Sadness Quotes - Page 5

I sometimes look into the face of my dog Stan and see a wistful sadness and existential angst, when all he is actually doing is slowly scanning the ceiling for flies.

I really love that dynamic between beauty and sadness...theres always these moments of quiet alienation, the sense of disconnect, but also, these moments of possibility.

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.

Absence makes the heart grow fonder and tears are only rain to make love grow.

Resolve to be thyself: and know that he who finds himself, loses his misery.

There can be no rainbow without a cloud and a storm.

The power is detested, and miserable the life, of him who wishes to be feared rather than to be loved.

Happiness, sadness, loss and gain all pass away. What they do to us is what remains.

I'm happy, I would say that I'm one of the happiest people I know but I've certainly had periods of profound sadness, depression and heartache and those are the kind of things that are interesting to me to write about.

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.

If there were no valleys of sadness and death, we could never really appreciate the sunshine of happiness on the mountain top.

Having a soul, they say, is like taking sadness and turning it into something beautiful.

A Jazz man should be saying what he feels: humor, sadness, joy... all the things that humans have.

First, accept sadness. Realize that without losing, winning isn't so great

I know a cure for sadness: Let our hands touch something that makes your eyes smile.

When hints of sadness creep into our soul, we must not flee into happy or distracting thoughts. Pondering the sadness until it becomes overwhelming can lead us to deep change in the direction of our being from self-preservation to grateful worship.

There are times in your life when, despite the steel weight of your memories and the sadness that seems to lie at your feet like a shadow, you suddenly and strangely feel perfectly okay.

The easiest thing to feel is sadness.

A heart that hurts is a heart that works.

Happiness does not exclude sadness - if a person responds to life, he's sometimes happy and sometimes sad. What matters is he responds.

I actually think sadness and darkness can be very beautiful and healing.

Laughter keeps you healthy. You can survive by seeing the humor in everything. Thumb your nose at sadness; turn the tables on tragedy. You can’t laugh and be angry, you can’t laugh and feel sad, you can’t laugh and feel envious.

It is an unfortunate personal tragedy. However, when compared to the vast ocean of the collective tragedy faced by my people, my illness is merely a pebble. I am deeply sad that I am crippled by this illness, unable to contribute anything substantial towards the alleviation of the immense suffering and oppression of my people.

I had sadness for breakfast.

When sorrows come, they come not single spies, but in battalions.