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
James Broughton 
James Weldon Johnson 
Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis 
Sergio Aragones 
Jean de La Fontaine 
Gertrude Stein 
Walter Cronkite 
Kevin Bacon 
Mahalia Jackson All Sadness Quotes
Live by this credo: have a little laugh at life and look around you for happiness instead of sadness. Laughter has always brought me out of unhappy situations.
Red Skelton 
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Everything's complicated, even those things that seem flat in their bleakness or sadness.
Nick Hornby
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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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The sadness of the incomplete, the sadness that is often Life, but should never be Art.
E. M. Forster
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I know what it's like to have someone coming home who looks at you not in the way they used to in the old days, and I've seen my own face contorted with sadness and rage in the mirror.
Jane Birkin
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The word "happiness" would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.
Carl Jung
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We had our unhappy moments but they got channelled into the kind of sadness that was necessary for singing a song about going nowhere. So it worked out very well I think.
Tina Weymouth
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There's a feeling of elation that comes after getting off stage and then there's a feeling of utter sadness that comes after getting off the stage.
Neve Campbell
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When sadness happens in the middle of work, I separate my personal grief from my train of thought.
Sergio Aragones
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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 UllmanSherilyn FennRick MoodyJean RacineTina Weymouth
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