Sad Quotes, Sayings about Sadness

The girl who seemed unbreakable; Broke, The girl who seemed so strong; Crumbled, The girl who always laughed it off; Cried, and The girl who would never stop trying; Finally gave it all up and quit – Amanda.

It’s a sad moment, really, when parents first become a bit frightened of their children – Ama Ata Aidoo.

Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don’t know how to replenish its source.
It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of withering, of tarnishing – Anais Nin.

Sad; so sad, those smoky-rose, smoky-mauve evenings of late Autumn, sad enough to pierce the heart – Angela Carter.

One sad thing about this world is that the acts that take the most out of you are usually the ones that other people will never know about. – Anne Tyler

Poverty makes you sad as well as wise – Bertolt Brecht.

Red is the ultimate cure for sadness – Bill Blass.

It is sad to grow old but nice to ripen – Brigitte Bardot.

There are as many nights as days, and the one is just as long as the other in the year’s course. 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 – Carl Jung.

There is no such thing as death. In nature nothing dies. From each sad remnant of decay, some forms of life arise so shall his life be taken away before he knoweth that he hath it – Charles Mackay.

Better by far you should forget and smile than that you should remember and be sad – Christina Georgina Rossetti.

There is no greater sorrow than to recall in misery the time when we were happy – Dante.

We enjoy warmth because we have been cold. We appreciate light because we have been in darkness. By the same token, we can experience joy because we have known sadness – David Weatherford.

There are moments when, even to the sober eye of Reason, the world of our sad humanity must assume the aspect of Hell – Edgar Allan Poe.

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.

Hating people is like burning down your house to kill a rat – Henry Fosdick.

It’s sad when someone you know becomes someone you knew – Henry Rollins.

Sad people dislike the happy, and the happy the sad; the quick thinking the sedate, and the careless the busy and industrious – Horace.

Sadness flies away on the wings of time – Jean de La Fontaine.

Holding your emotions in is like shaking up a soda, Eventually they’ll explode – Jewell.

The walls we build around us to keep out the sadness also keep out the joy – Jim Rohn.

Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It’s the transition that’s troublesome – Jimi Hendrix.

For all sad words of tongue and pen, The saddest are these, “It might have been” – John Greenleaf Whittier.

No more truth. Bells ring no more in me. I am all alone singly. Lonely rests my head. O my God! I am dead – Jose Garcia Villa.

A single death is a tragedy; a million deaths is a statistic – Joseph Stalin.

Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation – Kahlil Gibran.

Don’t fear failure so much that you refuse to try new things. The saddest summary of a life contains three descriptions: could have, might have, and should have – Louis E. Boone.

In our sad condition, our only consolation is the expectancy of another life. Here below all is incomprehensible – Martin Luther.

It is a very sad thing that nowadays there is so little useless information – Oscar Wilde.

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.

It took me so long to ask for your aid but now its too late my bed has been made – Rachel.

Travelling is a fool’s paradise. I pack my trunk, embrace my friends, embark on the sea and at last wake up in Naples, and there besides me is the stern fact, the sad self, unrelenting, identical, that I fled from – Ralph Waldo Emerson.

For me, singing sad songs often has a way of healing a situation. It gets the hurt out in the open into the light, out of the darkness – Reba McEntire.

Beginnings are usually scary and endings are usually sad, but itâ€™s the middle that counts. You have to remember this when you find yourself at the beginning – Sandra Bullock.

Though I know he loves me, tonight my heart is sad; his kiss was not so wonderful as all the dreams I had – Sara Teasdale.

I love my past, I love my present. I am not ashamed of what I have had, and I am not sad because I no longer have it – Sidonie Gabrielle Colette.

We get drugged up, We party all night long but none of you realize the pain we go through it all just makes u more depressed – Teesh.

Melancholy is the pleasure of being sad – Victor Hugo.

He who is not just is severe, he who is not wise is sad – Voltaire.

He is a hard man who is only just, and a sad one who is only wise – Voltaire.

Come, let’s have one other gaudy night. Call to me. All my sad captains. Fill our bowls once more. Let’s mock the midnight bell – William Shakespeare.

I had rather have a fool to make me merry than experience to make me sad – William Shakespeare.

Days of absence, sad and dreary, Clothed in sorrow’s dark array, Days of absence, I am weary; She I love is far away – William Shakespeare.

In that sweet mood when pleasant thoughts bring sad thoughts to the mind – William Wordsworth.

When I look back on all these worries, I remember the story of the old man who said on his deathbed that he had had a lot of trouble in his life, most of which had never happened – Winston Churchill.

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