Inside Out Sadness Quotes

When it comes to emotions, kids can be tiny little Meryl Streeps sometimes: so dramatic. (Feel free to steal Tiny Little Meryl Streeps for your band name, BTW.)

Clearly, Sadness and Joy have very different taste when it comes to humor. Here's the thing, though: Riley's emotions each have a job to do, and they each want to be good at their job. For Sadness, digging sad doggie flicks is all in a day's (totally depressing) work.

Oddly enough, Sadness is actually trumpeting one of her best qualities. Letting yourself feel sad gives you a moment to take things down a notch, think about your life what's next, and let your friends or family know you need a pick-me-up. You know, like a cookie cake or courtside Warriors tickets.

Sadness never deviates from the company line, does she? Where you're at in your personal narrative dictates how you perceive things. At this point in her own story, Sadness feels defeated because it looks like she and Joy are never going to get back to Headquarters. That sense of sorrow and defeat colors her outlook on everything.

Bing Bong and Sadness are quite the odd couple. She's so low energy that Joy literally has to drag her around Long-Term Memory; Bing Bong's almost always upbeat and enthusiastic. Being made out of cotton candy will do that for you, we suppose.

This quote's so choice that we filed it under two different themes: this one and Coming of Age. What Joy doesn't know yet here is something that we all didn't know at one point: that it's okay to be sad sometimes. In fact, as Bing Bong shows, it can actually make you feel better to have a good cry and/or a venting session. Sadness herself doesn't even know that what she's doing is helpful, but that doesn't make it any less effective.

While we're all about embracing sadness—you know, because we're so mature and evolved and humble—tackling one's deepest, darkest fears is a whole new ball game. Sadness doesn't need that kind of depression fuel.

Look at that: Joy's starting to get it. We need sadness, just as we need all our feelings. They work together to make us who we are, to shape our perception and our memories. They're all useful, and none of them is more important than the rest. They're like a boy band that way.

Oh, who are we kidding? Every boy band has its Timberlake. Your emotions have no Timberlake. They're just a pack of Joey Fatones.

Here's the kicker: it's not really Sadness that needs to do the work here; it's Joy. Joy needs to realize that Sadness may be no fun at the Headquarters Christmas party, but she's an integral member of the team who's only going to get more vital as Riley grows older and her emotions get more complex.

Don't worry, though: later, when Joy takes a second look at this memory and rewinds it a bit, Sadness's words will play in her head a second time, and she'll start to understand how tightly happiness and despair are linked. (Spoiler alert: it's, like, boa constrictor tight.)