Melancholy held me hostage, and the bees built a hive of sadness in my soul. Votes: 5
Laurie Halse AndersonYou cannot protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from happiness. Votes: 4
Jonathan Safran FoerNobody deserves your tears, but whoever deserves them will not make you cry. Votes: 4
Gabriel Garcia MarquezOne cannot be deeply responsive to the world without being saddened very often. Votes: 4
Erich FrommI do believe that if you haven't learnt about sadness, you cannot appreciate happiness. Votes: 4
Nana MouskouriWhen you're happy you enjoy the music, but when you're sad you understand the lyrics. Votes: 4
Frank OceanSadness, disappointment, and severe challenge are events in life, not life itself. Votes: 3
Richard G. ScottShe was a tragic beauty. Sadness had left its fingerprints all over her face. Votes: 3
John Mark GreenSadness at being caught, at the incontrovertibe knowledge that she will never forgive you. Votes: 3
Junot DiazSadness is not necessarily something bad. Don't judge it as a bad or negative quality. Votes: 3
RajneeshPain could be killed. Sadness could not, but the drugs did shut its mouth for a time. Votes: 3
Colson WhiteheadSadness does not last forever when we walk in the direction of that which we always desired. Votes: 3
Paulo CoelhoSadness is not the beginning or end of a process, but the lag between pleasure and happiness. Votes: 3
IsraSadness flies on the wings of the morning, and out of the heart of darkness comes the light. Votes: 3
Jean GiraudouxSadness is more or less like a head cold - with patience, it passes. Depression is like cancer. Votes: 3
Barbara KingsolverFor a human being, sadness is as powerful as terror. Sadness makes a warrior shed tears of blood. Votes: 3
Carlos CastanedaAnger will come and go and the watcher abides. Sadness comes and passes by and the witness remains Votes: 3
RajneeshWe never taste a perfect joy; our happiest successes are mixed with sadness. Votes: 1
Pierre CorneilleWe never taste happiness in perfection, our most fortunate successes are mixed with sadness. Votes: 1
Pierre CorneilleExperiencing deep sadness can, sometimes, heighten your ability to feel joy. Votes: 0
Marketa IrglovaThe big difference between human happiness and sadness? Thirty-seven freakin' vibrations. Votes: 0
Michael Tilson ThomasGood humor is the health of the soul, sadness is its poison. Votes: 0
Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of ChesterfieldI oscillate between life and death, happiness and sadness, good and evil. Votes: 0
Alexander McQueen...sadness is a powerful foe, maybe harder to keep down than happiness... Votes: 0
Katherine HanniganHer sadness makes her impossibly beautiful, like snow blanketing a barren landscape. Votes: 0
Marie LuMusic helps us drift away to places of tranquility, happiness, sadness, & imagination. Votes: 0
April Mae MonterrosaWe never do anything consciously for the last time without sadness of heart. Votes: 0
Samuel JohnsonIn an expression of true gratitude, sadness is conspicuous only by its absence Votes: 0
Marcus AureliusEven though sometimes you can control your anger, you can't control your sadness. Votes: 0
Barbara ParkThe so-called Real World. Human misery and sadness. Blind politics and general cruelty. Votes: 0
Tanith LeeEverything's complicated, even those things that seem flat in their bleakness or sadness. Votes: 0
Nick HornbyUnhappy is he to whom the memories of childhood bring only fear and sadness. Votes: 0
H. P. LovecraftMaybe sadness was a kind of hunger, she thought. Maybe the two went together. Votes: 0
Margaret AtwoodTime heals many wounds but this loss becomes the defining sadness of your life. Votes: 0
Claire CookThe word 'happiness' would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. Votes: 0
Carl Gustav JungAnyone who has known happiness will never again be able humbly to accept sadness. Votes: 0
Paulo CoelhoIf you don't enjoy your life, sorrow, sadness, suffering, fear, shame and guilt will. Votes: 0
Iyanla VanzantWeeping willows always remind me of summer. And sadness. Please stop crying sweet tree. Votes: 0
Jarod KintzI find sadness and strife to be so much more interesting with an upbeat melody. Votes: 0
Zooey DeschanelExpect more get less and feel sadness Or expect less get more and feel happiness Votes: 0
Vijay DhameliyaFor each door of sadness that opens, there are a thousand means of shutting it... Votes: 0
محمد عبد الرحمن العريفيA tender sadness drops upon my soul, like the soft twilight dropping on the world. Votes: 0
