Wilhelm von Humboldt Quotes

Both the ancestry and posterity of Grief go further than the ancestry and posterity of Joy.

I'm filled with a new joy mixed with old grief.

We may thank God that we can feel pain and know sadness, for these are the human sentiments that constitute our glory as well as our grief.

A lot of people think they should be happy all the time. But the writer understands you need both. You need the whole piano: the richness of the whole human experience. Depression, suffering and anger are all part of being human.

The saddest songs are written when a person is happy.

Our lives are full of all the genres. Fear and hope and sadness.

Anyone who has to write an obituary for me one day will probably say, 'She did absolute depths of agony really well.' I'm not, however, an unhappy person.

In art there are tears that lie too deep for thought.

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

Life is a very emotional experience.

It's fun to get really intense and emotionally detailed and complicated.

In any really good subject, one has only to probe deep enough to come to tears.

I find Spike Jones' movies to be really very inventive and funny, but they're really sad and touching and really key into the different facets of the human experience.

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.

A life of both sadness and blissfulness is multi-dimensional; it moves in all dimensions together. Watch the statue of Buddha or sometimes look into my eyes and you will find both together - a blissfulness, a peace, a sadness also.

It's sad when you think about it, but also kind of beautiful.

To be sorry and glad together is to be perceptive to the richness of life.

Kathy Nightingale: What's good about sad? Sally Sparrow: It's happy for deep people.

Life consists of sadness too. And sadness is also beautiful; it has its own depth, its own delicacy, its own deliciousness, its own taste. A man is poorer if he has not known sadness; he is impoverished, very much impoverished. His laughter will be shallow, his laughter will not have depth, because depth comes only through sadness. A man who knows sadness, if he laughs, his laughter will have depth. His laughter will have something of his sadness too, his laughter will be more colorful.

I love life... Well yeah, and I'm sad, but at the same time I'm really happy that something could make me feel that sad. It's like, it makes me feel alive, you know? It makes me feel human. And the only way I could feel this sad now is if I felt somethin' really good before. So I have to take the bad with the good, so I guess what I'm feelin' is like a, beautiful 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.

What people call unemotional just doesnt have a single overriding emotion to it. The things that I like best are the ones that ambiguous on the emotional level.

We aren't robots. What makes us exceptional as humans, is that we have the capacity to feel as many emotions all at once.