Sadness famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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I’m like the child who buries her head in the pillow so as not to see, the child who tells herself that light causes sadness—
-- Louise Glück -
You are not a helpless victim of your own thoughts, but rather a master of your mind. What do you need to let go of? Take a deep breath, relax, and say to yourself, 'I am willing to let go. I release. I let go. I release all tension. I release all fear. I release all anger. I release all guilt. I release all sadness. I let go of all old limitations. I let go, and I am at peace. I am at peace with myself. I am at peace with the process of life. I am safe.'
-- Louise Hay -
Comfort is beauty muted by heroin. Sadness is beauty drained by lack of it.
-- Luke Davies -
I feel a sense of sadness and joy. Mostly sadness though about what I've experienced and sadness about what others have experienced in reference to the stroke.
-- Luther Vandross -
The sociological evidence of the contagion of happiness and sadness suggests something quite remarkable: of all your relationships, of all the people capable of making you happiest or irritating you the most, those who have the greatest effect on your mood and even your state of health are those closest to hand.
-- Lynne McTaggart -
A woman who lives with the stress of an overwhelmed schedule will often ache with the sadness of an underwhelmed soul.
-- Lysa TerKeurst -
Suffering is a big informer, a big catalyst for creation. You take your sadness, your despair, your sense of injustice, and you put it in your work.
-- Madonna Ciccone -
Sadness, discomfort, frustration -- they are all valid human emotions. Why would we want to suppress them?
-- Magda Gerber -
You really didn't see the sadness or the longing unless you already knew it was there. But that was the trick, wasn't it? Everyone had their disappointment and their baggage; only, some people carried it in their inside pockets and not on their backs.
-- Maggie Stiefvater -
Do you know most of the Jewish songs have the same trend of sadness as Negro spirituals?
-- Mahalia Jackson -
With any kind of mean girl, or anyone who bullies anyone, there's always a reason for it. There is that sadness in them or insecurity that makes them feel like they need to act out or hurt other people.
-- Maiara Walsh -
What protects you in this world from sadness and from the loss of an ability to do something? ... Work and love.
-- Maira Kalman -
In truth, “Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close†isn't about Sept. 11. It's about the impulse to drain that day of its specificity and turn it into yet another wellspring of generic emotions: sadness, loneliness, happiness. This is how kitsch works. It exploits familiar images, be they puppies or babies - or, as in the case of this movie, the twin towers - and tries to make us feel good, even virtuous, simply about feeling. And, yes, you may cry, but when tears are milked as they are here, the truer response should be rage.
-- Manohla Dargis -
The trouble with a great sadness is that it doesn't fit inside your body.
-- Manuel Rivas -
Will God or someone give me the power to breathe my sigh into my canvases, the sigh of prayer and sadness, the prayer of salvation, of rebirth?
-- Marc Chagall -
I’m glad to be part of the war on sadness. I’m a part time employee of the illusion that keeps people stupid.
-- Marc Maron -
Maybe sadness was a kind of hunger, she thought. Maybe the two went together.
-- Margaret Atwood -
I love heavily tattooed women. I imagine their lives are filled with sensuality and excess, madness and generosity, impulsive natures and fights. They look like they have endured much pain and sadness, yet have the ability to transcend all of it by documenting it on the body
-- Margaret Cho -
That she had so completely recovered her sanity was a source of sadness to her. One should never be cured of one's passion.
-- Marguerite Duras -
To walk into Bill Olsen's poems is to enter a mind so weirdly curious, you can't be released to sadness, not yet: it's just too surprising. But this book-half microscope, half telescope-shadows grief, our shared and ordinary life where an old neighbor obsessively gathers twigs to wish back the tree, where the moon is regularly ‘sawn in half,’ where sprinklers give off ‘little wet speeches.’ What else? It's brilliantly instead and odd.
-- Marianne Boruch -
...to make art is to realize another's sadness within, realize the hidden sadness in other people's lives, to feel sad with and for a stranger.
-- Marianne Wiggins -
Often we see a couple who has separated or divorced and look with sadness at the ‘failure’ of their relationship. But if both people learned what they were meant to learn, then that relationship was a success.
-- Marianne Williamson -
Creativity starts with humanity when were being human we feel - joys, sadness, when we're sick, when we're nervous
-- Marilyn Monroe -
Some people, every now and then, simply had to have One Too Many, go drifty voiced and slouch mouthed, swimming willfully around in their own sadness as if it were hot springs.
-- Marisha Pessl -
I try to look at life carefully and reproduce life the way life is. It's a question of looking carefully at how it is. In life, you don't have total happiness. People always say that. But you don't have total sadness either, no matter what situation you are living in.
