Memorable Sad Life Quotes

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"The pain never really goes away; you just learn to live with it better."
Anonymous
"Sometimes you have to go through the storm to appreciate the sunshine."
Unknown
"In the end, we only regret the chances we didn't take."
Unknown
"The hardest part of dreaming about someone you love is having to wake up."
Nina Simone
"The sorrow we feel when we lose a loved one is the price we pay for the privilege of knowing them."
Unknown
"Sometimes the person who tries to keep everyone happy is the loneliest person."
Unknown
"And in the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years."
Abraham Lincoln
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"If you are always trying to be normal, you will never know how amazing you can be."
Maya Angelou
"The way sadness works is one of the strange riddles of the world."
Lemony Snicket
"If you want to enjoy the rainbow, be prepared to endure the storm."
Warren Wendel Wiersbe
"It is better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all."
Alfred Lord Tennyson
"The cure for pain is in the pain."
Rumi
"Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise."
Victor Hugo
"You were born with wings, why prefer to crawl through life?"
Rumi
"The only time you fail is when you fall down and stay down."
Stephen Richards
"Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional."
Haruki Murakami
"The deeper that sorrow carves into your being, the more joy you can contain."
Kahlil Gibran
"Tears are words that need to be written."
Paulo Coelho
"The best way out is always through."
Robert Frost
"You have to keep breaking your heart until it opens."
Rumi
"You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength."
Marcus Aurelius
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"Life is full of disappointments and I just added one more to the list."
Unknown
"I never knew falling apart could feel so liberating."
Mazie Hirono
"The loneliest moment in someone's life is when they are watching their whole world fall apart."
F. Scott Fitzgerald
"When you're happy you enjoy the music. When you're sad you understand the lyrics."
Frank Ocean
"It is sad when someone you know becomes someone you knew."
Henry Rollins
"Sadness flies away on the wings of time."
Jean de La Fontaine
"The worst type of crying is the silent one. The one when everyone is asleep. The one where you feel it in your throat, and your eyes become blurry from the tears."
Unknown
"It is okay to be angry. It is never okay to be cruel."
Unknown
"Sometimes it takes sadness to know happiness, noise to appreciate silence, and absence to value presence."
Unknown
"The way sadness works is one of the strange riddles of the world. If you are stricken with a great sadness, you may feel as if you have been set aflame, not only because of the enormous pain but also because your sadness may spread over your life, like smoke from an enormous fire."
Lemony Snicket
"It's sad to know I'm done. But looking back, I've got a lot of great memories."
Bonnie Blair
"My sadness has become an addiction when I'm not sad, I feel lost. I start to panic trying to find my way back which leads me back to my original state."
Unknown
"I didn't want to admit it. It was easier to lie. Hide the hurt and emptiness to smile instead of cry."
Stephanie Witter
"I am not worthy of being in love."
Mark Haddon
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"There are moments when I wish I could roll back the clock and take all the sadness away, but I have the feeling that if I did, the joy would be gone as well."
Nicholas Sparks
"It's hard to answer the question 'What's wrong?' when nothing's right."
Unknown
"My life is just one constant battle between wanting to be alone, but not wanting to be lonely."
Unknown
"I smile not for that I am happy, but sometimes I smile to hide sadness."
Debasish Mridha
"When you are joyous, look deep into your heart and you shall find it is only that which has given you sorrow that is giving you joy."
Khalil Gibran
"Gratitude looks to the past and love to the present; fear, avarice, lust, and ambition look ahead."
C.S. Lewis
"The only thing I am committed to right now is bettering myself."
Unknown
"Smile, even if it's a sad smile, because sadder than a sad smile is the sadness of not knowing how to smile."
Unknown
"In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on."
Robert Frost
"Life is what happens when you're busy making other plans."
John Lennon
"The only way out of the labyrinth of suffering is to forgive."
John Green
"The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom."
Isaac Asimov
"We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope."
Martin Luther King Jr.
"Grief can be the garden of compassion. If you keep your heart open through everything, your pain can become your greatest ally in your life's search for love and wisdom."
Rumi
"The soul would have no rainbow if the eyes had no tears."
John Vance Cheney
"I walk around the school hallways and look at the people. I look at the teachers and wonder why they're here. If they like their jobs. Or us. And I wonder how smart they were. The people, the teachers."
Markus Zusak
"They say I'm old-fashioned, and live in the past, but sometimes I think progress progresses too fast!"
Dr. Seuss
"Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act."
Truman Capote
"Life's under no obligation to give us what we expect."
Margaret Mitchell
"You cannot protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from happiness."
