Sadness Quotes - page 3

In deep sadness there is no place for sentimentality. It is as final as the mountains: a fact. There it is. When you realize it you cannot complain. (William S. Burroughs)
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. View quote
Neve Campbell
Now we are forced to recognize our inhumanity Our reason coexists with our insanity And though we choose between reality and madness It's either sadness or euphoria. View quote
Billy Joel
Sadness was so claustrophobic. View quote
Kiran Desai
I want the following word: splendor, splendor is fruit in all its succulence, fruit without sadness. I want vast distances. My savage intuition of myself. View quote
Clarice Lispector
I convinced myself that sadness and compromise were the ways of the world... View quote
Erica Jong
The essence of romantic love is that wonderful beginning, after which sadness and impossibility may become the rule. View quote
Anita Brookner
Love has, at its best, made the inherent sadness of life bearable, and its beauty manifest. View quote
Kay Redfield Jamison
Have I told you lately that I love you? Have I told you there's no one above you? Fill my heart with gladness, Take away my sadness, Ease my troubles, that's what you do. View quote
Van Morrison
Sadness flies on the wings of the morning, and out of the heart of darkness comes the light. View quote
Jean Giraudoux
It was the time of year, the time of day, for a small insistent sadness to pass into the texture of things. Dusk, silence, iron chill. Something lonely in the bone. (Don DeLillo)
What second love could she [Olympias] make out of her ruined first love? The second love that most women make out of their first love for husbands grows from a mutual and tacit sadness in both husband and wife that he is only in rare moments the man both would like him to be. View quote
Laura Riding
All too soon will Childhood gay Realise Life's sober sadness. Let's be merry while we may, Innocent and happy Fay! Elves were made for gladness! View quote
Lewis Carroll
I carry a deep sadness of the heart which must now and then break out in sound. View quote
Franz Liszt
If my world were to cave in tomorrow, I would look back on all the pleasures, excitements and worthwhilenesses I have been lucky enough to have had. Not the sadness, not my miscarriages or my father leaving home, but the joy of everything else. It will have been enough. View quote
Audrey Hepburn
She struggled with her sadness, but tried to conceal it, to divide it into smaller and smaller parts and scatter these in places she thought no one would find them. View quote
Nicole Krauss
Sadness is also a kind of defence. View quote
Ivo Andrić
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. View quote
Sting (musician)
The sadness which reigned everywhere was but an excuse for unfailing kindness. View quote
Victor Hugo
And I sing and sing of awful things The pleasure that my sadness brings. View quote
Conor Oberst
The walls we build around us to keep sadness out also keeps out the joy. (Jim Rohn)
Absolute silence leads to sadness. It is the image of death. View quote
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
I watched them from the window, thy children at their play, And I thought of all my own dear friends, who were far, oh, far away, And childish loves, and childish cares, and a child's own buoyant gladness Came gushing back again to me with a soft and solemn sadness; And feelings frozen up full long, and thoughts of long ago, Seemed to be thawing at my heart with a warm and sudden flow. View quote
Arthur Hugh Clough
Remembering bred its own peculiar sorrow. It seemed so unfair: that time should render both sadness and happiness into a source of pain. View quote
Rohinton Mistry
Well, the musicals give emphasis to love, longing, melancholy, sadness. All of that is always there. View quote
Ismail Merchant