Quotes about Sadness

"The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil."
-Hannah Arendt

"Sad are only those who understand."
-Arab Proverb

"Melancholy is sadness that has taken on lightness."
-Italo Calvino

"Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, a charm to sadness, gaiety and life to everything. It is the essence of order, and leads to all that is god, just, and beautiful, of which it is the invisible, but never less, dazzaling, passionate, and eternal form."
-Plato

"Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, a charm to sadness, and life to everything. "
-Plato

"The word 'happiness' would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness."
-Carl Jung

"An ounce of cheerfulness is worth a pound of sadness to serve God with."
-Dr. Thomas Fuller

"The greatness comes not when things go always good for you. But the greatness comes when you're really tested, when you take some knocks, some disappointments, when sadness comes. Because only if you've been in the deepest valley can you ever know how magnificent it is to be on the highest mountain."
-Richard M. Nixon

"It's a time of sorrow and sadness when we lose a loss of life."
-George W. Bush

"It is important for me to be with families who have experienced the same loss that I have. They understand how I feel. My sadness, my sense of desperation, and how I continue to search."
-John Bish

"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

"I guess it was part of their dream, not after the fact but before the fact when they were still dating they already had an interest in that ranch. There's a sadness to the story."
-Guy Rocha

"I love life...Yeah, I'm sad, but at the same time, I'm really happy that something could make me feel that sad. It's like...It makes me feel alive, you know. It makes me feel human. The only way I could feel this sad now is if I felt something really good before. So I have to take the bad with the good. So I guess what I'm feeling is like a beautiful sadness."
-Trey Parker and Matt Stone

"I love walking down the street and seeing faces and drama and happiness and sadness and dirt and cleanliness."
-Ric Ocasek

"There was such a hodgepodge of emotion, ... We're dealing with Woody's death, and all our heroes are showing up. It was sadness mixed with joy."
-Warren Haynes

"We never taste happiness in perfection, our most fortunate successes are mixed with sadness."
-Pierre Corneille

"Half of the secular unrest and dismal, profane sadness of modern society comes from the vain ideas that every man is bound to be a critic for life."
-Henry Van Dyke

"Sadness flies away on the wings of time."
-Jean de La Fontaine

"[I feel] an overwhelming sadness. I'm not an angry person. I have a big, loving family and a roster full of former teammates that I love and respect. But, I'm so heartbroken right now. I could never fathom this is how my hockey career would end."
-Cammi Granato

"Ballet is just a vocabulary like English. Most classical ballets emphasize how high a woman can hold her leg, how skinny she is and all the tricks she can do. She may not ever have to express anything but extreme happiness or sadness. These ballets rarely interpret life. They are fables with princesses and fairies."
-James Buckley

"We just want to say we appreciate the prayers for them, and extend our condolences and heartfelt sadness to the families."
-Scott Ross

"I've been a thug since 1966, and this feels good. When people come up and you look into their faces and see all the sadness, and then they thank you like you are the one giving this stuff to them, it makes you tear up."
-James Cox

"Does this explain the Kevin phenomenon? It might be behind the social ineptitude of early adolescents, the seeming inability to understand the two expressions that have this dip most strikingly - sadness and anger."
-David Skuse

"If you think back and replay your year, if it doesn't bring you tears either of joy or sadness, consider it wasted."
-Ally Mcbeal

"We share the sadness that many feel about the closing of the restaurant. It's been an honor to be part of the fabric of Chicago."
-Herman Berghoff

"One of the guys was giving soccer balls to the Iraqi kids and bam - a bomb blew up. All of the guys' families were there, and some of the mothers, you could see the sadness in their eyes. It just makes you appreciate what those guys are doing over there, it really makes you think."
-Sean Casey

"There's no real reason to feel afraid. I just feel sadness for the children."
-Debbie Goodson

"The music we wrote to accompany the film is very moody and atmospheric, and we tried to bring out the sadness from both the victims' and the killer's perspective. We've always been interested in how music enhances the cinematic experience."
-Tim Kelley