One should either be sad or joyful. Contentment is a warm sty for eaters and sleepers.
First, accept sadness. Realize that without losing, winning isn't so great.
Sadness is also a kind of defence.
Red is the ultimate cure for sadness.
Everything's complicated, even those things that seem flat in their bleakness or sadness.
You have to let it all hang out, let go of the ideas that were more comfortable and embrace some of the sadness in your life.
The good times of today, are the sad thoughts of tomorrow.
For me, singing sad songs often has a way of healing a situation. It gets the hurt out in the open into the light, out of the darkness.
I am convinced that material things can contribute a lot to making one's life pleasant, but, basically, if you do not have very good friends and relatives who matter to you, life will be really empty and sad and material things cease to be important.
I had rather have a fool to make me merry than experience to make me sad and to travel for it too!