Quotes: Sadness

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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

French sociologist

Sadness is but a wall between two gardens.

Khalil Gibran

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

Artie Lange

American comedian

I really believe that all of us have a lot of darkness in our souls. Anger, rage, fear, sadness. I don’t think that’s only reserved for people who have horrible upbringings. I think it really exists and is part of the human condition. I think in the course of your life you figure out ways to deal with that.

Kevin Bacon

American actor (born 1958)

Most poets in their youth begin in adolescent sadness. I find it more rewarding to end in gladness.

James Broughton

American poet and filmmaker (1913-1999)

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

British composer, film director and screenwriter

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

American broadcast journalist (1916-2009)

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

Estelle Parsons

American actress

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

Duncan Sheik

American singer-songwriter and composer

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

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