Definition of Sadness

Sadness

Heaviness; firmness.

Seriousness; gravity; discretion.

Quality of being sad, or unhappy; gloominess; sorrowfulness; dejection.

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Being, Dejection, Discretion, Firmness, Gloominess, Gravity, Heaviness, Of, Or, Quality, Sad, Unhappy

Sadness Quotations

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.
Audrey Hepburn

The sadness of the women's movement is that they don't allow the necessity of love. See, I don't personally trust any revolution where love is not allowed.
Maya Angelou

Sadness is but a wall between two gardens.
Khalil Gibran

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

Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better take things as they come along with patience and equanimity.
Carl Jung

The word "happiness" would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.
Carl Jung

It is so friendly so simply friendly and though inevitable not a sadness and though occurring not a shock.
Gertrude Stein

Bad things do happen; how I respond to them defines my character and the quality of my life. I can choose to sit in perpetual sadness, immobilized by the gravity of my loss, or I can choose to rise from the pain and treasure the most precious gift I have - life itself.
Walter Anderson

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.
Jerome K. Jerome

One must not let oneself be overwhelmed by sadness.
Jackie Kennedy

In deep sadness there is no place for sentimentality.
William S. Burroughs

Absolute silence leads to sadness. It is the image of death.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau

An ounce of cheerfulness is worth a pound of sadness to serve God with.
Thomas Fuller

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.
Red Skelton

The great sadness of my life is that I never achieved the hour newscast, which would not have been twice as good as the half-hour newscast, but many times as good.
Walter Cronkite

Change is certain. Peace is followed by disturbances; departure of evil men by their return. Such recurrences should not constitute occasions for sadness but realities for awareness, so that one may be happy in the interim.
Percy Bysshe Shelley

Half of the secular unrest and dismal, profane sadness of modern society comes from the vain ideas that every man is bound to be a critic for life.
Henry Van Dyke

Sadness flies away on the wings of time.
Jean de La Fontaine

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.
Edmond De Goncourt

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

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

When sadness happens in the middle of work, I separate my personal grief from my train of thought.
Sergio Aragones

No society has been able to abolish human sadness, no political system can deliver us from the pain of living, from our fear of death, our thirst for the absolute. It is the human condition that directs the social condition, not vice versa.
Eugene Ionesco

The sadness of the incomplete, the sadness that is often Life, but should never be Art.
E. M. Forster

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.
Conor Oberst

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.
Conor Oberst

It's the poignancy and sadness in things that gets to me.
Tracey Ullman

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

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

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.
Kevin Bacon

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Sadness Translations

sadness in Dutch is zieleleed, bedroefdheid
sadness in Italian is tristezza
sadness in Norwegian is sorg
sadness in Spanish is tristeza
sadness in Swedish is sorg, vemod

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