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Sadness is just happiness turned on its ass - it's all showbiz! — Guy Maddin

What I want to know is how you go on when you look around
and don't see anywhere you want to go without the only person
you can't have. — Charlotte Eriksson

Sad? Nonsense! Parting with friends is a sadness. A place is only a place." He glanced at the charts on the table. "And Arrakis is just another place. — Frank Herbert

We should let ourselves react emotionally and feel whatever anger or sadness being criticized evokes for us. And then we should quickly move on. — Sheryl Sandberg

The rain echoed in the shadowy attic space and made me feel small and fragile, like a lace glove left behind on moving day - mateless and abandoned. — Dia Reeves

He turned away; he threw himself on his face on the sofa. 'Oh, Jane! my hope - my love - my life!' broke in anguish from his lips. — Charlotte Bronte

You can't truly heal from a loss until you allow yourself to really FEEL the loss. — Mandy Hale

I felt like the sky around me was closing me in. Trapping me in some sort of bubble where time stands still and grief would linger on forever. — Molli Fields

A grown woman is like a coyote--she can get by on very little. Men are more like house cats. Leave them alone for too long and they'll die of sadness — Ottessa Moshfegh

When you lose your parents, the sadness doesn't go away. It just changes. It hits you sideways sometimes instead of head-on. Like now. — Jude Watson

The flowers were beaten down, their bent-over heads bejeweled with diamond droplets like earring on sad, rich widows — Barbara Kingsolver

It's sadness coming on like the old days, the vast seamless hopeless weight of sadness looking for a place to rest. — Tim Winton

The smile on your face is sometimes out of place, don't mind no frowns, cheer down. — George Harrison

On a street of right and wrong in every inch of sadness, rocks and tanks go hand in hand with madness. — Elton John

There, in the spaces between darkness and light, a sadness hangs in the air, invisible to the human eye yet heavy on the heart. — Aline Ohanesian

I will learn your anger. I will lick your sadness.
I will feast on your hunger. — Caitlyn Siehl

If you see me standing on my head, I'm trying to cheer you up with my frown. I need my honesty, you my pleasantry. — Brian Spellman

She got on a plane to see a client in California and somewhere over Colorado, the pilot somehow missed the sky. — Jonathan Tropper

A tender sadness drops upon my soul, like the soft twilight dropping on the world. — Alexander Smith

If there were no valleys of sadness and death, we could never really appreciate the sunshine of happiness on the mountain top. — Roy Rogers

I walk out the door with a heavy feeling in my heart as another secret falls on top of it. — Jessica Sorensen

Blue. My God! I'm so blue that if I were a dog, I'd sit on my haunches and howl and howl and howl ... — Alice Dunbar Nelson

I wish to cry. Yet, I laugh, and my lipstick leaves a red stain like a bloody crescent moon on the top of the beer can. — Sylvia Plath

I wonder what freezes
the flurry of hurt on her cold-
flushed cheeks, if his touch is
a salve or the shattering. — Beth Morey

The sky has a huge heart open for all clouds even on the gloomiest of days. — Munia Khan

I WILL FOLLOW ANYONE
AND TELL EVERYONE
ABOUT ...
THE REAL WAR ON WOMEN
ON YAZIDI GIRLS & WOMEN — Widad Akreyi

Melancholy is sadness that has taken on lightness. — Italo Calvino

The sadness of our existence should not leave us blunted, on the contrary
how to remain thin-skinned, vulnerable and stay alive? — Montgomery Clift

Even if times are tough and you're enduring a terrible heartache, it's important to focus your anger on a vibrator, not another person. — Chelsea Handler

Someday, beyond the clouds and all the world's wrongs, there will be love, compassion and justice, and we shall all understand. — Flavia Weedn

Sadness is twilight's kiss on earth. — Wole Soyinka

The street had that sad summertime feeling that you want to push on to see why it hurts. — Olivia Sudjic

Why shine, when there's nothing to shine on? — Kevin Brooks

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 Dostoyevsky

My ghost is the only soul who ever comes to cry on my grave ... Only the skies cried sincerely on my funeral. — Simona Panova

Love can cause problem and love can heal humanly problems based on our virtue. — Santosh Kalwar

When blackened night falls, darkness exists if one chooses to rely on sight as thy only guide. — Truth Devour

The microscopes that magnified the tears, studied warts and all. Still life flows on. — George Harrison

He hugged her tight, mixing their tears to be bottled and fermented, so they could be drunk on each other when this was all over. — Pete Wentz

Love tought me to cry. So come on courage, teach me to be shy. — Damien Rice

Her father propped his sadness on a pew, but she put her sad in places no one could see. — Brit Bennett

It can bring on heavy sadness and sharp despair and it does not change the past. — Cathy Lamb

Sadness flies on the wings of the morning, and out of the heart of darkness comes the light. — Jean Giraudoux

I used to come here on my own sometimes ... Id' stay down here for ages." Her voice was barely audible. "It's a good place for sadness ... — Kevin Brooks

I'm falling apart, one part after another. Falling down on the world like snow. Half of me is already on the ground, watching from below. — Ashly Lorenzana

She drew me. But not who I see in the mirror. Nia saw the Oscar i keep hidden. And she put him on paper.
Nobody sees the real me. — Pam Bachorz

Don't dwell on sadness. Joy will take you where you want to go. — Bryant McGill

I only felt a cold wind blow while I tried to hang on to the past. — Matthew Sweet

