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We look before and after, And pine for what is not Our sincerest laughter With some pain is fraught Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.
Percy Bysshe Shelley on sad

Experiencing sadness and anger can make you feel more creative, and by being creative, you can get beyond your pain or negativity.
Yoko Ono on sad

We're taught to be ashamed of confusion, anger, fear and sadness, and to me they're of equal value to happiness, excitement and inspiration.
Alanis Morissette on sad

For all sad words of tongue and pen, The saddest are these, 'It might have been'.
John Greenleaf Whittier on sad

It is sadder to find the past again and find it inadequate to the present than it is to have it elude you and remain forever a harmonious conception of memory.
F. Scott Fitzgerald on sad

In deep sadness there is no place for sentimentality.
William S. Burroughs on sad

Good humor is the health of the soul, sadness is its poison.
Lord Chesterfield on sad

Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.
Percy Bysshe Shelley on sad

We never taste a perfect joy our happiest successes are mixed with sadness.
Pierre Corneille on sad

An ounce of cheerfulness is worth a pound of sadness to serve God with.
Thomas Fuller on sad

I was raised in an atmosphere of 'everything's fine.' But as I got older, I was like, 'Well no, everything's not fine. There is stuff that's sad.' I am a really sensitive person. I think I am too sensitive sometimes.
Ellen DeGeneres on sad

I can see the humorous side of things and enjoy the fun when it comes but look where I will, there seems to me always more sadness than joy in life.
Jerome K. Jerome on sad

It's a sad man my friend who's livin' in his own skin and can't stand the company.
Bruce Springsteen on sad

It is one of the most saddening things in life that, try as we may, we can never be certain of making people happy, whereas we can almost always be certain of making them unhappy.
Thomas Huxley on sad

The rose and the thorn, and sorrow and gladness are linked together.
Saadi on sad

I really believe that all of us have a lot of darkness in our souls. Anger, rage, fear, sadness. I don't think that's only reserved for people who have horrible upbringings. I think it really exists and is part of the human condition. I think in the course of your life you figure out ways to deal with that.
Kevin Bacon on sad

Do not make best friends with a melancholy sad soul. They always are heavily loaded, and you must bear half.
Francois Fenelon on sad

Dying is only one thing to be sad over... Living unhappily is something else.
Morrie Schwartz on sad

Melancholy and sadness are the start of doubt... doubt is the beginning of despair despair is the cruel beginning of the differing degrees of wickedness.
Isidore Ducasse Lautreamont on sad

Sadness flies away on the wings of time.
Jean de La Fontaine on sad