Famous Quotes & Sayings

Daniel Handler

The way sadness works is one of the strangest riddles of the world.

Clarice Lispector

And even sadness was also something for rich people, for people who could afford it, for people who didn't have anything better to do. Sadness was a luxury.

Charles Bukowski

I felt like crying but nothing came out. it was just a sort of sad sickness, sick sad, when you can't feel any worse. I think you know it. I think everybody knows it now and then. but I think I have known it pretty often, too often.

Dionne Warwick

Crying is cleansing. There's a reason for tears, happiness or sadness.

Alexander McQueen

There is something sinister, something quite biographical about what I do - but that part is for me. It's my personal business. I think there is a lot of romance, melancholy. There's a sadness to it, but there's romance in sadness. I suppose I am a very melancholy person.

Kevin Sorbo

I love what movies and television and all that kind of stuff has done to me through the years. I love that it can bring up all these different emotions in me - whether it's anger or happiness or sadness...whatever it may be.

Madonna Ciccone

I made a vow that I would never need another person ever. Turned my heart into a cage, a victim of a kind of rage.

Louis-Ferdinand Celine

The sadness of the world has different ways of getting to people, but it seems to succeed almost every time.

Lorrie Moore

Every arrangement in life carried with it the sadness, the sentimental shadow, of its not being something else, but only itself.

Brooke Shields

You don't necessarily have to be in misery to be talented.

Dodie Smith

extreme happiness invites religion almost as much as extreme misery.

Angelique Kidjo

Don't let misery bring you down.

Victor Hugo

I repeat, whether we be Italians or Frenchmen, misery concerns us all.

Swami Vivekananda

No one is to blame for our miseries but ourselves.

Swami Vivekananda

Materialism and all its miseries can never be conquered by materialism.

Markus Zusak

Like most misery, it started with apparent happiness.

Rod McKuen

There's no misery in not being loved, only in not loving.

John C. Reilly

For a while I had a blues band in L.A., but I realized I was too optimistic to play the blues. I did not have the misery in my heart that the blues required.

Baruch Spinoza

One and the same thing can at the same time be good, bad, and indifferent, e.g., music is good to the melancholy, bad to those who mourn, and neither good nor bad to the deaf.

Soren Kierkegaard

In my great melancholy, I loved life, for I love my melancholy.

Michael Haneke

I'm not really a happy person. It's a question of temperament. I have a tendency toward melancholy. You can feel quite happily melancholic.

Emile M. Cioran

Melancholy redeems this universe, and yet it is melancholy that separates us from it.