I have to confess that I have so rarely experienced triumph that I cannot claim to know it well enough to judge, but it seems to be at best a momentary joy followed instantly by sadness, and, then, of necessity, by wariness. – Mark Helprin
The rejection that we all take and the sadness and the aggravation and the loss of jobs and all of the things that we live through in our lives, without a sense of humor, I don’t know how people make it. – Marlo Thomas
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
As somebody who participates in the overall PC ecosystem, it’s totally great when faster wireless networks and standards come out or when graphics get faster. Windows 8 was like this giant sadness. It just hurts everybody in the PC business. – Gabe Newell
If they want to party and do all the things I say brought me sadness in my song, with my song as the soundtrack… so be it. – Mike Posner
Successful prime-time television of any genre produces some kind of emotional reaction in the viewers. There are a lot of different emotions to tap into. The emotion of the reward of discovery, the feeling of righteous anger, the feelings of pathos and sadness, or sentimentality of being moved by something. – Chris Hayes
Sadness is a very interesting idea, this idea of sadness being some kind of default setting that artists will go into. And then I started thinking about this idea of sadness and happiness, and the idea that sadness is very loud, and happiness is quiet. – Glen Hansard
People with HIV are still stigmatized. The infection rates are going up. People are dying. The political response is appalling. The sadness of it, the waste. – Elton John
The strongest feelings I experienced were in Davis Cup. It was the most powerful thing: the victories and the losses. It hits you in a distinct way. It’s another level of satisfaction – another level of sadness. – David Nalbandian
With any kind of mean girl, or anyone who bullies anyone, there’s always a reason for it. There is that sadness in them or insecurity that makes them feel like they need to act out or hurt other people. – Maiara Walsh
I write with humour about sadness, to introduce an element of sweet to the sour, a bit like Turkish food. – Elif Safak
I don’t know whether there is anyone else at all who remembers my noble father with such sadness. – Egon Schiele
I wasn’t prepared for the fact that grief is so unpredictable. It wasn’t just sadness, and it wasn’t linear. Somehow I’d thought that the first days would be the worst and then it would get steadily better – like getting over the flu. That’s not how it was. – Meghan O’Rourke
You never have a comedian who hasn’t got a very deep strain of sadness within him or her. Every great clown has been very near to tragedy. – Margaret Rutherford
We never taste happiness in perfection, our most fortunate successes are mixed with sadness. – Pierre Corneille
Well, the musicals give emphasis to love, longing, melancholy, sadness. All of that is always there. – Ismail Merchant
Some pass their days as though suffering a deep sadness they cannot name. Others are unhappy because life didn’t turn out the way they thought it would. – Joseph B. Wirthlin
I realised that you can go through times of extreme happiness, but if that happiness is not coming from a deeply rooted place, you will also be going through extreme lows of sadness. – Katrina Kaif
A tragedy need not have blood and death; it’s enough that it all be filled with that majestic sadness that is the pleasure of tragedy. – Jean Racine
Do you know most of the Jewish songs have the same trend of sadness as Negro spirituals? – Mahalia Jackson
There was a sadness over me, a melancholy. That’s always been a part of me – those are some of the things that lead you to the arts. – Mahershala Ali
The best therapists can do with sadness, anger, and anxiety is to help patients live in the more comfortable part of their set range. – Martin Seligman
Life just doesn’t care about our aspirations, or sadness. It’s often random, and it’s often stupid and it’s often completely unexpected, and the closures and the epiphanies and revelations we end up receiving from life, begrudgingly, rarely turn out to be the ones we thought. – Khaled Hosseini
