Glen Hansard Quotes

The word 'happiness' would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.

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.

Sadness can find you anywhere, anytime, so you better have fun when you can.

And I believe happiness is the exact opposite of sadness, bitterness, and hatred: happiness should remain unexamined as long as possible.

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

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.

There is neither happiness nor misery in the world; there is only the comparison of one state with another, nothing more. He who has felt the deepest grief is best able to experience supreme happiness.

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.

A person can't know what happiness is without experiencing sadness. And I think that's healthy.

Passively accepting your sadness is the same as forgetting to build your own happiness. Happiness is more than a mood. It's a long-lasting state that is more accurately called well-being.

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

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

So far, at least, I haven't found a way to tell my kind of stories without making them both sad and funny.

I honestly believe life is a combination of laughter and tears, and it's almost always better to laugh than to cry.

If I'm laughing, you know I'm either very happy or very sad. I cope with things with jokes.

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.

I guess happiness is not a state you want to be in all the time.

The saddest songs are written when a person is happy.

I don't have many sad days.

Certainly, I think being depressed is absolutely part of the human condition, it has to be, if there's joy there's its opposite, and it's something you ride if you possibly can.

I, I don't think anybody's continually happy, uh, except idiots, you know. You know, you have to have little moments of depression.

We're always experiencing joy or sadness. But there are lots of people who've closed down. And there are times in one's life when one has to close down just to regroup.

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.

Generally, I'm not sad. I mean, everyone has sad moments.

Good humor is the health of the soul, sadness is its poison.