Don't be sad cause your sun is down, the night doesn't need your sorrow. Don't be sad cause the light is gone, just keep your mind on tomorrow. — James Taylor

What signifies sadness, sir; a man grows lean on it. — Henry MacKenzie

Don't dwell on things. Don't stay in one place too long. It was the only way to stay ahead of sadness. — Rick Riordan

On that search for happiness we did nothing with all those other emotions that made us human. — Darnell Lamont Walker

I used to cover my windows in heavy curtains, never drawn. Now I danced in the sunlight on my hardwood floors. — Kimberly Novosel

The smiling portrait of you is still hanging on my frowning wall. — Jimi Hendrix

I guess that's why they call it the blues, time on my hands could be time spent with you. — Elton John

The world was full of death, full of sadness, full of people, full of people too broken to lean on. — Ann Brashares

It's sad how people change from the best to the beast. — Geneva Caballero Uy

... suffice to say, joy is where you find it- usually on the shelf right next to sadness. — Ingrid Schaffner

Holding on and getting attached is sadness. Letting go with love opens the heart to fill it with happiness. — Debasish Mridha

One of the other experts we consulted with, this guy named Dacher Keltner, he was big on sadness as community bonding - I think is the word he used. — Pete Docter

I want to believe that happiness might at least be possible later on in life for people prone to sadness. — Matthew Quick

When a breeze blew, petals rained down on my upturned face, and I stopped and gasped, stunned by the beauty and sadness. — Ruth Ozeki

Sadness is just a place on the map. Don't try to avoid it, resist it or escape through substances. Settle it, allow it, and it will go. — Marianne Williamson

She wore her sadness on the outside, like a heavy winter coat. — Beth Hoffman

I wanted to say all these things about how you just have to hold on to the things you love and let go of all the rest. — Charlotte Eriksson

We have to give up so many things when the people we love die. So we hang on to other familiar things. — Corey Ann Haydu

The Great Sadness
You can't look at yourself
in the ocean.
Your looks fall apart
like tendrils of light.
Night on earth. — Federico Garcia Lorca

And on bad days, when his aura of sadness blazed like an alarm he couldn't turn off, I felt like I was doing everything wrong. — Lindsey Frydman

Look deep inside, and when you locate the sadness, give it a vacation, and focus on the simple things. — Larry Norman

Sigh no more, ladies, sigh no more,
Men were deceivers ever,-
One foot in sea and one on shore,
To one thing constant never. — William Shakespeare

I keep breaking things, as if to see what's going on inside of me. — Jenim Dibie

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

For a couple of days he was nice and I was on cloud number 9,damn they don't teach how to come down from there instead leave us to gravity. — Pushpa Rana

Absence is a house so vast that inside you will pass through its walls and hang pictures on the air. — Pablo Neruda

But to dwell prematurely on the sadness of one's death to others, Uncle Kostia, is like asking for money in advance. It's commercially unsound. — William Gerhardie

On the way home I felt a great and simple sadness. I missed my dad. I missed him very much. — Helen Macdonald

Bully for you, chilly for me, got to get a raincheck on pain. — David Bowie

I wish I didn't have a heart that God wrote Sad on. — Benjamin Alire Saenz

At times it's like sadness has planted itself on her face, refusing to leave, an overwhelming sadness, and sometimes I see despair there, too. — Melina Marchetta

I too have known joy and sadness, and, on the whole, I prefer joy. — Ashleigh Brilliant

Everyone has a button for sadness and a button for happiness, your condition depends on which one you push the most. — Debasish Mridha

Every human walks around with a certain kind of sadness. They may not wear it on their sleeves, but it's there if you look deep. — Taraji P. Henson

Stain my eyes as I may, on all sides all is black. — Helen Hunt Jackson

[He who can describe how his heart is ablaze is burning on a small pyre] ~ Petrarch, Sonnet 137
(from Montaigne, On sadness) — Francesco Petrarca

I'm glad to be part of the war on sadness. I'm a part time employee of the illusion that keeps people stupid. — Marc Maron

He had the same look on his face that I had every day when I looked in the mirror. He was nothing more than a shell of a person. — Amy Lichtenhan

Most people live dejectedly in worldly joys or sorrows. They sit on the sidelines and do not join the dance. — Soren Kierkegaard

Clearly God was in some kind of mood on my birthday. — Jodi Picoult

We are pushed towards eternal silence from the moment we are born. So when sadness tries to stifle us, we must not give in. We must keep whispering. — Shaun Hick

Sadness is pervasive, so focus on joy, focus on happiness. — Debasish Mridha

I have two nexuses of sadness about the Mormon Church. The first is the effect the Church's position on homosexuality has on Mormons. — Andrew Solomon

Even when the sun was shining she couldn't see it. The whole house was closing in on her and she was suffocating. — Crissi Langwell

Happiness is only for a short time then comes sadness which proceeds on overtime — A.N. Knight

At least the tears on my desk wipe away the dust that's covered this place — Andrew Boddie

I feel like a real dead one: having neither blood to bleed nor any flesh or bone to feel the scars; yet I want to hold on to my spirit. — Munia Khan

Don't you dare give up on me. — Catherine Ryan Hyde

Madoka: I want to erase the tears of all those who trusted in hope. I want them to be left with a smile on their faces. — Magica Quartet

Moments of sadness, grief, unhappiness and lack of motivation are results of stepping back, just move on and challenge your limits, you will do it. — Santosh Kalwar

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

Idyllic memories are merely a jeweled noose. — Orlando Ricardo Menes