Sadness famous quotes

Bare twigs in April enhance our pleasure; We know the good time is yet to come.... Bare twigs in Autumn are signs for sadness; We feel the good time is well-nigh past.
-- William Allingham

#Sadness #Autumn #Past

Can I see another's woe, and not be in sorrow too? Can I see another's grief, and not seek for kind relief?
-- William Blake

#Peace #Grief #Sadness

I thought no more was needed Youth to prolong Than dumb-bell and foil To keep the body young. O who could have foretold That the heart grows old?
-- William Butler Yeats

#Sadness #Heart #Dumb

Out-worn heart, in a time out-worn, Come clear of the nets of wrong and right; Laugh, heart, again in the grey twilight, Sigh, heart, again in the dew of the morn.
-- William Butler Yeats

#Twilight #Heart #Sadness

I would that we were, my beloved, white birds on the foam of the sea! We tire of the flame of the meteor, before it can fadeand flee; And the flame of the blue star of twilight, hung low on the rim of the sky, Has awaked in our hearts, my beloved, a sadness that may not die.
-- William Butler Yeats

#Stars #Twilight #Sadness

The melancholy days are come, the saddest of the year, Of wailing winds, and naked woods and meadows brown and sear.
-- William C. Bryant

#Sadness #Years #Wind

A lean, loose-jointed Negro had commenced plunking a guitar beside me while I slept. His clothes were rags; his feet peeped out of his shoes. His face had on it some of the sadness of the ages. As he played, he pressed a knife on the strings of the guitar in a manner popularized by Hawaiian guitarists who used steel bars. The effect was unforgettable.
-- William Christopher Handy

#Sadness #Guitar #Knives

The path of sorrow, and that path alone, leads to the land where sorrow is unknown.
-- William Cowper

#Sadness #Land #Sorrow

The spleen is seldom felt where Flora reigns; The low'ring eye, the petulance, the frown, And sullen sadness, that o'ershade, distort, And mar the face of beauty, when no cause For such immeasurable woe appears; These Flora banishes, and gives the fair Sweet smiles, and bloom less transient than her own.
-- William Cowper

#Sweet #Sadness #Eye

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

#Wise #Wisdom #Sadness

There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision.
-- William James

#Inspirational #Philosophical #Sadness

His sadness was of the kind that is patient and without hope.
-- William Maxwell

#Sadness #Patient #Kind

In deep sadness there is no place for sentimentality.
-- William S. Burroughs

#Grief #Sadness #Sentimentality

When sorrows come, they come not single spies, but in battalions.
-- William Shakespeare

#Sadness #Sorrow #Spy

Give sorrow words; the grief that does not speak knits up the o-er wrought heart and bids it break.
-- William Shakespeare

#Grief #Heart #Sadness

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

#Sadness #Mean #Thinking

In heaven above, And earth below, they best can serve true gladness Who meet most feelingly the calls of sadness.
-- William Wordsworth

#Sadness #Heaven #Sorrow

I don't want you to cook my bread, I don't want you to make my bed. I don't want you to because I'm sad and blue, I just want to make love to you.
-- Willie Dixon

#Sadness #Blue #Making Love

Sadness is twilight's kiss on earth.
-- Wole Soyinka

#Twilight #Sadness #Kissing

About time, what I really learned from studying English is: time is different with timing. I understand the difference of these two words so well. I understand falling in love with the right person in the wrong timing could be the greatest sadness in a person's entire life.
-- Xiaolu Guo

#Falling In Love #Sadness #Two

Never look back to the past, never regret, even if there is emptiness ahead.' But I couldn't help it. Sometimes I would rather look back if it meant that I could feel something in my heart, even something sad. Sadness was better than emptiness.
-- Xiaolu Guo

#Regret #Heart #Sadness

It isn't a coincidence that prayer was commanded right after the year of sadness. The prayer was the greatest comfort.
-- Yasmin

#Prayer #Sadness #Years

Happiness, sadness, loss and gain all pass away. What they do to us is what remains.
-- Yasmin Mogahed

#Sadness #Loss #Passing Away

Sorrow happens, hardship happens, the hell with it, who never knew the price of happiness, will not be happy.
-- Yevgeny Yevtushenko

#Happiness #Sadness #Sorrow

Experiencing sadness and anger can make you feel more creative, and by being creative, you can get beyond your pain or negativity.
-- Yoko Ono

#Pain #Sadness #Creativity

Tell the truth through whichever veil comes to hand - but tell it. Resign yourself to the lifelong sadness that comes from never being satisfied.
-- Zadie Smith

