„I was never interested in what everybody else was interested in. I was very interiorized. I always felt kind of sad.“

— Tim Burton

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„So I took her hand, and I don't know what everybody else heard, but to me it sounded like a slow dance: a little sad, but maybe a little hopeful, too.“
— Rick Riordan
„I felt like crying but nothing came out. it was just a sort of sad sickness, sick sad, when you can’t feel any worse. I think you know it. I think everybody knows it now and then. but I think I have known it pretty often, too often.“
— Charles Bukowski
„I'm possessed by love — but isn't everybody? Most of my songs are love ballads and things to do with sadness and torture and pain.In terms of love, you're not in control and I hate that feeling. I seem to write a lot of sad songs because I'm a very tragic person. But there's always an element of humour at the end.“
— Freddie Mercury
„After writing a story I was always empty and both sad and happy, as though I had made love, and I was sure this was a very good story although I would not know truly how good until I read it over the next day.“
— Ernest Hemingway
„Sometimes in my very happiest moments, I feel like crying. My eyes grow dim, my heart seems to choke me. I would like to be sure, in such times of anguish, that everybody loves me; that there is nowhere in the world a sad dog behind a closed door, that no evil will ever come…“
— Colette
„And the silken sad uncertain rustling of each purple curtainThrilled me — filled me with fantastic terrors never felt before.“
— Edgar Allan Poe