Difficult Emotions: Sadness Quotes

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"Saturn seems to have impressed the seal of melancholy on me from the beginning"

Marsilio Ficino, Philosopher

"I am no Poet here; my pen's the spout where the rain water of my eyes run out"

John Cleveland, Poet

"The episodes all blend together for me, so I don't remember. I can't even remember what I had for breakfast this morning. I always feel I must be such a disappointment to them!"

Sarah Michelle Gellar, Actress

"I just didn't want to admit that he was dead"

Lindy Boggs, Politician

"You don't even have to hate to have a perfectly miserable time"

Elizabeth Wurtzel, Writer

"In regards to the reaction to Life Is Killing Me, I would say that I'm never happy about anything"

Josh Silver, Musician

"I don't want any more vicissitudes, I don't want any more of this try, try again stuff. I just want out. I've had it. I am so tired. I am twenty and I am already exhausted"

Elizabeth Wurtzel, Writer

"I have heartaches, I have blues. No matter what you got, the blues is there. 'Cause that's all I know - the blues. And I can sing the blues so deep until you can have this room full of money and I can give you the blues"

John Lee Hooker, Musician

"A lot of me is very up, and you have to have light and shade. They are both important and you have to be able to balance them. You have to admit that sadness is part of you and that it enriches you. I use it in my work"

Imelda Staunton, Actress

"Why does the rest of the world put up with the hypocrisy, the need to put a happy face on sorrow, the need to keep on keeping on?... I don't know the answer, I know only that I can't"

Elizabeth Wurtzel, Writer

"Sometimes I wish that there were a way to let people know that just because I live in a world without rules, and in a life that is lawless, doesn't mean that it doesn't hurt so bad the morning after"

Elizabeth Wurtzel, Writer

"Like many Americans, my thoughts and prayers are with the people of London. My deepest sympathies are extended to those who lost a loved one in the recent terror attacks"

Doc Hastings, Politician

"What's taken God 200 years to create was wiped out in a couple of days by what was apparently an arsonist, and it just shows you what a sick world we live in nowadays"

Bill Janklow, Politician

"I've been immersed in it too long. My spirit is wobbly and my mind is confused. The hurt has become too great"

Ernie Pyle, Journalist

"It finally became clear to me that they had no hopes of my ever walking again"

Marie Windsor, Actress

"I lean towards, traditionally, what people would consider the more negative side of life"

Josh Silver, Musician

"But with the slow menace of a glacier, depression came on. No one had any measure of its progress; no one had any plan for stopping it. Everyone tried to get out of its way"

Frances Perkins, Politician

"Africa is a cruel country; it takes your heart and grinds it into powdered stone - and no one minds"

Elspeth Huxley, Writer

"To grieve is something extremely difficult, we don't even know how to begin to grieve, and I don't know how you can be taught to grieve"

Charlotte Rampling, Actress

"But there are some wounds that can never be healed"

Helen Garner, Novelist

"I don't have high expectations anymore. Maybe they've just been beaten out of me"

Elisabeth Shue, Actress

"There are days when I'm completely depressed and able to do only one drawing"

Christian Lacroix, Designer

"Grief causes suffering and disease"

Daniel D. Palmer, Celebrity

"I try to keep an open mind, but I'm so tired of the mediocrity"

Clea Duvall, Actress

"The ending is one of my blackest, utterly without hope of any sort"

Donna Leon, Author

"Despair has its own calms"

Bram Stoker, Writer

"Chicago's buoy was a couple of hundred yards astern of Arizona, and I was saddened to look at her"

Jack Adams, Athlete

"And I did wonder - because it's now three years ago since I left prison - whether there would come a time when I would forget it, or it would be in the past as anything else might be - no, it's there every day of my life"

Jeffrey Archer, Politician

"Melancholy and sadness are the start of doubt... Doubt is the beginning of despair; despair is the cruel beginning of the differing degrees of wickedness"

Isidore Ducasse Lautreamont, Author

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