You 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 MouskouriMelancholy held me hostage, and the bees built a hive of sadness in my soul. Votes: 4
Laurie Halse AndersonWhen 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. ScottSadness at being caught, at the incontrovertibe knowledge that she will never forgive you. Votes: 3
Junot DiazShe was a tragic beauty. Sadness had left its fingerprints all over her face. Votes: 3
John Mark GreenSadness 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
IsraAnger will come and go and the watcher abides. Sadness comes and passes by and the witness remains Votes: 3
RajneeshFor a human being, sadness is as powerful as terror. Sadness makes a warrior shed tears of blood. Votes: 3
Carlos CastanedaSadness is more or less like a head cold - with patience, it passes. Depression is like cancer. Votes: 3
Barbara KingsolverSadness flies on the wings of the morning, and out of the heart of darkness comes the light. Votes: 3
Jean GiraudouxWe 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 CorneilleThe big difference between human happiness and sadness? Thirty-seven freakin' vibrations. Votes: 0
Michael Tilson ThomasExperiencing deep sadness can, sometimes, heighten your ability to feel joy. Votes: 0
Marketa Irglova...sadness is a powerful foe, maybe harder to keep down than happiness... Votes: 0
Katherine HanniganI oscillate between life and death, happiness and sadness, good and evil. Votes: 0
Alexander McQueenMusic helps us drift away to places of tranquility, happiness, sadness, & imagination. Votes: 0
April Mae MonterrosaGood humor is the health of the soul, sadness is its poison. Votes: 0
Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of ChesterfieldHer sadness makes her impossibly beautiful, like snow blanketing a barren landscape. Votes: 0
Marie LuThe so-called Real World. Human misery and sadness. Blind politics and general cruelty. Votes: 0
Tanith LeeEven though sometimes you can control your anger, you can't control your sadness. Votes: 0
Barbara ParkWe 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 AureliusEverything's complicated, even those things that seem flat in their bleakness or sadness. Votes: 0
Nick HornbyTime 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 JungMaybe sadness was a kind of hunger, she thought. Maybe the two went together. Votes: 0
Margaret AtwoodAnyone who has known happiness will never again be able humbly to accept sadness. Votes: 0
Paulo CoelhoUnhappy is he to whom the memories of childhood bring only fear and sadness. Votes: 0
H. P. LovecraftIf 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 KintzA wonderful book . . . Full of sadness, hope, and ultimately love. I found it very moving. Votes: 0
Esther FreudA little madness shows the way to happiness.A little kindness can heal the sadness. Votes: 0
Debasish MridhaA tender sadness drops upon my soul, like the soft twilight dropping on the world. Votes: 0
Alexander SmithLife 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 CharlesNobody 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 WelchExpect more get less and feel sadness Or expect less get more and feel happiness Votes: 0
Vijay DhameliyaOne of the failures of cellular communication is that tiredness often comes across as sadness. Votes: 0
Rachel Cohn....you can overcome sadness, loneliness, even terrible loss. But guilt goes with you the grave. Votes: 0
Jodee BlancoSometimes happiness comes, sometimes sadness, anger, jealousy - you need not make them your problems Votes: 0
RajneeshWine refreshes the stomach, sharpens the appetite, blunts care and sadness, and conduces to slumber. Votes: 0
Pliny the ElderI find sadness and strife to be so much more interesting with an upbeat melody. Votes: 0
Zooey DeschanelRecalling days of sadness, memories haunt me. Recalling days of happiness, I haunt my memories. Votes: 0
Robert BreaultA person can't know what happiness is without experiencing sadness. And I think that's healthy. Votes: 0
Jai CourtneyFor each door of sadness that opens, there are a thousand means of shutting it... Votes: 0
محمد عبد الرحمن العريفيOne's suffering disappears when one lets oneself go, when one yields - even to sadness. Votes: 0
Antoine de Saint-ExuperyBeing in the depths of sadness is just as important an experience as being exuberantly happy. Votes: 0
Marlene DietrichWell, the musicals give emphasis to love, longing, melancholy, sadness. All of that is always there. Votes: 0
Ismail MerchantSome women's faces are, in their brightness, a prophecy; and some, in their sadness, a history. Votes: 0
Charles DickensI'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 BraySo sadness is a place?' Giovanni asked. 'Sometimes people live there for years,'I said. Votes: 0
