, these men with broken hearts.
-- Hank Williams, Jr.

#Art #Kings #Sadness

The greatest of men, they don't get too big to cry. They just loose faith in love and life.
-- Hank Williams, Jr.

#Life And Love #Sadness #Men

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

#Farewell #Sadness #Leaving

I know that pain is the most important thing in the universes. Greater than survival, greater than love, greater even than the beauty it brings about. For without pain, there can be no pleasure. Without sadness, there can be no happiness. Without misery there can be no beauty. And without these, life is endless, hopeless, doomed and damned. Adult. You have become adult.
-- Harlan Ellison

#Pain #Philosophy #Sadness

I am not unique in my elegiac sadness at watching reading die, in the era that celebrates Stephen King and J.K. Rowling rather than Charles Dickens and Lewis Carroll.
-- Harold Bloom

#Kings #Reading #Sadness

You don't become happy by pursuing happiness. You become happy by living a life that means something.
-- Harold S. Kushner

#Sadness #Mean

It's easy to smile just to make other people feel better. But when a person fakes happy, it has edges. Regular people may not see, but the people who count, they can see the edges and the lines where your smile ends and the real you, the sadness (me) or the anger (Grandma) begins.
-- Heidi W. Durrow

#Real #Grandma #Sadness

Happiness calls out responsive gladness in others. There is enough sadness in the world without yours ... never doubt the excellence and permanence of what is yet to be. Join the great company of those who make the barren places of life fruitful with kindness.
-- Helen Keller

#Happiness #Kindness #Sadness

Let the surgeon take care to regulate the whole regimen of the patient's life for joy and happiness by promising that he will soon be well, by allowing his relatives and special friends to cheer him and by having someone tell him jokes, and let him be solaced also by music on the viol or psaltery. The surgeon must forbid anger, hatred, and sadness in the patient, and remind him that the body grows fat from joy and thin from sadness.
-- Henri de Mondeville

#Cheer #Sadness #Medicine

Sadness takes up the pen more readily than joy.
-- Henri Frederic Amiel

#Sadness #Joy #Pens

Our life is...a time in which sadness and joy kiss each other at every moment.
-- Henri Nouwen

#Sadness #Kissing #Joy

[On deciding not to have children:] Yes, there is a little sadness ... But there's also a little sadness around the fact I may never get to go to the moon. Jeez, you can't do everything in this lifetime.
-- Henriette Mantel

#Children #Sadness #Moon

When a child shuts down his painful emotional side, he also loses the ability to express his joyous side. Emotions are a whole. With anger comes the ability to express delight; with sadness comes the ability to express lightheartedness. This is the breadth of emotion that allows an adult to experience intimacy with a spouse, with God, and with his children
-- Henry Cloud

#Children #Sadness #Emotional

Consider the idea of a God who is essentially sadness and longing, yearning to reveal himself, to know himself through a being who knows him, thereby depending on that being who is still himself - yet who in this sense creates Him. Here we have a vision which has never been professed outside of a few errant knights of mysticism. To profess this essential bipolarity of the divine essence is not to confuse creator and created, creature and creation. It is to experience the irrevocable solidarity between the Fravarti and its Soul, in the battle they undertake for each other`s sake.
-- Henry Corbin

#Sadness #Knights #Essence

What signifies sadness, sir; a man grows lean on it.
-- Henry Mackenzie

#Sadness #Men #Sorrow

There is more or less of pathos in all true beauty. The delight it awakens has an indefinable, and, as it were, luxurious sadness, which is perhaps one element of its might.
-- Henry Theodore Tuckerman

#Beauty #Sadness #Elements

A feeling of sadness and longing, That is not akin to pain, And resembles sorrow only As the mist resembles the rain.
-- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

#Pain #Rain #Sadness

Take this sorrow to thy heart and make it part of thee, and it shall nourish thee till thou art strong again.
-- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

#Art #Strong #Sadness

Every green thing loves to die in bright colors. The vegetable cohorts march glowing out of the year in flaming dresses, as if to leave this earth were a triumph and not a sadness. It is never nature that is sad, but only we, that dare not look back on the past, and that have not its prophecy of the future in our bosoms.
-- Henry Ward Beecher