Alexander SmithA little madness shows the way to happiness.A little kindness can heal the sadness. Votes: 0
Debasish MridhaLife has sadness, joy, beauty, like poetry.So be passionate and write a great story. Votes: 0
Debasish MridhaThere's such a thing as too much happiness and sadness. What I'm after is contentment. Votes: 0
Ray CharlesOne's suffering disappears when one lets oneself go, when one yields - even to sadness. Votes: 0
Antoine de Saint-ExuperyNobody but a Southerner knows the wrenching rinsing sadness of the cities of the North. Votes: 0
Walker PercyHaving a soul, they say, is like taking sadness and turning it into something beautiful. Votes: 0
Florence WelchA wonderful book . . . Full of sadness, hope, and ultimately love. I found it very moving. Votes: 0
Esther FreudOne of the failures of cellular communication is that tiredness often comes across as sadness. Votes: 0
Rachel CohnA person can't know what happiness is without experiencing sadness. And I think that's healthy. Votes: 0
Jai CourtneyRecalling days of sadness, memories haunt me. Recalling days of happiness, I haunt my memories. Votes: 0
Robert Breault....you can overcome sadness, loneliness, even terrible loss. But guilt goes with you the grave. Votes: 0
Jodee BlancoWine refreshes the stomach, sharpens the appetite, blunts care and sadness, and conduces to slumber. Votes: 0
Pliny the ElderSometimes happiness comes, sometimes sadness, anger, jealousy - you need not make them your problems Votes: 0
RajneeshOur life is...a time in which sadness and joy kiss each other at every moment. Votes: 0
Henri NouwenEach night about this time he puts on sadness like a garment and goes on writing. Votes: 0
Anne CarsonMan, I was drowning in sadness. And Angelina, she lifted me right up out of there. Votes: 0
Billy Bob ThorntonHappiness, sadness, loss and gain all pass away. What they do to us is what remains. Votes: 0
Yasmin MogahedSuicide is the way OUT of life, but, leaving everyone behind is the way INTO sadness. Votes: 0
TheKatAttackTogether, we'll live with the sadness. I'll love you with all the madness in my soul. Votes: 0
Bruce SpringsteenThat is why I write - to try to turn sadness into longing, solitude into remembrance. Votes: 0
Paulo CoelhoThe sadness of the incomplete, the sadness that is often Life, but should never be Art. Votes: 0
E. M. ForsterSo sadness is a place?' Giovanni asked. 'Sometimes people live there for years,'I said. Votes: 0
Elizabeth GilbertI'm unhappy as Dylan Thomas was, because I'm not, but I've had my brushes with sadness. Votes: 0
Tom HollanderThereâs a moment of profound sadness that can be dispelled only by summoning my anger. Votes: 0
Libba BrayLove has, at its best, made the inherent sadness of life bearable, and its beauty manifest. Votes: 0
Kay Redfield JamisonBeing in the depths of sadness is just as important an experience as being exuberantly happy. Votes: 0
Marlene DietrichYou're a miracle, Walker. Your fingers are. Your toes are. Your crushing sadness and guilt are. Votes: 0
Ron KoertgeSome women's faces are, in their brightness, a prophecy; and some, in their sadness, a history. Votes: 0
Charles DickensWell, the musicals give emphasis to love, longing, melancholy, sadness. All of that is always there. Votes: 0
Ismail MerchantI carry a deep sadness of the heart which must now and then break out in sound, Votes: 0
Franz LisztHow can money be the root of all evil when shopping is the cure for all sadness? Votes: 0
Elizabeth TaylorWe can all of us be hurt, and no one is exclusively safe from worry and sadness. Votes: 0
Patrick deWittI felt a tremendous sadness for men who can't deal with a woman of their own age. Votes: 0
Michael CaineThe PCT would lead me to an otherworld, through the sadness I felt here, out of it. Votes: 0
Aspen MatisShe must have sensed she never really had him. That was a sadness of hers, he knew. Votes: 0
Ann BrasharesIt's strange how sometimes you can be so happy it goes all the way round to sadness. Votes: 0
David WalliamsThe joy you bring us is so much greater than the sadness we feel about your illness. Votes: 0
John GreenServe God joyfully. Let there be no sadness in your life: the only true sorrow is sin. Votes: 0
Mother TeresaBehind every sweet smile, there is a bitter sadness that no one can ever see and feel. Votes: 0
Tupac ShakurDo you know most of the Jewish songs have the same trend of sadness as Negro spirituals? Votes: 0
