How we cite our quotes: All quotes are from Inside Out.
Quote #4
JOY: Think positive!
SADNESS: Okay. I'm positive you will get lost in there.
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.
Quote #5
BING BONG: Imagination Land is the best!
SADNESS: Is it all going to be so interactive?
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.
Quote #6
SADNESS: I'm sorry they took your rocket. They took something that you loved. It's gone. Forever.
JOY: Sadness. Don't make him feel worse.
SADNESS: Sorry.
BING BONG: It's all I had left of Riley.
SADNESS: I bet you and Riley had great adventures.
BING BONG: Oh, they were wonderful. Once, we flew back in time. We had breakfast twice that day.
JOY: Sadness…
SADNESS: It sounds amazing. I bet Riley liked it.
BING BONG: She did. We were best friends.
SADNESS: Yeah, it's sad.
Bing Bong cries on Sadness's shoulder.
BING BONG: I'm okay now. Come on. The train station is this way.
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.