Famous Quotes & Sayings

Justin Cronin

The sadness you feel is not your own. It's his sadness you feel in your heart, Amy, for missing you.

Ouida

There is a chord in every heart that has a sigh in it if touched aright.

Paul Thomas Anderson

No matter how many times you do it, you don't get used to the sadness - for me at least - of coming to the end of a film.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

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.

George MacDonald

Beauty and sadness always go together. Nature thought beauty too rich to go forth Upon the earth without a meet alloy.

George MacDonald

I rose as from the death that wipes out the sadness of life, and then dies itself in the new morrow.

George MacDonald

As in all sweetest music, a tinge of sadness was in every note. Nor do we know how much of the pleasures even of life we owe to the intermingled sorrows. Joy cannot unfold the deepest truths, although deepest truth must be deepest joy.

Elvis Presley

How can you lose something you never had, I tell myself when I'm feeling sad.

Elvis Presley

If you cry when you're in love, it sure ain't no disgrace.

Elizabeth Gilbert

So sadness is a place?' Giovanni asked. 'Sometimes people live there for years,'I said.

Elisabeth Shue

Sadness, joy, wonder - all feelings come from a place of grounded strength that comes from trust in yourself. We spend so much time trying to control our feelings out of fear that something may happen, that somebody may not love us, or walk away or die. It's only when you stop living in that fear of what other people might do to you or how they will react, only then are you free to be alive.

Justin Vernon

The easiest thing to feel is sadness.

Judith Malina

It is better to rage against the preventable suffering/because it leads to the suggestion of gorgeous alternatives/than to express our sadness.

James MacArthur

Walt Disney was not a merchant of sadness.

John Berger

So time doesn't count, and place does?' I said this to tease her. When I was a man, I liked teasing her and she went along with it, consenting, for it reminded us both of a sadness that had passed.

Lord Byron

Of all tales 'tis the saddest--and more sad, Because it makes us smile.

Maira Kalman

What protects you in this world from sadness and from the loss of an ability to do something? ... Work and love.

Gavyn Davies

The BBC is part of the glue which binds the United Kingdom together. At those times of national moment - of joy or sadness, in the UK or around the world, at times when the nation wants to celebrate, mourn or just enjoy itself people turn to the BBC.

Madame de Stael

To live beneath sorrow, one must yield to it.

Haruki Murakami

I read Naoko's letter again and again, and each time I read it I would be filled with the same unbearable sadness I used to feel whenever Naoko stared into my eyes. I had no way to deal with it, no place I could take it to or hide it away. Like the wind passing over my body, it had neither shape nor weight, nor could I wrap myself in it.

James Taylor

I gathered up my sorrows and I sold them all for gold. And I gathered up the gold, and I threw it all away.

James Taylor

Don't be sad cause your sun is down, the night doesn't need your sorrow. Don't be sad cause the light is gone, just keep your mind on tomorrow.

Emile Durkheim

There is a collective as well as an individual humor inclining peoples to sadness or cheerfulness, making them see things in bright or somber lights. In fact, only society can pass a collective opinion on the value of human life; for this the individual is incompetent.

Emile Durkheim

It is a quite remarkable fact that the great religions of the most civilized peoples are more deeply fraught with sadness than the simpler beliefs of earlier societies. This certainly does not mean that the current of pessimism is eventually to submerge the other, but it proves that it does not lose ground and that it does not seem destined to disappear.

Henri Nouwen

We need to remind each other that the cup of sorrow is also the cup of joy, that precisely what causes us sadness can become the fertile ground for gladness.

Henri Nouwen

Our life is...a time in which sadness and joy kiss each other at every moment.

Heinrich Heine

I do not know the meaning of my sadness; there is an old fairy tale that I cannot get out of my mind.

Henry Ward Beecher

Every green thing loves to die in bright colors. The vegetable cohorts march glowing out of the year in flaming dresses, as if to leave this earth were a triumph and not a sadness. It is never nature that is sad, but only we, that dare not look back on the past, and that have not its prophecy of the future in our bosoms.

Han Suyin

Sadness is so ungrateful.

Greg Behrendt

It is with great sadness and a heavy heart that have to announce that I ate kale and liked it.

Gordon Lightfoot

Rainy day people all know there's no sorrow they can't rise above.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

The point is not that this world is too sad to love or too glad not to love; the point is that when you do love a thing, its gladness is a reason for loving it, and its sadness a reason for loving it more.

John Legend

You see all these things that make you feel desperate or sad, but you realize changes can be made, and it doesn't take a lot of money on our part to make a change in people's lives.