The saddest kind of sad is the sad that tries not to be sad. You know, when sad tries to bite its lip and not cry, and smile and say, "No I'm happy for you"? Thats when it's really sad. — John Mayer
I carry a deep sadness of the heart which must now and then break out in sound. — Franz Liszt
A sad soul can kill quicker than a germ. — John Steinbeck
Tears are words the heart can't express — Gerard Way
Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought. — Percy Bysshe Shelley
Heavy hearts, like heavy clouds in the sky, are best relieved by the letting of a little water. — Christopher Morley
My heart shattered. My world shattered — Richelle Mead
If only. Those must be the two saddest words in the world. — Mercedes Lackey
Better a broken heart than a hardened one. — Dalia Mogahed
Behind every sweet smile, there is a bitter sadness that no one can ever see and feel. — Tupac Shakur
Alas, the very name of picture produces a sadness of heart I cannot describe. — Samuel Morse
Sunset is the saddest light there is. — Sue Monk Kidd
Sorrow is easy to express and so hard to tell. — Joni Mitchell
I've always been a sad person. I'm a happy person too, but it's a thing in my brain or my spirit or something, I'm just sad and really acutely aware of mortality and loss. — Fernando Torres
Short Sad Heart Quotes
Sadness flies on the wings of the morning, and out of the heart of darkness comes the light. — Jean Giraudoux
You see, one loves the sunset when one is so sad. — Antoine de Saint-Exupery
It's a most distressing affliction to have a sentimental heart and a skeptical mind. — Naguib Mahfouz
Earth's saddest day and gladdest day were just three days apart! — Sarah Chauncey Woolsey
The funniest people are the saddest once — Confucius
Sadness flies away on the wings of time. — Jean De La Fontaine
Sad things happen. They do. But we don't need to live sad forever. — Mattie Stepanek
It makes my heart sick when I remember all the good words and the broken promises. — Chief Joseph
Top 10 Sad Heart Quotes
Let my soul smile through my heart and my heart smile through my eyes, that I may scatter rich smiles in sad hearts. — Paramahansa Yogananda
May the stars carry your sadness away, may the flowers fill your heart with beauty, may hope forever wipe away your tears. And, above all, may silence make you strong. — Chief Dan George
You can close your eyes to the things you don't want to see, but you can't close your heart to the things you don't want to feel. — Johnny Depp
Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart. The really great men must, I think, have great sadness on earth. — Fyodor Dostoevsky
Our chiefs are killed. . . . The little children are freezing to death. . . . My people have no blankets, no food. . . . My heart is sick and sad. . . . I will fight no more forever. — Chief Joseph
They tore out my heart and stomped that sucker flat. — Lewis Grizzard
Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source. — Anais Nin
Things must be felt with the heart. — Helen Keller
To all the broken-hearted and anyone feeling sad, may your hearts heal and may you feel happy in your lives.Flutter as the butterflies do. — Krystal
Hear me, my chiefs! I am tired. My heart is sick and sad. From where the sun now stands, I will fight no more forever. — Chief Joseph
Sad Heart Image Quotes
Don't promise when you're happy. Don't reply when you're angry and don't decide when you're sad.
Some Sad Heart Quotes
I must have something to engross my thoughts, some object in life which will fill this vacuum, and prevent this sad wearing away of the heart. — Elizabeth Blackwell
Some feelings sink so deep into the heart that only loneliness can help you find them again. Some truths are so painful that only shame can help you live with them. Some things are so sad that only your soul can do the crying for them. — Gregory David Roberts
Be still, sad heart! and cease repining; Behind the clouds is the sun still shining; Thy fate is the common fate of all, Into each life some rain must fall — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart, and can sing it back to you when you have forgotten the words.
Good schools, good jobs, good government. These are not unreasonable demands. But sadly, some of our people have already lost heart and have left Hawaii to look for these things elsewhere. — Linda Lingle
The life of woman is full of woe,
Toiling on and on and on,
With breaking heart, and tearful eyes,
The secret longings that arise,
Which this world never satisfies!
