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

Most poets in their youth begin in adolescent sadness. I find it more rewarding to end in gladness.
James Broughton

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

My father's death, my move, and my frightening and difficult delivery created a tremendous amount of stress, pain, and sadness for me. I was practically devastated beyond recovery.
Brooke Shields

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

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

One must not let oneself be overwhelmed by sadness.
Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis

Red is the ultimate cure for sadness.
Bill Blass

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

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

Sadness is also a kind of defence.
Ivo Andric

Sadness is but a wall between two gardens.
Kahlil Gibran

The essence of romantic love is that wonderful beginning, after which sadness and impossibility may become the rule.
Anita Brookner

The great sadness of my life is that I never achieved the hour newscast, which would not have been twice as good as the half-hour newscast, but many times as good.
Walter Cronkite

The occasion of this sadness is expressed in a word, but must be considered in many more, as being the principal concernment both of the Text and Time.
John Pearson

The real sadness of fifty is not that you change so much but that you change so little.
Max Lerner

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

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

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

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