Emma Thompson Quotes

The saddest songs are written when a person is happy.

I was happier before, when I lead a normal life.

I have the deepest respect for Eva Gabrielsson and all she has gone through, but I also know that I make maybe her sad, and I am sad about that, but I make so many other people happy.

My music has to be funny and sad and happy and loving; it's gotta have it all. When somebody's just too dark all the time, it's just drama. Or if somebody's too funny? Well, I like being too funny sometimes.

My favorite pieces that I've written, either for St. Lucia or for myself, have always had a transporting quality to them, where they take you out of the moment and somewhere positive that feels nostalgic and happy but sad at the same time.

All the best songs have an element of sadness.

During the course of a day, some dark feeling comes, maybe some sadness comes, some thrill, some great happiness, some strange humor. Cinema can embrace all that in one story, just as the story of life.

(...) Since I was a kid." "Which you refer to as 'back when you were happy.'" "Right.

We never do anything consciously for the last time without sadness of heart.

I love that feeling of when it's touching and it makes you happy but there's a melancholy or bittersweet glaze to it.

When you get older, it feels like happy memories and sad memories are pretty much the same thing. It is all just emotion in the end. And any of it can make you weep.

And now I have to stop. Because every time I remember this, I have to cry a little by myself. I don't know why something that made me so happy then feels so sad now. Maybe that is the way it is with the best memories.

Albums that remind me of my childhood happiness make me incredibly sad now.

She was sad about what happened to Kostos. And someplace under that, she was sad that people like Bee and Kostos, who had lost everything, were still open to love, and she, who'd lost nothing, was not.

Originally, the lyrics to "Girl" were really upbeat, and then it didn't work for me somehow. You need the dichotomy. If you're doing something happy and light, you need the shadows.

And nothing to look backward to with pride, and nothing to look forward to with hope.

The faintest gleam of their lost memories glimmered for the briefest moment in their hearts.

I miss us, too. I always have, and probably always will

If only…the saddest words in the English language.

Each substance of a grief has twenty shadows.

What stays with me most is a general sense of loss, unease, and longing for the past that cannot be relieved.

Most of us don't know about happiness until it's over.

I don't know what else to tell you. I often think how different my life would have been - how much happier - if you'd been a part of it. One day.

Sometimes the saddest stories take the fewest words.

The longer and more carefully we look at a funny story, the sadder it becomes.