sadness quotes

I’ve never thought about songwriting as a weapon. I’ve only thought about it as a way to help me get through love and loss and sadness and loneliness and growing up.

It makes me sad when I find sisters who aren’t joyful. They might smile, but with just a smile they could be flight attendants!

If you have tears, prepare to shed them now.

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.

I wanted to write a book that talked about the emotions of children, which is the rainbow. We all have moods. We talk about being blue when we’re sad, and being yellow when we’re cowards, and when we’re mad, we’re red.

I actually started off majoring in computer science, but I knew right away I wasn’t going to stay with it. It was because I had this one professor who was the loneliest, saddest man I’ve ever known. He was a programmer, and I knew that I didn’t want to do whatever he did. So after that, I switched to Communications.

I hold the world but as the world, Gratiano; A stage where every man must play a part, And mine is a sad one.

I believe that everyone experiences depression to some degree at some time in their lives. And there are probably millions of people who live with a low level of sadness and heaviness day in and day out.

I would be lying if I didn’t admit sadness that our wonderful airline is merging with another. Because I’m not American, the U.S. Department of Transportation stipulated I take some of my shares in Virgin America as non-voting shares, reducing my influence over any takeover. So there was sadly nothing I could do to stop it.

Some people can just let things go, but I can’t, especially if there’s something that worries me or makes me sad.

Man alone is born crying, lives complaining, and dies disappointed.

I actually started off majoring in computer science, but I knew right away I wasn’t going to stay with it. It was because I had this one professor who was the loneliest, saddest man I’ve ever known. He was a programmer, and I knew that I didn’t want to do whatever he did.

Absolute silence leads to sadness. It is the image of death.

Sadness is but a wall between two gardens.

There’s no tragedy in life like the death of a child. Things never get back to the way they were.

I’ve often felt depressed; everyone feels depressed.

When you are joyous, look deep into your heart and you shall find it is only that which has given you sorrow that is giving you joy. When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.

It is a very sad thing that nowadays there is so little useless information.

When I first went to places where people were suffering from war and persecution, I felt ashamed of my feelings of sadness. I could see more possibilities in my life.

The South is very beautiful but its beauty makes one sad because the lives that people live here, and have lived here, are so ugly.

There’s nothing sadder in this world than to awake Christmas morning and not be a child.

Censorship is the tool of those who have the need to hide actualities from themselves and from others. Their fear is only their inability to face what is real, and I can’t vent any anger against them; I only feel this appalling sadness. Somewhere in their upbringing, they were shielded against the total facts of our existence.

The word ‚happy‘ would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.

Football is a sad game.

Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better take things as they come along with patience and equanimity.

I didn’t really want to live, so anything that was an investment in time made me angry… but also I just felt sad. When the hopelessness is hurting you, it’s the fixtures and fittings that finish you off.

There is no sadder sight than a young pessimist.

The walls we build around us to keep sadness out also keeps out the joy.

A sad soul can kill quicker than a germ.

The display of grief makes more demands than grief itself. How few men are sad in their own company.

When I was two, a dragonfly flew near me. A man knocked it to the ground and trod on it. I remember crying because I’d caused the dragonfly to be killed.

When Clark Gable died, I cried for 2 days straight. I couldn’t eat or sleep.

Tears are the silent language of grief.

Every time I see documentaries or infomercials about little kids with cancer, I just freak out. It affects me on the highest emotional level… Anytime I think about it, it makes me sadder than anything I can think of.

In this sad world of ours, sorrow comes to all; and to the young, it comes with bitterest agony because it takes them unawares. I have had experience enough to know what I say.