Some more, some less, but of the whole
Not one quite happy, no, not one! — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Any idiot can build bombs. Our Trinity sits not on some desert sand seared into glass at an abandoned, sad pillar of stones. It's in our heads and our hearts, it's in our genes, this beautiful, gorgeous marriage of money, freedom and ingenuity. — Bill Whittle
Life is like a piano, the white keys represent happiness and the black shows sadness, but as you go through life's journey, remember that the black keys also makes music.
And I shall find some girl perhaps, and a better one than you, With eyes as wise, but kindlier, and lips as soft, but true, and I dare say she will do. — Rupert Brooke
We need heart. We need a lot of things. But you have to have some basic ability. And sadly, she [Hillary Clinton] doesn't have that. — Donald Trump
Some were beggars, some were kings, and some were masters of the arts. But in their shame they're all the same, these men with broken hearts. — Hank Williams, Jr.
Sad Heart Touching Quotes
Sometimes you need to run away just to see who will come after you. — Lisa Page Brooks
There is a chord in every heart that has a sigh in it if touched aright. — Ouida
God sent his Singers upon earth
With songs of sadness and of mirth,
That they might touch the hearts of men,
And bring them back to heaven again. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Your heart knows the way. Run in that direction.
...and like a fool who will never see the truth
I keep thinking something's gonna change
There's a danger in loving somebody too much
And it's sad when you know it's your heart they can't touch
There's a reason why people don't stay who they are
Baby sometimes love's just ain't enough — Patty Smyth
Life and death are balanced as it were on the edge of a razor — Homer
When you're alone and you feel sad, try reading a book. Try touching someone's heart. Try to imagine what they were thinking, what they wanted to convey. If you do that, you might get something amazing. — Mizuki Nomura
It's better to cry than to be angry; because anger hurts others, while tears flow silently through the soul and cleanses the heart.
FBI Girl is touching and funny, inspiring and tragic, enlightening and sad. I closed the book with tears in my eyes and admiration in my heart for the girl Maura Conlon was and the writer she became. — Beverly Donofrio
I can feel a thing I cannot touch and touch a thing I cannot feel. The first is sad and sorry, the second is your heart. — James Thurber
Sad Broken Heart Quotes
Don't feel sad over someone who gave up on you, feel sorry for them because they gave up on someone who would have never given up on them. — Frank Ocean
The worst kind of pain is when you're smiling just to stop the tears from falling. — Hiro Mashima
Brains are like hearts - they go where they are appreciated. — Robert McNamara
Don't be pushed around by the fears in your mind. Be led by the dreams in your heart.
There are a million ways to lose someone you love. — Tammara Webber
When a love comes to an end, weaklings cry, efficient ones instantly find another love, and the wise already have one in reserve. — Oscar Wilde
Love lasts about seven years. That's how long it takes for the cells of the body to totally replace themselves. — Francoise Sagan
Do what you feel in your heart to be right, for you’ll be criticized anyways.
They always say the hottest love has the coldest end. — Drake
I hate the day, because it lendeth light
To see all things, but not my love to see. — Edmund Spenser
It is the end of happiness and the beginning of peace. — George Bernard Shaw
Sad Love Quotes
beginnings are usually scary, and endings are usually sad, but its everything in between that makes it all worth living. — Bob Marley
How sad, a heart that
does not know how to love, that
does not know what it is to be drunk with love.
If you are not in love, how can you enjoy
the blinding light of the sun,
the soft light of the moon? — Omar Khayyam
On the British Royal Divorce (Charles and Dianna). She is such a sad soul. It is good that it is over. Nobody was happy anyhow. I know I should preach family love and unity, but in their case. . . . — Mother Teresa
Nobody can be uncheered with a balloon. — A. A. Milne
Watch out for each other. Love everyone and forgive everyone, including yourself. Forgive your anger. Forgive your guilt. Your shame. Your sadness. Embrace and open up your love, your joy, your truth, and most especially your heart. — Jim Henson
You have to go whole heartedly in anything in order to achieve anything worth having.
