Sadness Quotes
Everyone goes through difficult times in life, but some days are a lot tougher than others. In this article, we have compiled a list of quotes to encourage you and also remind you that you are not alone.
Below you will find quotes about sadness that will help you get through your low moments and keep you inspired.
Sadness Quotes & Sayings
“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
“Any fool can be happy. It takes a man with real heart to make beauty out of the stuff that makes us weep.”― Clive Barker
“Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.” – Percy Bysshe Shelley
“We must understand that sadness is an ocean, and sometimes we drown, while other days we are forced to swim.” – R.M. Drake
“Sometimes we get sad about things and we don’t like to tell other people that we are sad about them. We like to keep it a secret. Or sometimes, we are sad but we really don’t know why we are sad, so we say we aren’t sad but we really are.” – Mark Haddon
“You cannot protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from happiness.”
― Jonathan Safran Foer
― Jonathan Safran Foer
“Tears are words that need to be written.”― Paulo Coelho
“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
“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
“Leaning against my father, the sadness finally broke open inside me, hollowing out my heart and leaving me bleeding. My feet felt rooted in the dirt. There were more than two bodies buried here. Pieces of me that I didn’t even know were under the ground. Pieces of dad, too.” – Laurie Halse Anderson
All-day is not the same, you need to wait and be patient for the good things to happen.
“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 word ‘happy’ would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.” – Carl Jung
“Don’t cry over someone who wouldn’t cry over you.”― Lauren Conrad
“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!.” – Dita Von Teese
“Tears shed for another person are not a sign of weakness. They are a sign of a pure heart.” – Jose N. Harris
“Don’t be ashamed to weep; ’tis right to grieve. Tears are only water, and flowers, trees, and fruit cannot grow without water. But there must be sunlight also. A wounded heart will heal in time, and when it does, the memory and love of our lost ones is sealed inside to comfort us.”― Brian Jacques
“There is no point treating a depressed person as though she were just feeling sad, saying, ‘There now, hang on, you’ll get over it.’ Sadness is more or less like a head cold- with patience, it passes. Depression is like cancer.” – Barbara Kingsolver
“The longer and more carefully we look at a funny story, the sadder it becomes.” – Nikolai Gogol
“Sadness flies away on the wings of time.” – Jean de La Fontaine
“There is no greater sorrow than to recall in misery the time when we were happy.” – Dante Alighieri
“There is some kind of a sweet innocence in being human- in not having to be just happy or just sad- in the nature of being able to be both broken and whole, at the same time.” – C. Joybell
“Sadness is but a wall between two gardens.” – Kahlil Gibran