#sadness

"In English, my name means hope. In Spanish, it means too many letters. It means sadness. It means waiting. It is like the number nine, a muddy color."

"Sadness gives depth. Happiness gives height. Sadness gives roots. Happiness gives branches. Happiness is like a tree going into the sky, and sadness is like the roots going down into the womb of the earth. Both are needed, and the higher a tree goes, the deeper it goes, simultaneously. The bigger the tree, the bigger will be its roots. In fact, it is always in proportion. That's its balance."

"Sadness is but a wall between two gardens."

"Tears, idle tears, I know not what they mean, Tears from the depths of some devine despairRise in the heart, and gather to the eyes, In looking on the happy autumn fields, And thinking of the days that are no more."

"I cry, but not for myself. There’s too much sadness in this world to waste a moment with self-pity, when making others smile will also make me smile."

". . . owning a dog always ended with this sadness because dogs just don't live as long as people do."

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

"I am intrigued by the smile upon your face, and the sadness within your eyes"

"Was it the infinite sadness of her eyes that drew him or the mirror of himself that he found in the gorgeous clarity of her mind?"

"La tristesse durera toujours.[The sadness will last forever.]"

"I’m feeling morass, when I should be feeling more ass. I can put my sadness behind me with what’s behind you."

"There is some kind of a sweet innocence in being human- in not having to be just happy or just sad- in the nature of being able to be both broken and whole, at the same time."

"Absence is a house so vast that inside you will pass through its walls and hang pictures on the air."

"a flower knows, when its butterfly will return, and if the moon walks out, the sky will understand;but now it hurts, to watch you leave so soon,when I don't know, if you will ever come back."

"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."

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

"After soul searching, I found myself. Then I found myself giving of myself to a charity that finds missing children. It's great to be found."

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

"Why, then, did I always feel as if his happiness was my responsibility? It wasn't fair for him to burden me with that. It had never been fair."

"Sadness is never bad,"said Amparo. "Sadness is the mirror of being happy"