#Sadness #Writing #Hands

It'll leave you feeling hollow and helpless, and there is where you'll stay. Ain't it funny child, love sometimes leaves you as dead as yesterday.
-- Zakk Wylde

#Children #Sadness #Yesterday

The person who will give you unexplained happiness, will also be the reason for your unexplained sadness.
-- Zayn Malik

#Sadness #Giving #Reason

This is my sadness for shooting my friend
-- Zazie

#Sadness #Shooting

I'm strong because I know my weaknesses. I'm wise because I've been foolish. I laugh because I've known sadness.
-- Ziad K. Abdelnour

#Wise #Strong #Sadness

I find sadness and strife to be so much more interesting with an upbeat melody.
-- Zooey Deschanel

#Sadness #Interesting #Upbeat

I'm the most passionate about pushing the realization that there's the joy of love and kindness and sharing, all of these basic qualities, on people who are suffering from adulthood. By these people, I mean, I really feel bad. I think that in their sadness, they're destroying the world. The way that they're destroying the world manifests itself in all these various causes that you have banding together all over the place.
-- Alex Ebert

#Kindness #Sadness #Mean

The vampire movies I embraced as a kid used vampirism as a metaphor that expressed deep sadness and a lot of human qualities.
-- Alexandra Cassavetes

#Sadness #Kids #Vampire

Happiness and sadness are just two eternal truths like day and night. A man of superior intellect is never affected by these emotions. They are not base emotions at all but a reflection of our thoughts, a reaction to our perspective on things we see, hear and do. Equanimity is not only desirable in a warrior, but a must. Without it, you are as good as dead in the battlefield.
-- Anand Neelakantan

#Sadness #Warrior #Night

As all creative people, we have our optimistic side and a darker side. Yes, I would say that I am more optimistic than not. I have written some very lush pieces when I was at low ebb, and some highly energized pieces when carrying a great sadness. It seems that I am getting more optimistic as I get older - life is a lot of fun!
-- Barbara Harbach

#Fun #Optimistic #Sadness

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 #Sadness #Thinking

All truth contains an echo of sadness.
-- Charlotte Riddell

#Truth #Sadness #Echoes

When the Pleiadians speak of letting go, they transmit a letting go energy through our energetic field. As a human being, we've been holding on for lifetimes, really holding on to the illusion strongly, holding on to the shame, the guilt, the sadness, all the things we've lived through, all the experiences we have allowed ourselves to create for ourselves in order to learn. We've held on to the pieces of us - the anger, the frustration and the pain.
-- Christine McCormick Day

#Letting Go #Pain #Sadness

I think part of the sadness of Hamlet is given different circumstances, this guy had the capability of being something really great and not ending up poisoned on the ground.
-- Chukwudi Iwuji

#Sadness #Thinking #Guy

I think that what I knew as a teenager, and what I rediscovered in my mid-forties, was - aside from the primacy of sexual desire and how strongly it rules me - this idea that we are lucky to feel something. Even if that something is sadness.
-- Claire Dederer

#Teenager #Sadness #Thinking

Allow beauty and sadness to touch you. This is love, not fear.
-- Colleen Saidman

#Sadness

You can never maintain just pure happiness. In my life, I want full emotion. I want equal parts happiness and sadness.
-- Derek Cianfrance

#Sadness #Want #Emotion

Standup comedy is fun. I mean other than having to experience the excruciating lonlieness and unacknowledged sadness that results in funny.
-- Dov Davidoff

#Fun #Sadness #Mean

I am not sure I knew what I was doing, writing an "apocalypse" novel, when I started this book. Now that the book is done, I can own that I have in fact written an apocalypse novel, one that speculates on a dark, dark future. Why I did it, I really don't know - every time people read my work they comment on its darkness, its sadness.
-- Edan Lepucki

#Book #Writing #Sadness

In any form or fashion, people are finding a way to inflict pain and sadness on people, on a daily basis. We have this situation in Turkey, we have this situation with ISIS, and we have our own internal fights within the United States.
-- Edwin Hodge

#Fashion #Pain #Sadness

I'm specifically referring to this certain feeling of sadness, fear, and helplessness that descended on me at the Mexico City protest a day or two after the Narvarte murders. Many of us have grown familiar with that feeling. Every few weeks or so it seems we're hit with some new crime or some new corruption scandal that isn't quite the same as a massacre, but that spawns a feeling of futility and despair in its own way.
-- Francisco Goldman