-- Marjane Satrapi -
If you have a dog, you will most likely outlive it; to get a dog is to open yourself to profound joy and, prospectively, to equally profound sadness.
-- Marjorie Garber -
While it only takes one spouse to be friendly, it takes both spouses to be friends. When both spouses are unfriendly, the marriage is marked by conflict and coldness. When one spouse is friendly and the other is unfriendly, the marriage is marked by selfishness and sadness. But when both spouses each make a deep, heartfelt covenant with God to continually seek to become a better friend, increasing love and laughter mark the marriage.
-- Mark Driscoll -
I have come to see that our problem is that we don't know what happiness is. We confuse it with a life uncluttered by feelings of anxiety, rage, doubt, and sadness. But happiness is something entirely different. It's the ability to receive the pleasant without grasping and the unpleasant without condemning.
-- Mark Epstein -
To be mad is to feel with excruciating intensity the sadness and joy of a time which has not arrived or has already been.
-- Mark Helprin -
I have to confess that I have so rarely experienced triumph that I cannot claim to know it well enough to judge, but it seems to be at best a momentary joy followed instantly by sadness, and, then, of necessity, by wariness.
-- Mark Helprin -
The dreamer's valuation of a thing lost - not another man's - is the only standard to measure it by, and his grief for it makes it large and great and fine, and is worthy of our reverence in all cases.
-- Mark Twain -
Experiencing deep sadness can, sometimes, heighten your ability to feel joy.
-- Marketa Irglova -
He does something to me, that boy. Every time. It’s his only detriment. He steps on my heart. He makes me cry.
-- Markus Zusak -
Papa sat with me tonight. He brought the accordion down and sat close to where Max used to sit. I often look at his fingers and face when he plays. the accordion breathes. There are lines on his cheeks. They look drawn on, and for some reason, when I see them, I want to cry. It is not for any sadness or pride. I just like the way they move and change. Sometimes I think my papa is an accordion. When he looks at me and smiles and breathes, I hear the notes.
-- Markus Zusak -
Being in the depths of sadness is just as important an experience as being exuberantly happy.
-- Marlene Dietrich -
The rejection that we all take and the sadness and the aggravation and the loss of jobs and all of the things that we live through in our lives, without a sense of humor, I don't know how people make it.
-- Marlo Thomas -
Not only do we cheat ourselves and those around us if we are only glum or always wary when it comes time to respond to divine stirrings. No, we are then also being simply unfaithful to the surrounding reality. The one who purges gloom has given occasions and reasons, in the midst of life's sadness, to be joyful.
-- Martin E. Marty -
I've crossed lines of word and wire and both have cut me deep. I've been frozen out and I've been on fire, and the tears are mine to weep.
-- Mary Chapin Carpenter -
Some people drift through their entire life. They do it one day at a time, one week at a time, one month at a time. It happens so gradually they are unaware of how their lives are slipping away until it's too late.
-- Mary Kay Ash -
You who have never “been there†in the throes of grief, have no idea what is going on inside the head of the grieving spouse: the scattered thoughts, the constant worry that we will forget something or someone in our fog-induced state, that strange feeling of not quite “being all there†when out in social situations, the pall that covers everything, like a cloak of sadness that never lifts.
-- Mary Potter -
Forget your sadness, anger, grudges, and hatred. Let them pass like smoke caught in the breeze. You should not deviate from the path of righteousness; you should lead a life worthy of a man. Don't be possessed by greed, luxury, or your ego. You should accept sorrows, sadness and hatred as they are, and consider them a chance for trial given to you by the powers... a blessing given by nature. Have both your mind and your time fully engaged in bud?, and have your mind deeply set on bujutsu.
-- Masaaki Hatsumi -
Forget your sadness, anger, grudges and hatred. Let them pass like smoke caught in a breeze. Do not indulge yourself in such feelings.
-- Masaaki Hatsumi -
Now there's something I understand a little better. Hate, sadness, even joy. to be able to share it with another person...Naruto Uzumaki from fighting him i learned that. he knew pain like i did and then he taught me that you can change your path. I wish that one day i can be needed by someone. Not as a frightening weapon...But as the sand's Kazekage.
-- Masashi Kishimoto -
Writing directly from a feeling of anger or sadness is difficult, but if you distract part of your brain with word games, the ignored emotion often tiptoes in.
-- Matthea Harvey -
Resolve to be thyself: and know that he who finds himself, loses his misery.
-- Matthew Arnold -
I only felt a cold wind blow while I tried to hang on to the past.