Mahalia JacksonLife is but a memory Happened long ago. Theatre full of sadness For a long forgotten show. Votes: 0
Nick Drake[A cat] will make itself the companion of your hours of work, of loneliness, or of sadness. Votes: 0
Theophile GautierPeople are not theirs thoughts, they think they are, and it brings them all kinds of sadness. Votes: 0
Nick NolteSorrow is better than laughter: for by the sadness of the countenance the heart is made better. Votes: 0
SolomonWhen a person has lived generously and fought fiercely, she deserves more than sadness at the end. Votes: 0
Ruth ReichlWhen a rap song glorifies violence, death and sadness and loss is inflicted because of the violence. Votes: 0
Kareem Abdul-JabbarWhen you see the sadness, failure, and darknessFind the opportunity to turn on the light of success. Votes: 0
Debasish MridhaI give her sadness and the gift of pain, a new moon madness and a love of rain. Votes: 0
Dorothy ParkerDon't stay in one place too long. It was the only way to stay ahead of the sadness. Votes: 0
Rick RiordanI'm a poet,' the young man said, 'And it's my job to remember the sadness of things. Votes: 0
Clive BarkerThe real sadness of fifty is not that you change so much but that you change so little. Votes: 0
Max LernerDon't let the sadness from the past and fear of the future ruin the happiness of the present. Votes: 0
Kid CudiI feel empty, not because of sadness, but because of relief, all the tension flowing out of me. Votes: 0
Veronica RothI don't know whether there is anyone else at all who remembers my noble father with such sadness Votes: 0
Egon SchieleYou can get addicted to a certain kind of sadness, Like resignation to the end, Always the end. Votes: 0
GotyeWith each sadness a woman gets more beautiful. I wonder if with each sadness a man gets stronger. Votes: 0
GacktWhen sadness happens in the middle of work, I separate my personal grief from my train of thought. Votes: 0
Sergio AragonesA Jazz man should be saying what he feels: humor, sadness, joy... all the things that humans have. Votes: 0
Bob BrookmeyerMost poets in their youth begin in adolescent sadness. I find it more rewarding to end in gladness. Votes: 0
James BroughtonEvery life, even the best ones, ends in sadness. Books hold out hope that things may end otherwise. Votes: 0
Joe QueenanIt's easier to believe in this sweet madness, oh this glorious sadness, that brings me to my knees. Votes: 0
Sarah McLachlan. . . owning a dog always ended with this sadness because dogs just don't live as long as people do. Votes: 0
John GroganI'm trying to make sure that there's comedy as well as sadness. It makes the sadness more memorable. Votes: 0
Rick MoodyI work grief and sadness out of my body when I dance, and I bring in joy and rhythm. Votes: 0
Inga MuscioI sometimes use a lot of light greens and greys when I feel there is sadness in the painting. Votes: 0
Robert RyanBut I saw the pain and sadness in everything, and swirled it round my mouth like a fine wine. Votes: 0
Emma ForrestNever let the sadness of your past and the fear of your future ruin the happiness of your present. Votes: 0
AnonymousWhen your sky is covered with the clouds of sadness, smile like the sun and paint your own rainbow. Votes: 0
Debasish MridhaI'm not clear enough in the head to feel anything but varieties of dull anger and arrows of sadness. Votes: 0
Virginia WoolfIt is with great sadness and a heavy heart that have to announce that I ate kale and liked it. Votes: 0
Greg BehrendtThere are three types of tears; Tears of joy, Tears of sadness, and Tears of love; a mix of Both. Votes: 0
AXI had no idea that mothering my own child would be so healing to my own sadness from my childhood. Votes: 0
Susie BrightLooking for happiness is a sure way to sadness, I think. You have to take each moment as it comes. Votes: 0
Benedict CumberbatchThe sadness you feel is not your own. It's his sadness you feel in your heart, Amy, for missing you. Votes: 0
Justin CroninWhen you can be happy in your sadness as you are in your happiness. Then you know the key to life. Votes: 0
Suze OrmanI rose as from the death that wipes out the sadness of life, and then dies itself in the new morrow. Votes: 0
George MacDonaldI dance. A lot. I work grief and sadness out of my body when I dance, and I bring in joy and rhythm. Votes: 0
Inga MuscioI feel a sense of sadness and joy. Mostly sadness though about what I've experienced and sadness about what others have experienced in reference to the stroke. Votes: 2 Luther Vandross
