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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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)

Tags: sorrow, depression, world, sorrows, man, Cold, sad

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There can be no rainbow without a cloud and a storm.

john heyl vincent

Tags: sorrow, hope

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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

Tags: love, Relationships, happens, just, fun, because, people, don't, life

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Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us sorry but wise.

H.G. Wells

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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

Tags: change

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Farewell sadness
Hello sadness.

Original (French):
Adieu tristesse
Bonjour tristesse.

Françoise sagan

— "Bonjour Tristesse" by Françoise Sagan (1942)

Tags: Adieu, tristesse, Farewell, sadness, Hello

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Nobody understands another's sorrow, and nobody another's joy.

Franz Schubert

Tags: joy, happiness, sorrow, nobody, understands, another

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Delicious tears! The heart's own dew.

letitia elizabeth landon

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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

Tags: depression, Emotions, absence, feel, necessary, healthy, hurts, sad, different

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Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrate hope severer than despair.

william cowper

— "Hope, like the short-lived ray that gleams awhile", line 35.

Tags: absence, love, death, missing You, hope, we, worse, deathAnd, frustrate

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It is a sad thing when men have neither the wit to speak well, nor the judgment to hold their tongues.

jean de la bruyère

— As quoted in A Dictionary of Thoughts: being A Cyclopedia of Laconic Quotations from the Best Authors of the World, both Ancient and Modern (1908) edited by Tryon Edwards, p. 560

Tags: sad, thing, when, men, wit, speak, judgment, hold, tongues

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But it's a sad man my friend who's livin' in his own skin and can't stand the company.

Bruce Springsteen

— "Better Days"

Tags: sad, man, friend, livin', own, skin, can't, stand, company

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There's enough sorrow in the world, isn't there, without trying to invent it.

e. m. forster

— E. M. Forster A Room with a View (1908) Ch. 2

Tags: sorrow, enough, world, there, without, trying, invent

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Sorrows remembered sweeten present joy.

robert pollok

— Robert Pollok, The Course of Time (1827), Book I, line 464.

Tags: sorrow, Sorrows, remembered, sweeten, present, joy

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In deep sadness there is no place for sentimentality.

William S. Burroughs

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Sadness is but a wall between two gardens.

khalil gibran

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First, accept sadness. Realize that without losing, winning isn't so great.

Alyssa Milano

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It is sadder to find the past again and find it inadequate to the present than it is to have it elude you and remain forever a harmonious conception of memory.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

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Tears are the summer showers to the soul.

Alfred Austin

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For all sad words of tongue and pen, the saddest are these, "It might have been".

john greenleaf whittier

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We never taste happiness in perfection, our most fortunate successes are mixed with sadness.

pierre corneille

Tags: happiness

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The excursion is the same when you go looking for your sorrow as when you go looking for your joy.

Eudora Welty

Tags: sorrow, joy

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Sadness is also a kind of defense.

Ivo Andric

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The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities.

Sophocles

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Words are less needful to sorrow than to joy.

helen hunt jackson

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There is no worse sorrow than remembering happiness in the day of sorrow.

alfred de musset

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Some days are just bad days, that's all.

dita von teese

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A cynical young person is almost the saddest sight to see, because it means that he or she has gone from knowing nothing to believing nothing.

maya angelou

Tags: youth, knowledge

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I've got that summertime, summertime sadness.

lana del rey

— Summertime Sadness

Tags: summer, summertime, sadness

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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.

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