Jonathan Safran Foer
"You never know how much you really believe anything until its truth or falsehood becomes a matter of life and death to you."
C.S. Lewis
"If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion."
Dalai Lama
"The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up."
Mark Twain
"Feeling sad because you lost a competition or didn't get something you wanted is okay. You should feel that way and move on. It's part of the preparation and will make you stronger the next time around."
Venus Williams
"Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened."
Dr. Seuss
"When things are bad, it's the best time to reinvent yourself."
George Lopez
"Suffering is a gift. In it is hidden mercy."
Rumi
"Some moments are nice, some are nicer, some are even worth writing about."
Charles Bukowski
"Don't be trying to have everything you want, then suffer when things can't go your way."
Eminem
"Be there for others but never leave yourself behind."
Dodinsky
"Life is a comedy to those who think, a tragedy to those who feel."
Horace Walpole
"The saddest thing in life is wasted talent."
A Bronx Tale
"Life is not always a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes, playing a poor hand well."
Jack London
"I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I lived just the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well."
Diane Ackerman
"The pain I feel now is the happiness I had before. That's the deal."
C.S. Lewis
"Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them; that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like."
Lao Tzu
"I am not afraid of tomorrow, for I have seen yesterday and I love today."
William Allen White
"The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it."
W. M. Lewis
"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
"Life is made of ever so many partings welded together."
Charles Dickens
"Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment."
Buddha
"People have an annoying habit of remembering things they shouldn't."
Christopher Paolini
"The most important thing is to enjoy your life—to be happy—it's all that matters."
Audrey Hepburn
"When words fail, tears can speak."
William Shakespeare
"Grief is not a disorder, a disease, or a sign of weakness. It is an emotional, physical, and spiritual necessity, the price you pay for love."
Queen Elizabeth II
"I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing."
Agatha Christie
"The heart was made to be broken."
Oscar Wilde
"Count your age by friends, not years. Count your life by smiles, not tears."
John Lennon
"To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all."
Oscar Wilde
"We can bear almost anything if it is seen in retrospect and considered to have a meaning."
William James
"Sometimes the bad things that happen in our lives put us directly on the path to the best things that will ever happen to us."
Nicole Reed
"The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places."
Ernest Hemingway
"When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive—to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love."
Marcus Aurelius
"What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
"The saddest summary of a life contains three descriptions: could have, might have, and should have."
Louis E. Boone
"The only time I realized I fell too deep was when it all started to hurt."
Unknown
"Sometimes you just have to stay silent because no words can explain the shattered pieces of your heart."
Unknown
"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!"
Unknown
"It's sad when someone you know becomes someone you knew."
Henry Rollins
"It's funny how the people that hurt you the most are the ones that swore they never would."
Unknown
"Tears shed for another person are not a sign of weakness. They are a sign of a pure heart."
José N. Harris
"The sadness will last forever."
Vincent van Gogh
"I don't think you ever really understood…constantly torn between killing myself and killing everyone around me."
Unknown
"I can't drown my demons, they know how to swim."
Unknown
"Life is short, make it sweet. Sad? You bet! But it's true: make every moment count."
Bruce Willis
"Behind every sweet smile, there is a bitter sadness that no one can ever see and feel."
Tupac Shakur
"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
"I am in that temper that if I were under water I would scarcely kick to come to the top."
John Keats
"People are afraid of themselves, of their own reality; their feelings most of all. People talk about how great love is, but that’s bullshit. Love hurts. Feelings are disturbing. People are taught that pain is evil and dangerous. How can they deal with love if they’re afraid to feel? Pain is meant to wake us up. People try to hide their pain. But they’re wrong. Pain is something to carry, like a radio. You feel your strength in the experience of pain."
Jim Morrison
"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 create music."
Unknown
"It's sad, actually, because my anxiety keeps me from enjoying things as much as I should at this age."
Amanda Seyfried
"I can feel the hurt. There’s something good about it. Mostly it makes me stop remembering."
Albert Borris
"The longer and more carefully we look at a funny story, the sadder it becomes."
Nikolai Gogol
"We must understand that sadness is an ocean, and sometimes we drown, while other days we are forced to swim."
R. M. Drake
"The word 'happiness' would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness."
Carl Gustav Jung
"Boys turn into men half as old again at 30 as women will turn into women."
Emily Dickinson
"Depression is the inability to construct a future."
Rollo May
"Heavy hearts, like heavy clouds in the sky, are best relieved by the letting of a little water."
Antoine de Rivarol
"We, human beings, are like islands in the sea, separate on the surface but connected in the deep."
William James
"Sometimes I'm not angry, I'm hurt and there's a big difference."
Unknown
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