#Sadness #Past #Glowing

Boys have their soft and gentle moods too. You would suppose by the morning racket that nothing could be more foreign to their nature than romance and vague sadness. . . . But boys have hours of great sinking and sadness, when kindness and fondness are peculiarly needful to them.
-- Henry Ward Beecher

#Morning #Kindness #Sadness

The world doesn't need any more sadness than it's already got.
-- Hiro Mashima

#Sadness #Needs #World

Miserable mortals who like leaves at one moment flame with life eating the produce of the land and at another moment weakly perish.
-- Homer

#Sadness #Flames #Land

I will light candles this Christmas, Candles of joy, despite all sadness, Candles of hope where despair keeps watch. Candles of courage where fear is ever present, Candles of peace for tempest-tossed days, Candles of grace to ease heavy burdens. Candles of love to inspire all my living, Candles that will burn all the year long.
-- Howard Thurman

#Sadness #Light #Years

Happiness is overrated. It comes and goes just like sadness and miseryboth fleeting. What's important is peace. With all.
-- Hrithik Roshan

#Sadness #Important #Fleeting

There are no grounds for supposing that one can live a life without pain and sadness, but is it wrong to believe that somehow, somewhere, this is possible?
-- Hubert Butler

#Pain #Believe #Sadness

If happiness is a state of the inward life, we have to look for its chief obstructions not in outward conditions but in deeper places. Happiness depends in the last issue, as we saw, on the essential view of life. It is not a matter of distractions, nor even of mere pleasurable sensations. There may be an appearance of great prosperity with incurable sadness hidden at the heart, as there is an outward peace which is only a well-masked despair. The way to happiness is indeed harder than the way to success; for its chief enemies entrench themselves within the soul.
-- Hugh Black

#Happiness #Heart #Sadness

Truly in the heart there is a void that can not be removed except with the company of Allah. And in it there is a sadness that can not be removed except with the happiness of knowing Allah and being true to Him. And in it there is an emptiness that can not be filled except with love for Him and by turning to Him and always remembering Him. And if a person were given all of the world and what is in it, it would not fill this emptiness.
-- Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya

#Heart #Sadness #Knowing

There is no joy for the one who does not bear sadness, there is no sweetness for the one who does not have patience, there is no delight for the one who does not suffer, and there is no relaxation for the one who does not endure fatigue.
-- Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya

#Sadness #Joy #Relaxation

Happiness is doubled when you share them together and sadness is halved when you share them together.
-- Im Yoona

#Sadness #Together #Share

A lot of me is very up, and you have to have light and shade. They are both important and you have to be able to balance them. You have to admit that sadness is part of you and that it enriches you. I use it in my work.
-- Imelda Staunton

#Sadness #Light #Balance

I work grief and sadness out of my body when I dance, and I bring in joy and rhythm.
-- Inga Muscio

#Grief #Sadness #Joy

Oh the piercing sadness of life in the midst of its ordinariness!
-- Iris Murdoch

#Sadness #Piercings #Unhappiness

The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.
-- Isaac Asimov

#Knowledge #Sadness #Science

Melancholy and sadness are the start of doubt... doubt is the beginning of despair; despair is the cruel beginning of the differing degrees of wickedness.
-- Isidore Ducasse Lautreamont

#Sadness #Doubt #Despair

Who in the world has not yearned for a loved one, has never said, If only he or she could come back just once, just one more time...? Despite the fact that it can never happen, never ever. Surely this is the saddest thing about our mortal world, and its sadness will go on shrouding human life like a blanket of fog until its final extinction.
-- Ismail Kadaré

#Sadness #Fog #Extinction

Well, the musicals give emphasis to love, longing, melancholy, sadness. All of that is always there.
-- Ismail Merchant

#Giving Up #Sadness #Never Give Up On Love

Sadness is also a kind of defence.
-- Ivo Andric

#Sad #Sadness #Kind

Crying purifies and cleanses. I once read about a scientific experiment which demonstrated that there are 38 toxic chemicals in a tear of sadness, while only one toxin exists in a tear of joy. As you cry in sadness, fear, or confusion, you cleanse the body and spirit of toxins which cloud the mind and prevent it from accepting the truth.
-- Iyanla Vanzant

#Sadness #Clouds #Confusion

It’s so difficult to describe depression to someone who’s never been there, because it’s not sadness. I know sadness. Sadness is to cry and to feel. But it’s that cold absence of feeling— that really hollowed-out feeling.
-- J. K. Rowling