-- Matthew Sweet -
We must curb ourfury, and allow sadness to diminish, and speak our stories with coolness and deliberation.
-- Matthew Tobin Anderson -
One strain could call up the quivering expectancy of Christmas Eve, childhood, joy and sadness, the lonely wonder of a star
-- Maud Hart Lovelace -
The value of ourselves is but the value of our melancholy and our disquiet.
-- Maurice Maeterlinck -
No one is as real to me as people in the novel. It grows like a living thing. When I realize they do not exist except in my mind I have a feeling of sadness, looking around for them, as if the half-empty cafe were a place I had once come to with friends who had all moved away.
-- Mavis Gallant -
The real sadness of fifty is not that you change so much but that you change so little.
-- Max Lerner -
I know a cure for sadness: Let our hands touch something that makes your eyes smile.
-- Meera -
For reasons he couldn’t understand a sadness came over him and it was then he saw the girl standing on the other side of the dirt road, her eyes pools of absolute sorrow, her light brown hair glowing in the splinters of sunlight that forced their way through the trees.
-- Melina Marchetta -
Going home means getting comfortable being who you are and who your soul really wants to be. There is no strain with that. The strain and tension come when we're not being who our soul wants to be and we're someplace where our soul doesn't feel at home.
-- Melody Beattie -
God loves me enough to let me go through all the lessons I came here to learn, even the ones that hurt the most. His presence doesn't deny me. It's always there to help me see and understand what I came to this planet to learn.
-- Melody Beattie -
If only. Those must be the two saddest words in the world.
-- Mercedes Lackey -
I sometimes look into the face of my dog Stan and see a wistful sadness and existential angst, when all he is actually doing is slowly scanning the ceiling for flies.
-- Merrill Markoe -
They filled our lives so much, the films they were in made us laugh, think and cry. Through their work they shared a piece of our soul. We will miss them with the sadness with which we miss an old friend.
-- Meryl Streep -
Birds sing even when the world is filled with sadness. I don't know why people can't do the same thing.
-- Michael Gilbert -
You know you're in trouble, when the bartender cries.
-- Michael Peterson -
The big difference between human happiness and sadness? Thirty-seven freakin' vibrations.
-- Michael Tilson Thomas -
Look, I come from vaudeville, I come from burlesque, I come from heartaches, I come from sadness, I come from gladness, I come from work and sweat and respect for the craft.
-- Mickey Rooney -
The manifestation of the disease of fear is anger, hate, sadness, envy, and hypocrisy; the result of the disease is all the emotions that make humans suffer.
-- Miguel -
There's a sadness to the human condition that I think music is good for. It gives a counterpoint to the visual beauty, and adds depth to pictures that they wouldn't have if the music wasn't there.
-- Mike Figgis -
There's great sadness and life doesn't work out like you would want, on a lot of levels, but there's no need to feel all alone. This happens to everybody, so there's no self-pity. This is the ride that humans are on, and all of it is essential for our natural part of it.
-- Mike Mills -
I would hate to think I'm promoting sadness as an aesthetic. But I grew up in not just a family but a town and a culture where sadness is something you're taught to feel shame about. You end up chronically desiring what can be a very sentimental idea of love and connection. A lot of my work has been about trying to make a space for sadness.
-- Mike Mills -
Sadness is a super important thing not to be ashamed about but to include in our lives. One of the bigger problems with sadness or depression is there's so much shame around it. If you have it you're a failure. You are felt as being very unattractive.
-- Mike Mills -
To me, sadness and humor aren't disrelated and humor is the best tool I've had against the sadness in my life.
-- Mike Mills -
As long as we stick together , we can smash the sadness
-- Mikey Way -
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 -
She was experiencing the same odd happiness and odd sadness as then. The sadness meant: We are at the last station. The happiness meant: We are together. The sadness was form, the happiness content. Happiness filled the space of sadness.
-- Milan Kundera -
If the souls of lives were voiced in music, there are some that none but a great organ could express, others the clash of a full orchestra, a few to which nought but the refined and exquisite sadness of a violin could do justice. Many might be likened unto common pianos, jangling and out of tune, and some to the feeble piping of a penny whistle, and mine could be told with a couple of nails in a rusty tin-pot.
-- Miles Franklin -
I had a thought, on the way home from the rock field, that the things we don't know about a person are the things that make them human, and it made me feel sad to think that, but sad in that reassuring way that some sadness has, a sadness that says welcome home in twelve different languages.
