“If we don't make earnest moves toward real solutions, then each day we move one day closer to revolution and anarchy in this country. This is the sad, and yet potentially joyous, state of America.”
Sadness is not a problem to be solved — it is a signal to be understood. These quotes sit with grief, melancholy, heartbreak, and loss without rushing to fix them, because sometimes the most helpful thing is knowing you are not the only one who feels this way.
“When I did the film Generations, in which the character died, I felt like a guest for the first time. That made me very sad.”
“If we don't make earnest moves toward real solutions, then each day we move one day closer to revolution and anarchy in this country. This is the sad, and yet potentially joyous, state of America.”
“Los Angeles can be a really sad city.”
“It's a sad man my friend who's livin' in his own skin and can't stand the company.”
“And in real life endings aren't always neat, whether they're happy endings, or whether they're sad endings.”
“If I get the forty additional years statisticians say are likely coming to me, I could fit in at least one, maybe two new lifetimes. Sad that only one of those lifetimes can include being the mother of young children.”
“We're sad about some of the losses of members of great seniority and distinction in the Congress, and some very new members, who will no longer be serving with us.”
“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?”
“You know, why at the end of your life should you assemble thousands of pages of 'Why am I so sad, why am I so depressed?' Instead, assemble thousands of pages of why you're so content.”
“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.”
“Sadness is but a wall between two gardens.”
“War is very sad and small life is pathetically fragile at times.”
“One must not let oneself be overwhelmed by sadness.”
“Falling in love is awesome, but I'm never drawn to happy songs per se, so whenever you sit down to write a heartbreak song and you're happily in love, it's like, 'OK, now I have to go back to a sad place to get something good.'”
“It's sad, something coming to an end. It cracks you open, in a way - cracks you open to feeling.”
“Wearing a tuxedo isn't as simple as it sounds. I've been to a lot of award shows in Hollywood over the years and have seen some pretty sad tuxes. It's surprisingly easy to go off the rails.”