#Sadness #Feelings #Cold

Here was one with an air of high nobility such as Aragorn at times revealed, less high perhaps, yet also less incalculable and remote: one of the Kings of Men born into a later time, but touched with the wisdom and sadness of the Eldar Race. He knew now why Beregond spoke his name with love. He was a captain that men would follow, that he would follow, even under the shadow of the black wings.
-- J. R. R. Tolkien

#Kings #Sadness #Men

I won't cry cause I live to die, with my mind on my money and my guns in the sky.
-- Ja Rule

#Sadness #Gun #Sky

People are lonely, and only animals with fancy shoes.
-- Jack Johnson

#Lonely #Sadness #Animal

A vast silence reigned over the land. The land itself was a desolation, lifeless, without movement, so lone and cold that the spirit of it was not even that of sadness. There was a hint in it of laughter, but of laughter more terrible than any sadness-a laughter that was mirthless as the smile of the Sphinx, a laughter cold as the frost and partaking of the grimness of infallibility. It was the masterful and incommunicable wisdom of eternity laughing at the futility of life and the effort of life. It was the Wild, the savage, frozen-hearted Northland Wild.
-- Jack London

#Dog #Laughter #Sadness

I hight don Quixote, I live on peyote, marijuana, morphine and cocaine. I never know sadness, but only a madness that burns at the heart and the brain. I see each charwoman, ecstatic, inhuman, angelic, demonic, divine. Each wagon a dragon, each beer mug a flagon that brims with ambrosial wine.
-- Jack Parsons

#Heart #Wine #Sadness

One must not let oneself be overwhelmed by sadness.
-- Jackie Kennedy

#Depression #Sadness #Overwhelmed

These days I seem to think about the things I forgot to do for you and all the times I had a chance to.
-- Jackson Browne

#Sadness #Thinking #Chance

It is better to travel with hope in one's heart than to arrive in safety. . . . We should celebrate today's failure because it is a clear sign that our voyage of discovery is not yet over. The day the experiment succeeds is the day the experiment ends. And I inevitably find that the sadness of ending outweighs the celebration of success.
-- Jacqueline Kelly

#Sadness #Heart #Discovery

A person can't know what happiness is without experiencing sadness. And I think that's healthy.
-- Jai Courtney

#Sadness #Thinking #Healthy

When in such sadness I earnestly elevated my spirit into God and locked my whole heart and mind along with all my thoughts and will therein, ceaselessly pressing in with God's Love and Mercy, and not to cease until he blessed me? then after some hard storms my spirit broke through hell's gates into the inmost birth of the Godhead, and there I was embraced with Love as a bridegroom embraces his dear bride.
-- Jakob Bohme

#Blessed #Heart #Sadness

When Whitney Houston died, I felt great sadness. My sadness, of course, was about our collective loss - when you listened to this nightingale sing, your body would drop into a chair, your head would tilt up, a small smile would creep across your face, and inside you knew that there was a higher power somewhere: gifted, beautiful, spiritual.
-- James Belushi

#Beautiful #Spiritual #Sadness

Most poets in their youth begin in adolescent sadness. I find it more rewarding to end in gladness.
-- James Broughton

#Sadness #Youth #Poet

Horror is a feeling that cannot last long; human nature is incapable of supporting it. Sadness, whether it be from bereavement, or disappointment, or misfortune of any kind may linger on through life
-- James De Mille

#Disappointment #Sadness #Long

My life has been like all the lives, long and hard and full of sadness and confusion and horror, a frightening, difficult dream punctuated by brief moments of joy. And as is the case with all people's lives, the moments of joy are never often enough and never long enough.
-- James Frey

#Dream #Sadness #Confusion

Oh the gladness of their gladness when they're glad, And the sadness of their sadness when they're sad; But the gladness of their gladness, and the sadness of their sadness, Are as nothing to their badness when they're bad
-- James M. Barrie

#Women #Sadness #Badness

Walt Disney was not a merchant of sadness.
-- James MacArthur

#Sadness #Walt

Don't be sad cause your sun is down, the night doesn't need your sorrow. Don't be sad cause the light is gone, just keep your mind on tomorrow.
-- James Taylor

#Sadness #Night #Light

I gathered up my sorrows and I sold them all for gold. And I gathered up the gold, and I threw it all away.
-- James Taylor

