The sad events that occur in my life are the sad events that happen to everybody, with losing friends and family, but that is a natural occurrence, as natural as being born. — Sergio Aragones
The only thing worse than being blind is having sight but no vision. — Helen Keller
If you board the wrong train, it is no use running along the corridor in the other direction. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer
It’s only after we’ve lost everything that we’re free to do anything. — Chuck Palahniuk
When we are upset, it’s easy to blame others. However, the true cause of our feelings is within us. For example, imagine yourself as a glass of water. Now, imagine past negative experiences as sediment at the bottom of your glass. Next, think of others as spoons. When one stirs, the sediment clouds your water. It may appear that the spoon caused the water to cloud – but if there were no sediment, the water would remain clear no matter what. The key, then, is to identify our sediment and actively work to remove it. — Josei Toda
It’s sad. Marxism didn’t work. Communism didn’t work. Capitalism doesn’t work. Nothing works. Even democracy doesn’t work. Democracy-the greatest form of government and we have two choices for who’s our leader. In fascism you only have one choice. That’s great. We have one more choice than the worst form of government. — Colin Quinn
They tell us that suicide is the greatest piece of cowardice… that suicide is wrong; when it is quite obvious that there is nothing in the world to which every man has a more unassailable title than to his own life and person. — Arthur Schopenhauer
If you know someone who has lost a child, and you’re afraid to mention them because you think you might make them sad by reminding them that they died-you’re not reminding them. They didn’t forget they died. What you’re reminding them of is that you remembered that they lived, and that is a great gift. — Elizabeth Edwards
May God have mercy on my soul for the deaths on my name and for the treachery I committed. Betrayal of God and country, what a sad and horrible thing it is. — E. Howard Hunt
There are wounds that never show on the body that are deeper and more hurtful than anything that bleeds. — Laurell K. Hamilton
Depression is the inability to construct a future. — Rollo May
If I can’t feel, if I can’t move, if I can’t think, and I can’t care, then what conceivable point is there in living? — Kay Redfield Jamison
I can’t eat and I can’t sleep. I’m not doing well in terms of being a functional human, you know? — Ned Vizzini
I know that it’s easier to look at death than it is to look at pain, because while death is irrevocable, and the grief will lessen in time, pain is too often merely relentless and irreversible. — Robert Goolrick
There is some sadness for me now about acting because it used to be that there was a reverence for actors. — Estelle Parsons
Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought. — Percy Bysshe Shelley
Human salvation lies in the hands of the creatively maladjusted. — Martin Luther King, Jr.
Stab the body and it heals, but injure the heart and the wound lasts a lifetime. — Mineko Iwasaki
Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don’t know how to replenish its source. — Anais Nin
Do not judge men by mere appearances; for the light laughter that bubbles on the lip often mantles over the depths of sadness, and the serious look may be the sober veil that covers a divine peace and joy. — Edwin Hubbel Chapin
A wise girl kisses but doesn’t love, listens but doesn’t believe, and leaves before she is left. — Marilyn Monroe
“Don’t be sad by what you see
It’s true life has it’s miseries
But one thing’s always worked for me
Worry ends when faith begins.” — Sami Yusuf
Hating people is like burning down your own house to get rid of a rat. — Harry Emerson Fosdick
I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend. — Thomas Jefferson
It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education. — Albert Einstein
Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction. — Blaise Pascal
I’m not afraid of death because I don’t believe in it. It’s just getting out of one car, and into another — John Lennon
Dying seems less sad than having lived too little. — Gloria Steinem
Life isn’t fair. It’s just fairer than death, that’s all. — William Goldman
If you want to be sad, no one in the world can make you happy. But if you make up your mind to be happy, no one and nothing on earth can take that happiness from you. — Paramahansa Yogananda
Never make someone a priority when all you are to them is an option. — Maya Angelou
Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart. The really great men must, I think, have great sadness on earth. — Fyodor Dostoevsky
What a sad era when it is easier to smash an atom than a prejudice. — Albert Einstein
March on. Do not tarry. To go forward is to move toward perfection. March on, and fear not the thorns, or the sharp stones on life’s path. — Khalil Gibran
Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret. — Ambrose Bierce
We can do no great things-only small things with great love. — Mother Teresa
What’s the good of dragging up sufferings which are over, of being unhappy now just because you were then. — Seneca the Younger
All the world is full of suffering. It is also full of overcoming. — Helen Keller
Words are tears that have been written down. Tears are words that need to be shed. Without them, joy loses all its brilliance and sadness has no end. — Paulo Coelho
A part of my appreciation for the good which moments bring has come from awareness and recognition. But it has also come from a correspnding sadness which arises from their passing. When something that can never quite be reenacted comes to an end (and all moments are that way), I feel a pensiveness within. This pensiveness gives my life a quality that might be best described as bittersweet. And those moments take on double meaning and richness – because they are here now – and because they will not always be. — Bob Benson
It is a sadness of growing older that some of us lose our ardent appreciation of what is new and different and difficult. — Elizabeth Aston
I’m the most passionate about pushing the realization that there’s the joy of love and kindness and sharing, all of these basic qualities, on people who are suffering from adulthood. By these people, I mean, I really feel bad. I think that in their sadness, they’re destroying the world. The way that they’re destroying the world manifests itself in all these various causes that you have banding together all over the place. — Alex Ebert
