Sadness Quotes

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

Life, Patience, Happy

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

Life, Pain, Character

Don't Make Assumptions. Find the courage to ask questions and to express what you really want. Communicate with others as clearly as you can to avoid misunderstandings, sadness and drama. With just this one agreement, you can completely transform your life.
Miguel Angel Ruiz

Life, Courage, Find

The sadness of the women's movement is that they don't allow the necessity of love. See, I don't personally trust any revolution where love is not allowed.
Maya Angelou

Love, Trust, Women

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

Home, Father, Tomorrow

Sadness is but a wall between two gardens.
Khalil Gibran

Two, Between, Wall

The walls we build around us to keep sadness out also keeps out the joy.
Jim Rohn

Joy, Around, Keep

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

Happiness, Lose, Word

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

Life, Rest, Cried

Absolute silence leads to sadness. It is the image of death.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Death, Silence, Image

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.
Red Skelton

Life, Happiness, Live

I do believe that if you haven't learnt about sadness, you cannot appreciate happiness.
Nana Mouskouri

Happiness, Cannot, Appreciate

One must not let oneself be overwhelmed by sadness.
Jackie Kennedy

Experiencing sadness and anger can make you feel more creative, and by being creative, you can get beyond your pain or negativity.
Yoko Ono

Anger, Pain, Creative

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.
Alanis Morissette

Happiness, Fear, Anger

In deep sadness there is no place for sentimentality.
William S. Burroughs

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

Life, Emotional, Enough

Good humor is the health of the soul, sadness is its poison.
Lord Chesterfield

Humor, Good, Health

We never taste a perfect joy; our happiest successes are mixed with sadness.
Pierre Corneille

Perfect, Joy, Happiest

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

God, Worth, Serve

I had no idea that mothering my own child would be so healing to my own sadness from my childhood.
Susie Bright

Healing, Child, Idea

Never let go of that fiery sadness called desire.
Patti Smith

I can see the humorous side of things and enjoy the fun when it comes; but look where I will, there seems to me always more sadness than joy in life.
Jerome K. Jerome

Life, Fun, Enjoy

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

Change, Peace, Men

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

Beauty, Farewell, Understand

The sadness of the incomplete, the sadness that is often Life, but should never be Art.
E. M. Forster

Life, Art, Often

Music is amazing. There's some metaphysical comfort where it allows you to be isolated and alone while telling you that you are not alone... truly, the only cure for sadness is to share it with someone else.
Wayne Coyne

Music, Alone, Amazing

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

Life, Fear, Anger

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

Happiness, Perfection, Taste

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

Doubt, Start, Beginning

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