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Absolute silence leads to sadness. It is the image of death. -- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Red is the ultimate cure for sadness. -- Bill Blass
Tears are words that need to be written. -- Paulo Coelho
Dying seems less sad than having lived too little. -- Gloria Steinem
In deep sadness there is no place for sentimentality. -- William S. Burroughs
Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened. -- Dr. Seuss
When sorrows come, they come not single spies, but in battalions. -- William Shakespeare
Crying is cleansing. There's a reason for tears, happiness or sadness. -- Dionne Warwick
You cannot protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from happiness. -- Jonathan Safran Foer
Nobody deserves your tears, but whoever deserves them will not make you cry. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
One cannot be deeply responsive to the world without being saddened very often. -- Erich Fromm
I do believe that if you haven't learnt about sadness, you cannot appreciate happiness. -- Nana Mouskouri
Melancholy held me hostage, and the bees built a hive of sadness in my soul. -- Laurie Halse Anderson
When you're happy you enjoy the music, but when you're sad you understand the lyrics. -- Frank Ocean
The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom. -- Isaac Asimov
Can I see another's woe, and not be in sorrow too? Can I see another's grief, and not seek for kind relief? -- William Blake
Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad. -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Grief can have a quality of profound healing because we are forced to a depth of feeling that is usually below the threshold of awareness. -- Stephen Levine
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
I seldom think about my limitations, and they never make me sad. Perhaps there is just a touch of yearning at times; but it is vague, like a breeze among flowers. -- Helen Keller
Sadness does not inhere in things; it does not reach us from the world and through mere contemplation of the world. It is a product of our own thought. We create it out of whole cloth. -- Emile Durkheim
Let others lead small lives, but not you. Let others argue over small things, but not you. Let others cry over small hurts, but not you. Let others leave their future in someone else's hands, but not you. -- Jim Rohn
Do not assume that he who seeks to comfort you now, lives untroubled among the simple and quiet words that sometimes do you good. His life may also have much sadness and difficulty, that remains far beyond yours. Were it otherwise, he would never have been able to find these words. -- Rainer Maria Rilke
Don't be ashamed to weep; 'tis right to grieve. Tears are only water, and flowers, trees, and fruit cannot grow without water. But there must be sunlight also. A wounded heart will heal in time, and when it does, the memory and love of our lost ones is sealed inside to comfort us. -- Brian Jacques
When sadness comes, just sit by the side and look at it and say, "I am the watcher, I am not sadness," and see the difference. Immediately you have cut the very root of sadness. It is no more nourished. It will die of starvation. We feed these emotions by being identified with them. -- Rajneesh
Sadness is so ungrateful. -- Han Suyin
Sadness was so claustrophobic. -- Kiran Desai
Sadness of love without release. -- Jonathan Safran Foer
Sadness isn't a natural response. -- Byron Katie
Sadness diminishes a man's powers -- Baruch Spinoza
Sadness is twilight's kiss on earth. -- Wole Soyinka
Sadness was a very heavy thing. -- Arthur Golden
Sadness is a state of sin. -- Andre Gide
Sadness is very close to hate. -- Michael Ondaatje
Sadness brings delicacy. Happiness brings subliminal terror. -- Dominic Riccitello
Sadness is also a kind of defence. -- Ivo Andric
Sadness puts my heart in a prison. -- Liane Holliday Willey
Sadness flies away on the wings of time. -- Jean de La Fontaine
Sadness is but a wall between two gardens. -- Khalil Gibran
Sadness takes up the pen more readily than joy. -- Henri Frederic Amiel
Sadness is just another word for not enough coffee. -- Scott Adams
I love sad. Sadness makes you feel more than anything. -- Jeff Ament
Sadness is pervasive, so focus on joy, focus on happiness. -- Debasish Mridha
Sadness is almost never anything but a form of fatigue. -- Andre Gide
...Sadness of not knowing enough words to [express what you mean]... -- Jonathan Safran Foer
