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. β John Mayer
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. β Fernando Torres
I'm the type of person who listens to like sad music when I'm sad to feel sadder, and to feel sorry for myself. β Troye Sivan
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. β Malcolm X
there are two types of people in the world: those who prefer to be sad among others, and those who prefer to be sad alone. β Nicole Krauss
The feeling of Sunday is the same everywhere, heavy, melancholy, standing still. β Jean Rhys
The funniest people are the saddest once β Confucius
Behind every sweet smile, there is a bitter sadness that no one can ever see and feel. β Tupac Shakur
Intoxicated with madness, I'm in love with my sadness β Sylvia Plath
It seems to me that almost all our sadnesses are moments of tension, which we feel as paralysis because we no longer hear our astonished emotions living. β Rainer Maria Rilke
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. β Robin Williams
It's sad when someone you know becomes someone you knew. β Henry Rollins
Depression isn't just being a bit sad. It's feeling nothing. It's not wanting to be alive anymore. β J. K. Rowling
I find I have to be the sad clown: laughing on the outside, crying on the inside. β James Gandolfini
One cannot be deeply responsive to the world without being saddened very often. β Erich Fromm
A sad soul can kill quicker than a germ. β John Steinbeck
I carry a deep sadness of the heart which must now and then break out in sound. β Franz Liszt
You will be melancholy, if you are solitary. β Ovid
Sorrow is easy to express and so hard to tell. β Joni Mitchell
Top 10 When Your Feeling Sad Quotes
When an eighty-five pound mammal licks your tears away, then tries to sit on your lap, it's hard to feel sad. β Kristan Higgins
But she wasnβt around, and thatβs the thing when your parents die, you feel like instead of going in to every fight with backup, you are going into every fight alone. β Mitch Albom
When you have feelings like sadness or anger about your cancer or your plight, to mask them is to lead an artificial life. β Steve Jobs
If your best friend's feeling tearful,
Try not to be too cheerful.
Just let her fill your ear full
Of sad tales by the score.
And when she is through,
She'll feel as good as. β Beatrice Schenk de Regniers
If a fish feels sad when a fisherman's boat is sinking, and that fish owns a priceless treasure: The compassion! Have compassion, even for your enemies! β Mehmet Murat Ildan
You don't just turn off your feelings for someone, and that's a very hard, sad truth for people. When you're drawn to someone, even if they're not good for you, you feel connected. In a lot of ways. β Amy B. Harris
When feeling sad, dream on! When feeling happy, dream on! You shall survive by means of your dreams! β Mehmet Murat Ildan
...how do you run and play when you feel like there are bricks of the heaviest sadness weighing down every part of your body? How do you laugh and talk when there are no laughs left inside of you? β Katherine Hannigan
There are times in your life when, despite the steel weight of your memories and the sadness that seems to lie at your feet like a shadow, you suddenly and strangely feel perfectly okay. β Kevin Brockmeier
When Your Feeling Sad Image Quotes
Holding onto anger is like drinking poison and expecting the other person to die.
When Your Feeling Sad Quotes
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. β Charles M. Schulz
When Black and White are colors and not races, people will still fall in love and discriminate between partners and feel sad and bad and need art that breaks your heart and takes you to those places where pain becomes beauty. β Marlene Dumas
The hate directed against the colored people here in St. Louis has always given me a sad feeling... How can you expect the world to believe in you and respect your preaching of democracy when you yourself treat your colored brothers as you do? β Josephine Baker
Don't promise when you're happy. Don't reply when you're angry and don't decide when you're sad.
Going home means getting comfortable being who you are and who your soul really wants to be. There is no strain with that. The strain and tension come when we're not being who our soul wants to be and we're someplace where our soul doesn't feel at home. β Melody Beattie
Why do we smile? Why do we laugh? Why do we feel alone? Why are we sad and confused? Why do we read poetry? Why do we cry when we see a painting? Why is there a riot in the heart when we love? Why do we feel shame? What is that thing in the pit of your stomach called desire? β Benjamin Alire Saenz
It's easy to smile just to make other people feel better. But when a person fakes happy, it has edges. Regular people may not see, but the people who count, they can see the edges and the lines where your smile ends and the real you, the sadness (me) or the anger (Grandma) begins. β Heidi W. Durrow
How you make others feel about themselves says a lot about you.
