We never taste a perfect joy; our happiest successes are mixed with sadness.

Sadness is but a wall between two gardens.

There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when we have not yet known what it is to have suffered and be healed, to have despaired and have recovered hope.

You get used to sadness, growing up in the mountains, I guess.

The old know what they want; the young are sad and bewildered.

Can I see another's woe, and not be in sorrow too? Can I see another's grief, and not seek for kind relief?

For me, singing sad songs often has a way of healing a situation. It gets the hurt out in the open into the light, out of the darkness.

Tears are the natural penalties of pleasure. It is a law that we should pay for all that we enjoy.

To have felt too much is to end in feeling nothing.

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.

Don't grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form.

If we could read the secret history of our enemies we should find in each man's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility.

First, accept sadness. Realize that without losing, winning isn't so great.

The reason for the sadness of this modern age and the men who live in it is that it looks for the truth in everything and finds it.

Some days are just bad days, that's all. You have to experience sadness to know happiness, and I remind myself that not every day is going to be a good day, that's just the way it is!

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

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

Good humor is the health of the soul, sadness is its poison.

Above all things let us never forget that mankind constitutes one great brotherhood; all born to encounter suffering and sorrow, and therefore bound to sympathize with each other.

It's time to say goodbye, but I think goodbyes are sad and I'd much rather say hello. Hello to a new adventure.

The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities.

It's a source of great sadness to me that my father died without having seen me do anything worthwhile. He was constantly having to make excuses for me.

I do believe that if you haven't learnt about sadness, you cannot appreciate happiness.

A teardrop on earth summons the King of heaven.

The display of grief makes more demands than grief itself. How few men are sad in their own company.

In deep sadness there is no place for sentimentality.

Words are less needful to sorrow than to joy.

Depression is the inability to construct a future.

My parents' divorce left me with a lot of sadness and pain and acting, and especially humour, was my way of dealing with all that.

Actually, the moment of victory is wonderful, but also sad. It means that your trip is ended.

In this world, full often, our joys are only the tender shadows which our sorrows cast.

Everything's complicated, even those things that seem flat in their bleakness or sadness.

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.

Red is the ultimate cure for sadness.

Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair.

It's time to say goodbye, but I think goodbyes are sad and I'd much rather say hello. Hello to a new adventure.

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.

I had sadness for breakfast.

One must not let oneself be overwhelmed by sadness.

Sadness is also a kind of defence.

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

Every life has a measure of sorrow, and sometimes this is what awakens us.

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.

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

My father's death, my move, and my frightening and difficult delivery created a tremendous amount of stress, pain, and sadness for me. I was practically devastated beyond recovery.

We tell our triumphs to the crowds, but our own hearts are the sole confidants of our sorrows.

Sadness flies away on the wings of time.

Sad will be the day for any man when he becomes contented with the thoughts he is thinking and the deeds he is doing - where there is not forever beating at the doors of his soul some great desire to do something larger; which he knows he was meant and made to do.

Those who don't know how to weep with their whole heart, don't know how to laugh either.

Nobody understands another's sorrow, and nobody another's joy.

The excursion is the same when you go looking for your sorrow as when you go looking for your joy.

Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us sorry but wise.

When sparrows build and the leaves break forth, My old sorrow wakes and cries.

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

It doesn't hurt to feel sad from time to time.

Nothing is more sad than the death of an illusion.

Oh, I am very weary, Though tears no longer flow; My eyes are tired of weeping, My heart is sick of woe.

For I have learned to look on nature, not as in the hour of thoughtless youth, but hearing oftentimes the still, sad music of humanity.

The word 'happy' would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.

We never taste happiness in perfection, our most fortunate successes are mixed with sadness.

A sad soul can kill quicker than a germ.

Let us remember that sorrow alone is the creator of great things.

Participate joyfully in the sorrows of the world. We cannot cure the world of sorrows, but we can choose to live in joy.

Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.

People are sad. People are broke. People are worried about money, people are worried that they're not enough and not amounting to anything and they don't feel good about themselves. People have rough times, and everybody's pretending it's not true, and we need to break that veneer.

It is a sad thing when men have neither the wit to speak well nor the judgment to hold their tongues.

When you are joyous, look deep into your heart and you shall find it is only that which has given you sorrow that is giving you joy. When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.

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.

I get mad. I get sad. I have all those emotions. But I just like to keep them to myself. I don't think my fans need to be bothered with if I'm mad or sad about something. I should just be concerned that they are keeping up with my music or I'm making them happy with my show.

Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow, it only saps today of its joy.

Make the most of your regrets; never smother your sorrow, but tend and cherish it till it comes to have a separate and integral interest. To regret deeply is to live afresh.

Sad people dislike the happy, and the happy the sad; the quick thinking the sedate, and the careless the busy and industrious.

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.

Live by this credo: have a little laugh at life and look around you for happiness instead of sadness. Laughter has always brought me out of unhappy situations.

Tears come from the heart and not from the brain.

The good times of today, are the sad thoughts of tomorrow.

There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power. They speak more eloquently than ten thousand tongues. They are the messengers of overwhelming grief, of deep contrition, and of unspeakable love.

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.

Let my soul smile through my heart and my heart smile through my eyes, that I may scatter rich smiles in sad hearts.

The sad truth is that opportunity doesn't knock twice.

If my world were to cave in tomorrow, I would look back on all the pleasures, excitements and worthwhilenesses I have been lucky enough to have had. Not the sadness, not my miscarriages or my father leaving home, but the joy of everything else. It will have been enough.

The tragedy of life is in what dies inside a man while he lives - the death of genuine feeling, the death of inspired response, the awareness that makes it possible to feel the pain or the glory of other men in yourself.

The walls we build around us to keep sadness out also keeps out the joy.

I think you have to know how you feel when you're sad and it's healthy to mourn if a relationship ends.

Tears are nature's lotion for the eyes. The eyes see better for being washed by them.

Heavy hearts, like heavy clouds in the sky, are best relieved by the letting of a little water.

You left and I cried tears of blood. My sorrow grows. Its not just that You left. But when You left my eyes went with You. Now, how will I cry?

I seldom think about my limitations, and they never make me sad. Perhaps there is just a touch of yearning at times; but it is vague, like a breeze among flowers.

Tears are the summer showers to the soul.

The saddest thing that befalls a soul is when it loses faith in God and woman.

Your joys and sorrows. You can never tell them. You cheapen the inside of yourself if you do tell them.

The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil.

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

Isn't it sad to go to your grave without ever wondering why you were born? Who, with such a thought, would not spring from bed, eager to resume discovering the world and rejoicing to be part of it?

They say it's better to bury your sadness in a graveyard or garden that waits for the spring to wake from its sleep and burst into green.

There is no sadder sight than a young pessimist.

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

And I remember going to the record studio and there was a park across the street and I'd see all the children playing and I would cry because it would make me sad that I would have to work instead.

Every human walks around with a certain kind of sadness. They may not wear it on their sleeves, but it's there if you look deep.

I've cried, and you'd think I'd be better for it, but the sadness just sleeps, and it stays in my spine the rest of my life.