Sadness Quotes

A tragedy need not have blood and death; it's enough that it all be filled with that majestic sadness that is the pleasure of tragedy.

Sadness flies away on the wings of time.

The trouble with boxing is that too often it ends in sadness.

It's a source of great sadness to me that my father died without having seen me do anything worthwhile. He was constantly having to make excuses for me.

When sadness happens in the middle of work, I separate my personal grief from my train of thought.

I had sadness for breakfast.

I do believe that if you haven't learnt about sadness, you cannot appreciate happiness.

Beauty is the disinterested one, without which the ancient world refused to understand itself, a word which both imperceptibly and yet unmistakably has bid farewell to our new world, a world of interests, leaving it to its own avarice and sadness.

Death remains about the one certain fact in the lives of each one of us, and there will be suffering, sorrow, and sadness next week as there was last week.

I sought my father in the world of the black musician, because it contained wisdom, experience, sadness and loneliness. I was not ever interested in the music of boys. From my youngest years, I was interested in the music of men.

People with HIV are still stigmatized. The infection rates are going up. People are dying. The political response is appalling. The sadness of it, the waste.

I sometimes use a lot of light greens and greys when I feel there is sadness in the painting.

I've cried, and you'd think I'd be better for it, but the sadness just sleeps, and it stays in my spine the rest of my life.

I don't know whether there is anyone else at all who remembers my noble father with such sadness.

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.

I really believe that all of us have a lot of darkness in our souls. Anger, rage, fear, sadness. I don't think that's only reserved for people who have horrible upbringings. I think it really exists and is part of the human condition. I think in the course of your life you figure out ways to deal with that.

We all have sadness in our life and things that we can draw upon.

I think a certain amount of anger has been a fuel of mine, if you want - but also some sort of sadness, and plain mischief, of course.

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.

I had no idea that mothering my own child would be so healing to my own sadness from my childhood.

Sadness is but a wall between two gardens.

God is in the sadness and the laughter, in the bitter and the sweet.

The reason for the sadness of this modern age and the men who live in it is that it looks for the truth in everything and finds it.

I think often sadness is a great place to get songs from.

The last day of shooting, there were tears. It was this family that's grown together over the years. Many of us have worked on it since the beginning, so there's a sadness when we all go our separate ways.

Red is the ultimate cure for sadness.

Most poets in their youth begin in adolescent sadness. I find it more rewarding to end in gladness.

One must not let oneself be overwhelmed by sadness.

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.

Half of the secular unrest and dismal, profane sadness of modern society comes from the vain ideas that every man is bound to be a critic for life.