The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil.

Hannah Arendt

Sad are only those who understand.

Arab Proverb

Melancholy is sadness that has taken on lightness.

Italo Calvino

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

Dr. Thomas Fuller

The greatness comes not when things go always good for you. But the greatness comes when you're really tested, when you take some knocks, some disappointments, when sadness comes. Because only if you've been in the deepest valley can you ever know how magnificent it is to be on the highest mountain.

Richard M. Nixon

It's a time of sorrow and sadness when we lose a loss of life.

George W. Bush

Never let go of that fiery sadness called desire.

Patti Smith

It is important for me to be with families who have experienced the same loss that I have. They understand how I feel. My sadness, my sense of desperation, and how I continue to search.

John Bish

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.

Isidore Ducasse Lautreamont

I guess it was part of their dream, not after the fact but before the fact when they were still dating they already had an interest in that ranch. There's a sadness to the story.

Guy Rocha

I love life...Yeah, I'm sad, but at the same time, I'm really happy that something could make me feel that sad. It's like...It makes me feel alive, you know. It makes me feel human. The only way I could feel this sad now is if I felt something really good before. So I have to take the bad with the good. So I guess what I'm feeling is like a beautiful sadness.

Trey Parker and Matt Stone

I love walking down the street and seeing faces and drama and happiness and sadness and dirt and cleanliness.

Ric Ocasek

There was such a hodgepodge of emotion, ... We're dealing with Woody's death, and all our heroes are showing up. It was sadness mixed with joy.

Warren Haynes

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

Pierre Corneille

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

Lord, make me an instrument of your peace; where there is hatred, let me sow love; where there is injury, pardon; where there is doubt, faith; where there is despair, hope; where there is darkness, light; and where there is sadness, joy.

St. Francis Of Assisi

I've been a thug since 1966, and this feels good. When people come up and you look into their faces and see all the sadness, and then they thank you like you are the one giving this stuff to them, it makes you tear up.

James Cox

Sadness flies away on the wings of time.

Jean de La Fontaine

We share the sadness that many feel about the closing of the restaurant. It's been an honor to be part of the fabric of Chicago.

Herman Berghoff

[I feel] an overwhelming sadness. I'm not an angry person. I have a big, loving family and a roster full of former teammates that I love and respect. But, I'm so heartbroken right now. I could never fathom this is how my hockey career would end.

Cammi Granato

We just want to say we appreciate the prayers for them, and extend our condolences and heartfelt sadness to the families.

Scott Ross

Ballet is just a vocabulary like English. Most classical ballets emphasize how high a woman can hold her leg, how skinny she is and all the tricks she can do. She may not ever have to express anything but extreme happiness or sadness. These ballets rarely interpret life. They are fables with princesses and fairies.

James Buckley

Does this explain the Kevin phenomenon? It might be behind the social ineptitude of early adolescents, the seeming inability to understand the two expressions that have this dip most strikingly - sadness and anger.

David Skuse

There were certainly feelings of regret and a deep profound sense of sorrow and sadness, that I was possibly involved in the death of this individual.

Thomas O'brien

If you think back and replay your year, if it doesn't bring you tears either of joy or sadness, consider it wasted.

Ally Mcbeal

Don't Make Assumptions. Find the courage to ask questions and to express what you really want. Communicate with others as clearly as you can to avoid misunderstandings, sadness and drama. With just this one agreement, you can completely transform your life.

Don Miguel Ruiz

Not only is there a right to be happy, there is a duty to be happy. So much sadness exists in the world that we are all under obligation to contribute as much joy as lies within our powers.

John S. Bonnell

One of the guys was giving soccer balls to the Iraqi kids and bam - a bomb blew up. All of the guys' families were there, and some of the mothers, you could see the sadness in their eyes. It just makes you appreciate what those guys are doing over there, it really makes you think.

Sean Casey

There's no real reason to feel afraid. I just feel sadness for the children.

Debbie Goodson

The music we wrote to accompany the film is very moody and atmospheric, and we tried to bring out the sadness from both the victims' and the killer's perspective. We've always been interested in how music enhances the cinematic experience.

Tim Kelley

It's real blues because there is kind of a sadness in it - the fact that those days are gone.

Luther Dickinson

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

Lord, make me an instrument of Your peace! Where there is hatred let me sow love; Where there is injury, pardon; Where there is doubt, faith; Where there is despair, hope; Where there is darkness, light; Where there is sadness, joy.

Saint Francis of Assisi

It's with a tremendous amount of sadness and regret that I announce this morning we've lost another one of our great Green Mountain Boys.

