The phrase "amount of sadness" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to the degree or quality of sadness felt. For example: She experienced an intense amount of sadness when she heard the news.
She said she felt a "huge amount of sadness" to be parting company with the Herald.
He accepts that living far from his original home will always entail a small amount of sadness.
Referring to the continuing labor dispute, Checketts said, "There's a certain amount of sadness that he has to fight this in order to go out on top".
"Mom's keeping a certain amount of sadness hidden, but her girls keep her young at heart," he said of the Misfits.
He mentioned that he was leaving his job "with a huge amount of sadness", adding: "It is a great shame I have had to leave it because of your inhuman and uncaring approach".
"I'm feeling lots of frustration, an enormous amount of sadness," said Tsonga, who had been seeded 14th this year but whose only appearance at the French Open remains a first-round loss in 2005.
I am also saddened and angered because it seems like LGBT people carry a disproportionate amount of the sadness and anger when deaths like Larry's become public.
But while an immense amount of grief and sadness came through in the story, it wasn't clear that any sense of guilt was present (not that there should have been, but guilty feelings often follow such tragedies).
They play a total of 24 different characters, each with the appropriate amount of humor or sadness.
Reminiscent of 2002's "A Walks To Remember," Fanning brings a pixie cut, British accent, and exactly the right amount of excitement and sadness to the trailer, with Irvine egging her on convincingly.
The amount of anger and stunned sadness from across every section of the community shows that".
