“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.”
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.
“A sad soul can kill quicker than a germ.”
“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.”
“I was at the Olympic Games winning medals and I still doubted my image. I doubted what I looked like. That's sad.”
“It is sad to see a woman sacrificing the ties of the affections even to do good.”
“No matter how old and glorious the models, sad indeed is the woman who sees fashion as a means of self-expression rather than an agent of social control.”
“The attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon shook our nation to the core. Americans were deeply frightened, sad, and angry, and they rallied around a President who, at the time, showed impressive certitude and calm.”
“The sad and horrible conclusion is that no one cared that Jews were being murdered... This is the Jewish lesson of the Holocaust and this is the lesson which Auschwitz taught us.”
“Sad people dislike the happy, and the happy the sad the quick thinking the sedate, and the careless the busy and industrious.”
“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.”
“Los Angeles can be a really sad city.”
“I have a piece of great and sad news to tell you: I am dead.”
“They say geniuses mostly have great mothers. They mostly have sad fates.”
“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.”
“I'm not sad at all about turning 40.”
“Well the country songs themselves are three-chord stories, ballads which are mostly sad. If you are already feeling sorry for yourself when you listen to them they will take you to an even sadder place.”
“Hear me, my chiefs! I am tired. My heart is sick and sad. From where the sun now stands, I will fight no more forever.”