Top Sadness Quotes
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
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
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
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Duncan Sheik 
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Mahalia Jackson 
John Pearson 
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Pierre Corneille All Sadness Quotes
I felt a tremendous sadness for men who can't deal with a woman of their own age.
Michael Caine 
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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.
Carl Jung
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In a world where there is so much sadness and so much to be afraid of, good things do happen to people. Romance is still something we can find even if we're not consciously looking for it.
Kathleen Quinlan
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Most poets in their youth begin in adolescent sadness. I find it more rewarding to end in gladness.
James Broughton
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An ounce of cheerfulness is worth a pound of sadness to serve God with.
Thomas Fuller
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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.
Wayne Coyne
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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.
Richard Marx
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It is so friendly so simply friendly and though inevitable not a sadness and though occurring not a shock.
Gertrude Stein
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The occasion of this sadness is expressed in a word, but must be considered in many more, as being the principal concernment both of the Text and Time.
John Pearson
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We never taste happiness in perfection, our most fortunate successes are mixed with sadness.
Pierre Corneille
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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 FennRichard MarxRick MoodyJean Racine
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