Difficult Emotions: Sadness Quotes

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"I am deeply saddened by the death of my dear friend, Dudley Moore"

Liza Minelli, Entertainer

"I do get cynical, but what can you do? It doesn't make any difference"

Kurt Russell, Actor

"It is not fun singing about losing somebody like that, but at the same time it was easy to write because the memories were so real and vivid and so much a part of who I am"

Vince Gill, Musician

"And I just remember, you know, breaking into tears and feeling so empty because, as long as Elvis was in the world, you always knew something was going, and he always had something that kept everybody mesmerized"

Jackie DeShannon, Musician

"Just because I'm talking about something that might have been a sad or painful situation doesn't mean that I'm sad or tortured 24 hours a day, any more than anybody else is"

Lucinda Williams, Musician

"I've got so much to do, I don't have time to sit down and be sad"

Norma McCorvey, Celebrity

"When we saw our plane on TV as breaking news, it was the most surreal experience. A lot of the women were crying. There was a gentleman who was writing in his journal and crying. Seeing that isn't easy"

Taryn Manning, Actress

"I don't think I can do this anymore"

Simon Cowell, Entertainer

"But I don't write so much now, because they're too painful"

Bryan Ferry, Musician

"There was a darkness, a melancholy, that people had trouble accepting. Maybe now, it would work better"

Alain Resnais, Director

"But I was feeling quite down at the time. I was living in L.A., which was kind of weird for me"

Bryan Ferry, Musician

"I really don't like going out. I don't like restaurants because I don't like the idea of someone, a waitress, being responsible for my evening. I like seconds, and more, and lots of conversation, and I've always hated the idea that in a restaurant an evening just ends. I find that incredibly depressing"

Amy Sedaris, Actress

"I'm so involved in melancholy"

Isaac Mizrahi, Designer

"No matter what your heartache may be, laughing helps you forget it for a few seconds"

Red Skelton, Comedian

"To be honest, I am not happy about all the publicity"

Jean Alesi, Celebrity

"When you're in that scene, you really wonder if this is all you're ever going to be. You know how vile and filthy you are inside"

Willie Aames, Actor

"In the dance of the world / our joy / is a dazzling garment / of fantasy / we use to cover / the hidden sadness / we repress"

Adela Zamudio, Poet

"Life can be more bleak than the bleakest of books"

Fawziyya al-Sindi, Poet

"You have no idea what loss is"

Pedro Pascal, Actor

"I don't think sadness is a bad thing. It's information"

Mitski, Musician

"Grief and love are forever intertwined"

Jenna Bush Hager, Journalist

"His letter was like the shock produced by a cold bath"

Duff Green, Politician

"If you want to know how I feel, I'll summarize it in one word - terrible"

Gary Bettman, Businessman

"I wonder at the idleness of tears"

Lizette Woodworth Reese, Poet

"When Michael died, I was tipped over the edge. I was beyond grief"

Paula Yates, Entertainer

"I can remember crying on the set of Beverly Hills, 90210 after being released from the show a few years ago"

Hilary Swank, Actress

"When sparrows build and the leaves break forth, My old sorrow wakes and cries"

Jean Ingelow, Poet

"Sylvia Plath was just a month and a half older than I, and when she committed suicide I was only 30 - and very shocked and sorry. I never knew her personally"

Anne Stevenson, Poet

"I think you know what you're up against when you take on a piece that you know is going to involve dragging up a lot emotions - you can end up being deeply immersed in gloom"

Amanda Burton, Actress

"It's been like a bad dream I never woke from"

Alex Chilton, Musician

"And Hackman had really choked up when he was telling it. It was very moving"

Wes Anderson, Writer

"I was the kind of person who got bullied and loved the attention of it"

David Walliams, Actor

"Let me die because I do not want to see the sun again"

Harold E. Hughes, Politician

"I am personally saddened and stunned by the tragic events that took place in Red Lake"

Collin C. Peterson, Politician

"As anyone who has been close to someone that has committed suicide knows, there is no other pain like that felt after the incident"

Peter Greene, Actor

"If he is a ghost, then it's very disappointing for me, because he is banished in the story, and that could mean that he won't be coming back, and that would be terrible, wouldn't it?"

Paul Darrow, Actor

"I've found a different way to scent the air: already it's a by-word for despair"

Andrew Motion, Poet

"That last winter was a tragic story, and I got no personal honour out of it, but I was a witness to it"

Laurie Lee, Poet

"My tears will keep no channel, know no laws to guide their streams, but like the waves, their cause, run with disturbance till they swallow me as a description of his misery"

John Cleveland, Poet

"These rejections hurt me terribly because I felt it was my life that was being rejected"

Edmund White, Novelist

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