There are receptors to these molecules in your immune system, in your gut and in your heart. So when you say, 'I have a gut feeling' or 'my heart is sad' or 'I am bursting with joy,' you're not speaking metaphorically. You're speaking literally. β Deepak Chopra
I remember listening to like gospel-y blues tunes. I'd just listen to the rhythm and the music was upbeat. Always upbeat if you get like a good rhythm you can nod your head. You just feel good. But then when you listen to the lyrics it was quite sad. β Michael Kiwanuka
When you 'make good,' you find out who your real friends are. You find out pretty quick. And it's a very ambivalent feeling, because you're, like, happy you found out that people are [jerkfaces], but you're kinda sad because you think, 'Wow, I wasted so much time being this person's friend.' β Greg Camp
If everything is noted, all your emotional difficulties will disappear. When you feel happy, don't get involved in happiness. When you feel sad, don't get involved with it. Whatever comes, don't worry, just be aware of it. β Dipa Ma
Just Feeling Sad Quotes
Nobody can be uncheered with a balloon. β A. A. Milne
When I'm feeling sad, or lonely, and I don't know what I'm doing and I don't know where I'm going, I imagine the Cool Awesome Future Version of Myself just telling my present self, "It's okay. You just gotta grab that giraffe by the ears and ride it on out." β Jenna Marbles
The older I get, the more I see there are these crevices in life where things fall in and you just can't reach them to pull them back out. So you can sit next to them and weep or you can get up and move forward. You have to stop worrying about who's not here and start worrying about who is. β Alex Witchel
Some days I wish I could go back in life. Not to change anything, but to feel a few things twice.
I don't like no fancy chords. Just the boogie. The drive. The feeling. A lot of people play fancy but they don't have no style. It's a deep feeling-you just can't stop listening to that sad blues sound. My sound. β John Lee Hooker
I don't think I have a sad life. I just talk about all my feelings and emotions. β Jhene Aiko
You have trouble feeling alive, so you stab your own heart just to feel something. It was the emptiness that was killing you. You created the sadness and the fear to fill it. β Yasmin Mogahed
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.
No. The blues are because you're getting fat and maybe it's been raining too long, you're just sad that's all. The mean reds are horrible. Suddenly you're afraid and you don't know what you're afraid of. Do you ever get that feeling? β Audrey Hepburn
And maybe that was how it was supposed to be...Joy and sadness were part of the package; the trick, perhaps,was to let yourself feel all of it, but to hold on to the joy just a little more tightly. β Kristin Hannah
When you get older, it feels like happy memories and sad memories are pretty much the same thing. It is all just emotion in the end. And any of it can make you weep. β Nick Hornby
Although I have always loved the noise of laughter, I really can't fear the coming of quiet. As for funerals, I rather like them. Such nice things are always said about the deceased, I feel sad that they had to miss hearing it all by just a few days. β Bob Monkhouse
Love Feeling Sad Quotes
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. β Johnny Depp
The biggest disease today is not leprosy or tuberculosis, but rather the feeling of being unwanted. β Mother Teresa
You lose yourself trying to hold on to someone who doesn't care about losing you β Tablo
Because you speak to me in words, and I look at you with feelings. β Anna Karina
Love is missing someone whenever you're apart, but somehow feeling warm inside because you're close in heart. β Kai Knudsen
There comes a day when you realize turning the page is the best feeling in the world, because you realize there is so much more to the book than the page you were stuck on.
