Leigh Hunt Quotes

I've always been very supported. I've never really been sad. I've just been broke. They are very different things.

I know I can feel bad, when I get in a bad mood, and the world can look so sad, only you make me feel good.

Can you suppose there's any harm in looking as cheerful and being as cheerful as our poor circumstances will permit?

Why don't people just accept that life is sad and cheer up? After all, it's not going to last for ever.

I've not been able to avoid periods of time where I felt super-lonely. Luckily, I have a side that is able to always see the glass as half-full.

Life satisfaction essentially measures cheerful moods, so it is not entitled to a central place in any theory that aims to be more than a happiology.

I used to be so intensely preoccupied by unhappiness... now there are times where you might get down, but you can move on much faster now.

Cheerfulness is the best promoter of health and is as friendly to the mind as to the body.

I don't have many sad days.

I am still determined to be cheerful and to be happy in whatever situation I may be, for I have also learnt from experianence that the greater part of our happiness or misary depends upon our dispositions, and not upon our circumstances; we carry the seeds of the one, or the other about with us, in our minds, wherever we go.

Sometimes, when I talk to someone who has just been diagnosed with cancer or some other illness, I'll remind them: "If you were honest with yourself, you were depressed before this happened. And if this were over you would be happy for a couple of weeks, a couple of months, and then something else would come along."

I could see no reason for being sad. It´s just that it makes me unhappy not to feel happy.

To win ones joy through struggle is better than to yield to melancholy.

The trick is not how much pain you feel - but how much joy you feel

When you're sad and when you're lonely and you haven't got a friend, just remember that death is not the end.

[Grateful] Cheerfulness is health; its opposite, [ungrateful] melancholy, is disease.

Why do people spend their time being sad when they could be happy?

It's healthy to admit you're not ok. 'It's ok not to be ok' it's brave. But don't let it win. Be sad. Have your moment, your day or week. Then do something about it and be happy. For yourself.

As we have said, robust souls are sometimes almost, but not entirely, overthrown by strokes of misfortune....Despair has steps leading upward. From total depression we rise to despondency, from despondency to affliction, from affliction to melancholy. Melancholy is a twilight state in which suffering transmutes into a somber joy....Melancholy is the enjoyment of being sad.

Gaiety is the soul's health; sadness is its poison.

To me it comes naturally, the peaks and valleys, sadness with happiness. I've definitely had periods, maybe, where I haven't been happy. Whether it's from a breakup or the good, old-fashioned blues - but I wouldn't say clinically depressed.

You can't keep the birds of sadness from flying over your head, but you can keep them from nesting in your hair.

To me, sadness and humor aren't disrelated and humor is the best tool I've had against the sadness in my life.

Unhappiness is something we are never taught about; we are taught to expect happiness, but never a Plan B to use to use when the happiness doesn't arrive.

I think every human being has a level of melancholy in life and in general.