„This next song is about how sad I am. It's about all the sad stuff; just picture a depressed onion cutting itself.“

what. (2013)

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Bo Burnham10

American comedian, musician, and actor 1990

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„Gentle lady, do not sing
Sad songs about the end of love;
Lay aside sadness and sing
How love that passes is enough.

Sing about the long deep sleep
Of lovers that are dead, and how
In the grave all love shall sleep:
Love is aweary now.“

— James Joyce, book Chamber Music

Source: Chamber Music

Love, Sadness, Lovers, Sleep

„Gay was oft my song when I was gay, sad it is now that I am sad.“
Laeta fere laetus cecini, cano tristia tristis.

— Ovid, book Epistulae ex Ponto

III, ix, 35; translation by Arthur Leslie Wheeler
Epistulae ex Ponto (Letters From the Black Sea)

Sadness

„I would not know how I am supposed to feel about many stories if not for the fact that the TV news personalities make sad faces for sad stories and happy faces for happy stories.“

— Dave Barry American writer 1947

Sadness, Feeling, Personality, Happiness

„Fa-Fa-Fa-Fa-Fa-Fa-Fa-Fa-Fa Fa-Fa-Fa-Fa-Fa-Fa-Fa-Fa
I keep singing them sad sad songs, y'all.
Sad songs is all I know.
I keep singing them sad sad songs, y'all.
Sad songs is all I know.
It has a sweet melody tonight
Anybody can sing it any old time.
What's in your heart puts you in a groove
And when you sing this song,
It'll make you're whole body move.“

— Otis Redding American singer, songwriter and record producer 1941 - 1967

Fa-Fa-Fa-Fa-Fa (Sad Song), co-written with Steve Cropper.
Song lyrics, Complete & Unbelievable: The Otis Redding Dictionary of Soul (1966)

Sadness, Singing, Time, Heart

„We are Sex Bob-Omb and we are here to make you think about death and get sad and stuff!“

— Bryan Lee O'Malley Artist 1979

Source: Scott Pilgrim, Volume 1: Scott Pilgrim's Precious Little Life

Death, Sadness, Sex, Thinking

„When I think about the kinds of movies that make me cry, that make tears come to my eyes, I usually don't think about sad films. Sad films, I sort of just look at it. It's movies that are about selflessness, that are about sacrifice, about humans that believe in the good of the human race that sometimes move me.“

— Roger Ebert American film critic, author, journalist, and TV presenter 1942 - 2013

Roger Ebert's DVD commentary for Casablanca

Sadness, Thinking, Tear, Cry

„There is no point treating a depressed person as though she were just feeling sad, saying, 'There now, hang on, you'll get over it.' Sadness is more or less like a head cold- with patience, it passes. Depression is like cancer.“

— Barbara Kingsolver, The Bean Trees

Source: The Bean Trees

Sadness, Feeling, Personality, Patience

„It is not possible to express the most precious insights,
To see all that craves to be seen,
To visit even the closest neighbors in the universe,
To learn all that needs to be learned,
To live without dying,
And I am sad about it.
But I lived
And I am happy about that.“

— Dejan Stojanovic poet, writer, and businessman 1959

Sadness and Happiness http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/sadness-and-happiness-2/
From the poems written in English

Sadness, Learning, Universe, Happiness

„Yes, I am sad, sad as a circus-lioness, sad as an eagle without wings, sad as a violin with only one string and that one broken, sad as a woman who is growing old. Sad, sad, sad…“

— Jean Rhys, book Good Morning, Midnight

Source: Good Morning, Midnight

Sadness

„Songs are as sad as the listener.“

— Jonathan Safran Foer, book Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

Source: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

Sadness

„Thinking about spaghetti that boils eternally but is never done is a sad, sad thing.“

— Haruki Murakami, book Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman

Source: Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman

Sadness, Thinking

„I got turned down for a role on UPN and I was really, really down… now how sad is that to be depressed for not getting a role on UPN?“

— Don Stark American actor 1954

Interview from 1998 https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0823155/bio?ref_=nm_ov_bio_sm.

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„Turn them on, turn them on,
Turn on those sad songs.
When all hope is gone,
Why don't you tune in and turn them on?They reach into your room,
Just feel their gentle touch.
When all hope is gone,
Sad songs say so much.“

— Elton John English rock singer-songwriter, composer and pianist 1947

Sad Songs
Song lyrics, Breaking Hearts (1984)

Sadness, Hope, Feeling

„The songwriting style, to me, is superior… there was a certain amount of joy in it, no matter how sad the song is.“

— M. Ward singer-songwriter and guitarist 1973

On songwriting styles of the post-World War II era, in an interview with Bob Boilen on All Songs Considered (17 November 2006) http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=15961159 (NPR)
Context: The songwriting style, to me, is superior... there was a certain amount of joy in it, no matter how sad the song is. You get joy in listening to these Buddy Holly or Roy Orbison sad lyrics. I'm attracted to songs that have balance between the darks and the lights and giving them all equal opportunity.

Sadness, Joy