When we arrived in London, my sadness at leaving Paris was turned into despair. After my long stay in the French capital, huge, ponderous, massive London seemed to me as ugly a thing as man could contrive to make.
James Weldon Johnson

 

We never taste happiness in perfection, our most fortunate successes are mixed with sadness.
Pierre Corneille

 

Well, the musicals give emphasis to love, longing, melancholy, sadness. All of that is always there.
Ismail Merchant

 

When sadness happens in the middle of work, I separate my personal grief from my train of thought.
Sergio Aragones

 

We had our unhappy moments but they got channelled into the kind of sadness that was necessary for singing a song about going nowhere. So it worked out very well I think.
Tina Weymouth

 

We never taste a perfect joy; our happiest successes are mixed with sadness.
Pierre Corneille

 

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

 

Today we bury his remains in the earth as a seed of immortality. Our hearts are full of sadness, yet at the same time of joyful hope and profound gratitude.
Joseph Ratzinger

 

Vegas means comedy, tragedy, happiness and sadness all at the same time.
Artie Lange

 

There is some sadness for me now about acting because it used to be that there was a reverence for actors.
Estelle Parsons

 

There’s a feeling of elation that comes after getting off stage and then there’s a feeling of utter sadness that comes after getting off the stage.
Neve Campbell

 

There’s a sadness to the human condition that I think music is good for. It gives a counterpoint to the visual beauty, and adds depth to pictures that they wouldn’t have if the music wasn’t there.
Mike Figgis

 

The sadness of the incomplete, the sadness that is often Life, but should never be Art.
E. M. Forster

 

The sadness of the women’s movement is that they don’t allow the necessity of love. See, I don’t personally trust any revolution where love is not allowed.
Maya Angelou

 

The walls we build around us to keep sadness out also keeps out the joy.
Jim Rohn

 

The word “happiness” would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.
Carl Jung

Sad Quotes

One must not let oneself be overwhelmed by sadness.
Jackie Kennedy

 

Sadness does not inhere in things; it does not reach us from the world and through mere contemplation of the world. It is a product of our own thought. We create it out of whole cloth.
Emile Durkheim

 

Red is the ultimate cure for sadness.
Bill Blass

 

Never let go of that fiery sadness called desire.
Patti Smith

 

No society has been able to abolish human sadness, no political system can deliver us from the pain of living, from our fear of death, our thirst for the absolute. It is the human condition that directs the social condition, not vice versa.
Eugene Ionesco

 

The real sadness of fifty is not that you change so much but that you change so little.
Max Lerner

 

The reason for the sadness of this modern age and the men who live in it is that it looks for the truth in everything and finds it.
Edmond De Goncourt

 

The last day of shooting, there were tears. It was this family that’s grown together over the years. Many of us have worked on it since the beginning, so there’s a sadness when we all go our separate ways.
David Heyman

 

The occasion of this sadness is expressed in a word, but must be considered in many more, as being the principal concernment both of the Text and Time.
John Pearson

 

The essence of romantic love is that wonderful beginning, after which sadness and impossibility may become the rule.
Anita Brookner

 

The great sadness of my life is that I never achieved the hour newscast, which would not have been twice as good as the half-hour newscast, but many times as good.
Walter Cronkite

 

Sadness flies away on the wings of time.
Jean de La Fontaine

 

Sadness is also a kind of defence.
Ivo Andric

 

Sadness is but a wall between two gardens.
Khalil Gibran

Sad Quotes