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I was never able to get through Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness. I've never been able to make it through. And I love the Smashing Pumpkins, they're one of my favorite bands ever, but I've never been able to listen to the whole thing all the way through.
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John Wozniak
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We had our unhappy moments but they got channelled into the kind of sadness that was necessary for singing a song about going nowhere. So it worked out very well I think.
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Tina Weymouth
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It's the poignancy and sadness in things that gets to me.
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Tracey Ullman
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Man, I was drowning in sadness. And Angelina, she lifted me right up out of there.
Author:
Billy Thornton
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It is so friendly so simply friendly and though inevitable not a sadness and though occurring not a shock.
Author:
Gertrude Stein
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Never let go of that fiery sadness called desire.
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Patti Smith
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My father's death, my move, and my frightening and difficult delivery created a tremendous amount of stress, pain, and sadness for me. I was practically devastated beyond recovery.
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Brooke Shields
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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.
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Percy Shelley
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I actually think sadness and darkness can be very beautiful and healing.
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Duncan Sheik
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I don't know whether there is anyone else at all who remembers my noble father with such sadness.
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Egon Schiele
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I sometimes use a lot of light greens and greys when I feel there is sadness in the painting.
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Robert Ryan
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Absolute silence leads to sadness. It is the image of death.
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Jean Rousseau
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Today we bury his remains in the earth as a seed of immortality. Our hearts are full of sadness, yet at the same time of joyful hope and profound gratitude.
Author:
Joseph Ratzinger
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A tragedy need not have blood and death; it's enough that it all be filled with that majestic sadness that is the pleasure of tragedy.
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Jean Racine
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In a world where there is so much sadness and so much to be afraid of, good things do happen to people. Romance is still something we can find even if we're not consciously looking for it.
Author:
Kathleen Quinlan
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The occasion of this sadness is expressed in a word, but must be considered in many more, as being the principal concernment both of the Text and Time.
Author:
John Pearson
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There is some sadness for me now about acting because it used to be that there was a reverence for actors.
Author:
Estelle Parsons
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One must not let oneself be overwhelmed by sadness.
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Jacqueline Onassis
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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.
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Conor Oberst
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I'm trying to make sure that there's comedy as well as sadness. It makes the sadness more memorable.
Author:
Rick Moody
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Well, the musicals give emphasis to love, longing, melancholy, sadness. All of that is always there.
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Ismail Merchant
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I think often sadness is a great place to get songs from.
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Sarah McLachlan
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I'm happy, I would say that I'm one of the happiest people I know but I've certainly had periods of profound sadness, depression and heartache and those are the kind of things that are interesting to me to write about.
Author:
Richard Marx
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Walt Disney was not a merchant of sadness.
Author:
James MacArthur
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You get used to sadness, growing up in the mountains, I guess.
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Loretta Lynn
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The real sadness of fifty is not that you change so much but that you change so little.
Author:
Max Lerner
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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.
Author:
Isidore Lautreamont
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The word "happiness" would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.
Author:
Carl Jung
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When we arrived in London, my sadness at leaving Paris was turned into despair. After my long stay in the French capital, huge, ponderous, massive London seemed to me as ugly a thing as man could contrive to make.
Author:
James Johnson
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Do you know most of the Jewish songs have the same trend of sadness as Negro spirituals?
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Mahalia Jackson
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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.
Author:
Eugene Ionesco
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Death remains about the one certain fact in the lives of each one of us, and there will be suffering, sorrow, and sadness next week as there was last week.
Author:
Basil Hume
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Everything's complicated, even those things that seem flat in their bleakness or sadness.
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Nick Hornby
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We get more dangerous as we accumulate knowledge, and that's both a sadness and something to control, try to learn to live with, make terms with.
Author:
Lou Harrison
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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.
Author:
Edmond Goncourt
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Sadness is but a wall between two gardens.
Author:
Khalil Gibran
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An ounce of cheerfulness is worth a pound of sadness to serve God with.
Author:
Thomas Fuller
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I've written several deeply personal songs this year, which I really love. Some of them came out of intense sadness. This has been an extremely difficult year for me.
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David Friedman
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Sadness flies away on the wings of time.
Author:
Jean Fontaine
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There's a sadness to the human condition that I think music is good for. It gives a counterpoint to the visual beauty, and adds depth to pictures that they wouldn't have if the music wasn't there.
Author:
Mike Figgis
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Sadness does not inhere in things; it does not reach us from the world and through mere contemplation of the world. It is a product of our own thought. We create it out of whole cloth.
Author:
Emile Durkheim
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Music is amazing. There's some metaphysical comfort where it allows you to be isolated and alone while telling you that you are not alone... truly, the only cure for sadness is to share it with someone else.
Author:
Wayne Coyne
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Good humor is the health of the soul, sadness is its poison.
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Lord Chesterfield
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I have seen him set fire to his wigwam and smooth over the graves of his fathers... clap his hand in silence over his mouth, and take the last look over his fair hunting ground, and turn his face in sadness to the setting sun.
Author:
George Catlin
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There's a feeling of elation that comes after getting off stage and then there's a feeling of utter sadness that comes after getting off the stage.
Author:
Neve Campbell
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I felt a tremendous sadness for men who can't deal with a woman of their own age.
Author:
Michael Caine
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In deep sadness there is no place for sentimentality.
Author:
William Burroughs
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Most poets in their youth begin in adolescent sadness. I find it more rewarding to end in gladness.
Author:
James Broughton
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The essence of romantic love is that wonderful beginning, after which sadness and impossibility may become the rule.
Author:
Anita Brookner
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I had no idea that mothering my own child would be so healing to my own sadness from my childhood.
Author:
Susie Bright
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Red is the ultimate cure for sadness.
Author:
Bill Blass
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I know what it's like to have someone coming home who looks at you not in the way they used to in the old days, and I've seen my own face contorted with sadness and rage in the mirror.
Author:
Jane Birkin
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Beauty is the disinterested one, without which the ancient world refused to understand itself, a word which both imperceptibly and yet unmistakably has bid farewell to our new world, a world of interests, leaving it to its own avarice and sadness.
Author:
Hans Balthasar
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I think we all have a lot of darkness in our bellies. As an actor, the challenge of tapping into that, reaching down into that sadness or anger, is very therapeutic.
Author:
Kevin Bacon
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When sadness happens in the middle of work, I separate my personal grief from my train of thought.
Author:
Sergio Aragones
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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.
Author:
Maya Angelou
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Sadness is also a kind of defence.
Author:
Ivo Andric
