Sadness is a common emotion that everyone experiences at some point in their lives. It is the feeling of unhappiness, sorrow, or grief. Many people have shared their thoughts and insights about sadness through quotes. These quotes often reflect the universal nature of sadness and provide comfort or perspective to those who are feeling down. They serve as a reminder that sadness is a part of life and that it is okay to feel this way sometimes.
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
Sadness flies on the wings of the morning, and out of the heart of darkness comes the light. — Jean Giraudoux
Alas, the very name of picture produces a sadness of heart I cannot describe. — Samuel Morse
Man could not live if he were entirely impervious to sadness. Many sorrows can be endured only by being embraced, and the pleasure taken in them naturally has a somewhat melancholy character. — Emile Durkheim
Sunset is the saddest light there is. — Sue Monk Kidd
Gone. The saddest word in the language. In any language. — Mark Slouka
I carry a deep sadness of the heart which must now and then break out in sound. — Franz Liszt
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 Sadness Quotes
Write your Sad times in Sand,
Write your Good times in Stone. — George Bernard Shaw
It's a sad thing not to have friends, but it is even sadder not to have enemies. — Che Guevara
The day I am not able to fly will be a sad day for me. — Ratan Tata
Tears are words the heart can't express — Gerard Way
I'm shining like fireworks over your sad, empty town — Taylor Swift
Nobody can be uncheered with a balloon. — A. A. Milne
Come grow old with me. The best is yet to be. — William Wordsworth
The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil. — Hannah Arendt
The birth, death, and resurrection of Jesus means that one day everything sad will come untrue. — J. R. R. Tolkien
I saw a giraffe with a short neck
That was sad
Or a deer — Bo Burnham
You should eat a waffle! You can't be sad if you eat a waffle! — Lauren Myracle
He is a hard man who is only just, and a sad one who is only wise. — Voltaire
I am not a sad clown. I am not a sad clown. — Nathan Lane
Dwight is a sad clown. You've seen those paintings of sad clown. — Rainn Wilson
When you get the choice to sit it out or dance, I hope you dance. — Lee Ann Womack
The walls we build around us to keep sadness out also keeps out the joy. — Jim Rohn
Red is the ultimate cure for sadness. — Bill Blass
Never let go of that fiery sadness called desire. — Patti Smith
It's sad when someone you know becomes someone you knew. — Henry Rollins
What a sad era when it is easier to smash an atom than a prejudice. — Albert Einstein
In joy or sadness, flowers are our constant friends. — Okakura Kakuzo
I'm not sad at all about turning 40. — Halle Berry
I actually think sadness and darkness can be very beautiful and healing. — Duncan Sheik
Each of us has his own rhythm of suffering. — Roland Barthes
Now even if I die, no one will be so grieved as to do himself bodily harm. — Osamu Dazai
I know what I look like - a weird, sad clown puppet. I'm fine with that. — Rainn Wilson
Be of good cheer, for sadness cannot heal the national wounds. — Dorothea Dix
If you're sad, add more lipstick and attack. — Coco Chanel
Sad things happen. They do. But we don't need to live sad forever. — Mattie Stepanek
Don't promise when you're happy. Don't reply when you're angry and don't decide when you're sad.
Overcoming Sadness Quotes
Sometimes you weren't supposed to share pain. Sometimes it was best just to deal with it alone. — Sarah Addison Allen
The measure of human character is our reaction to dark times. No one can sidestep darkness. It is the throne upon which light sits. If a soul has not known sadness and struggle, there is no chance of overcoming, no cherishing the dawn. — David Wolpe
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.
Deepen you knowledge of Jesus which ends loneliness, overcomes sadness and uncertainty, gives real meaning to life, curbs passions, exalts ideals, expands energies in charity, brings light into decisive choices. Let Christ be for you the Way, the Truth, and the Life. — Pope John Paul II
True wisdom comes from the overcoming of suffering and sin. All true wisdom is therefore touched with sadness. — Whittaker Chambers
There is a sad disconnectedness that overcomes a library when its owner is gone. — Lois McMaster Bujold
There is a deep and undeniable sadness in all this: whenever we see the dawn of an eternal good that will never be overcome by evil – an evil that is itself eternal but will never succeed in overcoming good – whenever we see this dawn, the blood of old people and children is always shed. — Vasily Grossman
I want to live with all of my memories, even if they’re sad memories. I believe that if I stay strong, someday I’ll overcome the pain, and then I’ll be glad that I have those memories. I believe that there are no memories that are okay to forget. — Natsuki Takaya
Christmas Sadness Quotes
Thanksgiving dinner's sad and thankless. Christmas dinner's dark and blue. When you stop and try to see it From the turkey's point of view. — Shel Silverstein
Come to earth to taste our sadness, he whose glories knew no end;
by his life he brings us gladness, our Redeemer, Shepherd, Friend.