#Sadness #Feelings #Despair

Dance is your pulse, your heartbeat, your breathing. It's the rhythm of your life. It's the expression in time and movement,in happiness, joy, sadness and envy.
-- Jacques d'Amboise

#Dance #Sadness #Expression

People once believed that when someone dies, a crow carries their soul to the land of the dead. But sometimes, something so bad happens that a terrible sadness is carried with it and the soul can't rest. Then sometimes, just sometimes, the crow can bring that soul back to put the wrong things right.
-- James O'Barr

#Sadness #Land #People

One of the great sadnesses of my life, as I take stock at middle age, is the sense that the adventure largely ended by the time I was twenty-five.
-- Jon Weisman

#Adventure #Sadness #Age

Well, I never lived through the Great Depression, sometimes I feel as though I did.
-- Kasey Chambers

#Sadness #Great Depression #Sometimes

The world where you would go hand in hand with the flower maiden has neither perfect happiness nor joy nor life. This is because it also does not contain perfect sadness nor misery nor death. What lies in waiting is a paradise for wolves alone, the unclean humans are no more...come with me Cheza, it is time.
-- Keiko Nobumoto

#Lying #Flower #Sadness

I think I just felt a sadness at some points in my career that what is available to a straight writer is not available to a gay writer.
-- Kevin Sessums

#Sadness #Gay #Thinking

There are moments where we don't understand the world we live in - where we don't understand our own lives, our sadness or our joy.
-- Lisa Lucas

#Sadness #Joy #World

Such is the life of a man. Moments of joy, obliterated by unforgettable sadness. There's no need to tell the children that.
-- Marcel Pagnol

#Children #Sadness #Men

Nature is a mirror in which I am reflected, because by rescuing this land from sad devastation [through recreating it in photographs], I am in fact trying to save myself from my own inner sadness.
-- Mario Giacomelli

#Sadness #Mirrors #Land

Bubba shot the jukebox last night, said it played a sad song and it made him cry.
-- Mark Chesnutt

#Song #Sadness #Night

In the psychological literature, depression is often seen as a defense against sadness. But I'll take sadness any day. There is no contest. Sadness carries identification. You know where it's been and you know where it's headed. Depression carries no papers. It enters your country unannounced and uninvited. Its origins are unknown, but its destination always dead-ends in you.
-- Martha Manning

#Country #Sadness #Defense

You don't need a dead father to explain a character's sadness. And impressing yourself with wit/cleverness often feels like what it is - authorial intrusion.
-- Mary J. Miller

#Father #Character #Sadness

I wasn't prepared for the fact that grief is so unpredictable. It wasn't just sadness, and it wasn't linear. Somehow I'd thought that the first days would be the worst and then it would get steadily better - like getting over the flu. That's not how it was.
-- Meghan O'Rourke

#Grief #Sadness #Flu

I believe in the importance of individuality, but in the midst of grief I also find myself wanting connection - wanting to be reminded that the sadness I feel is not just mine but ours.
-- Meghan O'Rourke

#Grief #Believe #Sadness

Your circumstances will only change when you begin to question them. Change begins with a question. Revolutions start with a question. Revolutionize your life.. Do not conform to the emptiness, the sadness, breakdown, failure, weakness...instead REVOLUTIONIZE your life & CONQUER your circumstances.
-- Mirtha Michelle

#Sadness #Weakness #Revolution

My first film - a challenging role and completely different from the persona that was created in Italy. I was this super energetic, vibrant, happy, volumed hair, fitted dresses, the whole Italian va-va-voom thing. And the role was a girl that was really provoking society with being unnecessarily violent - just trying to see what people's limits are. It's a really dark tunnel to get to being nasty, being full of hate. When people hate there's a big sadness and rage within them, so it was interesting to go that dark with my first experience.
-- Moran Atias

#Girl #Hate #Sadness

When you're about three years old, you start to learn how to be manipulative. I know this from my own experience - I created this expression between sadness and dissatisfaction to get people to make me feel better, to get me presents. I created this face based on movies without even understanding it. I felt attracted to faces and body language. I remember I was always fascinated with why some people are considered beautiful and some are not. Everybody's got two eyes and one nose, but it's the small details. It is why we fall in love or why we want to kill somebody we haven't even spoken to.
-- Nir Hod

#Beautiful #Falling In Love #Sadness

It's tricky because Instagram is not Grindr. I'm always trying to show my good side. I never complain. When I have a moment of sadness, I make sure no one ever sees. And while I'm so good at talking to friends or talking about my job, if you were to ask me to dinner - just the two of us, in a romantic way - I would be the worst. I'm so shy I would not talk.
-- Olivier Rousteing

