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

My heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains/ My sense, as though of hemlock I had drunk. ~ John Keats

Man could not live if he were entirely impervious to sadness. Many sorrows can be endured only by being embraced, and the pleasure taken in them naturally has a somewhat melancholy character. ~ Emile Durkheim

For of all sad words of tongue or pen, The saddest are these It might have been. ~ John Greenleaf Whittier

It seems to me that almost all our sadnesses are moments of tension, which we feel as paralysis because we no longer hear our astonished emotions living. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke

I know a cure for sadness: Let our hands touch something that makes your eyes smile. ~ Mirabai

The weight of sadness was in wonder lost. ~ William Wordsworth

A sad soul can kill you quicker, far quicker, than a germ. ~ John Steinbeck

Activity and sadness are incompatible. ~ Christian Nevell Bovee

Anger is just a cowardly extension of sadness. It’s a lot easier to be angry at someone that it is to tell them you're hurt. ~ Alanis Morissette

For all the sadness of closure, there is a new and joyful unfolding in the process of becoming. ~ Mary Casey

There's such a thing as too much happiness and sadness. What I'm after is contentment. ~ Ray Charles