Part of me is drawn to the nature of sadness because I think life is sad, and sadness is not something that should be avoided or denied. It's a fact of life, like contradictions are.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
We all have sadness in our life and things that we can draw upon.
Everyone feels sad occasionally. A full range of emotions is part of what makes us human.
For me, the opposite of happiness isn't sadness but boredom.
A sad person who is so involved with his sadness that he mistakes it for reality will have a hard time seeing himself as anything but sad. For him, the sadness is not a feeling that he experiences - it is him.
I actually think sadness and darkness can be very beautiful and healing.
Usually, I'm only sad when something sad happens. I am not a melancholic person. I like to live very much in the present. If I was an animal, I'd be a little cat. They like to live life.
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.
Sadness was something I was thinking about in my life outside of writing, so it wormed itself into whatever I wrote.
Humans have a sense of spontaneity and emotion. We have a dichotomy between grief and happiness.
Sadness does not inhere in things; it does not reach us from the world and through mere contemplation of the world. It is a product of our own thought. We create it out of whole cloth.