109 result(s) for Sad Quotes.
"I don't trust people who don't love themselves and tell me, 'I love you.' ... There is an African saying which is: Be careful when a naked person offers you a shirt."
"When people don't express themselves, they die one piece at a time."
"It's so much darker when a light goes out than it would have been if it had never shone."
"The past is a place of reference, not a place of residence."
"The word 'happy' would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness."
"The greatest joy and the greatest heartache coexist."
"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. When you are sorrowful, look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight."
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"Sometimes you avoid the things you want to avoid the pain of not having it."
"Tears shed for another person are not a sign of weakness. They are a sign of a pure heart."
"We are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love."
"Grief is like the ocean; it comes on waves ebbing and flowing. Sometimes the water is calm, and sometimes it is overwhelming. All we can do is learn to swim."
"Life is so constructed that an event does not, cannot, will not, match the expectation."
"You are not your job, you're not how much money you have in the bank. You are not the car you drive. You're not the contents of your wallet. You are not your [expletive] khakis."
"When the heart weeps for what it has lost, the spirit laughs for what it has found."
"Grief is like the ocean; it comes on waves ebbing and flowing. Sometimes the water is calm, and sometimes it is overwhelming."
"We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope."
"The best thing for being sad...is to learn something. That is the only thing that never fails."
"Sometimes even to live is an act of courage."
"Sorrow looks back, worry looks around, faith looks up."
"The pain of the mind is worse than the pain of the body."
"Deep grief sometimes is almost like a specific location, a coordinate on a map of time. When you are standing in that forest of sorrow, you cannot imagine that you could ever find your way to a better place. But if someone can assure you that they themselves have stood in that same place, and now have moved on, sometimes this will bring hope."
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"The good life is not one immune to sadness but one in which suffering contributes to our development."
"Never be ashamed of how you feel. You have the right to feel any emotion that you want, and to do what makes you happy."
"It is a grief that cannot be shared. It is a private grief. It cannot be shared. So everyone goes to their grave alone."
"What cannot be cured must be endured."
"There are no words to express the abyss between isolation and having one ally. It may be conceded to the mathematician that four is twice two. But two is not twice one; two is two thousand times one."
"The rose and the thorn, and sorrow and gladness are linked together."
"No one is really happy. We just choose which pain we want to endure."
"The walls we build around us to keep out the sadness also keep out the joy."
"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."
"Life is full of happiness and tears; be strong and have faith."
"Your joy is your sorrow unmasked."
"I wanted a perfect ending. Now I've learned, the hard way, that some poems don't rhyme, and some stories don't have a clear beginning, middle, and end."
"In the arithmetic of love, one plus one equals everything, and two minus one equals nothing."
"No matter how hard you try, some people will never change or apologize for the hurt they've caused."
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"He who is not just is severe, he who is not wise is sad."
"Never make a permanent decision based on temporary feelings."
"The deeper that sorrow carves into your being, the more joy you can contain."
"Sadness gives depth. Happiness gives height. Sadness gives roots. Happiness gives branches."
"Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened."
"When you're happy you enjoy the music. When you're sad you understand the lyrics."
"Behind every sweet smile, there is a bitter sadness that no one can ever see."
"You cannot protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from happiness."
"I didn't want to wake up. I was having a much better time asleep. And that's really sad. It was almost like a reverse nightmare, like when you wake up from a nightmare you're so relieved. I woke up into a nightmare."
"There is no greater sorrow than to recall a happy time when miserable."
"The good times of today are the sad thoughts of tomorrow."
"The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up."
"One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star."
"Knowing how to be solitary is central to the art of loving. When we can be alone, we can be with others without using them as a means of escape."
"Experiencing sadness and anger can make you feel more creative, and by being creative you can get beyond your pain or negativity."
"One thing you can't hide - is when you're crippled inside."
"Even in laughter the heart may ache, and rejoicing may end in grief."
"Tears come from the heart and not from the brain."
"Behind every sweet smile, there is a bitter sadness that no one can ever see and feel."
"The walls we build around us to keep sadness out also keep out the joy."
"Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad."
"I didn't want to admit it. It was easier to lie. Hide the hurt and emptiness to smile instead of cry."
"Crying is cleansing. There's a reason for tears, happiness or sadness."
"There is a time for many words, and there is also a time for sleep."
"It's sad that, in our blindness to labels, we confuse diverse reality with simple disorder, and see in the enforcement of order a contempt for difference."
"Some people are meant to fall in love with each other, but not meant to be together."
"Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation."
"Grief is the price we pay for love."
"You cannot prevent the birds of sorrow from flying over your head, but you can prevent them from building nests in your hair."
"So it's true, when all is said and done, grief is the price we pay for love."
"The magnitude of your grief is shaped by the depth of your love."
"The word 'happiness' would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness."
"The only way to find true happiness is to risk being completely cut open."
"There is no greater sorrow than to recall happiness in times of misery."
"The walls we build around us to keep sadness out also keeps out the joy."
"Sadness flies away on the wings of time."
"Life is made of so many moments that mean absolutely nothing. Then one day, a single moment comes along to define every second that comes after."
"Don't grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form."
"Tears are words that need to be written."
"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."
"Nobody really cares if you're miserable, so you might as well be happy."
"How strange to dream of you even when I'm wide awake."
"The pleasure that is in sorrow is sweeter than the pleasure of pleasure itself."
"When you're happy you enjoy the music. But, when you're sad you understand the lyrics."
"Sadness is but a wall between two gardens."
"The few hours I spend with you are worth the thousand hours I spend without you."
"It's sad when someone you know becomes someone you knew."
"The heaviest of burdens crushes us, we sink beneath it, it pins us to the ground. But in love poetry of every age, the woman longs to be weighed down by the man's body."
"How often have I lain beneath rain on a strange roof, thinking of home."
"Sadness does not inhere only in reality. Many things that never happened are true."
"The greater your capacity to love, the greater your capacity to feel the pain."
"The greatest griefs are those we cause ourselves."
"To weep is to make less the depth of grief."
"The soul would have no rainbow had the eyes no tears."
"Sometimes, when one person is missing, the whole world seems depopulated."
"It’s sad when someone you know becomes a stranger."
"The worst kind of sad is not being able to explain why."
"The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil."
"There is no greater sorrow than to recall in misery the time when we were happy."
"The emotion that can break your heart is sometimes the very one that heals it."
"Sometimes, the person who tries to keep everyone happy is the most lonely person."
"You can't stop the tears from falling, so why try to hold them back?"
"It is not the strength of the body that counts, but the strength of the spirit."
"The saddest thing about love is that not only that it cannot last forever, but that pieces of it can remain even after it has gone."
"Hearts will never be practical until they are made unbreakable."
"The pain of parting is nothing to the joy of meeting again."
"Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back."
"You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams."
"We are all broken, that’s how the light gets in."
"Melancholy: an appetite no misery satisfies."
"I have lost my mind. I have become a stranger to myself."
"A smile is the shortest distance between two people, but it can also hide the longest distance of all."
"We are all of us stars, and we deserve to twinkle."
"The only thing worse than being sad is for others to know that you’re sad."
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