“Suffering is a big informer, a big catalyst for creation. You take your sadness, your despair, your sense of injustice, and you put it in your work.” BigsSufferingSadnessCreationDespairInjusticeCatalystInformers Author:Madonna Ciccone
“You have to feel your own personal truth with a little ‘t’ – your sadness, rage, frustration for example -- in order to get to the Truth with a big ‘T’.” FeelsLittlesBigsOrderSadnessExampleRageFrustrationPersonal Truth Author:Derek Rydall
“It's usually a big kind of vent of frustration or anger or sadness that puts me in the right frame of mind to write. It's such a cliche to say that artists write when they're down, but it's true for me. It's a relief to get out what's eating away at my heart or my soul or my head.” WritingMindHeartKindSoulBigsArtistSadnessMy HeartEatingMy SoulReliefFrustrationClicheFrame Of Mind Author:Ellie Goulding
“When someone you love dies, you get a big bowl of sadness put down in front of you, steaming hot. You can start eating now, or you can let it cool and eat it bit by bit later one. Either way, you end up eating the whole thing. There's really no way around it.” WayEndsWholeBigsDiesBitsSadnessFrontsEatingHotBowlsOne You LoveSomeone You Love Author:Ralph Fletcher
“Sometimes it's like you're a big pie settin' on the table, and everybody runs up and gets their piece of you. When it's over' the plate's empty.” SometimesBigsRunningPiecesSadnessLike YouSadEmptyTablesPlatesPie Author:Loretta Lynn
“I’m a big fan of history—applying the lessons as well as the joys and sadness. If we pay attention, we would see how we affect each other. In terms of time, we are not that far from one another. If we were to look back a century, it would seem like a long time; but, if we look at it by decades then it’s only 10 years, and by generations it’s only five.” IfsYearsWellsLooksLongBigsSeemsJoyTermPayAttentionFiveGenerationsSadnessFansCenturyLessonsLong TimeDecadesPay AttentionJoy And Sadness Author:Nikki Giovanni
“One of the other experts we consulted with, this guy named Dacher Keltner, he was big on sadness as community bonding - I think is the word he used.” ThinkingBigsUsedGuyCommunitySadnessExpertsThis GuyBonding Author:Pete Docter
“Anger is about fairness. If it feels that you're getting ripped off or taken advantage of, that's when anger comes up. Sadness deals with loss. And I suddenly had this new revelation - it felt like to me - that those are all true, but the real, deeper reason we have emotions is to connect us together. And that felt big to me.” IfsFeelsRealReasonBigsTogetherFeltLossDealsEmotionTakenSadnessAdvantageCome UpDeeperRevelationsFairnessRippedTaken Advantage Author:Pete Docter
“There are those who thought that on The Big Day, December 21, 2012, the world would end. It did not. Indeed, little has changed, and that is the greatest sadness. After all the hype and all the hope, little seems to have changed.” WorldLittlesEndsBigsSeemsSadnessChangedHypeDecember Author:Neale Donald Walsch
“I don't need to manufacture trauma in my life to be creative. I have a big enough reservoir of sadness or emotional trauma to last me.” NeedsEnoughBigsLastsCreativeSadnessEmotionalTraumaBe CreativeReservoirsEmotional Trauma Author:Sting
“But mostly, I remembered what I’ve always believed. What my mom taught me. That while some things are just plain awful, most things in life can be seen either tragic or comic. And it’s your choice. Is life a big, long, tiresome slog from sadness to regret to guilt to resentment to self-pity? Or is life weird, outrageous, bizarre, ironic, and just stupid? Gotta go with stupid. It’s not the easy way out. Self pity is the easiest thing in the world. Finding the humor, the irony, the slight justification for a skewed, skeptical optimism. That’s tough. - Marco, Animorphs #35: The Proposal” WorldWayLongSelfBigsChoicesEasySadnessStupidTaughtRegretMomFindingsToughOptimismGuiltMy MomPityAwfulComicIronyRememberedTragicIronicResentmentThings In LifeJustificationBizarreProposalSkepticalOutrageousSelf PityEasy WayMarcosTiresome Author:Katherine Applegate
“There are two kinds of hope: the kind you couldn't do anything about and the kind you could. And even if the kind you could do something about wasn't what you'd originally wanted, it was still worth doing. A rainy day is better than no day. A small happiness can make a big sadness less sad.” IfsKindStillsTwoBigsWantedSadnessRainyRainy Day Book:The Story of Beautiful Girl Source: The Story of Beautiful Girl
“She recognized the strange happiness that came from loving something without knowing why you did, that strange happiness that was sometimes so big that it felt like sadness. It was the way she felt when she looked at the stars.” WaySometimesBigsStarsFeltKnowingSadnessStrangeLoving Something Author:Maggie Stiefvater
“Even the favorite reviews, the audience response is the movie is too slow, deliberately slow. But for the Chinese audience, the biggest complaint is it happens too quick. I think the historical background that build into our genes is different. American people has never been occupied. The deep sadness and sentimentality, the cultural background that relates to melodrama that we relate to and grow up with, the propaganda, I didn't imagine the difference is so big. It's a very interesting cultural phenomenon.” PeopleThinkingDifferentBigsHappensGrowsDifferencesInterestingAudienceGrowing UpImagineSadnessHistoricalResponseBackgroundsChineseRelatePropagandaPhenomenonReviewsGenesComplaintsVery InterestingSentimentalityMelodramaDeep Sadness Author:Ang Lee
“The big difference between human happiness and sadness? Thirty-seven freakin' vibrations.” HumansBigsInspirationMotivationDifferencesSadnessSevenThirtyVibrationsHuman HappinessHappiness And Sadness Author:Michael Tilson Thomas
“The greatest of men, they don't get too big to cry. They just loose faith in love and life.” MenBigsSadnessCryLife And LoveFaith In Love Author:Hank Williams, Jr.
“When the night wind starts to sing a lonesome lullaby, it helps to think we're sleeping underneath the same big sky.” ThinkingHelpingBigsNightSleepSadnessSkyWindLonesomeLullaby Author:Linda Ronstadt