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. β Henri Nouwen
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 β Edna St. Vincent Millay
A man is about as big as the things that make him angry. β Winston Churchill
Those who have been too long at their labor, who have drunk too long
at the cup of voluptuousness, who feel they have become temporarily
inhumane, who are tormented by their families, who find life sad and
love ephemeral......they should all eat chocolate and they will be
comforted. β Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
I Am Feeling Sad Quotes
But smiles and tears are so alike with me, they are neither of them confined to any particular feelings: I often cry when I am happy, and smile when I am sad. β Anne Bronte
I wear this crown of thorns
Upon my liar's chair
Full of broken thoughts
I cannot repair
Beneath the stains of time
The feelings disappear
You are someone else
I am still right here
What have I become
My sweetest friend? β Trent Reznor
I don't know what happiness is. I have periods of feeling joyous and peaceful and excited about what I'm doing, but I am also frequently very sad. β Sally Field
Let no man pull you low enough to hate him.
Emotions are our spontaneous response to life. We have these emotions, but if the emotion is a negative emotion, then I have a choice to say, "I am feeling sad tonight because this happened, but I am not going to let my sadness keep me from engaging my wife in conversation. " β Gary Chapman
I would not know how I am supposed to feel about many stories if not for the fact that the TV news personalities make sad faces for sad stories and happy faces for happy stories. β Dave Barry
I'm having a bad day. I am not size six. My legs are not skinny as sticks, and dammit, someone's got to pay. I'm afraid that I can't satisfy myself and that my happiness depends on someone else. I feel weak, so you're gonna take the fall. You're so shallow. β Jewel
A King only bows down to his Queen.
Happiness cannot come from hatred or anger. Nobody can say, 'Today I am happy because this morning I was angry.' On the contrary, people feel uneasy and sad and say, 'Today I am not very happy, because I lost my temper this morning.' β Dalai Lama
I am co-writing a screenplay now and I'm working on the rights to another story I want to do. So I plan to produce and direct. So, for me, I don't really feel that I am vulnerable to that sad baggage that comes with the business of filmmaking. β Kerry Washington
Just now, at the hotel, I saw one man having an affair. He's not even my husband. He's another woman's husband. Weather or not he has an affair, is none of my business. But what am I feeling so sad. Really. β Kim A-joong
I'm all out o faith, this is how I feel. I'm cold and I am shamed lying naked on the floor. Illusions never change into something real. I'm wide awake and I can see the perfect sky is torn. You're a little late, I'm already torn. β Natalie Imbruglia
Sometimes Feeling Sad Quotes
Sometimes I get a little sad, and I feel like being alone. Then I talk to my cat about it, and he reminds me Iβm James Franco. Then we dance. β James Franco
Who wants that? I'd rather choose to fall in love and be hurt. Sometimes I can't even sleep because I love someone too much. And there's always sadness in our lives. It's that sad feeling that keeps us going. - Usagi/Sailor Moon β Naoko Takeuchi
Never look back to the past, never regret, even if there is emptiness ahead.' But I couldn't help it. Sometimes I would rather look back if it meant that I could feel something in my heart, even something sad. Sadness was better than emptiness. β Xiaolu Guo
Some people feel the rain, others just get wet.
I like to listen to sad music when Iβm sad. It seems honest. It makes me cry, and sometimes a good cry is the only thing that can make you feel better. β Elizabeth Berg
I love food: hamburgers, pizza, gnocci, mashed potatoes, and especially chocolate. I enjoy eating for the sake of eating. Sometimes I feel sad for the models who don't eat. When you love food, you love life. When you love life, you love to love. β Laetitia Casta
Tears are perhaps 1% water but 99% emotions. They contain hurt, pain, sorrow, disappointment, sadnessβ¦ so cry sometimes and let go of the feelings welling in your heart. Crying won't necessarily solve your problems but it will make you feel better. β Rita Zahara
It's better to cry than to be angry; because anger hurts others, while tears flow silently through the soul and cleanses the heart.
