Top Sadness Quotes
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
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
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
Eugene Ionesco 
Luther Vandross 
Jean de La Fontaine 
John Wozniak 
Egon Schiele 
William S. Burroughs 
Jerome K. Jerome 
George Catlin All Sadness Quotes
The sadness of the women's movement is that they don't allow the necessity of love. See, I don't personally trust any revolution where love is not allowed.
Maya Angelou 
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Grief and sadness knits two hearts in closer bonds than happiness ever can; and common sufferings are far stronger than common joys.
Alphonse de Lamartine
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One must not let oneself be overwhelmed by sadness.
Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
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I was never able to get through Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness. I've never been able to make it through. And I love the Smashing Pumpkins, they're one of my favorite bands ever, but I've never been able to listen to the whole thing all the way through.
John Wozniak
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Absolute silence leads to sadness. It is the image of death.
Jean Jacques Rousseau
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I love walking down the street and seeing faces and drama and happiness and sadness and dirt and cleanliness.
Ric Ocasek
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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
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We all have sadness in our life and things that we can draw upon.
Sherilyn Fenn
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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 UllmanRichard MarxRick MoodyJean RacineTina Weymouth
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