214 quotes found
“Red is the ultimate cure for sadness.”
“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. ”
“Sadness is also a kind of defence.”
“One must not let oneself be overwhelmed by sadness.”
“I had sadness for breakfast.”
“Everything's complicated, even those things that seem flat in their bleakness or sadness.”
“I think coldness is chic among writers, and particularly ironic coldness. What is absolutely not allowable is sadness. People will do anything rather than to acknowledge that they are sad.”
“When I get depressed, I try to get something for the terrible sadness that comes over me and create something in terms of poetry.”
“I have sadness in me. I have anger in me. I have heartbreak in me.”
“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...”
“I think a certain amount of anger has been a fuel of mine, if you want - but also some sort of sadness, and plain mischief, of course.”
“There is something sinister, something quite biographical about what I do - but that part is for me. It's my personal business. I think there is a lot of romance, melancholy. There's a sadness to i...”
“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.”
“Humor without sadness underneath it feels cheap and aggressive.”
“I think it's hilarious at 40 years old to bring out my roller skates from 'Starlight Express.' I find the humor and even the sadness in it hilarious and something to celebrate.”
“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 ma...”
“What you must understand about me is that I’m a deeply unhappy person.”
“He awoke each morning with the desire to do right, to be a good and meaningful person, to be, as simple as it sounded and as impossible as it actually was, happy. And during the course of each day ...”
“Tell the truth through whichever veil comes to hand – but tell it. Resign yourself to the lifelong sadness that comes from never being satisfied.”
“What a sad story, I thought for so long. Not that I now think it was happy. But I think it is true, and thus the question of whether it is sad or happy has no meaning whatever.”