Sometimes sadness is appropriate. Not something to run from, not something to numb...just something to feel. β Marianne Williamson
It'll leave you feeling hollow and helpless, and there is where you'll stay. Ain't it funny child, love sometimes leaves you as dead as yesterday. β Zakk Wylde
I sometimes use a lot of light greens and greys when I feel there is sadness in the painting. β Robert Ryan
I tend to want to listen to melancholy music, but sometimes if you're feeling too sad, you can't. β Kim Gordon
Being Sad 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. β Paramahansa Yogananda
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? β Omar Khayyam
The day I am not able to fly will be a sad day for me. β Ratan Tata
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. β John Lennon
The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil. β Hannah Arendt
Unhappiness does not come from the way things are, but from the difference between how things are and how we think they should be β Creflo A. Dollar
When you're happy you enjoy the music, but when you're sad you understand the lyrics. β 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. β Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche
Often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us. β Helen Keller
Sad Depressed Quotes
There are wounds that never show on the body that are deeper and more hurtful than anything that bleeds. β Laurell K. Hamilton
People cry, not because they're weak. It's because they've been strong for too long. β 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. β 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. β 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. β Ann Demeulemeester
Depressed, anxious, sad, frightened? Yes. But I've never been bored. β 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. β Emile Durkheim
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. β 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. β Tae Yun Kim
Sad Day Quotes
The birth, death, and resurrection of Jesus means that one day everything sad will come untrue. β J. R. R. Tolkien
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. β Julio Cortazar
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. β Pio of Pietrelcina
Love withers under constraints: its very essence is liberty: it is compatible neither with obedience, jealousy, nor fear. β 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 β Franz Beckenbauer
If love is blind, why is lingerie so popular? β 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. β 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. β Gustave Flaubert
Better to have loved and lost than to live with regret. β 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. β Rumi
Sad Face Quotes
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. β Henry Ward Beecher
I love walking down the street and seeing faces and drama and happiness and sadness and dirt and cleanliness. β Ric Ocasek
It would be wrong to refuse to face the fact that everything is fundamentally sick and sad. β Thomas Bernhard
Dare to wear the foolish clown face. β Frank Sinatra
Imagine smiling after a slap in the face. Then think of doing it twenty-four hours a day. β Markus Zusak
Isnβt it sad that so often it takes facing death to appreciate life and each other fully? β 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. β 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. β 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. β Joseph Haydn
I'm a bit sad because I'm leaving my cherished team in a city where I grew up and where I played for nine years in Santos. But I'm even happier to be facing a new challenge and for making a dream come true. β Neymar
Feeling Down Quotes
When you start suppressing feelings at an early age, it hurts you down the road. Full expression of anger and pain is very important. Interview with Andrew Shue β Andrew Shue
Happiness, I have grasped, is a destination, like strawberry Fields. Once you find the way in, there you are, and you'll never feel low again. β Rachel Simon
No one has a right to sit down and feel hopeless. There's too much work to do. β Dorothy Day
Sometimes you search so hard for words. You look for a way to interpret the language of this heart and the unspoken bond you feel. But in the end you are left with nothing but silence. And deep down you hope itβs understood. β Yasmin Mogahed
Take a walk down the street and see where this is going. You no longer feel like you are living in your own country. There is a battle going on and we have to defend ourselves. Before you know it there will be more mosques than churches! β Geert Wilders
Prayerless people cut themselves off from God's prevailing power, and the frequent result is the familiar feeling of being overwhelmed, overrun, beaten down, pushed around, defeated. Surprising numbers of people are willing to settle for lives like that. β Bill Hybels
Deep down, your players must know you care about them. This is the most important thing. I could never get away with what I do if the players feel I didn't care for them. They know, in the long run, I'm in their corner. β Bo Schembechler
Don't let the idiots that like to bring you down, succeed in discouraging you. I let it get to me a while ago, and let me tell you, it feels SO good to come up under it! β Christina Grimmie
You'll be old and you never lived, and you kind of feel silly to lie down and die and to never have lived, to have been a job chaser and never have lived. β Gertrude Stein