Sadness is an opportunity; a good opportunity to learn the real life! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
Sadness, disappointment, and severe challenge are events in life, not life itself. -- Richard G. Scott
Sadness is no more than a bit of acid transfixed in the cerebellum. -- Alan Lightman
Sadness is never bad," said Amparo. "Sadness is the mirror of being happy -- Tim Willocks
Sadness at being caught, at the incontrovertibe knowledge that she will never forgive you. -- Junot Diaz
She was a tragic beauty. Sadness had left its fingerprints all over her face. -- John Mark Green
Sadness can find you anywhere, anytime, so you better have fun when you can. -- Rebecca Wells
Comfort is beauty muted by heroin. Sadness is beauty drained by lack of it. -- Luke Davies
Sadness is not necessarily something bad. Don't judge it as a bad or negative quality. -- Rajneesh
Pain could be killed. Sadness could not, but the drugs did shut its mouth for a time. -- Colson Whitehead
Sadness does not last forever when we walk in the direction of that which we always desired. -- Paulo Coelho
Sadness is not the beginning or end of a process, but the lag between pleasure and happiness. -- Isra
Sadness, discomfort, frustration -- they are all valid human emotions. Why would we want to suppress them? -- Magda Gerber
We had no choice. Sadness was a dangerous as panthers and bears. the wilderness needs your whole attention. -- Laura Ingalls Wilder
Anger will come and go and the watcher abides. Sadness comes and passes by and the witness remains -- Rajneesh
For a human being, sadness is as powerful as terror. Sadness makes a warrior shed tears of blood. -- Carlos Castaneda
Sadness is more or less like a head cold - with patience, it passes. Depression is like cancer. -- Barbara Kingsolver
Sadness flies on the wings of the morning, and out of the heart of darkness comes the light. -- Jean Giraudoux
A flood of emotions rushes into me. Pain and anger. Sadness and pity. But most surprising of all, hope. -- Jay Asher
The last thing we wanted was for the Machiguenga to be sad again. Sadness appeared to bring out their violence. -- Tahir Shah
Sadness comes, joy comes, and everything passes by. What remains always is the witness. The witness is beyond all polarities. -- Rajneesh
Sadness usually results from one of the following causes either when a man does not succeed, or is ashamed of his success. -- Seneca the Younger
Sadness doesn't equal weakness, sweetheart. If anything, it shows the love you have inside of you, and nothing stronger in this world exists. -- Aimee Carter
Sadness is the matrix from which wit and irony spring; sadness is uncomfortable and creative, which is why consumer society cannot tolerate it. -- Germaine Greer
Happiness & Sadness are two contemporary stages in life. A wise man overcomes sadness with his wisdom, and a foolish man faces it with tears. -- Deepak Chandra
Sadness is one of the best universities in life! Though bad things take good things from us, they do give us useful things as well! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
Sadness is just a place on the map. Don't try to avoid it, resist it or escape through substances. Settle it, allow it, and it will go. -- Marianne Williamson
We never taste a perfect joy; our happiest successes are mixed with sadness. -- Pierre Corneille
We never taste happiness in perfection, our most fortunate successes are mixed with sadness. -- Pierre Corneille
The word 'happiness' would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. -- Carl Gustav Jung
The walls we build around us to keep sadness out also keeps out the joy. -- Jim Rohn
Experiencing sadness and anger can make you feel more creative, and by being creative, you can get beyond your pain or negativity. -- Yoko Ono
Every human walks around with a certain kind of sadness. They may not wear it on their sleeves, but it's there if you look deep. -- Taraji P. Henson
My parents' divorce left me with a lot of sadness and pain and acting, and especially humour, was my way of dealing with all that. -- Jennifer Aniston
There is a deep sadness to American poverty, greater than the sadness of any other kind. It's because America has such an ideology of success. -- Will Self
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. -- Comte de Lautreamont
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
