44 Sad Quotes

Sad Quotes
“Sadness flies away on the wings of time.”
-Jean de La Fontaine
“Tears are words the mouth can’t say nor can the heart bear.”
-Joshua Wisenbaker
“The largest part of what we call ‘personality’ is determined by how we’ve opted to defend ourselves against anxiety and sadness.”
-Alain de Botton
“The longer and more carefully we look at a funny story, the sadder it becomes.”
-Nikolai Gogol
“Tears come from the heart and not from the brain.”
-Leonardo da Vinci
“Life is made of so many partings welded together.”
-Charles Dickens
“You cannot protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from happiness.”
-Jonathan Safran Foer
“It’s sad when someone you know becomes someone you knew.”
-Henry Rollins
“Your sadness is a gift. Don’t reject it. Don’t rush it. Live it fully and use it as fuel to change and grow.”
-Maxime Lagacé
“Tears are words the heart can’t express.”
-Gerard Way
“Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.”
-Percy Bysshe Shelley
“The sadness will last forever.”
-Vincent van Gogh
“When you’re happy you enjoy the music, but when you’re sad you understand the lyrics.”
-Frank Ocean
“When you lose, do not lose the lesson.”
-Dalai Lama
“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
“Trifles make the sum of life.”
-Charles Dickens
“Love is not a victory march. It’s a cold and it’s a broken hallelujah.”
-Leonard Cohen
“The opposite of love is indifference.”
-Shane Parrish
“There is no greater sorrow than to recall in misery the time when we were happy.”
-Dante Alighieri
“I am just another dot in the world.”
-Yayoi Kusama
“For even as love crowns you so shall he crucify you.”
-Kahlil Gibran
“So it’s true, when all is said and done, grief is the price we pay for love.”
-E.A. Bucchianeri
“Every heart has its own skeletons.”
-Leo Tolstoy
“We must understand that sadness is an ocean, and sometimes we drown, while other days we are forced to swim.”
-R.M. Drake
“Sometimes you laugh because you’ve got no more room for crying.”
-Terry Pratchett
“Proud people breed sad sorrows for themselves.”
-Emily Brontë
“Life seems but a quick succession of busy nothings.”
-Jane Austen
“The word ‘happy’ would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.”
-Carl Jung
“Chasing happiness is guaranteed to make to you unhappy.”
-Ed Latimore
“Don’t grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form.”
-Rumi
“Ninety-nine percent of your problems are created by you because you take life seriously.”
-Osho
“Never be afraid of tears. Tear-filled eyes are capable of seeing truth. Tear-filled eyes are capable of seeing the beauty of life.”
-Osho
“The more secrets you have, the less happy you’re going to be.”
-Naval Ravikant
“Experiencing sadness and anger can make you feel more creative, and by being creative you can get beyond your pain or negativity.”
-Yoko Ono
“The trouble is, you think you have time.”
-Jack Kornfield
“I am nobody! Who are you? Are you a nobody, too?”
-Emily Dickinson
“A long life makes acquaintance with a thousand ills.”
-Publius Syrus
“What brings us to tears, will lead us to grace. Our pain is never wasted.”
-Bob Goff
“In the valley of sorrow, spread your wings.”
-Susan Sontag
“We forge the chains we wear in life.”
-Charles Dickens
“Nothing changes if nothing changes.”
-Mel Robbins
“Turn your wounds into wisdom.”
-Oprah Winfrey
“There are two medicines for all ills: time and silence.”
-Alexander Dumas
“Sadness is but a wall between two gardens.”
-Kahlil Gibran