“She was a genius of sadness, immersing herself in it, separating its numerous strands, appreciating its subtle nuances. She was a prism through which sadness could be divided into its infinite spectrum.”
Source: Everything Is Illuminated
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That's when it's really sad.
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On the "chin-up sad" tone of one of his new songs on his upcoming album "Continuum"
Interview with Bill Moyers http://www.pbs.org/now/transcript/transcript_leonard.html, Now, PBS (28 November 2003)
Context: The culture as a whole is losing its individual notes, its diversity. And this is… it's not only sad. It's devastating. It's devastating because routine language means routine thought. And it means unquestioning thought. It means if I can't — if new words cannot occur to me and new image does not occur to me, then what I'm doing is I'm simply repeating what I've heard.
And what we hear from an overpowering cultural force and the forces of homogenization, what we hear is sell, sell, buy, buy. That's it. That is the function.
“Love has, at its best, made the inherent sadness of life bearable, and its beauty manifest.”
Source: An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness
“Good humor is the health of the soul, sadness its poison. ”