When Sadness Takes Over Quotes

#1. The proverbial Englishman, we know from old chronicler Froissart, takes his pleasures sadly, and the Englishwoman goes a step further and takes her pleasures in sadness itself.

Jerome K. Jerome

#2. My sadness isn't a way I feel but a thing trapped inside the walls of my flesh, like a smog. It takes the sheen off everything. It rolls the world in soot. It saps the power from my limbs and presses my back into a stoop.

Sara Baume

#3. But my sadness is comforting Because it's right and natural And because it's what the soul should feel When it already thinks it exists And the hand pick flowers And the soul takes no notice.

Fernando Pessoa

#4. Real sadness is such an all-encompassing intense thing that it takes you out of your humdrum existence. If you can still function, you want to show it while it's peaking. So when people tell you to cheer up, it's not always the best thing.

David Byrne

#5. The moods of sadness that come over anyone who takes up art ... these dismal moods have very little compensation.

Edgar Degas

#6. My chest of books divide amongst my friends--

John Keats

#7. All through the day, whenever the sadness comes, I pinch my arm to make the sadness go there. That takes it out of my heart. When I go to bed that night, I see a bruise on my arm.

Cathryn Clinton

#8. You wanted to become a doctor to help people and feel better at the end of your job, I think, watching them, as the nurse takes my hand. But I don't think you do feel better at the end of the day. You look like humans have constantly disappointed you.

Caitlin Moran

#9. If you have ever fucked up in your life, or if the great river of sadness that runs through us all has touched you, then this book is for you. So thank you for the collective energy it takes to write in the face of culture. I can feel you.

Lidia Yuknavitch

#10. Architecture should be dedicated to keeping the outside out and the inside in.

Leonard Baskin

#11. Isn't it sad that so often it takes facing death to appreciate life and each other fully?

Esther Earl

#12. Only those who have the patience to do simple things perfectly will acquire the skill to do difficult things easily.

Friedrich Schiller

#13. When someone close to you dies, you feel like you might die too. It takes some of the life out of you for a time.

Lisa Bedrick

#14. You learn, finally, that you'll die, and so you try to hang on to your own life, that gentle, naive kid you used to be, but then after a while the sentiment takes over, and the sadness, because you know for a fact that you can't ever bring any of it back again. You just can't.

Tim O'Brien

#15. Sadness takes up the pen more readily than joy.

Henri Frederic Amiel

#16. When all else fails, there's always delusion.

Conan O'Brien

#17. Sometimes it takes sadness to know happiness, noise to appreciate silence and absence to value presence.

Anonymous

#18. When everything seems to be going wrong with you, you must remember the airplane takes off against the wind

Sunday Adelaja

#19. This life is ironic: for it takes pain to discover pleasure; it takes sadness to know happiness; it takes war to value peace; and it takes hatred to treasure love.
[Culled from: "Amara & The Strange Elderly Woman"]

Emmanuel Aghado

#20. You can accept reality, or you can persist in your purpose until reality accepts you.

Robert Breault

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

Clive Barker

#22. Oh, how I wish that I could give him what Daddy takes so easily from me. But it would be a tainted gift. Sadness now, and I wonder how it feels to live without a constant fog of sorrow, a breeze of loneliness.

Ellen Hopkins

#23. Sometimes, all it takes to lift the sadness from another is to let them know how much you appreciate them and how grateful you are having them in your life.

Charles F. Glassman

#24. I always laugh at these rock n'rollers where you can't understand them. Mind you, it's not because they're inaudible or indistinguishable; it's because they're too obscure.

Harry Connick Jr.

#25. Closure is a greasy little word which, moreover, describes a nonexistent condition. The truth, Venus, is that nobody gets over anything.

Martin Amis