#Sadness #Trying #Complaining

If we really face our sadness, we find it speaks with the voice of our deepest longing. And if we face it a little longer we find that it teaches us the way to attain what we long for.
-- Peter Kingsley

#Sadness #Voice #Long

I think I'm comfortable making myself, or my speaker, larger than life if I can then cut myself off at the ankles. The way, in "My Major Prize," the speaker does this drippy performance of sadness and poetry for some unnamed prize committee, only he lets us know that it's all a wry game.
-- Randall Mann

#Sadness #Cutting #Thinking

Well, I'm drawn to stuff that is darker. I will probably do a version of Jane Austen at some point because her books are really well known. Unfortunately they've been parodied to death, but they're so well known that I feel like I should approach it and I think I have an idea that will definitely spin it in a different way. There's melancholy and sadness around the edges. I haven't read all of her books, but it seems they often have... essentially happy endings?
-- Robert Sikoryak

#Book #Sadness #Thinking

Human pain does not let go of its grip at one point in time. Rather, it works its way out of our consciousness over time. There is a season of sadness. A season of anger. A season of tranquility. A season of hope.
-- Robert Veninga

#Letting Go #Pain #Sadness

It is not the place, nor the condition, but the mind alone what it compares its situation to that can make anyone happy or miserable. Compare it to something better - result envy, frustration and sadness. Compare it to something worse - relief, gratitude and happiness.
-- Roger L'Estrange

#Gratitude #Sadness #Frustration

Those who have experienced a great deal of violence or committed a great deal of violence themselves, those who are existing in their own world of sadness and malevolence, essentially those are the ones that are most prone to possession. You don't just walk down the street and suddenly you get possessed. It creeps up on you.
-- Rupert Wyatt

#Sadness #Violence #World

Happy to me is not what I thought happy was. Happy is actually better, because it includes room for sadness. A definition of success must leave room for failure, because it's part of it.
-- Sara Benincasa

#Sadness

Probably also due to the political situation getting just worse and more extreme, but also this distance and this sadness of this feeling that I gave up - that I surrendered, that I felt that I lost my small war. So the whole column is different than the columns that I used to write back home, back in Jerusalem.
-- Sayed Kashua

#War #Distance #Sadness

It's been seven hours and fifteen days, since you took your love away.
-- Sinead O'Connor

#Sadness #Fifteen #Hours

I want people to FEEL something... If it's sadness, anger, horny, happiness whatever! As long as it doesn't just pass you by.
-- Tove Lo

#Sadness #Long #People

Even if you can't get rid of the heat, as long as you can get rid of bother with the heat, your body is always on a cool terrace. Even if you can't get rid of poverty, as long as you can get rid of the sadness of poverty, your mind always lives in a comfortable abode.
-- Zicheng Hong

#Sadness #Long #Mind

I just find that I enjoy the music that feels like there's a journey to the top of this mountain, then you're at the top of the mountain finally with this magical feeling, and you're stoked because you made it, and you're up there, but there's a little bit of sadness to think of all that you lost along the way to get there. I guess I relate and enjoy the path and the struggle very much. Maybe it's the competitive spirit in me.
-- Aaron Bruno

#Struggle #Sadness #Journey

I just find that I enjoy the music that feels like there's a journey to the top of this mountain, then you're at the top of the mountain finally with this magical feeling, and you're stoked because you made it, and you're up there, but there's a little bit of sadness to think of all that you lost along the way to get there. I guess I relate and enjoy the path and the struggle very much.
-- Aaron Bruno

#Struggle #Sadness #Thinking

This might sound masochistic or narcissistic‚ I don't know‚ but when I'm not playing the game‚ the validations I feel about life are always through the hardships. I relate more to sadness‚ in a lot of ways‚ when I'm not playing.
-- Abby Wambach

#Sadness #Games #Validation

Acting for me was an escape and it wasn't until Smoke Signals that made me realize that acting is a personal development and challenge to grow. Smoke Signals really mirrored the way I grew up and how I felt, and that movie was the first time I'd dealt with my parents' death and how I felt that loss and sadness and anger. After that movie I said, "Y'know what, I have to realistically wear my emotions now when I do a job. That's gotta be as real as it gets. It's not just dialogue anymore."
-- Adam Beach

