Sad Quotes:
A sad soul can kill quicker than a germ.
John Steinbeck
The tragedy of life is in what dies inside a man while he lives – the death of genuine feeling, the death of inspired response, the awareness that makes it possible to feel the pain or the glory of other men in yourself.
Norman Cousins
The word ‘happy’ would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.
Carl Jung
Nothing is more sad than the death of an illusion.
Arthur Koestler
Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us sorry but wise.
H. G. Wells
Sadness is but a wall between two gardens.
Khalil Gibran
Depression is the inability to construct a future.
Rollo May
I seldom think about my limitations, and they never make me sad. Perhaps there is just a touch of yearning at times; but it is vague, like a breeze among flowers.
Helen Keller
Can I see another’s woe, and not be in sorrow too? Can I see another’s grief, and not seek for kind relief?
William Blake
Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Tears are the summer showers to the soul.
Alfred Austin
Sadness is also a kind of defence.
Ivo Andric
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
The rose and the thorn, and sorrow and gladness are linked together.
Saadi
The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities.
Sophocles
In this world, full often, our joys are only the tender shadows which our sorrows cast.
Henry Ward Beecher
Crying is cleansing. There’s a reason for tears, happiness or sadness.
Dionne Warwick
Sad people dislike the happy, and the happy the sad; the quick thinking the sedate, and the careless the busy and industrious.
Horace
It’s a sad man my friend who’s livin’ in his own skin and can’t stand the company.
Bruce Springsteen
If my world were to cave in tomorrow, I would look back on all the pleasures, excitements and worthwhilenesses I have been lucky enough to have had. Not the sadness, not my miscarriages or my father leaving home, but the joy of everything else. It will have been enough.
Audrey Hepburn
Every human walks around with a certain kind of sadness. They may not wear it on their sleeves, but it’s there if you look deep.
Taraji P. Henson
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
Tears are nature’s lotion for the eyes. The eyes see better for being washed by them.
Christian Nestell Bovee
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
Sad will be the day for any man when he becomes contented with the thoughts he is thinking and the deeds he is doing – where there is not forever beating at the doors of his soul some great desire to do something larger; which he knows he was meant and made to do.
Phillips Brooks
Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair.
William Cowper
Some days are just bad days, that’s all. You have to experience sadness to know happiness, and I remind myself that not every day is going to be a good day, that’s just the way it is!
Dita Von Teese
First, accept sadness. Realize that without losing, winning isn’t so great.
Alyssa Milano
Make the most of your regrets; never smother your sorrow, but tend and cherish it till it comes to have a separate and integral interest. To regret deeply is to live afresh.
Henry David Thoreau
If you don’t know about pain and trouble, you’re in sad shape. They make you appreciate life.
Evel Knievel