#sadness

"You cannot protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from happiness."

"too much happiness always overflowed into tears of sorrow."

"Any fool can be happy. It takes a man with real heart to make beauty out of the stuff that makes us weep."

"The fruit of empty hopes is more bitter than the saddest truth."

"A lesson for all of us is that for every loss, there is victory, for every sadness, there is joy, and when you think you’ve lost everything, there is hope."

"if it makes you happy, then why the hell are you so sad?"

"Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad."

"Sadness is but a wall between two gardens."

"So it’s true, when all is said and done, grief is the price we pay for love."

"But when I do feel all the strength go out of me, and I fall to my knees beside the table and I think I cry, then, or at least I want to, and everything inside me screams for just one more kiss, one more word, one more glance, one more."

"When your sad--like really sad--you only want to be with other people who are sad."

"My first feeling was that there was no way to continue. Writing isn't like math;in math, two plus two always equals four no matter what your mood is like. With writing, the way you feel changes everything."

"Your coffin reached the monstrous hole. And a part of me went down into the muddy earth with you and lay down next to you and died with you."

"There is a deep sadness to American poverty, greater than the sadness of any other kind. It's because America has such an ideology of success."

"She was a genius of sadness, immersing herself in it, separating its numerous strands, appreciating its subtle nuances. She was a prism through which sadness could be divided into its infinite spectrum."

"The more death, the more birth. People are entering, others are exiting. The cry of a baby, the mourning of others. When others cry, the other are laughing and making merry. The world is mingled with sadness, joy, happiness, anger, wealth, poverty, etc."

"There is a collective as well as an individual humor inclining peoples to sadness or cheerfulness, making them see things in bright or somber lights. In fact, only society can pass a collective opinion on the value of human life; for this the individual is incompetent."

"Tell the truth through whichever veil comes to hand – but tell it. Resign yourself to the lifelong sadness that comes from never ­being satisfied."

"May be its mine bad-luck Or yours not to get me But I still have hope Of being yours"

"I wear a necklace of hope with pearly beads. When I met you, it broke, and the beads spilled all over the floor, into the gutters."