Elizabeth GilbertLove has, at its best, made the inherent sadness of life bearable, and its beauty manifest. Votes: 0
Kay Redfield JamisonYou're a miracle, Walker. Your fingers are. Your toes are. Your crushing sadness and guilt are. Votes: 0
Ron KoertgeThe sadness of the incomplete, the sadness that is often Life, but should never be Art. Votes: 0
E. M. ForsterHappiness, sadness, loss and gain all pass away. What they do to us is what remains. Votes: 0
Yasmin MogahedEach night about this time he puts on sadness like a garment and goes on writing. Votes: 0
Anne CarsonOur life is...a time in which sadness and joy kiss each other at every moment. Votes: 0
Henri NouwenMan, I was drowning in sadness. And Angelina, she lifted me right up out of there. Votes: 0
Billy Bob ThorntonSuicide is the way OUT of life, but, leaving everyone behind is the way INTO sadness. Votes: 0
TheKatAttackThat is why I write - to try to turn sadness into longing, solitude into remembrance. Votes: 0
Paulo CoelhoTogether, we'll live with the sadness. I'll love you with all the madness in my soul. Votes: 0
Bruce SpringsteenWhen a person has lived generously and fought fiercely, she deserves more than sadness at the end. Votes: 0
Ruth ReichlI felt a tremendous sadness for men who can't deal with a woman of their own age. Votes: 0
Michael CaineWe can all of us be hurt, and no one is exclusively safe from worry and sadness. Votes: 0
Patrick deWittHow can money be the root of all evil when shopping is the cure for all sadness? Votes: 0
Elizabeth TaylorI carry a deep sadness of the heart which must now and then break out in sound, Votes: 0
Franz LisztWhen you see the sadness, failure, and darknessFind the opportunity to turn on the light of success. Votes: 0
Debasish MridhaWhen a rap song glorifies violence, death and sadness and loss is inflicted because of the violence. Votes: 0
Kareem Abdul-JabbarSorrow is better than laughter: for by the sadness of the countenance the heart is made better. Votes: 0
SolomonServe 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 ShakurShe must have sensed she never really had him. That was a sadness of hers, he knew. Votes: 0
Ann Brashares[A cat] will make itself the companion of your hours of work, of loneliness, or of sadness. Votes: 0
Theophile GautierLife is but a memory Happened long ago. Theatre full of sadness For a long forgotten show. Votes: 0
Nick DrakePeople are not theirs thoughts, they think they are, and it brings them all kinds of sadness. Votes: 0
Nick NolteIt'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 GreenDo you know most of the Jewish songs have the same trend of sadness as Negro spirituals? Votes: 0
Mahalia JacksonThe PCT would lead me to an otherworld, through the sadness I felt here, out of it. Votes: 0
Aspen MatisI give her sadness and the gift of pain, a new moon madness and a love of rain. Votes: 0
Dorothy ParkerI'm a poet,' the young man said, 'And it's my job to remember the sadness of things. Votes: 0
Clive BarkerDon't stay in one place too long. It was the only way to stay ahead of the sadness. Votes: 0
Rick Riordan. . . 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 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
GotyeThe real sadness of fifty is not that you change so much but that you change so little. Votes: 0
Max LernerWith each sadness a woman gets more beautiful. I wonder if with each sadness a man gets stronger. Votes: 0
GacktIt's easier to believe in this sweet madness, oh this glorious sadness, that brings me to my knees. Votes: 0
Sarah McLachlanWhen sadness happens in the middle of work, I separate my personal grief from my train of thought. Votes: 0
Sergio AragonesDon't let the sadness from the past and fear of the future ruin the happiness of the present. Votes: 0
Kid CudiEvery life, even the best ones, ends in sadness. Books hold out hope that things may end otherwise. Votes: 0
Joe QueenanMost poets in their youth begin in adolescent sadness. I find it more rewarding to end in gladness. Votes: 0
James BroughtonA Jazz man should be saying what he feels: humor, sadness, joy... all the things that humans have. Votes: 0
Bob BrookmeyerNever let the sadness of your past and the fear of your future ruin the happiness of your present. Votes: 0
AnonymousI sometimes use a lot of light greens and greys when I feel there is sadness in the painting. Votes: 0
Robert RyanWhen your sky is covered with the clouds of sadness, smile like the sun and paint your own rainbow. Votes: 0
Debasish MridhaBut I saw the pain and sadness in everything, and swirled it round my mouth like a fine wine. Votes: 0
Emma ForrestI work grief and sadness out of my body when I dance, and I bring in joy and rhythm. Votes: 0
Inga MuscioI'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
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