#sadder

Somehow, it seems that the sadder a song is, the happier I feel. The release of emotions that many would label as 'negative' is actually a liberating process for me. ↗

— Grey DeLisle

#emotions #feel #happier #i #i feel

It is sad not to love, but it is much sadder not to be able to love. ↗

— Miguel de Unamuno

#able #much #sad #sadder #to love

It were a real increase of human happiness, could all young men from the age of nineteen be covered under barrels, or rendered otherwise invisible; and there left to follow their lawful studies and callings, till they emerged, sadder and wiser, at the age of twenty-five. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

#barrels #could #covered #emerged #follow

No feature of the Obama presidency has been sadder than its constant efforts to divide us, to curry favor with some Americans by castigating others. ↗

— Mitch Daniels

#constant #curry #divide #efforts #favor

If I make a song where I'm happy, I sound completely mad - I think my voice is better-suited for sadder songs. ↗

— Jessie Ware

#happy #i #i think #mad #make

Well the country songs themselves are three-chord stories, ballads which are mostly sad. If you are already feeling sorry for yourself when you listen to them they will take you to an even sadder place. ↗

— Willie Nelson

#ballads #country #even #feeling #listen

I'm more prone to his '70s material, which is what I was around for and watched a lot. I listen to a lot of that stuff. It probably influenced me quite a bit. I'm more drawn to the darker, sadder songs. ↗

— Lisa Marie Presley

#bit #darker #drawn #his #i

Can anything be sadder than work left unfinished? Yes, work never begun. ↗

— Christina G. Rossetti

#begun #left #never #sadder #than

My earlier poems were sadder than my poems are today, perhaps because I wrote them in confusion or when I was unhappy. But I am not a melancholy person, quite the contrary, no one enjoys laughing more than I do. ↗

— Anne Stevenson

#because #confusion #contrary #earlier #enjoys

There is no sadder sight than a young pessimist. ↗

— Mark Twain

#sadder #sight #than #young