Top Sadness Quotes
Bad things do happen; how I respond to them defines my character and the quality of my life. I can choose to sit in perpetual sadness, immobilized by the gravity of my loss, or I can choose to rise from the pain and treasure the most precious gift I have - life itself.
Walter Anderson
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
I don't need to manufacture trauma in my life to be creative. I have a big enough reservoir of sadness or emotional trauma to last me.
Sting
There is some sadness for me now about acting because it used to be that there was a reverence for actors.
Estelle Parsons
I think often sadness is a great place to get songs from.
Sarah McLachlan
Jean Jacques Rousseau 
Maya Angelou 
E. M. Forster 
Patti Smith 
Luther Vandross 
Tracey Ullman 
Ric Ocasek 
Gertrude Stein 
Rick Moody All Sadness Quotes
Bad things do happen; how I respond to them defines my character and the quality of my life. I can choose to sit in perpetual sadness, immobilized by the gravity of my loss, or I can choose to rise from the pain and treasure the most precious gift I have - life itself.
Walter Anderson 
60% of people like this quote
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
59% of people like this quote
I don't need to manufacture trauma in my life to be creative. I have a big enough reservoir of sadness or emotional trauma to last me.
Sting
59% of people like this quote
There is some sadness for me now about acting because it used to be that there was a reverence for actors.
Estelle Parsons
58% of people like this quote
I think often sadness is a great place to get songs from.
Sarah McLachlan
58% of people like this quote
Don't Make Assumptions. Find the courage to ask questions and to express what you really want. Communicate with others as clearly as you can to avoid misunderstandings, sadness and drama. With just this one agreement, you can completely transform your life.
Miguel Angel Ruiz
58% of people like this quote
Man, I was drowning in sadness. And Angelina, she lifted me right up out of there.
Billy Bob Thornton
57% of people like this quote
I don't know whether there is anyone else at all who remembers my noble father with such sadness.
Egon Schiele
57% of people like this quote
I sometimes use a lot of light greens and greys when I feel there is sadness in the painting.
Robert Ryan
57% of people like this quote
Popular Sadness Authors
Thomas FullerKahlil GibranGertrude SteinE. M. ForsterPierre CorneilleLord ChesterfieldLoretta LynnJim RohnCarl Jung StingMaya AngelouJean Jacques RousseauJean de La FontainePercy Bysshe ShelleyWilliam S. Burroughs
James BroughtonDuncan SheikPatti SmithMichael CaineJames MacArthurSarah McLachlanKevin BaconMahalia JacksonDavid FriedmanJames Weldon JohnsonTracey UllmanSherilyn FennRichard MarxJean RacineTina Weymouth
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