People with HIV are still stigmatized. The infection rates are going up. People are dying. The political response is appalling. The sadness of it, the waste. -- Elton John
They say it's better to bury your sadness in a graveyard or garden that waits for the spring to wake from its sleep and burst into green. -- Conor Oberst
The reason for the sadness of this modern age and the men who live in it is that it looks for the truth in everything and finds it. -- Edmond de Goncourt
I think a certain amount of anger has been a fuel of mine, if you want - but also some sort of sadness, and plain mischief, of course. -- Siouxsie Sioux
Change is certain. Peace is followed by disturbances; departure of evil men by their return. Such recurrences should not constitute occasions for sadness but realities for awareness, so that one may be happy in the interim. -- Percy Bysshe Shelley
Some days are just bad days, that's all. You have to experience sadness to know happiness, and I remind myself that not every day is going to be a good day, that's just the way it is! -- Dita Von Teese
Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better take things as they come along with patience and equanimity. -- Carl Jung
No society has been able to abolish human sadness, no political system can deliver us from the pain of living, from our fear of death, our thirst for the absolute. It is the human condition that directs the social condition, not vice versa. -- Eugene Ionesco
If you don't think your anxiety, depression, sadness and stress impact your physical health, think again. All of these emotions trigger chemical reactions in your body, which can lead to inflammation and a weakened immune system. Learn how to cope, sweet friend. There will always be dark days. -- Kris Carr
If my world were to cave in tomorrow, I would look back on all the pleasures, excitements and worthwhilenesses I have been lucky enough to have had. Not the sadness, not my miscarriages or my father leaving home, but the joy of everything else. It will have been enough. -- Audrey Hepburn
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
It's usually a big kind of vent of frustration or anger or sadness that puts me in the right frame of mind to write. It's such a cliche to say that artists write when they're down, but it's true for me. It's a relief to get out what's eating away at my heart or my soul or my head. -- Ellie Goulding
I really believe that all of us have a lot of darkness in our souls. Anger, rage, fear, sadness. I don't think that's only reserved for people who have horrible upbringings. I think it really exists and is part of the human condition. I think in the course of your life you figure out ways to deal with that. -- Kevin Bacon
Some days, 24 hours is too much to stay put in, so I take the day hour by hour, moment by moment. I break the task, the challenge, the fear into small, bite-size pieces. I can handle a piece of fear, depression, anger, pain, sadness, loneliness, illness. I actually put my hands up to my face, one next to each eye, like blinders on a horse. -- Regina Brett
All sadness is a tantrum. -- Byron Katie
I had sadness for breakfast. -- Andy Milonakis
The sadness will last forever. -- Vincent Van Gogh
Depression is sadness gone wrong -- Lewis Wolpert
What sadness lengthens Romeo's hours? -- William Shakespeare
Activity and sadness are incompatible. -- Christian Nestell Bovee
Beauty and sadness always go together. -- George MacDonald
Joy and sadness come by turns. -- Walker Percy
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She seemed imprisoned in her sadness. -- Sena Jeter Naslund
In your emotions: exercise Joy over sadness. -- Jaachynma N.E. Agu
And happiness is always louder than sadness. -- Deborah Harkness
All pleasures contain an element of sadness. -- Jonathan Eybeschutz
Don't make everyone know about your sadness. -- John Steinbeck
I tend to equate sadness with intelligence. -- Chuck Klosterman
Do you understand the sadness of geography? -- Michael Ondaatje
A man can smell a woman's sadness -- Jill Alexander Essbaum
The easiest thing to feel is sadness. -- Justin Vernon
THE SADNESS IN OUR HEARTS SEEMS ENDLESS -- Widad Akrawi
All truth contains an echo of sadness. -- Charlotte Riddell
How often is immense sadness mistaken for courage? -- Anthony Marra
Melancholy is sadness that has taken on lightness. -- Italo Calvino
The best cure for sadness is doing something. -- Nancy E. Turner
The ground of all great thoughts is sadness. -- Philip James Bailey

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