Sadness is to be affected by unhappiness or grief
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Realise that sadness is a natural part of life and the inevitable losses we experience
- One cannot be deeply responsive to the world without being saddened very often. Erich Fromm
- Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
- I do not believe anyone can be perfectly well, who has a brain and a heart. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
- So it’s true, when all is said and done, grief is the price we pay for love. A. Bucchianeri
- God is in the sadness and the laughter, in the bitter and the sweet. Neale Donald Walsch
- I think you have to deal with grief in the sense that you have to recognize that you have it, and say that it’s OK to have all the sadness. Ann Richards
- When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight. Kahlil Gibran
- We all build internal sea walls to keep at bay the sadnesses of life and the often overwhelming forces within our minds. In whatever way we do this–through love, work, family, faith, friends, denial, alcohol, drugs, or medication, we build these walls, stone by stone, over a lifetime. Kay Redfield Jamison
- Sadness is but a wall between two gardens. Kahlil Gibran
- Depression is the flaw in love. To be creatures who love, we must be creatures who can despair at what we lose, and depression is the mechanism of that despair. Andrew Solomon
- There’s a bit of magic in everything, and some loss to even things out. Lou Reed
- Loss
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Even happy life events can trigger some sadness
- Even happy life changes such as marriage and the arrival of a baby can trigger the emotion sadness. Big life changes usually bring losses of familiar conditions and feelings of identity. Amanda Harvey
- All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another. Viktor Frankl
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There can even be a kind of beauty in sadness
- You might find that inside the sadness, the grief, the despair lies something else too. Lies some kind of beauty, some kind of humanity, human understanding that understands that things are impermanent that nothing stays the same. That there is loss, that it’s not possible to control the whole universe, that even in terms of our bodies that this is something that is to a large extent a mystery. But it’s not all ugly it’s not all black. Jon Kabat-Zinn
- Melancholy is the pleasure of being sad. Victor Hugo
- Beauty
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If sadness is not expressed, it can lead to depression and illness
- If sadness is not acknowledged and expressed in a healthy way, it has the potential to lead to depression. The emotion sadness often occurs as a result of loss – real or perceived. Amanda Harvey
- Time engraves our faces with all the tears we have not shed. Natalie Clifford Barney
- The sorrow which has no vent in tears may make other organs weep. Henry Maudsley
- The scary thing is not being able to cry. Then your feelings build up and harden and die inside. That’s when you’re in big trouble. Haruki Murakami
- Remember that grief is a necessary pain. It’s your only way to heal. To starve it will destroy you. M. Boyce
- If you suppress grief too much, it can well redouble. Moliere
- Numbing the pain for a while will make it worse when you finally feel it. K. Rowling
- Depression, Illness
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Unless you feel sadness, it’s impossible to experience happiness and joy…
- You cannot protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from happiness. Jonathan Safran Foer
- Experiencing deep sadness can, sometimes, heighten your ability to feel joy. Markéta Irglová
- I believe you can’t feel real joy unless you’ve felt heartache. Kelly Cutron
- What is joy without sorrow? Mark Twain
- The truth is that in order for you to experience true happiness in your life, you must experience sadness. It’s required. Without sadness, we really can’t even understand what happiness is. Karl Moore
- The walls we build around us to keep sadness out also keeps out the joy. Jim Rohn
- I do believe that if you haven’t learnt about sadness, you cannot appreciate happiness. Nana Mouskouri
- Sadness and gladness succeed each other. Proverb
- Those who do not know how to weep with their whole heart don’t know how to laugh either. Golda Meir
- The secret of joy is the mastery of pain. Anaïs Nin
- Man stands in his own shadow and wonders why it’s dark. Zen Proverb
- When you are joyous, look deep into your heart and you shall find it is only that which has given you sorrow that is giving you joy. When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight. Kahlil Gibran
- After all, you can’t truly be happy if you’ve never known pain. You can’t truly feel joy if you’ve never felt heartbreak. You can’t know what it’s like to be filled unless you’ve been empty. Kelly Cutrone
- Happiness, Joy
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… for sadness gives roots to happiness
- Sadness gives depth. Happiness gives height. Sadness gives roots. Happiness gives branches. Happiness is like a tree going into the sky, and sadness is like the roots going down into the womb of the earth. Both are needed, and the higher a tree goes, the deeper it goes, simultaneously. The bigger the tree, the bigger will be its roots. In fact, it is always in proportion. That’s its balance. Osho
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Therefore, always allow yourself to feel sadness when it comes …
- If sadness is not acknowledged and expressed in a healthy way, it has the potential to lead to depression. The emotion sadness often occurs as a result of loss – real or perceived. Amanda Harvey
- The sorrow which has no vent in tears may make other organs weep. Henry Maudsley
- One’s suffering disappears when one lets oneself go, when one yields – even to sadness. Antoine de Saint- Exupéry
- The cure for pain is in the pain. Rumi
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Tears are a powerful healing force
- A very powerful way of being able to express and release negative emotions is through tears. Just as laughter allows us to express our joy, crying is a natural and healthy expression of pain and sorrow. Amanda Harvey
- Crying is one of the highest devotional songs. One who knows crying, knows spiritual practice. If you can cry with a pure heart, nothing else compares to such a prayer. Crying includes all the principles of Yoga. Kripalvanandji
- When you feel sadness inside, wipe it away by cries and tears! Toba Beta
- Tears are words the mouth can’t say nor can the heart bare. Joshua Wisenbaker
- Tears
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Share your sadness with others
- Shared joy is a double joy; shared sorrow is half a sorrow. Swedish Proverb
- I have learned now that while those who speak about one’s miseries usually hurt, those who keep silence hurt more. C. S. Lewis
- Friendship
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Treat your sorrows with compassion
- Our sorrows and wounds are healed only when we touch them with compassion. Buddha
- Compassion
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Time heals sadness
- Sadness flies away on the wings of time. Jean de La Fontaine
- Time
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Under the sadness, let there be peace
- You might find that inside the sadness, the grief, the despair lies something else too. Lies some kind of beauty, some kind of humanity, human understanding that understands that things are impermanent that nothing stays the same. That there is loss, that it’s not possible to control the whole universe, that even in terms of our bodies that this is something that is to a large extent a mystery. But it’s not all ugly it’s not all black. Jon Kabat-Zinn
- Inner peace
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Final thoughts
- Sadness flies on the wings of the morning and out of the heart of darkness comes the light. Jean Giraudoux
- The very first step of overcoming pain and sadness is accepting it; only after this acceptance has been established can you come up with a plan for recovery. Marc and Angel Chernoff
- You cannot prevent the birds of sorrow from flying over your head, but you can prevent them from building nests in your hair. Chinese Proverb
- Melancholy is at the bottom of everything, just as at the end of all rivers is the sea. Can it be otherwise in a world where nothing lasts, where all that we have loved or shall love must die? Is death, then, the secret of life? The gloom of an eternal mourning enwraps, more or less closely, every serious and thoughtful soul, as night enwraps the universe. Henri Frederic Amiel
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On a lighter note
- I too have known joy and sadness, and, on the whole, I prefer joy. Ashleigh Brilliant
- Pain: an uncomfortable frame of mind that may have a physical basis in something that is being done to the body, or may be purely mental, caused by the good fortune of others. Ambrose Bierce
- Sadness and silence, two things I keep in jars in my basement that I label “Warning: Do not open. Jarod Kintz
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