Sadness is also a kind of defence.

Sadness is also a kind of defence.

When I am not desperate, I am worthless.

What can and doesn't have to be always, at the end, surrenders to something that has to be.

There is no rule without revolts and conspiracies, even as there is no property without work and worry.

Lands of great discoveries are also lands of great injustices.

Searching for what I need, and I don't even know precisely what that is, I was going from a man to a man, and I saw that all of them together have less than me who has nothing, and that I left to each of them a bit of that what I don't have and I've been searching for.

Between the fear that something would happen and the hope that still it wouldn't, there is much more space than one thinks. On that narrow, hard, bare and dark space a lot of us spend their lives.

If people would know how little brain is ruling the world, they would die of fear.

One shouldn't be afraid of the humans. Well, I am not afraid of the humans, but of what is inhuman in them.

When I am not desperate I am worthless.

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

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.

There is some sadness for me now about acting because it used to be that there was a reverence for actors.

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

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

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.

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.

We all have sadness in our life and things that we can draw upon.

Sadness is also a kind of defence.

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.

Vegas means comedy, tragedy, happiness and sadness all at the same time.

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.

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.

I'm trying to make sure that there's comedy as well as sadness. It makes the sadness more memorable.

After I had given up to go, the thoughts of the journey were often attended with unusual sadness, at which times my heart was frequently turned to the Lord with inward breathings for his heavenly support, that I might not fail to follow him wheresoever he might lead me.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

In deep sadness there is no place for sentimentality.

I felt a tremendous sadness for men who can't deal with a woman of their own age.

I don't need to manufacture trauma in my life to be creative. I have a big enough reservoir of sadness or emotional trauma to last me.

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.

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.

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.

I feel a sense of sadness and joy. Mostly sadness though about what I've experienced and sadness about what others have experienced in reference to the stroke.

I don't know whether there is anyone else at all who remembers my noble father with such sadness.

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

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

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.

I do believe that if you haven't learnt about sadness, you cannot appreciate happiness.

I had no idea that mothering my own child would be so healing to my own sadness from my childhood.

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.

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