-- Miriam Toews -
Searching for a better description of this rotting sadness, I came upon the concept of acedia. In Christian theology, it’s an antecedent to sloth, the least sexy of the seven deadly sins. Thomas Aquinas winnowed it down for me: acedia is sorrow so complete that the flesh prevails completely over the spirit. You don’t just turn your back on the world, you turn your back on God. You don’t care, and you don’t care that you don’t care.
-- Mishka -
Happiness in a tablet. This is our world. Prozac. Daxil. Xanax. Billions are spent to advertise such drugs. And billions are spent purchasing them. You don't even need a specific trauma, just 'general depression' is enough, or anxiety, as if sadness is as treatable as the common cold.
-- Mitch Albom -
The sadness of our existence should not leave us blunted, on the contrary--how to remain thin-skinned, vulnerable and stay alive?
-- Montgomery Clift -
Serve God joyfully. Let there be no sadness in your life: the only true sorrow is sin.
-- Mother Teresa -
Activity is a sovereign remedy for the blues.
-- Myrtle Reed -
We're all carnies, though some people are in denial. They want to be above it all, above the mayhem of laughter and people and lights and animals and the dark sadness that lurks in the coners and beneath the rides and in the trailers after hours. So they ride teh Ferris wheel, and at the top, they think they've left it all behind They've ascended to a place where they can take things seriously. Where they can be taken seriously.
-- N.D. Wilson -
Feel no sadness because of evil thoughts: it only strengthens them.
-- Nachman of Breslov -
when people go away, or when we leave the places we love, or something we treasure goes out of our life - I have always noticed that before it happens - this leaving, this parting - when we think about it beforehand we are overwhelmed with sadness at the loss to come. ... the most unbearable sense of loss, the worst homesickness of all, so I have found, is this loss and sickness we feel beforehand, before we ever leave home.
-- Nan Fairbrother -
I do believe that if you haven't learnt about sadness, you cannot appreciate happiness.
-- Nana Mouskouri -
The best cure for sadness is doing something.
-- Nancy E. Turner -
Who wants that? I'd rather choose to fall in love and be hurt. Sometimes I can't even sleep because I love someone too much. And there's always sadness in our lives. It's that sad feeling that keeps us going. - Usagi/Sailor Moon
-- Naoko Takeuchi -
I'm all out o faith, this is how I feel. I'm cold and I am shamed lying naked on the floor. Illusions never change into something real. I'm wide awake and I can see the perfect sky is torn. You're a little late, I'm already torn.
-- Natalie Imbruglia -
To be left alone in the wide world with scarcely a friend,--this makes the sadness which, striking its pang into the minds of the young and the affectionate, teaches them too soon to watch and interpret the spirit-signs of their own hearts.
-- Nathaniel Hawthorne -
It is the great sadness of our species that we have not found a way to eliminate the conflict and to eliminate violence as a device to resolve our conflicts throughout the entire history of the human race.
-- Neale Donald Walsch -
I got worries by the ton, getting cancer's only one. Over taxed and alimonied, tired of eating fried baloney.
-- Neil Diamond -
I followed all life's pleasures wherever they would lead, but someone I can treasure is all I really need.
-- Neil Diamond -
She says nothing at all, but simply stares upward into the dark sky and watches, with sad eyes, the slow dance of the infinite stars.
-- Neil Gaiman -
I want characters to have voices that feel authentic, unique, honest, fresh and original - all at once. Part of that authenticity is evoking genuine emotion across life - the sadness, passion, love, sense of loss, missed opportunities, and confusion even. All of this helps us realize that our choices do impact the lives that we eventually lead.
-- Nicholas Sparks -
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 -
Life is but a memory Happened long ago. Theatre full of sadness For a long forgotten show.
-- Nick Drake -
There's nothing like the comfort of a silence that's comfortable.
-- Nick Hexum -
She was trying to say something else; she was trying to say that the inability to articulate what one feels in any satisfactory way is one of our enduring tragedies. It wouldn't have been much, and it wouldn't have been useful, but it would have been something that reflected the gravity and the sadness inside her. Instead, she had snapped at him for being a loser. It was as if she were trying to find a handhold on the boulder of her feelings, and had merely ended up with grit under her nails.
-- Nick Hornby -
Entering Malibu, I was overwhelmed by a feeling of nostalgia and long lost sadness, like seeing a home I had left a long time ago and had returned to.
-- Nick Mancuso -
Now my ability to notice things and respond to things and be here is far more profound. With that comes happiness, with it comes sadness, but it's a beautiful life.
-- Nicole Kidman -
She struggled with her sadness, but tried to conceal it, to divide it into smaller and smaller parts and scatter these in places she thought no one would find them.
-- Nicole Krauss -
Even among the angels, there is the sadness of division.
-- Nicole Krauss