The biggest disease today is not leprosy or tuberculosis, but rather the feeling of being unwanted. — Mother Teresa
Love is also like a coconut which is good while it is fresh, but you have to spit it out when the juice is gone, what's left tastes bitter. — Bertolt Brecht
You have to hurt in order to know. Fall in order to grow. Lose in order to gain. Because most of life's lessons are learned through pain — Boonaa Mohammed
Lost Heart Quotes
Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead. The consciousness of loving and being loved brings a warmth and a richness to life that nothing else can bring. — Oscar Wilde
The magnetic needle always points to the north, and hence it is that sailing vessel does not lose her direction. So long as the heart of man is directed towards God, he cannot be lost in the ocean of worldliness. — Ramakrishna
Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart. — Washington Irving
I put my heart and my soul into my work, and have lost my mind in the process. — Vincent Van Gogh
A lot of people think that Christianity is you doing all the righteous things you hate and avoiding all the wicked things you love in order to go to Heaven. No, that's a lost man with religion. A Christian is a person whose heart has been changed; they have new affections. — Paul Washer
Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop. — Saint Augustine
If you have been brutally broken but still have the courage to be gentle to other living beings, than you're a badass with a heart of an angel.
You can exist without your soul, you know, as long as your brain and heart are still working. But you’ll have no sense of self anymore, no memory, no . . . anything. There’s no chance at all of recovery. You’ll just — exist. As an empty shell. And your soul is gone forever . . . lost. — J. K. Rowling
The human heart is like a ship on a stormy sea driven about by winds blowing from all four corners of heaven. — Martin Luther King, Jr.
It is the conditioned mind that says, 'I'm lost.' Let mind be lost. Lose your mind. Lose your mind inside your heart. — Mooji
Never allow someone to be your priority while allowing yourself to be their option. — Mark Twain
Jesus knows the burdens we carry and the tears we shed, but He is the healer of broken hearts, broken dreams, and broken lives. Trust him. He never fails. — John Hagee
And I, infinitesimal being, drunk with the great starry void, likeness, image of mystery, I felt myself a pure part of the abyss, I wheeled with the stars, my heart broke loose on the wind. — Pablo Neruda
Beauty isn't about having a pretty face. It's about having a pretty mind, a pretty heart and a pretty soul.
Legalistic remorse says, "I broke God's rules," while real repentance says, "I broke God's heart." — Timothy Keller
My heart is broke, but I have some glue, help me inhale and mend it with you. — Kurt Cobain
Don't cry when the sun is gone, because the tears won't let you see the stars. — Violeta Parra
Believe in your heart that you're meant to live a life full of passion, purpose, magic and miracles.
I don't mean to be presumptuous that men don't feel this, I don't mean this, but I found that when my child was born, my first child, it felt like my heart broke. — Tea Leoni
Only time can heal your broken heart. Just as only time can heal his broken arms and legs. — Jim Henson
I’d rather have money and be broken-hearted than be broke and broken-hearted. — Cardi B
The real dirt is not outside, but inside, in our hearts. We can wash all stains with water. The only one we can't remove is the grudge and the bad intentions sticking to our hearts. — Shams Tabrizi
I love you because I love you, because it would be impossible not to love you. I love you without question, without calculation, without reason good or bad, faithfully, with all my heart and soul, and every faculty. — Juliette Drouet
Throughout life people will make you mad, disrespect you and treat you bad. Let God deal with the things they do, cause hate in your heart will consume you too. — Will Smith
Don't worry about losing. If it is right, it happens - The main thing is not to hurry. Nothing good gets away. — John Steinbeck
It’s too bad if a heart lacks fire,
and is deprived of the light
of a heart ablaze.