I am thankful for the way I was raised, to be positive. Even when times have gotten rough I have always tried to look on the bright side. Even when I was put down, yelled at and made feel insignificant, I still thought things were alright. I did realize when enough is enough. β Angela Merkel
I remember watching Romeo + Juliet when I was 14 and listening to the soundtrack. When I hear that soundtrack now, all those emotions come back. It's really beautiful when you're at a certain point in your life where most of the adventure lies ahead of you. And it's a sad thing when you feel like you've lost that. But you can get it back. β Lykke Li
Our music was meant to be motivational, we thought it would be interesting - when you have a breakup, or when you have hard times with your honey, you know, hard times in life, you can feel sad about it, or you can sometimes, take a dark time and make it, like, One lumen nicer, you know what I mean? β Greg Saunier
Sadly I don't sing. I missed it for a long time, but my daughter Emma said something wonderful when I was feeling blue one day: "Mom, you've just found a different way of using your voice, and that's with your books." In a way, she's right. It's just a different way of expressing what I feel about music, individuality, art and all the things I've always loved. β Julie Andrews
That's the sad thing about it, is that you don't know. And you certainly don't know when you quickly meet somebody. But even as you know somebody longer, it's really hard to know. Obviously you go on your gut feeling but that can be wrong too. ANd it's terrible to have to be wary about people, because it is not my nature, but I've been burned a few times and you just have to careful. β Joan Jett
Your Heavenly Father loves you-each of you. That love never changes. It is not influenced by your appearance, by your possessions, or by the amount of money you have in your bank account. It is not changed by your talents and abilities. It is simply there. It is there for you when you are sad or happy, discouraged or hopeful. God's love is there for you whether or not you feel you deserve love. It is simply always there. β Thomas S. Monson
When I'm awake all night, sometimes I see the people and the city waking up around me. I feel a little bit moody at them for stepping into my night-time. What I want is that feeling when you're in the rain, or a storm. It's a shiver at the edge of your mind, an atmosphere of hearing a sad, distant sound, but it seems closer - like it's just for you. Like hearing rain or a whale-song, a cry in the dark, the far cry. β Burial
You see, when you're middle class, you have to live with the fact that history will ignore you. You have to live with the fact that history can never champion your causes and that history will never feel sorry for you. It is the price that is paid for day-to-day comfort and silence. And because of this price, all happinesses are sterile; all sadnesses go unpitied. β Douglas Coupland
It is forever unspeakable that man must suffer so. But you learn to control yourself, to work efficiently. ... I used to cry, and want to cry, but what do tears do? I was so proud when first I began to conquer. ... Your cheeks feel white just the same, but inside, not outside. Nobody can tell to look at you. Nobody. β Elliott Merrick
Guide to the world of the dead. When you are certain that the body has left you, feel sad for the good you didnβt get to do; then stop feeling sad and begin your journey to the past. Feel happy for the evil you didnβt get to do, then stop feeling happy and realize that what propels you is chance, which when you were going in the opposite direction seemed to you like order, or necessity. β Rodrigo Rey Rosa
A library is a good place to go when you feel unhappy, for there, in a book, you may find encouragement and comfort. A library is a good place to go when you feel bewildered or undecided, for there, in a book, you may have your question answered. Books are good company, in sad times and happy times, for books are people - people who have managed to stay alive by hiding between the covers of a book. β E. B. White
When you stand out there," John continues in a hoarse voice, "keep your chin up, all right? Don't let them get to you." "I won't." "Make them work for it. Punch someone if you have to." John gives me a sad, crooked smile. "You're a scary kid. So scare them. Okay? All the way until the end." For the first time in a long time, I feel like a little brother. I have to swallow hard to keep my eyes dry. "Okay," I whisper. β Marie Lu
When you find out who you are, you will no longer be innocent. That will be sad for others to see. All that knowledge will show on your face and change it. But sad only for others, not for yourself. You will feel you have a kind of wisdom, very mistaken, but a mistake of some power to you and so you will sadly treasure it and grow it. β Lorrie Moore
If at large gatherings or parties, or around people with whom you feel distant, your hands sometimes hang awkwardly at the ends of your arms - i you find yourself at a loss for what do with them, overcome with sadness that comes when you recognize the foreignnes of your own body - it's because your hands remember a time when the division between mind and body, brain and heart, what's inside and what's outside, was so much less. β Nicole Krauss
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