Sad Quotes

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.

Khalil Gibran

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


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


Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.
Khalil Gibran


Sadness is but a wall between two gardens.
Khalil Gibran


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


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


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


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


I've cried, and you'd think I'd be better for it, but the sadness just sleeps, and it stays in my spine the rest of my life.
Conor Oberst


The word 'happiness' would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.
Carl Jung


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


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


A sad soul can kill quicker than a germ.
John Steinbeck


I do believe that if you haven't learnt about sadness, you cannot appreciate happiness.
Nana Mouskouri


Experiencing sadness and anger can make you feel more creative, and by being creative, you can get beyond your pain or negativity.
Yoko Ono


Sad things happen. They do. But we don't need to live sad forever.
Mattie Stepanek


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


Heavy hearts, like heavy clouds in the sky, are best relieved by the letting of a little water.
Christopher Morley


Every life has a measure of sorrow, and sometimes this is what awakens us.
Steven Tyler


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


One must not let oneself be overwhelmed by sadness.
Jackie Kennedy


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


Isn't it sad to go to your grave without ever wondering why you were born? Who, with such a thought, would not spring from bed, eager to resume discovering the world and rejoicing to be part of it?
Richard Dawkins


We look before and after, And pine for what is not; Our sincerest laughter With some pain is fraught; Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.
Percy Bysshe Shelley