The day on which you are
without passionate love
is the most wasted day of your life. — Omar Khayyam
Sin is not simply making bad choices or mistakes. Sin is having the desire in our hearts to do the will of the enemy of God. — R. C. Sproul
My dear heart, never think you are better than others. Listen to their sorrows with compassion. If you want peace, don't harbor bad thoughts, do not gossip and don't teach what you do not know. — Rumi
I don't drink much and I smoke very little. I guess my only bad habit is robbing banks. Now you see, fellas, I ain't such a bad guy at heart. — John Dillinger
I saw, moreover, that it was not my good frame of heart that made my righteousness better, nor my bad frame that made my righteousness worse; for my righteousness was Jesus Christ himself, the same yesterday and today and forever. — John Bunyan
I felt bad, yet I knew I’d made the right choice. I was following my heart. — Rich Roll
Broken Heart Quotes
If you don't love me at my worst, then you don't deserve me at my best. — Marilyn Monroe
You can be healed of depression if every day you begin the first thing in the morning to consider how you will bring a real joy to someone else. — Alfred Adler
Sometimes the only way the good Lord can get into some hearts is to break them. — Fulton J. Sheen
Someone I loved once gave me a box full of darkness. It took me years to understand that this too, was a gift. — Mary Oliver
I am tired of talk that comes to nothing It makes my heart sick when I remember all the good words and all the broken promises. There has been too much talking by men who had no right to talk. It does not require many words to speak the truth. — Chief Joseph
To be a spiritual warrior, one must have a broken heart; without a broken heart and the sense of tenderness and vulnerability, your warriorship is untrustworthy. — Chogyam Trungpa
Prayer cannot bring water to parched fields, or mend a broken bridge, or rebuild a ruined city; but prayer can water an arid soul, mend a broken heart, and rebuild a weakened will. — Abraham Joshua Heschel
The heart will break, but broken live on. — Lord Byron
It's the notion that there is no perfection - that there is a broken world and we live with broken hearts and broken lives but still there is no alibi for anything. On the contrary, you have to stand up and say hallelujah under those circumstances. — Leonard Cohen
God is with the broken-hearted. When your heart breaks, it’s a good thing – the breaking of the heart is what opens it up to the light of Allah. The dunya is designed to break your heart, to crush it. — Hamza Yusuf
Heartbreak Quotes
The most precious possession that ever comes to a man in this world is a woman's heart. — J. G. Holland
You've got to learn to leave the table When love's no longer being served". — Nina Simone
The biggest coward of a man is to awaken the love of a woman without the intention of loving her. — Bob Marley
Getting over a painful experience is much like crossing monkey bars. You have to let go at some point in order to move forward. — C. S. Lewis
Heartbreaks, disappointments and even our own weaknesses can serve as stepping-stones to the second half of life transformation. Failings are the foundation for growth. Those who have fallen, failed or 'gone down' are the only ones who understand 'up.' — Richard Rohr
Sometimes good things fall apart so better things could fall together. — Marilyn Monroe
Pain makes you stronger. Fear makes you braver. Heartbreak makes you wiser. — Drake
When God gets us alone through suffering, heartbreak, temptation, disappointment, sickness, or by thwarted friendship - when He gets us absolutely alone, and we are totally speechless, unable to ask even one question, then He begins to teach us. — Oswald Chambers
Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty. — Mother Teresa
A society which discards those who are weak and non-productive risks exaggerating the development of reason, organisation, aggression and the desire to dominate. It becomes a society without a heart, without kindness - a rational and sad society, lacking celebration, divided within itself and given to competition, rivalry and, finally, violence. — Jean Vanier
Do not let your heart become troubled by the sad spectacle of human injustice. Even this has its value in the face of all else. And it is from this that one day you will see the justice of God rising with unfailing triumph. — Pio of Pietrelcina