Leaving riches without number, born within a cattle stall;
this the everlasting wonder, Christ was born the Lord of all. — Charles Wesley
Christmas it seems to me is a necessary festival; we require a season when we can regret all the flaws in our human relationships: it is the feast of failure, sad but consoling. — Graham Greene
And the more you spend in blessing
The poor and lonely and sad,
The more of your heart's possessing
Returns to you glad. — John Greenleaf Whittier
Nothing ever seems too bad, too hard or too sad when you've got a Christmas tree in the living room. All those presents under it, all that anticipation. Just a way of saying there's always light and hope in the world. — Nora Roberts
Christmas makes everything twice as sad. — Doug Coupland
We thank Thee, O Father of all, for... all the soul-help that sad souls understand. — Will Carleton
Call a truce, then, to our labors -- let us feast with friends and neighbors, and be merry as the custom of our caste; for if faint and forced the laughter, and if sadness follow after, we are richer by one mocking Christmas past. — Rudyard Kipling
I'm happy to talk to anybody about anything. — Keith Ellison
My grandmother, she passed away at Christmas time. So now, I have this built in sadness, you know, every holiday. 'Cause I'm plagued with the thought of, you know, what she would have given me. What didn't I get to open this year? — Laura Kightlinger
Happiness After Sadness Quotes
Long after you’ve forgotten someone’s voice, you can still remember the sound of their happiness or their sadness. You can feel it in your body. — Anne Michaels
There's such a thing as too much happiness and sadness. What I'm after is contentment. — Ray Charles
After writing a story I was always empty and both sad and happy, as though I had made love. — Ernest Hemingway
I have always believed that God never gives a cross to bear larger than we can carry. No matter what, he wants us to be happy, not sad. Birds sing after a storm. Why shouldn't we? — Rose Kennedy
No one goes straight to happiness after a breakup. — Sayings
Happiness And Sadness Quotes
If you want to be sad, no one in the world can make you happy. But if you make up your mind to be happy, no one and nothing on earth can take that happiness from you. — Paramahansa Yogananda
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
I think the saddest people always try their hardest to make people happy
because they know what it's like to feel absolutely worthless
and they don't want anyone else to feel like that. — Robin Williams
You are responsible for your life. You can't keep blaming somebody else for your dysfunction. Life is really about moving on. — Oprah Winfrey
Don't let the sadness from the past and fear of the future ruin the happiness of the present. — Kid Cudi
A dog reflects the family life. Whoever saw a frisky dog in a gloomy family, or a sad dog in a happy one? Snarling people have snarling dogs, dangerous people have dangerous ones. — Arthur Conan Doyle
Often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us. — Helen Keller
Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better take things as they come along with patience and equanimity. — Carl Jung
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
Things must be felt with the heart. — Helen Keller
Sadness And Anger Quotes
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
Boredom, anger, sadness, or fear are not 'yours,' not personal. They are conditions of the human mind. They come and go. Nothing that comes and goes is you. — Eckhart Tolle
A man is about as big as the things that make him angry. — Winston Churchill
There is no true joy and compassion except through the difficult emotions - all we get without the experience of fear, anger, and sadness are cheap imitations of joy and compassion - pleasantness and sentimentality. — Gabrielle Roth
Thousands of lives were suddenly ended by evil, despicable acts of terror. The pictures of airplanes flying into buildings, fires burning, huge structures collapsing, have filled us with disbelief, terrible sadness and a quiet, unyielding anger. — George W. Bush
Make it simple for yourself by calming your mind from anger, understanding what makes you sad, and replicating the experiences that make you happy. If you want strength and success, just do it! — Wim Hof
If your beliefs are stressful and you question them, you come to see that they aren't true - whereas prior to questioning, you absolutely believe them. How can you live in joy when you're believing thoughts that bring on sadness, frustration, anger, alienation, and loneliness? — Byron Katie
Forget your sadness, anger, grudges and hatred. Let them pass like smoke caught in a breeze. Do not indulge yourself in such feelings. — Masaaki Hatsumi
If we are to feel the positive feelings of love, happiness, trust, and gratitude, we periodically also have to feel anger, sadness, fear, and sorrow. — John Gray
One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul, and yet no one ever comes to sit by it. — Vincent Van Gogh
Time takes it all, whether you want it to or not. Time takes it all, time bears it away, and in the end there is only darkness. Sometimes we find others in that darkness, and sometimes we lose them there again. — Stephen King
Travel is in sad case. It is uncomfortable, it is expensive; it is a source of annoyance to our friends, and of loneliness to ourselves. — Vita Sackville-West
One leaf left on a branch and not a sound of sadness or despair. One leaf left on a branch and no unhappiness. One leaf left all by itself in the air and it does not speak of loneliness or death. One leaf and it spends itself in swaying mildly in the breeze. — David Ignatow
