Deep Sadness Quotes

• Every man has his secret sorrows.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Sad, Depression, Being Happy

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• Every human walks around with a certain kind of sadness. They may not wear it on their sleeves, but it's there if you look deep.

  Taraji P. Henson

  Sad, Looks, May

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• In deep sadness there is no place for sentimentality.

  William S. Burroughs

  Grief, Sadness, Sentimentality

  "Queer: A Novel". Book by William S. Burroughs, 1985.

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• Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Life, Happiness, Sad

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• I do believe that if you haven't learnt about sadness, you cannot appreciate happiness.

  Nana Mouskouri

  Believe, Sadness, Appreciate

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

  Dionne Warwick

  Sadness, Feeling Sad, Tears

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• You wouldn't be human if you didn't feel both a sense of responsibility and a deep sadness for those who have lost their lives.

  Tony Blair

  Responsibility, Sadness, Lost

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• In deep sadness there is no place for sentimentality. It is as final as the mountains: a fact. There it is. When you realize it you cannot complain.

  William S. Burroughs

  Sadness, Mountain, Complaining

  William S Burroughs (2012). “Queer: 25th Anniversary Edition”, p.141, Penguin UK

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• The vampire movies I embraced as a kid used vampirism as a metaphor that expressed deep sadness and a lot of human qualities.

  Alexandra Cassavetes

  Sadness, Kids, Vampire

  "Xan Cassavetes Makes an Un-vampire Movie" by Marshall Fine, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 3, 2013.

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• I want to take this opportunity to express, one more time, my deep sadness to those countrymen who feel, rightly, that they were victims of my government.

  Jean-Claude Duvalier

  Sadness, Opportunity, Government

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• I developed a deep sadness for celebrities, a pity that they often are caught in a plastic world that runs too hard and too fast, and that many times that world means destroyed relationships with everyone they know and love.

  Karen Kingsbury

  Running, Sadness, Mean

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• There is a deep sadness to American poverty, greater than the sadness of any other kind. It's because America has such an ideology of success.

  Will Self

  Sadness, America, Poverty

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• There's an elegiac quality in watching [American wilderness] go, because it's our own myth, the American frontier, that's deteriorating before our eyes. I feel a deep sorrow that my kids will never get to see what I've seen, and their kids will see nothing; there's a deep sadness whenever I look at nature now.

  Peter Matthiessen

  Eye, Sadness, Kids

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• Experiencing deep sadness can, sometimes, heighten your ability to feel joy.

  Marketa Irglova

  Sadness, Joy, Feelings

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• I carry a deep sadness of the heart which must now and then break out in sound.

  Franz Liszt

  Heart, Sadness, Sound

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• Even the favorite reviews, the audience response is the movie is too slow, deliberately slow. But for the Chinese audience, the biggest complaint is it happens too quick. I think the historical background that build into our genes is different. American people has never been occupied. The deep sadness and sentimentality, the cultural background that relates to melodrama that we relate to and grow up with, the propaganda, I didn't imagine the difference is so big. It's a very interesting cultural phenomenon.

  Ang Lee

  Growing Up, Sadness, Thinking

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• If my leg falls off, I'll get a prosthetic. There'd be no deep sadness about. I'd just get on with it! It's called life, and I love life. You have to be positive, and you have to crack on no matter what.

  John Lydon

  Fall, Love Life, Sadness

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• I believe that many people are unhappy because they have not learned to be grateful. Some carry the burden of bitterness and resentfulness for many years. Some pass their days as though suffering a deep sadness they cannot name. Others are unhappy because life didn’t turn out the way they thought it would.

  Joseph B. Wirthlin

  Believe, Grateful, Sadness

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• The ocean was one of the greatest things he had ever seen in his life—bigger and deeper than anything he had imagined. It changed its color and shape and expression according to time and place and weather. It aroused a deep sadness in his heart, and at the same time it brought his heart peace and comfort.

  Haruki Murakami

  Ocean, Heart, Sadness

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• Family likeness has often a deep sadness in it. Nature, that great tragic dramatist, knits us together by bone and muscle, and divides us by the subtler web of our brains; blends yearning and repulsion; and ties us by our heart-strings to the beings that jar us at every movement.

  George Eliot

  Heart, Sadness, Ties

  George Eliot (1859). “Adam Bede”, p.34, London

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• Family likeness has often a deep sadness in it.

  George Eliot

  Family, Sadness

  George Eliot (1873). “Wit and Wisdom of George Eliot”, p.52

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