Love is missing someone whenever you're apart, but somehow feeling warm inside because you're close in heart. — Kai Knudsen
Have I told you lately that I love you, have I told you lately there's no one above you. Fill my heart with gladness, take away all my sadness, ease my troubles, that's what you do. — Van Morrison
Stab the body and it heals, but injure the heart and the wound lasts a lifetime. — Mineko Iwasaki
People cry, not because they're weak. It's because they've been strong for too long. — Johnny Depp
Distance never seperates two hearts that really care, for our memories span the miles and in seconds we are there. But whenever I start feeling sad cuz I miss you I remind myself how lucky I am to have someone so special to miss. — Henri Nouwen
Are the days of winter sunshine just as sad for you, too? When it is misty, in the evenings, and I am out walking by myself, it seems to me that the rain is falling through my heart and causing it to crumble into ruins. — Gustave Flaubert
Blue moon you saw me standing alone
Without a dream in my heart
Without a love of my own. — Lorenz Hart
My heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains/ My sense, as though of hemlock I had drunk. — John Keats
Pleasure of love lasts but a moment, Pain of love lasts a lifetime. — Bette Davis
She was a girl who knew how to be happy even when she was sad. And that’s important—you know — Marilyn Monroe
Goodbye, my friend, goodbye
My love, you are in my heart.
It was preordained we should part
And be reunited by and by.
Goodbye: no handshake to endure.
Let's have no sadness - furrowed brow.
There's nothing new in dying now
Though living is no newer. — Sergei Yesenin
Don't be ashamed to weep; 'tis right to grieve. Tears are only water, and flowers, trees, and fruit cannot grow without water. But there must be sunlight also. A wounded heart will heal in time, and when it does, the memory and love of our lost ones is sealed inside to comfort us. — Brian Jacques
I hight don Quixote, I live on peyote,
marijuana, morphine and cocaine.
I never know sadness, but only a madness
that burns at the heart and the brain.
I see each charwoman, ecstatic, inhuman,
angelic, demonic, divine.
Each wagon a dragon, each beer mug a flagon
that brims with ambrosial wine. — Jack Parsons
But for the unquiet heart and brain
A use in measured language lies;
The sad mechanic exercise
Like dull narcotics numbing pain. — Alfred Lord Tennyson
Absence makes the heart grow fonder and tears are only rain to make love grow. — Ray Charles
When people can walk away from you: Let them walk. — T. D. Jakes
And perhaps there is a limit to the grieving that the human heart can do. As when one adds salt to a tumbler of water, there comes a point where simply no more will be absorbed. — Sarah Waters
It is an awfully sad misconception that librarians simply check books in and out. The library is the heart of a school, and without a librarian, it is but an empty shell. — Jarrett J. Krosoczka
Yesterday, I was sad, tomorrow i may be sad again, but today i know that i am happy. I want to live on and on, delighting like a pagan in all that is physical; and i know that this one lifetime, however long, cannot satisfy my heart. — Ruskin Bond
A sign of the death of the heart: lack of sadness about beneficial actions you have missed, and lack of regret about your mistakes. — Ibn Ata Allah
I have a congenital desire to contradict; my whole life is merely a chain of sad and unsuccessful contradictions to heart and mind. When faced with enthusiasm, I am seized by a midwinter freeze, and I suppose that frequent dealings with sluggish phlegmatics would have made a passionate dreamer. — Mikhail Lermontov
I will welcome happiness for it enlarges my heart; Yet I will endure sadness for it opens my soul. I will acknowledge rewards for they are my due; Yet I will welcome obstacles for they are my challenge. — Og Mandino
Hearts can break. Yes, hearts can break. Sometimes I think it would be better if we died when they did, but we don't. — Stephen King
It is a sad thing when you hear Christians with a groan in them. When I meet the groaner, I say in my heart, "God, move that man on into the place where he comprehends what Christianity is." — John G. Lake
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