#Jobs #Real #Sadness

Blue. My God! I'm so blue that if I were a dog, I'd sit on my haunches and howl and howl and howl...
-- Alice Dunbar Nelson

#Dog #Sadness #Blue

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

#Grief #Sadness #Grieving

Sadness is not always the worst feeling. Sometimes it's a really pleasurable thing to be overwhelmed with sadness.
-- Matt Berninger

#Sadness #Feelings #Overwhelmed

That's the thing about love - it's full of possibilities. It can lead you down so many different paths. Sure, for some of us, it can lead to sadness and regret. But, for others, well, for others it can lead them to the greatest future they could've ever hoped for. Love is the most possible thing in the world.
-- Melissa Brown

#Regret #Sadness #Love Is

The thing that I hate is that Nicholas Kristof style of writing where it's like, "I saw the poor, they made me so sad. What can I do about sadness? I am so brave." It's just like, shut up, man, shut up.
-- Molly Crabapple

#Hate #Sadness #Writing

Sure, I’m sad, but I’m not looking to soothe that sadness by replacing it with a new relationship. Women are allowed to be sad, and they’re allowed to be single, and they don’t need to hear that one day a man is going to make it all go away by telling her she is good enough again. She’s good enough as she is.
-- Charlotte Green

#Sadness #New Relationship #Men

If you were feeling sad right now and you recall a sad - or, a very happy memory from the past, it will be tinged with more sadness based on your current feeling. So we felt like that was actually on solid scientific ground .
-- Pete Docter

#Memories #Sadness #Past

Dr. Paul Ekman, who worked in San Francisco - still does - which is where Pixar Animation Studios is, he had early in his career identified six. That felt like a nice, manageable number of guys to design and write for. It was anger, fear, sadness, disgust, joy and surprise.
-- Pete Docter

#Nice #Sadness #Writing

One of the other experts we consulted with, this guy named Dacher Keltner, he was big on sadness as community bonding - I think is the word he used.
-- Pete Docter

#Sadness #Thinking #Community

Love taught me to cry So come on courage! Teach me to be shy.
-- Damien Rice

#Sadness #Shy #Cry

It was pretty hard to actually have to say the words with my teammates, my wife and my boys there. I realized it was going to happen before that day [I announce retirement], but to have to announce it and talk about in front of a lot of people was tougher than I expected. I'm glad that feeling has kind of gone away. That sadness hasn't lingered.
-- Prince Fielder

#Retirement #Sadness #Boys

I cried, for happiness, for sadness, but most of all, for emptiness.
-- Daul Kim

#Sadness #Emptiness #Cried

I immediately target sadness and conflict and disruption in life.
-- Rachael Yamagata

#Sadness #Target #Conflict

I have Type-1 diabetes, so Team 1 Diabetes is one thing I've been a part of for a while, empowering kids who have diabetes to know they can do anything they want to do. It's amazing, how much guilt and sadness comes with a kid when they find out they're diagnosed with diabetes.
-- RaeLynn

#Team #Sadness #Kids

Will the things that are being lost - the wilderness, the plants and animals, the skills, and all the others - leave too vast a gap in the human spirit? This is the unanswerable question. In the meantime, we must live in our century and wait, enduring somehow the unavoidable sadness.
-- David Ehrenfeld

#Sadness #Animal #Skills

If I look at my own recordings, I think generally there is a focal point within the song and often it's the instrumental bridge or a guitar solo where we try to do something unexpected, something beautiful or weird, or beautiful because it is weird. And of course I fail half the time, but yes that is the goal, to create even a few seconds of bliss, or sadness. The electric guitar is a great instrument for doing this because it is capable of surprising you. There are so many different sounds available.
-- Dean Wareham

#Beautiful #Song #Sadness

Howard's enchanting Hospice obeys its own magical inner logic with excellent prose and a sadness that will split open hearts. You have in your hands a story that is inquisitive, gripping, and triumphant.
-- Deb Olin Unferth

#Sadness #Heart #Hands

You can't have a better past.
-- Richard Carlson

#Sadness #Past

The music that I have always liked has always been more rooted in anger or sadness or alienation or any of those inspirational factors that drove rock'n'roll, gospel, and blues. I tend not to value a more pop aesthetic.
-- DJ Shadow

#Sadness #Rocks #Rock N Roll

Dr. Birdsell, my dramatic coach in school, always said that I was the most melancholy Dane that he had ever directed.
-- Donald Freed

#School #Sadness #Acting

Naught so sweet as melancholy.
-- Robert A. Burton

#Sweet #Sadness #Misery