Martha Rainville

At that moment, my life crumbled from every angle and has since never been the same. My heart aches with sadness each and every day.

Jessica Rozek

The sadness of our existence should not leave us blunted, on the contrary - how to remain thin-skinned, vulnerable and stay alive?

Montgomery Clift

Cuba laments and expresses its profound sadness for the loss of so many innocent lives and expresses our absolute rejection of acts of terrorism, wherever they may come from.

Felipe Perez Roque

There is a sadness there that wasn't there before. But he doesn't think he's done yet. He's still got work to do.

Virginia Pearce

Do not judge men by mere appearances; for the light laughter that bubbles on the lip often mantles over the depths of sadness, and the serious look may be the sober veil that covers a divine peace and joy.

Edward Chapin

The real sadness of fifty is not that you change so much but that you change so little.

Max Lerner

We pray to bring God's presence to those who have no hope and despair in sadness. We go together out of love.

Cosette Schaaf

Courts are not immune to the sadness and tragedy that a case represents.

Jeffrey Miller

I don't think one is better than the other. I'm sure they're both experiencing enormous sadness.

Lauren Weitzman

While there are a lot of memories, there's really no sadness.

Terry Holland

We're all shocked and overcome with a great feeling of sadness.

Jane Smith

Human pain does not let go of its grip at one point in time. Rather, it works its way out of our consciousness over time. There is a season of sadness. A season of anger. A season of tranquility. A season of hope.

Robert Veninga

We all have a very strong feeling we are not going to get caught up in a whirlpool of sadness, frustration and anger. Everyone wants something good to come out of what happened to Josh.

Marilynn Rosenthal

The campus is devastated. Everyone's just feeling a lot of sadness.

James Conneely

The reality of abortion isn't political at all. Women don't come in here and say, 'I want to exercise my constitutional right.' It's a personal, emotional decision. Most women express relief, but some talk about sadness and loss.

Claire Keyes

There was no sadness or sorrow expressed at the cremation. We are actually happy because we will be spared of further international criticism because of Pol Pot.

Non Nou

Grief and sadness knits two hearts in closer bonds than happiness ever can; and common sufferings are far stronger than common joys.

Alphonse De Lamartine

You could see the sadness in their eyes.

Sean Casey

There was a pall, a certain sadness, because you knew an era was coming to an end.

Randy Moore

That's the center of the sadness that is Hollywood because nobody knows what is really authentic.

Gwen Davis

This is a terribly sad, heartbreaking day in Arizona women's basketball. I can't put into words the pain and sadness that we're all feeling right now.

Joan Bonvicini

It is finally complete. Four years ago in Sydney, I cried with sadness. Today I cry tears of joy. I'm living a moment of glory.

Hicham El Guerrouj

I know I'm going to cry but it'll be tears of joy not sadness.

Jackie Chapman

All pleasures contain an element of sadness.

Jonathan Eibeschutz

Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, a charm to sadness, and life to everything.

Plato

Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, a charm to sadness, gaiety and life to everything. It is the essence of order, and leads to all that is god, just, and beautiful, of which it is the invisible, but never less, dazzaling, passionate, and eternal form.

Plato

They're just trying to cope with what they see when they go out on the streets. They go out and see bodies, the sadness of the families. They're not used to that.

Dorothy Gibson

The experience wasn't just about volunteering and being amidst devastation and sadness and depression. You were really able to become a part of these people's lives.

Marissa Davis

I think the saddest moments in life have humor in them. I have a memory of coming home from a funeral with my family in the back of a limousine and someone cracking a joke and us just hysterically belly laughing. It's how we always dealt with tragedy in our lives and I think it's such a healthy way to deal with sadness.

Zach Braff

The death of such a treasured colleague will be a matter of enormous sadness to those who knew him and to all who care about Afghanistan's rebuilding.

Tom Koenigs

It is with great sadness that I have to leave the cast of 'High Society' as I am suffering from Epstein Barr Virus (Glandular Fever) which I first fell ill with last year.

Jerry Hall

Is there a little bit of sadness? Yeah you bet there is, but ... we'll have this together, forever.

Brian Duffy

On the one hand there is definitely rage and anger for the drunken driver of the car mixed with overwhelming sadness for the survivors.

Gene Kelly

We have lots of things to help people avoid, to distract them from their pain. That's the enemy - the worst thing in the world is to have people get into behaviors that are destructive to themselves or others. ... because they feel they can't handle sadness or anger. If people were more adept at experiencing their emotions, they might do less acting out because of them.

Karen Steinberg

The word 'happiness' would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.

