Difficult Emotions: Sadness Quotes

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"Five minutes before I went on, I looked at my manager and said, "I'm going to get booed. I know it's going to happen. And you're responsible because you put me on here. It was horrible. I've never been more hurt in my entire life""

Shannen Doherty, Actress

"Los Angeles was an impression of failure, of disappointment, of despair, and of oddly makeshift lives. This is California? I thought"

Joseph Barbera, Cartoonist

"'Weary Willie' is very real to me. He is a man who has given up. The boat has gone and left him. The cards are stacked against him. He's content to make out with what he's got. He knows he'll go no further"

Emmett Kelly, Entertainer

"If my life was a song, it would be 'It ain't that easy being green' from Sesame Street"

Jacob Lusk, Musician

"We decided to try in vitro, because both Peter and I felt we couldn't handle another failure. When I miscarried after that, we had to come to terms with the possibility that this wasn't meant to be"

Christie Brinkley, Model

"I was sad, Jon Ronson, who wrote in the Guardian and has made a TV show for Channel 4, took against me"

Jonathan King, Musician

"When you are coming out, you say it's for you. But when everybody says it's not OK, it becomes about that rather than about you. It disappointed me"

Anne Heche, Actress

"Great grief does not of itself put an end to itself"

Seneca the Younger, Statesman

Seneca the Younger

"The person who grieves suffers his passion to grow upon him; he indulges it, he loves it; but this never happens in the case of actual pain, which no man ever willingly endured for any considerable time"

Edmund Burke, Statesman

Edmund Burke

"Tears are the symbol of the inability of the soul to restrain its emotion and retain its self command"

Henri Frederic Amiel, Philosopher

Henri Frederic Amiel

"Disappointment is a sort of bankruptcy - the bankruptcy of a soul that expends too much in hope and expectation"

Eric Hoffer, Writer

Eric Hoffer

"There is no pain so great as the memory of joy in present grief"

Aeschylus, Playwright

Aeschylus

"A sad soul can kill quicker than a germ"

John Steinbeck, Author

John Steinbeck

"My words in her mind: cold polished stones sinking through a quagmire"

James Joyce, Novelist

James Joyce

"I know I'm going to blow one day. My life is doomed the way it is. I have no future"

Mike Tyson, Athlete

Mike Tyson

"I don't react to a tragic happening any more. I took so many bad things as a kid and some people think I don't care about anything. It's just too hard for me to get emotional. I can't cry no more"

Mike Tyson, Athlete

Mike Tyson

"I bought a gun and chose drugs instead"

Kurt Cobain, Musician

Kurt Cobain

"If you suppress grief too much, it can well redouble"

Moliere, Playwright

Moliere

"Misery is a communicable disease"

Martha Graham, Dancer

Martha Graham

"I wish to weep but sorrow is stupid. I wish to believe but belief is a graveyard"

Charles Bukowski, Poet

Charles Bukowski

"But I am a blasted tree; the bolt has entered my soul; and I felt then that I should survive to exhibit what I shall soon cease to be - a miserable spectacle of wrecked humanity, pitiable to others and intolerable to myself"

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Author

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

"I am in that temper that if I were under water I would scarcely kick to come to the top"

John Keats, Poet

John Keats

"I think I might as well give up being a candidate. There are so many people in the country who don't like me"

William Howard Taft, President

"The Bluebird of Happiness long absent from his life, Ned is visited by the Chicken of Depression"

Gary Larson, Cartoonist

"Grief can't be shared. Everyone carries it alone. His own burden in his own way"

Anne Morrow Lindbergh, Writer

"Andrew Wood's death changed things for a few weeks. I probably got even heavier into drugs after that"

Layne Staley, Musician

Layne Staley

"Tearless grief bleeds inwardly"

Christian Nestell Bovee, Author

"Fame had brought me so much unhappiness"

Brigitte Bardot, Actress

"If I look at my old lyrics, they seem to be full of rage, but empty. There was an emptiness in my life"

Billie Joe Armstrong, Musician

Billie Joe Armstrong

"Having gone through all of this, I feel in some ways calmer now. It's strange, but sad. I think I'll always be sad"

Nicole Kidman, Actress

"Destiny smiles upon me, but without making me the least bit happier"

Gustav Mahler, Composer

"I cry every chance I get"

Richard Gere, Actor

"There is no worse sorrow than remembering happiness in the day of sorrow"

Alfred de Musset, Writer

"On planes I always cry. Something about altitude, the lack of oxygen and the bad movies. I cried over a St. Bernard movie once on a plane. That was really embarrassing"

Michael Stipe, Musician

"To be bowed by grief is folly; Naught is gained by melancholy; Better than the pain of thinking, is to steep the sense in drinking"

Alcaeus, Poet

Alcaeus

"It makes me so desperately sad to witness just how unforgivably wretched our world has become"

Ralph Steadman, Cartoonist

"Tears fall in my heart like the rain on the town"

Paul Verlaine, Poet

Paul Verlaine

"I guess that's what I was: a set of abs. And they lit the abs and shot the abs and sent the abs on their way. The photographer didn't look at my face once. I was humiliated"

Michael Bergin, Actor

"Feeling a little blue in January is normal"

Marilu Henner, Actress

Marilu Henner

"It's raining my soul, it's raining, but it's raining dead eyes"

Guillaume Apollinaire, Novelist

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