Quotes on Sadness

Sorrow happens, hardship happens, the hell with it, who never knew the price of happiness, will not be happy.

The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation.

I don't need to manufacture trauma in my life to be creative. I have a big enough reservoir of sadness or emotional trauma to last me.

The body is a house of many windows: there we all sit, showing ourselves and crying on the passers-by to come and love us.

Whatever you resist you become. If you resist anger, you are always angry. If you resist sadness, you are always sad. If you resist suffering, you are always suffering. If you resist confusion,you are always confused. We think that we resist certain states because they are there, but actually they are there because we resist them.

Immortality: A toy which people cry for, And on their knees apply for, Dispute, contend and lie for, And if allowed Would be right proud Eternally to die for.

When sorrows come, they come not single spies, but in battalions.

Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened.

Sorrow is better than laughter; for, by the sadness of the countenance, the heart is made better.

Happiness, sadness, loss and gain all pass away. What they do to us is what remains.

Relaxing with something as familiar as loneliness is good discipline for realizing the profundity of the unresolved moments of our lives. We are cheating ourselves when we run away from the ambiguity of loneliness.....Rather than persecuting yourself or feeling that something terribly wrong is happening, right there in the moment of sadness and longing, could you relax and touch the limitless space of the human heart?

My great hope is to laugh as much as I cry; to get my work done and try to love somebody and have the courage to accept the love in return.

You have had many sadnesses, large ones, which passed. ... But please, ask yourself whether these large sadnesses haven't rather gone right through you [that is, passed through you]. Perhaps many things inside you have been transformed; perhaps somewhere, someplace deep inside your being, you have undergone important changes while you were sad.

There is no joy for the one who does not bear sadness, there is no sweetness for the one who does not have patience, there is no delight for the one who does not suffer, and there is no relaxation for the one who does not endure fatigue.

Drifting, On a sea of forgotten teardrops, On a lifeboat, Sailing for Your love

The effort to feel happy is often precisely the thing that makes us miserable. And that it is out constant efforts to eliminate the negative - insecurity, uncertainty, failure, or sadness - that is what causes us to feel so insecure, anxious, uncertain, or unhappy.

Our life is...a time in which sadness and joy kiss each other at every moment.

Bad things do happen; how I respond to them defines my character and the quality of my life. I can choose to sit in perpetual sadness, immobilized by the gravity of my loss, or I can choose to rise from the pain and treasure the most precious gift I have - life itself.

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.

If there was sadness in this creative world of mine, it was a pleasant sadness. If there were problems, they were humorous problems.

Joy mingled with sadness, even with grief, is the deepest human joy. It winds itself about the soul with indescribable sweetness, with a dim but unerring sense for what will some day be born of it.