Sadness Quotes
When you're feeling down, knowing that you're not alone can be a great source of comfort. YourDictionary's collection of sad quotes can serve as a reminder that sorrow is a natural human emotion—temporary, but necessary to make you appreciate the brighter parts of life.
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More Sadness Quotes
Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow— American poet and educator (1807 - 1882)
Farewell sadness
Hello sadness.
Original (French):
Adieu tristesse
Bonjour tristesse.
— "Bonjour Tristesse" by Françoise Sagan (1942)
You can never control who you fall in love with, even when you're in the most sad, confused time of your life. You don't fall in love with people because they're fun. It just happens.
kirsten dunst
A photograph doesn't gain weight or lose weight, or change from being happy to being sad. It's frozen. You can use it, then recycle it.
chuck close
Depression is the inability to construct a future.
rollo may— Love and Will (1969, p. 243)
Depression is the most unpleasant thing I have ever experienced... It is that absence of being able to envisage that you will ever be cheerful again. The absence of hope. That very deadened feeling, which is so very different from feeling sad. Sad hurts but it's a healthy feeling. It is a necessary thing to feel. Depression is very different.
J. K. Rowling— British novelist, screenwriter and film producer best known as the author of the Harry Potter fantasy series
Days of absence, sad and dreary, clothed in sorrow's dark array. Days of absence, I am weary; she, I love, is far away.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau— Days of Absence
Some natural sorrow, loss, or pain, that has been and may be again.
william wordsworth— William Wordsworth, The Solitary Reaper.
Sorrow is only one of the lower notes in the oratorio of our blessedness.
adoniram judson gordon— Adoniram Judson Gordon, p. 555. (Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895))
Sorrows humanize our race; tears are the showers that fertilize this world.
jean ingelow— Jean Ingelow, p. 557. (Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895))
Oh, I am very weary, though tears no longer flow. My eyes are tired of weeping, my heart is sick of woe.
anne brontë
I've cried, and you'd think I'd be the better for it, but the sadness just sleeps, and it stays in my spine the rest of my life.
conor oberst
If you don't know about pain and trouble, you're in sad shape. They make you appreciate life.
Evel Knievel
For I have learned to look on nature, not as in the hour of thoughtless youth, but hearing oftentimes the still, sad music of humanity.
william wordsworth
Good humor is the health of the soul, sadness is its poison.
stanhope, philip, 4th earl of chesterfield
Participate joyfully in the sorrows of the world. We cannot cure the world of sorrows, but we can choose to live in joy.
joseph campbell
Sorrows are like thunderclouds, in the distance they look black, over our heads scarcely gray.
Jean Paul
Tears are nature's lotion for the eyes. The eyes see better for being washed by them.
christian nestell bovee
We're taught to be ashamed of confusion, anger, fear and sadness, and to me they're of equal value to happiness, excitement and inspiration.
alanis morissette
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
You have to let it all hang out, let go of the ideas that were more comfortable and embrace some of the sadness in your life.
madeleine peyroux
For all sad words of tongue and pen, The saddest are these, 'It might have been'.
john greenleaf whittier— American Quaker poet and advocate of the abolition of slavery in the United States
People aren't born sad; we make them that way.
Nikita Gill— Writer and poet
Sadness can't be prevented. No matter who you are or what you do, everyone occasionally has bad days. As Leo Buscaglia explained, worrying about what will happen won't affect the outcome. "Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow, it only saps today of its joy," he said.
A common mistake that people make in life is to avoid taking risks for fear of causing sadness. Staying in your comfort zone is the path of least resistance, but it prevents the possibility of growth and change that can bring about true joy. John Greenleaf Whittier sums up this sentiment with the quote, "For all sad words of tongue and pen, the saddest are these, 'It might have been’."
While sadness can often feel overwhelming, it's important to remember that better times are ahead. The obstacles you face at the moment are just part of a larger plan. They're the beginning of your story, not the ending. "There can be no rainbow without a cloud and a storm," John Heyl Vincent said.
Often, sadness is part of a larger life lesson. Sorrow teaches empathy and reminds us what's most important in our lives. "Has it never occurred to us, when surrounded by sorrows, that they may be sent to us only for our instruction, as we darken the cages of birds when we wish to teach them to sing?" Jean Paul said.