Hoping they'd been inspired by the examples of Anne Frank and other teens who had turned negative experiences into something positive by writing about them, I handed out notebooks for my students to journal about their lives. There was some initial resistance. But then the stories poured out of them, full of anger and sadness. Votes: 3 Erin Gruwell
To me, beauty and sadness are very closely linked. Truly beautiful things make me sad because I know they are going to fade. When I see a beautiful 20-year-old boy or girl-and they are breathtaking-I am filled with a kind of sadness. But maybe they are beautiful because we know they are not permanent and they are in a kind of transition. Votes: 3 Tom Ford
When I look back at those pictures of my mother performing - and listen to her recordings - it makes me sad to think that all of that joy she found in her work came to an end. I wish she hadn't had to make that sacrifice, even if it was for the benefit of my father and siblings and me. Votes: 1 Marlo Thomas
We're taught to be ashamed of confusion, anger, fear and sadness, and to me they're of equal value to happiness, excitement and inspiration. Votes: 1 Alanis Morissette
Depression is internal. The upswings and downswings have pretty much nothing to do with what's going on in the external world. It's not like something sad happens to you and then you feel sad. Good things happen, but you feel sad anyway. Votes: 1 Graham Moore
I think all tragedies are best told with some humor. You have to relieve the darkness to let the reader get through it. Also, that life has happiness and sadness mixed together. If you told a story that was all darkness, it wouldn't be real. Votes: 3 Alan Lightman
My biography of Frank Sinatra is not paean to his music but rather an illumination of the man behind the music, who once described himself as 'an 18-karat manic-depressive who lived a life of violent emotional contradictions with an over-acute capacity for sadness as well as happiness.' Votes: 3 Kitty Kelley
I do believe that if you haven't learnt about sadness, you cannot appreciate happiness. Votes: 3 Nana Mouskouri
To me, sadness and humor aren't disrelated and humor is the best tool I've had against the sadness in my life. Votes: 1 Mike Mills
And maybe that was how it was supposed to be...Joy and sadness were part of the package; the trick, perhaps,was to let yourself feel all of it, but to hold on to the joy just a little more tightly... Votes: 3 Kristin Hannah
Live by this credo: have a little laugh at life and look around you for happiness instead of sadness. Laughter has always brought me out of unhappy situations. Votes: 1 Red Skelton
I don't know of a great artist who did not sacrifice and thereby have to wrestle with the depths of loneliness and sadness. Votes: 3 Cornel West
President Bush spent last night calling world leaders to support the war with Iraq and it is sad when the most powerful man on earth is yelling, 'I know you're there, pick up, pick up. Votes: 2 Craig Kilborn
If you have a dog, you will most likely outlive it; to get a dog is to open yourself to profound joy and, prospectively, to equally profound sadness. Votes: 2 Marjorie Garber
Depression is internal. The upswings and downswings have pretty much nothing to do with what's going on in the external world. It's not like something sad happens to you and then you feel sad. Good things happen, but you feel sad anyway. Votes: 3 Graham Moore
I feel a sense of sadness and joy. Mostly sadness though about what I've experienced and sadness about what others have experienced in reference to the stroke. Votes: 4 Luther Vandross
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. Votes: 9 Taylor Swift
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. Votes: 3 Taylor Swift
The sadness of the incomplete, the sadness that is often Life, but should never be Art. Votes: 2 E. M. Forster
I had never felt so lonely and so sad in my entire life. Votes: 1 Susan Smith
Successful prime-time television of any genre produces some kind of emotional reaction in the viewers. There are a lot of different emotions to tap into. The emotion of the reward of discovery, the feeling of righteous anger, the feelings of pathos and sadness, or sentimentality of being moved by something. Votes: 1 Chris Hayes
If you say, 'I listen to pop,' you picture this kind of perfect, colorful, polished song. I want to have that, but when you open it, you see this gritty dark - kind of like dancing your tears away. Disguise the sadness in a pop beat. Votes: 1 Tove Lo