Difficult Emotions: Sadness Quotes

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"When a Spanish man cries, it's not a sign of weakness"

Geraldo Rivera, Journalist

Juliette Binoche, Actress

"Bereavement is the deepest initiation into the mysteries of human life, an initiation more searching and profound than even happy love"

Dean Inge, Philosopher

"Gaiety is often the reckless ripple over depths of despair"

Edwin Hubbel Chapin, Clergyman

"When Dad told me Mr Steptoe had passed away, I broke down"

Louise Brown, Celebrity

"Every time I wake up, I see myself like somebody beat me up"

Javier Bardem, Actor

"I can't laugh, be happy, present myself at any prize, and also win on the centre court"

Gabriela Sabatini, Athlete

"The day on which I received confirmation was a distressing one to me"

Maria Monk, Celebrity

"I was desperately unhappy trying to adjust to the world"

Al Purdy, Poet

"There are hurts so deep that one cannot reach them or heal them with words"

Kate Seredy, Writer

"Oh my God, Nicole is killed? Oh my God, she is dead?"

O. J. Simpson, Athlete

"I have had four happy days in my life, and three of them turned out to be illusions"

Taylor Caldwell, Author

"I was totally devastated for four years in the mid '60s when l tried to buck the tide"

Tommy Rettig, Actor

"When Andy died, I just drank to dumb my mind"

Maurice Gibb, Musician

"Not in sorrow, freely is never to open the bosom to the sweets of the sunshine"

William Gilmore Simms, Novelist

"It was the worst period of my life. I had all this gigantic acceptance as a kid, and all of a sudden there was this monumental rejection"

Tommy Rettig, Actor

"Words are less needful to sorrow than to joy"

Helen Hunt Jackson, Writer

"They say it's better to bury your sadness in a graveyard or garden that waits for the spring to wake from its sleep, and burst into green"

Conor Oberst, Musician

"I've cried, and you'd think I'd be better for it, but the sadness just sleeps, and it stays in my spine the rest of my life"

Conor Oberst, Musician

"In London, the weather would affect me negatively. I react strongly to light. If it is cloudy and raining, there are clouds and rain in my soul"

Jerzy Kosinski, Novelist

"And I thought my loss, my loss was not, certainly, the end of the world, but to lessen the enthusiasm of those young people who were signed up, I thought that was tragic"

Birch Bayh, Politician

"I've written several deeply personal songs this year, which I really love. Some of them came out of intense sadness. This has been an extremely difficult year for me"

David Friedman, Musician

"Sometimes guys need to cry. Some hockey players think they're too tough to cry"

Brett Hull, Athlete

"Happiness? No, it's not there for me"

Robert Mapplethorpe, Photographer

"We can never flee the misery that is within us"

Arthur Golden, Writer

"Nothing is more sad than the death of an illusion"

Arthur Koestler, Novelist

"The flesh, alas, is sad, and I have read all the books"

Stephane Mallarme, Poet

"Somehow, I had the feeling that I was responsible for Harry being dead. I remembered all the times that I wished he were dead, all the times I had dreamed of killing him. I got to thinking that maybe my wishing had finally killed him"

Arnold Rothstein, Businessman

"Pain and fear and hunger are effects of causes which can be foreseen and known: but sorrow is a debt which someone else makes for us"

Freya Stark, Writer

"I think loss of loved ones is the hardest blow in life"

Marlo Thomas, Actress

"My lasting impression of Truman Capote is that he was a terribly gentle, terribly sensitive, and terribly sad man"

Alvin Ailey, Dancer

"I'm disappointed. I don't care about Will Smith, I don't want to"

Robert Conrad, Director

"Well, I did know - but I just wanted the day to pass and the next day to come and then I wanted that one to pass. It was a horrible cycle. I felt so close to having to pack the game in"

Paul Gascoigne, Athlete

"Nothing's so dainty sweet as lovely melancholy"

Francis Beaumont, Playwright

"I can't say I'm happy to be talking about John Ritter and his passing. In my 21 years of Entertainment Tonight, this really was one of the most shocking and sad things to have happened"

Mary Hart, Entertainer

"I was moaning and grieving as if I lost one of my own children. It was probably one of the most real feelings I ever had on the show. I was just sitting there wailing with no lines. I was beat after that storyline"

Hunter Tylo, Actress

"I can't bear it that Douglas isn't still here"

Lalla Ward, Actor

"I was up above it. Now, I'm down in it"

Trent Reznor, Musician

"Great were the lamentation and the cry when the news of this mischance was noised about the city. Such a tumult of mourning was never before heard, for the whole city was moved"

Marie de France, Poet

"The flower in the vase smiles, but no longer laughs"

Malcolm De Chazal, Writer

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