Top Sadness Quotes
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
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
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
Mahalia Jackson 
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Today we bury his remains in the earth as a seed of immortality. Our hearts are full of sadness, yet at the same time of joyful hope and profound gratitude.
Joseph Ratzinger 
43% of people like this quote
In deep sadness there is no place for sentimentality.
William S. Burroughs
43% of people like this quote
Beauty is the disinterested one, without which the ancient world refused to understand itself, a word which both imperceptibly and yet unmistakably has bid farewell to our new world, a world of interests, leaving it to its own avarice and sadness.
Hans Urs von Balthasar
42% of people like this quote
I had no idea that mothering my own child would be so healing to my own sadness from my childhood.
Susie Bright
40% of people like this quote
Vegas means comedy, tragedy, happiness and sadness all at the same time.
Artie Lange
36% of people like this quote
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 FennRick MoodyJean RacineTina Weymouth
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