Sadness Quotes - Page 14

• I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Love, Sad, Kings

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.4677, Library of Alexandria

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• Do you know most of the Jewish songs have the same trend of sadness as Negro spirituals?

  Mahalia Jackson

  Song, Trends, Knows

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• People with HIV are still stigmatized. The infection rates are going up. People are dying. The political response is appalling. The sadness of it, the waste.

  Elton John

  People, Political, Dying

  "Elton John: 'There's A Lot Of Hate In The World'". Interview With Dotson Rader, parade.com. February 17, 2010.

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• Audiences like their blues singers to be miserable.

  Janis Joplin

  Music, Singers, Misery

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• I am in that temper that if I were under water I would scarcely kick to come to the top.

  John Keats

  Sad, Depression, Water

  Letter to Benjamin Bailey, 25 May 1818, in H. E. Rollins (ed.) 'The Letters of John Keats' (1958) vol. 1, p. 287

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• Nothing is more sad than the death of an illusion.

  Arthur Koestler

  Motivational, Sad, Death

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• Melancholy and sadness are the start of doubt... doubt is the beginning of despair; despair is the cruel beginning of the differing degrees of wickedness.

  Isidore Ducasse Lautreamont

  Doubt, Despair, Degrees

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• Part of every misery is, so to speak, the misery's shadow or reflection: the fact that you don't merely suffer but have to keep on thinking about the fact that you suffer. I not only live each endless day in grief, but live each day thinking about living each day in grief.

  C. S. Lewis

  Life, Grief, Reflection

  C.S. Lewis (2012). “A Grief Observed”, p.7, Faber & Faber

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• It's a source of great sadness to me that my father died without having seen me do anything worthwhile. He was constantly having to make excuses for me.

  Daniel Day-Lewis

  Father, Excuse, Source

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• Ships that pass in the night, and speak each other in passing, only a signal shown, and a distant voice in the darkness; So on the ocean of life, we pass and speak one another, only a look and a voice, then darkness again and a silence.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Life, Sad, Depressing

  Tales of aWayside Inn pt. 3 "The Theologian's Tale: Elizabeth" pt. 4 (1874)

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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, Feeling Sad

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• 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.

  Richard Marx

  Depression, Writing, Profound

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  Sometimes I wish that I was the weather, you'd bring me up in conversation forever. And when it rained, I'd be the talk of the day.

  John Mayer

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Song: Sucker

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• I think often sadness is a great place to get songs from.

  Sarah McLachlan

  Music, Song, Thinking

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• I believe that everyone experiences depression to some degree at some time in their lives. And there are probably millions of people who live with a low level of sadness and heaviness day in and day out.

  Joyce Meyer

  Depression, Believe, People

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• There's great sadness and life doesn't work out like you would want, on a lot of levels, but there's no need to feel all alone. This happens to everybody, so there's no self-pity. This is the ride that humans are on, and all of it is essential for our natural part of it.

  Mike Mills

  Self, Work Out, Needs

  "Director Mike Mills Exclusive Interview BEGINNERS". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. June 4, 2011.

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• I would hate to think I'm promoting sadness as an aesthetic. But I grew up in not just a family but a town and a culture where sadness is something you're taught to feel shame about. You end up chronically desiring what can be a very sentimental idea of love and connection. A lot of my work has been about trying to make a space for sadness.

  Mike Mills

  Hate, Thinking, Ideas

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• Sadness is a super important thing not to be ashamed about but to include in our lives. One of the bigger problems with sadness or depression is there's so much shame around it. If you have it you're a failure. You are felt as being very unattractive.

  Mike Mills

  Important, Unattractive, Problem

  "SFIFF ’11: Ewan McGregor & Mike Mills Talk The Sadness, Humor & Joy Of ‘Beginners’" by Kevin Jagernauth, www.indiewire.com. April 25, 2011.

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• To me, sadness and humor aren't disrelated and humor is the best tool I've had against the sadness in my life.

  Mike Mills

  Tools

  "Ewan McGregor & Mike Mills Talk The Sadness, Humor & Joy Of ‘Beginners’" by Sean Gillane, www.indiewire.com. June 4, 2011.

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• I had sadness for breakfast.

  Andy Milonakis

  Breakfast

  "The Andy Milonakis Show". TV Series, www.imdb.com. 2005 - 2007.

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• I think most artists create out of despair. The very nature of creation is not a performing glory on the outside, it's a painful, difficult search within.

  Louise Berliawsky Nevelson

  Sad, Art, Pain

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• I wasn't prepared for the fact that grief is so unpredictable. It wasn't just sadness, and it wasn't linear. Somehow I'd thought that the first days would be the worst and then it would get steadily better - like getting over the flu. That's not how it was.

  Meghan O'Rourke

  Grief, Flu, Firsts

  "Meghan O'Rourke: The Long Good-Bye". Interview with Jennifer Haupt, www.psychologytoday.com. April 26, 2011.

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• I believe in the importance of individuality, but in the midst of grief I also find myself wanting connection - wanting to be reminded that the sadness I feel is not just mine but ours.

  Meghan O'Rourke

  Grief, Believe, Individuality

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• They say it's better to bury your sadness in a graveyard or garden that waits for the spring to wake from its sleep and burst into green.

  Conor Oberst

  Sad, Spring, Sleep

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• Only the lonely know the way I feel tonight.

  Roy Orbison

  Lonely, Being Alone, Way

  Alex Orbison, Roy Orbison, Wesley Orbison (2017). “The Authorized Roy Orbison: The Authorized Biography”, p.643, Hachette UK

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