Sadness Quotes - page 2

Change is certain. Peace is followed by disturbances; departure of evil men by their return. Such recurrences should not constitute occasions for sadness but realities for awareness, so that one may be happy in the interim. (Percy Bysshe Shelley)
Don't dwell on things. Don't stay in one place too long. It was the only way to stay ahead of sadness. View quote
Rick Riordan
Hold the sadness and pain of samsara in your heart and at the same time the power and vision of the Great Eastern Sun. Then the warrior can make a proper cup of tea. View quote
Chogyam Trungpa
None will ever be a true Parisian who has not learned to wear a mask of gaiety over his sorrows and one of sadness, boredom, or indifference over his inward joy. View quote
Gaston Leroux
If you want to learn how to be happy, you have to know what is sadness first. View quote
Etgar Keret
In joy or sadness, flowers are our constant friends. View quote
Kakuzo Okakura
If you don't think your anxiety, depression, sadness and stress impact your physical health, think again. All of these emotions trigger chemical reactions in your body, which can lead to inflammation and a weakened immune system. Learn how to cope, sweet friend. There will always be dark days. View quote
Kris Carr
Melancholy held me hostage, and the bees built a hive of sadness in my soul. View quote
Laurie Halse Anderson
Melancholy and sadness are the start of doubt... doubt is the beginning of despair; despair is the cruel beginning of the differing degrees of wickedness. View quote
Comte de Lautreamont
I actually think sadness and darkness can be very beautiful and healing. View quote
Duncan Sheik
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 do believe that if you haven't learnt about sadness, you cannot appreciate happiness. View quote
Nana Mouskouri
I'm happy, I would say that I'm one of the happiest people I know but I've certainly had periods of profound sadness, depression and heartache and those are the kind of things that are interesting to me to write about. View quote
Richard Marx
I'm trying to make sure that there's comedy as well as sadness. It makes the sadness more memorable. View quote
Rick Moody
When sadness happens in the middle of work, I separate my personal grief from my train of thought. View quote
Sergio Aragones
Music is amazing. There's some metaphysical comfort where it allows you to be isolated and alone while telling you that you are not alone... truly, the only cure for sadness is to share it with someone else. View quote
Wayne Coyne
Sadness is the matrix from which wit and irony spring; sadness is uncomfortable and creative, which is why consumer society cannot tolerate it. View quote
Germaine Greer
That was the change in her from ten years ago; that, indeed, was her reward, this haunting, magical sadness which spoke straight to the heart and struck silence; it was the completion of her beauty. View quote
Evelyn Waugh
perhaps all our loves are merely hints and symbols; vagabond-language scrawled on gate-posts and paving-stones along the weary road that others have tramped before us; perhaps you and I are types and this sadness which sometimes falls between us springs from disappointment in our search, each straining through and beyond the other, snatching a glimpse now and then of the shadow which turns the corner always a pace or two ahead of us. View quote
Evelyn Waugh
America is ripe for lies and lethargy. The pure mountain air is going and gone. It is a huge burden and a sadness for us all. View quote
Ralph Steadman
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)
The sadness of the world has different ways of getting to people, but it seems to succeed almost every time. View quote
Louis-Ferdinand Céline
Melancholy is sadness that has taken on lightness. View quote
Italo Calvino
Twilight and evening bell, and after that the dark! And may there be no sadness of farewell when I embark. View quote
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
I spent my childhood alone, overweight and ugly, angry at everything, and knowing nothing of a life beyond this sadness. View quote
Gloria Estefan