Carl Jung

I have a great degree of sadness of seeing us depart from that market but I trade that off with a great deal of excitement about the team going into Singapore.

Rick Burton

We are taught to be ashamed of confusion, anger, fear and sadness, and to me they are of equal value as happiness excitement and inspiration.

Alanis Morissette

In depression you care about nothing. In sadness you care about everything.

Gloria Steinem

The essence of romantic love is that wonderful beginning, after which sadness and impossibility may become the rule.

Anita Brookner

Her sadness scares her, and it scares the heck out of him. It builds on itself.

Kristen Swanson

I'm not angry, but my feeling right now is just all sadness for my sister. We would like for that person to have the courage to come out so the family can have closure.

Kelly Le

I almost fell off the elliptical glider. So many emotions, which I had suppressed for so long, hit me. Pain, frustration, sadness n it was very unsettling, very overwhelming.

Anna Madorsky

Next week will be very tense, full of sadness and recollections about Sept. 11 ... Prudent investors may not want to commit money until after we cross that date.

Alan Ackerman

There are as many nights as days, and the one is just as long as the other in the year's course. 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.

Carl Gustav Jung

There's a lot of disappointment and sadness for David and his family, obviously.

Alan Chvotkin

Our hearts are full of sadness, yet at the same time (full) of joyful hope and profound gratitude.

Joseph Ratzinger

Today's turn of events brings me great sadness, ... I had hoped to keep this marriage together.

Donna Hanover

There is deterioration for some facial expressions, particularly sadness and anger, at puberty for boys and girls. If anything it's actually worse for girls.

David Skuse

It is with great sadness that I have learned of today's airliner crash near Athens, which has cost the lives of all on board. My sympathies go out to the families and friends of the victims and all those affected by this tragic event.

Jacques Barrot

There was such a hodgepodge of emotion. We're dealing with Woody's death, and all our heroes are showing up. It was sadness mixed with joy.

Warren Haynes

I do feel a sense of relief, but I feel a sense of sadness. I'm kind of relieved that it's over because it's been a long time; it's been 24 years. Our family was destroyed. I lost my son.

John Harmon

There's a little sadness to it, too because some of the guys that were lost over the years, that aren't here with us.

Harmon Killebrew

He has been a fantastic servant to Manchester United and there's sadness among United fans that he has left. But all good things come to an end.

Ally Mccoist

On behalf of the FA, I would like to express my deepest sadness at the passing away of Brian Clough.

Geoff Thompson

Red is the ultimate cure for sadness.

Bill Blass

One doesn't come away with great scorn for them out of this - but rather just sadness that they are so cautious to the point of not being helpful.

Robert Michael

It is with a mixture of sadness and excitement that I tender my resignation to you as an employee of the city of San Diego.

Augie Ghio

You think as time goes by, it'll get better, ... But it's just emptiness and sadness. Thank God I'm a religious person. And there better be a heaven, because I do a lot of talking to my son up there.

William Shea

I think people are buying out of early nostalgia and sadness. They are buying up things they loved about New Orleans.

Steve Yates

The biggest feeling is sadness and loss. And the fact that we'll never see her again.

Robert Mceady

Today we bury his remains in the earth as a seed of immortality. Our hearts are full of sadness, yet at the same time (full) of joyful hope and profound gratitude.

Pope Benedict Xvi

Everything's complicated, even those things that seem flat in their bleakness or sadness.

Nick Hornby

Kids often don't express their sadness in words. They often express sadness in behavior.

Dr. Erika Ryst

When people go through a divorce, they go through a grief process and the various stages of grief — anger, sadness, bargaining and finally wind up in acceptance.

Oliver Ross

This is not only a death, with all the sadness that brings, this is a killing. For that, we not only grieve that Terri has passed, but we grieve that our nation has allowed such an atrocity as this, and we pray that it will never happen again.

Terri Schiavo

Friday was just filled with anger, not so much sadness. As the weekend went on, it just got sadder and tougher.

Joe Scott

The possibility that many people would be reading her journal is really disquieting. She's feeling a combination of anger, certainly confusion, and just tremendous sadness.

Elliot Mintz

You think as time goes by, it'll get better. But it's just emptiness and sadness. Thank God I'm a religious person. And there better be a heaven, because I do a lot of talking to my son up there.

Eileen Shea

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 And Jules De Goncourt

I think I can go to Schuyler, ... Some feelings of sadness have melted away.

Earl Hamner

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. So, melancholy is morbid only when it occupies too much place in life; but it is equally morbid for it to be wholly excluded from life.

Emile Durkheim