I was in L.A. in '08. It was a cold Saturday night. I had spread my phone number out to a score of women and was just indulging this sweet, sad, elegiac, bale loneliness - don't tell me you haven't been there. — James Ellroy
You really come to life on stage but outside - this is a bit of a sad clown cliché - there is that element of loneliness you get from travelling and being on the road. Stand-ups can bring a lot of that to a dramatic role and make it work for them. — Doc Brown
I was sad to leave Europe in 1890, after my student days in Germany... But then, once back in New York, I experienced an intense longing for Europe, for its vital tradition of music, theatre, art, craftsmanship... I felt bewildered and lonely. How was I to use myself? — Alfred Stieglitz
I've never thought about songwriting as a weapon. I've only thought about it as a way to help me get through love and loss and sadness and loneliness and growing up. — Taylor Swift
I must confess that I am usually drawn to sadness, and loneliness has never been a stranger to me. But love tried to welcome me, but my soul drew back, guilty of lust and sin. — Madonna Ciccone
Often, feelings of sadness, uneasiness, and loneliness are vague and unattached to specific events. This makes it more challenging to find ways to turn you mood around. When you find yourself in a funk, focus on what you're feeling. — G. Alan Marlatt
Being Sad Quotes
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
When you do something noble and beautiful and nobody noticed, do not be sad. For the sun every morning is a beautiful spectacle and yet most of the audience still sleeps. — John Lennon
Unhappiness does not come from the way things are, but from the difference between how things are and how we think they should be — Creflo A. Dollar
When you're happy you enjoy the music, but when you're sad you understand the lyrics. — Frank Ocean
Even if death were to fall upon you today like lightning, you must be ready to die without sadness and regret, without any residue of clinging for what is left behind. Remaining in the recognition of the absolute view, you should leave this life like an eagle soaring up into the blue sky. — Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche
The biggest disease today is not leprosy or tuberculosis, but rather the feeling of being unwanted. — Mother Teresa
Food is one of life's greatest joys yet we've reached this really sad point where we're turning food into the enemy, and something to be afraid of — Jamie Oliver
The end for which we are created invites us to walk a road that is surely sown with a lot of thorns, but it is not sad; through even the sorrow, it is illuminated by joy. — Pier Giorgio Frassati
Perhaps somewhere, someplace deep inside your being, you have undergone important changes while you were sad. — Rainer Maria Rilke
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
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
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
The greatest of men, they don't get too big to cry. They just loose faith in love and life. — Hank Williams, Jr.
You lose yourself trying to hold on to someone who doesn't care about losing you — Tablo
Those who are heartless, once cared too much. — Frank Ocean
Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source. — Anais Nin
A wise girl kisses but doesn't love, listens but doesn't believe, and leaves before she is left. — Marilyn Monroe
I may not be perfect, but i'm always me — Selena Gomez
Feeling Sad Quotes
There are wounds that never show on the body that are deeper and more hurtful than anything that bleeds. — Laurell K. Hamilton
But what is memory if not the language of feeling, a dictionary of faces and days and smells which repeat themselves like the verbs and adjectives in a speech, sneaking in behind the thing itself,into the pure present, making us sad or teaching us vicariously. — Julio Cortazar
Sometimes I get a little sad, and I feel like being alone. Then I talk to my cat about it, and he reminds me I’m James Franco. Then we dance. — James Franco
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
Because you speak to me in words, and I look at you with feelings. — Anna Karina
Depression isn't just being a bit sad. It's feeling nothing. It's not wanting to be alive anymore. — J. K. Rowling
Love is missing someone whenever you're apart, but somehow feeling warm inside because you're close in heart. — Kai Knudsen
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
It’s impossible to experience joy without being sad, so are you really willing to give up joy so that you can avoid feeling sad? — Alex Hormozi
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
Sad Face Quotes
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
Flowers have an expression of countenance as much as men or animals. Some seem to smile; some have a sad expression; some are pensive and diffident; others are plain, honest and upright, like the broad faced sunflower and the hollyhock. — Henry Ward Beecher
I love walking down the street and seeing faces and drama and happiness and sadness and dirt and cleanliness. — Ric Ocasek
It would be wrong to refuse to face the fact that everything is fundamentally sick and sad. — Thomas Bernhard
Dare to wear the foolish clown face. — Frank Sinatra
Imagine smiling after a slap in the face. Then think of doing it twenty-four hours a day. — Markus Zusak
Isn’t it sad that so often it takes facing death to appreciate life and each other fully? — Esther Earl
I sometimes look into the face of my dog Stan and see a wistful sadness and existential angst, when all he is actually doing is slowly scanning the ceiling for flies. — Merrill Markoe
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
