Best Happiness Sadness Quotes

Don’t cry because it’s over. Smile because it happened.

Often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us.

We tend to forget that happiness doesn’t come as a result of getting something we don’t have, but rather of recognizing and appreciating what we do have.

Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness.

Happiness, sadness, loss and gain all pass away. What they do to us is what remains.

Laughter has always brought me out of unhappy situations.

Life’s about a hell of a lot more than being happy. It’s about feeling the full range of stuff: happiness, sadness, anger, grief, love, hate. If you try to shut one of those off, you shut them all off. I don’t want to be happy. I know I won’t live happily ever after. I want more than that, something richer. I want to go right up close to the beauty and the ugliness. I want to see it all, know it all, understand it all. The richness and the powerty, the joy and the cruelty, the sweetness and the sadness. That’s the best way I can honour my friends who died.

Chimpanzees are incredibly intelligent. They can learn more than 400 signs of American Sign Language. They have memories for spatial distribution, like numbers on a TV screen, way better than ours. You come onto the emotions: happiness, sadness, fear, and despair – all the things for which I was accused of being anthropomorphic when I ascribed them to chimpanzees.

I shouldn’t have named the chimps. It wasn’t scientific. I didn’t know. I knew nothing. And worse sin of all was that I was ascribing to them emotions like happiness, sadness and so forth.

Absolute silence leads to sadness. It is the image of death.

Every man has his secret sorrows.

Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad.

It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness.

We’re taught to be ashamed of confusion, anger, fear and sadness, and to me they’re of equal value to happiness, excitement and inspiration.