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
George Catlin 
Lord Chesterfield 
Robert Ryan 
Carl Jung 
Loretta Lynn 
Wayne Coyne 
James MacArthur 
Tracey Ullman 
E. M. Forster All Sadness Quotes
We get more dangerous as we accumulate knowledge, and that's both a sadness and something to control, try to learn to live with, make terms with.
Lou Harrison 
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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.
Isidore Ducasse Lautreamont
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It's the poignancy and sadness in things that gets to me.
Tracey Ullman
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I actually think sadness and darkness can be very beautiful and healing.
Duncan Sheik
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The walls we build around us to keep sadness out also keeps out the joy.
Jim Rohn
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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.
Conor Oberst
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I do believe that if you haven't learnt about sadness, you cannot appreciate happiness.
Nana Mouskouri
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I'm trying to make sure that there's comedy as well as sadness. It makes the sadness more memorable.
Rick Moody
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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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