#Sadness #Sorrow #Gold

When we arrived in London, my sadness at leaving Paris was turned into despair. After my long stay in the French capital, huge, ponderous, massive London seemed to me as ugly a thing as man could contrive to make.
-- James Weldon Johnson

#Sadness #Men #Paris

Let other pens dwell on guilt and misery.
-- Jane Austen

#Sadness #House #Guilt

With 'Bright Star' and with 'The Piano,' too, I felt a kind of sadness about it being in such a different era, because of my lack of experience with the era. And one of the ways I'd get over it is to remind myself that every film, even if it's contemporary, creates its own world.
-- Jane Campion

#Stars #Sadness #Piano

Farm animals feel pleasure and sadness, excitement and resentment, depression, fear, and pain. They are far more aware and intelligent than we ever imagined...they are individuals in their own right.
-- Jane Goodall

#Pain #Sadness #Animal

Though the night seems long, you're tears won't fall forever.
-- Jane Siberry

#Fall #Sadness #Night

I'm no expert. I have no psychic powers, and I sure don't possess any secret wisdom. I'm just Janet. I have strengths, weaknesses, fears, happiness, sadness. I experience joy and I experience pain. I'm highly emotional. I'm very vulnerable.
-- Janet Jackson

#Pain #Sadness #Emotional

Audiences like their blues singers to be miserable.
-- Janis Joplin

#Music #Sadness #Singers

The thing with Disney songs is they're very manipulative, very sentimental, but they do get you, you know - there's a kind of sadness to them and that kind of music doesn't really exist any more.
-- Jarvis Cocker

#Song #Sadness #Sentimental

There is a joy in sorrow which none but a mourner can know.
-- Jean Paul

#Sad #Sadness #Joy

A tragedy need not have blood and death; it's enough that it all be filled with that majestic sadness that is the pleasure of tragedy.
-- Jean Racine

#Sadness #Blood #Feeling Sad

(All the grief she had suffered over her lifetime had moulded her face into a mask of eternal sadness)
-- Jean Sasson

#Grief #Sadness #Faces

I want to take this opportunity to express, one more time, my deep sadness to those countrymen who feel, rightly, that they were victims of my government.
-- Jean-Claude Duvalier

#Sadness #Opportunity #Government

He was too tough to experience disappointments and resentments - negative affections. In this nihilist fin de siècle, he was affirmation. Right through to illness and death. Why did I speak of him in the past? He laughed, he is laughing, he is here. It's your sadness, idiot, he'd say.
-- Jean-Francois Lyotard

#Disappointment #Sadness #Past

I love sad. Sadness makes you feel more than anything.
-- Jeff Ament

#Sad Love #Sadness #Feels

Gilmartins voice is angelic, but her lyrical subjects are often serious and slightly sad. The conflict of the beauty of her voice and the sadness of her lyrics makes for great music!
-- Jeff Belanger

#Sadness #Voice #Serious

Nothing fills me with deeper sadness than to see a Southern man apologizing for the defense we made of our inheritance. Our cause was so just, so sacred, that had I known all that has come to pass, had I known what was to be inflicted upon me, all that my country was to suffer, all that our posterity was to endure, I would do it all over again.
-- Jefferson Davis

#Country #Sadness #Men

Nothing fills me with deeper sadness than to see a Southerner apologizing for the defense we made of our inheritance.
-- Jefferson Davis

#War #Sadness #Defense

I'd like to have a word for 'the sadness inspired by failing restaurants' as well as for 'the excitement of getting a room with a minibar.
-- Jeffrey Eugenides

#Sadness #Rooms #Excitement

The guitar's still around me. I slip it off and put it down. I want to feel him. To feel his breath on my neck. The warmth of his skin. To feel something other than sadness. Hold me, I tell him silently. Hold me here. To this place. This life. Make me want you. Want this. Want something. Please
-- Jennifer Donnelly

#Sadness #Guitar #Skins

The proverbial Englishman, we know from old chronicler Froissart, takes his pleasures sadly, and the Englishwoman goes a step further and takes her pleasures in sadness itself.
-- Jerome K. Jerome

#Humorous #Sadness #England

Watch out for each other. Love everyone and forgive everyone, including yourself. Forgive your anger. Forgive your guilt. Your shame. Your sadness. Embrace and open up your love, your joy, your truth, and most especially your heart.
-- Jim Henson

