Nicholas Sparks Quotes

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.

Even a happy life has a sad day. We fail to provide a context which says it's okay to cry, it's okay to be sad. So I think making the space for suffering is so important and making space for this expression of feelings in community.

I work extremely hard to stay positive and happy. But I get sad and anxious, too, just like everyone.

I don't have many sad days.

Just because I'm talking about something that might have been a sad or painful situation doesn't mean that I'm sad or tortured 24 hours a day any more than anybody else is.

Everyone feels sad occasionally. A full range of emotions is part of what makes us human.

I cry a lot, and I have no problem with that at all. Listening to your emotions is part of being alive.

At the end of the day, I'm a person. I have feelings. I get tired. I get sad.

If you have things that make you sad, express them to other people.

I don't know what happiness is. I have periods of feeling joyous and peaceful and excited about what I'm doing, but I am also frequently very sad.

I guess I'm pretty emotional.

Do not apologize for crying. Without this emotion, we are only robots.

I like to be sad once in a while. You need it for your equilibrium.

Everyone has emotions; you just learn to use then and be comfortable with them.

The goal of a life free of dysphoria is a snare and a delusion. A better goal is of good commerce with the world. Authentic happiness, astonishingly, can occur even in the presence of authentic sadness.

Well, you can't be depressed and sad 24 hours a day.

When you feel good is when you're not afraid to feel the worst.

I'm very free with all my emotions, whether it's happy, sad, mad, glad, whatever.

I'm a human being. I feel all emotions. I'm not just happy all the time. Sometimes, I'm sad and feel the blues. Sometimes I even want to feel the blues. Sometimes, you want to feel down.

I would hate to think I'm promoting sadness as an aesthetic. But I grew up in not just a family but a town and a culture where sadness is something you're taught to feel shame about. You end up chronically desiring what can be a very sentimental idea of love and connection. A lot of my work has been about trying to make a space for sadness.

I'm very sensitive and I'm quite a soft person, and I cry a lot when things upset me.

I don't know what to say to that, but I have to agree with Johnny that, yeah, we do touch upon things that most men would rather not admit: That we feel pain, we cry, get sad and sometimes don't deal well with disappointment.

A lot of me is very up, and you have to have light and shade. They are both important and you have to be able to balance them. You have to admit that sadness is part of you and that it enriches you. I use it in my work.

Am I melancholy? I certainly have moments. I like to think there's a capacity for joy as well.

Sometimes, I cry because I'm sad, and sometimes, I cry just because it's just emotional and it's super awesome.