Mental health is such a complex thing and so difficult to diagnose. What is a mental problem? Who does have mental problems? What’s the difference between mental problems and depression and sadness? — Tom Sturridge
But now the joy is gone and the sadness is back, the sadness feels like something deserved, the price of some not-quite-forgotten betrayal. — Stephen King
The two dozen commonplace childhood photographs – snowsuit, pony, tennis racket, looming fender of a Dodge – were an inexhaustible source of wonder for him, at her having existed before he met her, and of sadness for his possessing nothing of the ten million minutes of that black-and-white scallop-edged existence save these few proofs. — Michael Chabon
Nothing can rightly compel a simple and brave man to a vulgar sadness. — Henry David Thoreau
I had sadness for breakfast. — Andy Milonakis
Life was dense, dark, ancient. They watched Dean, serious and insane at his raving wheel, with eyes of hawks. All had their hands outstretched. They had come down from the back mountains and higher places to hold forth their hands for something they thought civilization could offer, and they never dreamed the sadness and the poor broken delusion of it. — Jack Kerouac
The power is detested, and miserable the life, of him who wishes to be feared rather than to be loved. — Cornelius Nepos
Do no harmful actions, do not become attached to the cycle of death and rebirth, show kindness, respect the old and have compassion for the young, do not have a heart that rejects or a heart that covets and have no worry or sadness in your heart. This is what is called enlightenment. Do not seek it elsewhere. — Dogen
Sadness, disappointment, and severe challenge are events in life, not life itself. — Richard G. Scott
That’s the thing I want to make clear about depression: It’s got nothing at all to do with life. In the course of life, there is sadness and pain and sorrow, all of which, in their right time and season, are normal-unpleasant, but normal. Depression is an altogether different zone because it involves a complete absence: absence of affect, absence of feeling, absence of response, absence of interest. The pain you feel in the course of a major clinical depression is an attempt on nature’s part (nature, after all, abhors a vacuum) to fill up the empty space. — Elizabeth Wurtzel
Behind every sweet smile, there is a bitter sadness that no one can ever see and feel. — Tupac Shakur
I think all tragedies are best told with some humor. You have to relieve the darkness to let the reader get through it. Also, that life has happiness and sadness mixed together. If you told a story that was all darkness, it wouldn’t be real. — Alan Lightman
The sadness of the end of a career of an older athlete, with the betrayal of his body, is mirrored in the rest of us. Consciously or not, we know: there, soon, go I. — Ira Berkow
Being tired of all illusions and of everything about illusions – the loss of illusions, the uselessness of having them, the prefatigue of having to have them in order to lose them, the sadness of having had them, the intellectual shame of having had them knowing that they would have to end this way. — Fernando Pessoa
Intoxicated With the madness I’m in love with My sadness Bullshit beggars, enchanted kingdom Fashion victims through their charcoaled teeth — Billy Corgan
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
Twilight and evening bell, and after that the dark! And may there be no sadness of farewell when I embark. — Alfred Lord Tennyson
When that ineffable compound of depression, sadness (these two are not the same), anxiety, self-hatred, sense of failure and fear for the future begins to steal over you, start telling yourself that what you have is a hangover. You are not sickening for anything, you have not suffered a minor brain lesion, you are not all that bad at your job, your family and friends are not leagued in a conspiracy of barely maintained silence about what a s**t you are, you have not come at last to see life as it really is and there is no use crying over spilt milk. — Kingsley Amis
Absence makes the heart grow fonder and tears are only rain to make love grow. — Ray Charles
A brotherly person rejoices on my account when he approves me, but when he disapproves, he is loving me. To such people I will reveal myself. They will take heart from my good traits, and sigh with sadness at my bad ones. My good points are instilled by you and are your gifts. My bad points are my faults and your judgements on them. Let them take heart from the one and regret the other. Let both praise and tears ascend in your sight from brotherly hearts, your censers. …But you Lord…Make perfect my imperfections. — Saint Augustine
Tantra says be real, be authentic to yourself. Your happiness is not bad; it is good. It is not sin! Only sadness is sin, only to be miserable is sin. To be happy is virtue because a happy person will not create unhappiness for others. Only a happy person can be a ground for others’ happiness. — Rajneesh
We have a dysfunctional dream of the planet, and humans are mentally sick with a disease called fear. The symptoms of the disease are all the emotions that make humans suffer: anger, hate, sadness, envy, and betrayal. When the fear is too great, the reasoning mind begins to fail, and we call this mental illness. — Miguel Angel Ruiz
He wondered what the years had done to his face as he traced the effects on hers. Eyes the same blue-lit green, but where mischievous joy once danced, now he saw sadness, deep as the ocean. Her cheeks were thinner. There was something else too: the arrogant pride of a princess seemed to be extinct. Yet the indefinable, untamed quality of her spirit remained. Yes, it was Torina. — Victoria Hanley
“Blue moon you saw me standing alone
Without a dream in my heart
Without a love of my own.” — Lorenz Hart
If I look at my own recordings, I think generally there is a focal point within the song and often it’s the instrumental bridge or a guitar solo where we try to do something unexpected, something beautiful or weird, or beautiful because it is weird. And of course I fail half the time, but yes that is the goal, to create even a few seconds of bliss, or sadness. The electric guitar is a great instrument for doing this because it is capable of surprising you. There are so many different sounds available. — Dean Wareham
Is it then so sad a thing to die? — Virgil
Start [the movie] in color. Color is always attributed as fun, and black and white is very sad. — Marjane Satrapi