#Anger #Sadness #Heart

God must have something to do with joy ... and with sadness.
-- Joan Baez

#God #Sadness #Joy

When the world was half a thousand years younger all events had much sharper outlines than now. The distance between sadness and joy, between good and bad fortune, seemed to be much greater than for us; every experience had that degree of directness and absoluteness which joy and sadness still have in the mind of a child
-- Johan Huizinga

#Children #Distance #Sadness

If we are to feel the positive feelings of love, happiness, trust, and gratitude, we periodically also have to feel anger, sadness, fear, and sorrow.
-- John Gray

#Gratitude #Sadness #Feelings

Our sadness is an energy we discharge in order to heal. …Sadness is painful. We try to avoid it. Actually discharging sadness releases the energy involved in our emotional pain. To hold it in is to freeze the pain within us. The therapeutic slogan is that grieving is the ‘healing feeling.’
-- John Bradshaw

#Pain #Sadness #Healing

...the souls of the dead [are] not deprived of their intellectual faculties but... they also are not lacking in feelings such as hope and sadness, joy and fear. They already have a foretaste of what is in store for them after the general judgment. Nor does it happen, as some unbelievers would hold, that upon leaving this world they are turned to nothing. Actually they live more intensely and they concentrate more on the praises of God.
-- John Cassian

#Christian #Sadness #Joy

If we are willing, the experience of grief can deepen and widen our ability to participate in life.
-- John Claypool

#Grief #Sadness #Ability

Weep no more, nor sigh, nor groan, Sorrow calls no time that 's gone; Violets plucked, the sweetest rain Makes not fresh nor grow again.
-- John Fletcher

#Rain #Sadness #Sorrow

Joys as winged dreams fly fast, / Why should sadness longer last? / Grief is but a wound to woe; / Gentlest fair, mourn, mourn no moe.
-- John Fletcher

#Dream #Grief #Sadness

It is almost a sadness to my soul that men should be astonished and surprised at an ordinary, tangible evidence of the power of God.
-- John G. Lake

#Sadness #Men #Soul

Much of my life had been devoted to trying not to cry in front of people who loved me, so I knew what Augustus was doing. You clench your teeth. You look up. You tell yourself that if they see you cry, it will hurt them, and you will be nothing but a Sadness in their lives, and you must not become a mere sadness, so you will not cry, and you say all of this to yourself while looking up at the ceiling, and then you swallow even though your throat does not want to close and you look at the person who loves you and smile.
-- John Green

#Hurt #Love You #Sadness

The times that were most fun seemed always to be followed by sadness now, because it was when life started to feel like it did when she was with us that we realized how utterly gone she was.
-- John Green

#Fun #Sadness #Gone

What you must understand about me is that I’m a deeply unhappy person.
-- John Green

#Hipster #Sadness #Unhappy

Deep in the shady sadness of a vale Far sunken from the healthy breath of morn, Far from the fiery noon and eve's one star, Sat gray-haired Saturn, quiet as a stone, Still as the silence round about his lair.
-- John Keats

#Stars #Sadness #Silence

Life's about a hell of a lot more than being happy. It's about feeling the full range of stuff: happiness, sadness, anger, grief, love, hate. If you try to shut one of those off, you shut them all off. I don't want to be happy. I know I won't live happily ever after. I want more than that, something richer. I want to go right up close to the beauty and the ugliness. I want to see it all, know it all, understand it all. The richness and the powerty, the joy and the cruelty, the sweetness and the sadness. That's the best way I can honour my friends who died.
-- John Marsden

#Hate #Grief #Sadness

To finish is a sadness to a writer - a little death. He puts the last word down and it is done. But it isn't really done. The story goes on and leaves the writer behind, for no story is ever done.
-- John Steinbeck

#Sadness #Writing #Down And

Yes, you should talk," he said. "Sometimes a sad man can talk the sadness right out through his mouth. Sometimes a killin' man can talk the murder right out of his mouth.
-- John Steinbeck

#Sadness #Men #Mouths

Don't make everyone know about your sadness.
-- John Steinbeck

#Sadness

Human beings have an almost unlimited capacity for self-delusion. We can justify any amount of sadness if it fits our own particular standard of reality.
-- John Twelve Hawks

#Sadness #Reality #Self