The life's story of great geniuses is a sad one, without much tangible reward, which does not inspire future generations to face a similar fate. Alas also, it stands to reason why so many talent will not come to sparkle on the artistic firmanent. — Joseph Haydn
Sad Depressed Quotes
People cry, not because they're weak. It's because they've been strong for too long. — Johnny Depp
It's much easier to write when you're sad. But you can end up isolated and depressed because you almost need to put yourself in that situation to have that angst to write from. — Natalie Imbruglia
I didn't want to wake up. I was having a much better time asleep. And that's really sad. It was almost like a reverse nightmare, like when you wake up from a nightmare you're so relieved. I woke up into a nightmare. — Ned Vizzini
Black is not sad. Bright colours are what depress me. They're so... empty. Black is poetic. How do you imagine a poet? In a bright yellow jacket? Probably not. — Ann Demeulemeester
Depressed, anxious, sad, frightened? Yes. But I've never been bored. — Dustin Hoffman
Melancholy suicide. - This is connected with a general state of extreme depression and exaggerated sadness, causing the patient no longer to realize sanely the bonds which connect him with people and things about him. Pleasures no longer attract. — Emile Durkheim
because wherever I sat—on the deck of a ship or at a street café in Paris or Bangkok—I would be sitting under the same glass bell jar, stewing in my own sour air. — Sylvia Plath
Happiness in a tablet. This is our world. Prozac. Daxil. Xanax. Billions are spent to advertise such drugs. And billions are spent purchasing them. You don't even need a specific trauma, just 'general depression' is enough, or anxiety, as if sadness is as treatable as the common cold. — Mitch Albom
Yellow is a very favorable vibration for mental or intellectual activity, as it promotes a clear state of mind. Yellow heightens your awareness and alleviates depression, sadness, or any kind of despondency. Yellow vibration foods are: pineapples, bananas, grapefruit, lemons and corn. — Tae Yun Kim
This is my depressed stance. When you're depressed, it makes a lot of difference how you stand. The worst thing you can do is straighten up and hold your head high because then you'll start to feel better. If you're going to get any joy out of being depressed, you've got to stand like this. — Charles M. Schulz
Sad Day Quotes
Love withers under constraints: its very essence is liberty: it is compatible neither with obedience, jealousy, nor fear. — Percy Bysshe Shelley
Football is one of the world's best means of communication. It is impartial, apolitical and universal. Football unites people around the world every day. Young or old, players or fans, rich or poor, the game makes everyone equal, stirs the imagination, makes people happy and makes them sad — Franz Beckenbauer
If love is blind, why is lingerie so popular? — Dorothy Parker
I was very sad for many days when I discovered that in the world there were poor people and rich people; and the strange thing is that the existence of the poor did not cause me as much pain as the knowledge that at the same time there were people who were rich. — Evita Peron
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
They say when you are missing someone that they are probably feeling the same, but I don't think it's possible for you to miss me as much as I'm missing you right now — Edna St. Vincent Millay
Better to have loved and lost than to live with regret. — Big Pun
Its good to leave each day behind, like flowing water, free of sadness. Yesterday is gone and its tale told. Today new seeds are growing. — Rumi
Someday, someday, this crazy world will have to end,
And our God will take things back that He to us did lend.
And if, on that sad day, you want to scold our God,
Why just go ahead and scold Him. He'll just smile and nod. — Kurt Vonnegut
Some people are so special, so beautiful and have so much to offer this world. Sad thing is they just don’t see it. They need positive reinforcement. Tell them, 'If you could see only half of what I see in you, then one day you'd realize how truly amazing you really are. — Marc Mero
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
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
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
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
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
The female doesn't want a rich man or a handsome man or even a poet, she wants a man who understands her eyes if she gets sad, and points to his chest and say : 'Here is your home country.' — Nizar Qabbani
Usually when people are sad, they don't do anything. They just cry over their condition. But when they get angry, they bring about a change. — Malcolm X
As you go through life's rich tapestry, you realize that most people you meet aren't fit to shine your shoes. It's a sad fact, but it's true. A good friend is someone who'd hide you if you were on the run for murder. How many of them do you know? — Lemmy Kilmister
In Conclusion
Quotes about sadness often capture the different aspects of this emotion. They can express the feeling of loneliness, heartbreak, or disappointment. Some quotes offer solace and encourage individuals to embrace their sadness as a means of growth and self-reflection. Others emphasize the importance of seeking support from loved ones during difficult times. These quotes about sadness provide a way for people to connect with others who may have experienced similar feelings and to find solace in knowing that they are not alone in their sadness.
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