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

Loretta Lynn

Growing up

Mountains

Sadness

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

Max Lerner

Change

Sadness

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

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

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.

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

Do you know most of the Jewish songs have the same trend of sadness as Negro spirituals?

Mahalia Jackson

Sadness

Songs

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.

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

Nick Hornby

Sadness

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.

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.

Lou Harrison

Knowledge

Control