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Definition of Sadness
Sadness

Heaviness; firmness.

Seriousness; gravity; discretion.

Quality of being sad, or unhappy; gloominess; sorrowfulness; dejection.

Related Definitions:
Being, Dejection, Discretion, Firmness, Gloominess, Gravity, Heaviness, Of, Or, Quality, Sad, Unhappy


Sadness Quotations

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

Sadness is but a wall between two gardens.
Kahlil Gibran

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

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

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

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

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

It is so friendly so simply friendly and though inevitable not a sadness and though occurring not a shock.
Gertrude Stein

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

I think we all have a lot of darkness in our bellies. As an actor, the challenge of tapping into that, reaching down into that sadness or anger, is very therapeutic.
Kevin Bacon

Sadness Translations

sadness in Dutch is zieleleed, bedroefdheid
sadness in Italian is tristezza
sadness in Norwegian is sorg
sadness in Spanish is tristeza
sadness in Swedish is sorg, vemod


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