Sadness Quotes

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  When you're happy you enjoy the music, but when you're sad you understand the lyrics.

  Frank Ocean

  Happiness, Sad, Happy

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

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• The ground of all great thoughts is sadness.

  Philip James Bailey

  Philip James Bailey (1857). “Festus: a poem”, p.474

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• Happiness is the summit of a high mountain; we can visit it, but we can't stay there! We are forced to go down to the valleys of sadness.

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Happiness, Mountain, Valleys

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  I think the saddest people always try their hardest to make people happy
  because they know what it's like to feel absolutely worthless
  and they don't want anyone else to feel like that.

  Robin Williams

  Inspirational, Change, Happiness

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• Sometimes you weren't supposed to share pain. Sometimes it was best just to deal with it alone.

  Sarah Addison Allen

  Inspirational, Life, Sad

  Sarah Addison Allen (2008). “The Sugar Queen”, p.70, Bantam

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• Let others lead small lives, but not you. Let others argue over small things, but not you. Let others cry over small hurts, but not you. Let others leave their future in someone else's hands, but not you.

  Jim Rohn

  Life, Motivational, Positive

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Jan 30, 2016

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  Nobody deserves your tears, but whoever deserves them will not make you cry.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Sad, Stay Strong, Tears

  FaceBook post by Gabriel García Márquez from Jun 29, 2011

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• The sadness will last forever.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Sad, Forever, Lasts

  Vincent van Gogh, Victoria Charles (2014). “Vincent van Gogh”, p.450, Parkstone International

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• Laughing like children, living like lovers, rolling like thunder, under the covers, and I guess that's why they call it the blues.

  Elton John

  Children, Laughing, Rolling

  Song: I Guess That's Why They Call It The Blues

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• May the angels protect you, and sadness forget you.

  Madonna Ciccone

  Angel, May, Forget You

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• Nothing is sadder than love left unheard.

  Neil Diamond

  Left, Unheard

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

  Gordon Lightfoot

  Rainy Day, People, Sorrow

  Song: Rainy Day People, Album: Cold on the Shoulder, 1975

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• All the world is full of suffering. It is also full of overcoming.

  Helen Keller

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  Helen Keller (1957). “The Open Door”, Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday

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• Oh the piercing sadness of life in the midst of its ordinariness!

  Iris Murdoch

  Piercings, Unhappiness, Midst

  Iris Murdoch (2008). “A Word Child”, p.3, Random House

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• Sadness is twilight's kiss on earth.

  Wole Soyinka

  Twilight, Kissing, Sorrow

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• All sadness is a tantrum.

  Byron Katie

  Tantrums

  Twitter post from Jan 20, 2011

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  Tears are words that need to be written.

  Paulo Coelho

  Inspirational, Life, Sad

  FaceBook post by Paulo Coelho from Jul 15, 2014

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• Open your eyes, look within. Are you satisfied with the life you're living?

  Bob Marley

  Life, Music, Eye

  Bob Marley (1998). “The Best of Bob Marley (Songbook)”, p.37, Hal Leonard Corporation

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• Good humor is the health of the soul, sadness is its poison.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Sad, Depressing, Inspiration

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• Because you speak to me in words, and I look at you with feelings.

  Anna Karina

  Love, Sad, Feelings

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• I'd catch moonlight in a bottle, if we could drink a toast to happiness.

  Toby Keith

  Bottles, Drink, Moonlight

  Song: That's Not How It Is, Album: Unleashed, 2002

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• If teardrops were pennies and heartaches were gold, I'd have all the treasures my pockets could hold.

  Dolly Parton

  Heartache, Gold, Pockets

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• Sorrow is one of the vibrations that prove the fact of living.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Sad, Sorrow, Vibrations

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• If you're hung up on nostalgia, pretend today is yesterday and just go out and have one hell of a time.

  Art Buchwald

  Yesterday, Live In The Moment, Admitting

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

  William Shakespeare

  Sympathy, Sad Life, Sorrow

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 4, sc. 5, l. [78]

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