Sad quotes

“You can close your eyes to the things you don't want to see, but you can't close your heart to the things you don't want to feel.”

“The most painful thing is losing yourself in the process of loving someone too much, and forgetting that you are special too”

“The good times of today are the sad thoughts of tomorrow.”

“When you do something noble and beautiful and nobody noticed, do not be sad. For the sun every morning is a beautiful spectacle and yet most of the audience still sleeps.”

“You can be in love and not be in a relationship.”

“It's sad when someone you know becomes someone you knew.”

“There's a time for departure even when there's no certain place to go.”

“Perhaps, somewhere, some day, at a less miserable time, we may see each other again.”

“The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.”

“I cannot make you understand. I cannot make anyone understand what is happening inside me. I cannot even explain it to myself.”

“When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.”

“Love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.”

“If it's not important for you, then it's not important for me.”

“It is sad not to be loved, but it is much sadder not to be able to love.”

“Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings.”

“There is a sacredness in tears. They are not a mark of weakness, but of power. They speak more eloquently than ten thousand tongues. They are the messengers of overwhelming grief, of deep contrition and of unspeakable love.”

“Nothing is more sad than the death of an illusion.”

“One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain.”

“It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.”

“If you want to find out who your real friends are, sink the ship. The first ones to jump aren't your friends.”

“To live in this world you must be able to do three things: to love what is mortal; to hold it against your bones knowing your own life depends on it; and, when the time comes to let it go, to let it go.”

“There is a sacredness in tears…. They are the messengers of overwhelming grief, of deep contrition and of unspeakable love.”

“If you expect nothing from somebody you are never disappointed.”

“Sometimes things fall apart so that better things can fall together.”

“To love is to will the good of the other.”

“Depression is the most unpleasant thing I have ever experienced. … It is that absence of being able to envisage that you will ever be cheerful again. The absence of hope.”

“For every dark night, there's a brighter day. ”

“One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain.”

“It is better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.”

“You cannot protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from happiness.”

“One thing you can't hide - is when you're crippled inside.”

“Why do people have to be this lonely? What's the point of it all? Millions of people in this world, all of them yearning, looking to others to satisfy them, yet isolating themselves. Why? Was the earth put here just to nourish human loneliness?”

“The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can ever end.”

“If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and man.”

“Mostly it is loss which teaches us about the worth of things.”

“There are no have-to's, just choices”

“Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.”

“A man can be happy with any woman as long as he does not love her.”

“You don't forget the face of the person who was your last hope.”

“The flower bloomed and faded. The sun rose and sank. The lover loved and went. And what the poets said in rhyme, the young translated into practice.”

“Better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all. ”

“There is, in the end, the letting go.”

“There are years that ask questions and years that answer.”

“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. It is far better take things as they come along with patience and equanimity.”

“Breathing is hard. When you cry so much, it makes you realize that breathing is hard.”

“It's much easier not to know things sometimes.”

“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.”

“being a successful person is not necessarily defined by what you have achieved, but by what you have overcome.”

“The reason it hurts so much to separate is because our souls are connected.”

“Our sweetest songs are those of saddest thought.”

“You know, a heart can be broken, but it keeps on beating, just the same.”

“The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.”

“Do you know the best thing about broken hearts? They can only really break once the rest is just scratches.”

“I couldn’t see the point of getting up. I had nothing to look forward to.”

“Our dead are never dead to us until we have forgotten them.”

“I didn't want to wake up. I was having a much better time asleep. And that's really sad.”

“It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses, we must plant more roses.”

“We are afraid to care too much, for fear that the other person does not care at all.”

“Perhaps it was freedom itself that choked her.”

“Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.”

“There is no such thing in life as normal”

“Do not grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form.”

“As long as there's me
As long as there's you”

“Sadness gives depth. Happiness gives height. Sadness gives roots. Happiness gives branches. Happiness is like a tree going into the sky, and sadness is like the roots going down into the womb of the earth. Both are needed, and the higher a tree goes, the deeper it goes, simultaneously. In fact, it is always in proportion. That’s its balance.”

“Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.”

“Tonight I can write the saddest lines.
I loved her, and sometimes she loved me too.”

“Hearts are not to be had as a gift, hearts are to be earned.”

“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.”

“Some people care too much. I think it's called love.”

“Pleasure of love lasts but a moment, Pain of love lasts a lifetime.”

“A tragedy need not have blood and death; it's enough that it all be filled with that majestic sadness that is the pleasure of tragedy.”

“The heart will break, but broken live on.”

“Life is to be lived, not controlled.”

“Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul.”

“Accept - then act. Whatever the present moment contains, accept it as if you had chosen it. Always work with it, not against it.”

“Melancholy is the happiness of being sad.”

“Tears are words that need to be written.”

“She was a genius of sadness, immersing herself in it, separating its numerous strands, appreciating its subtle nuances. She was a prism through which sadness could be divided into its infinite spectrum.”

“He is not a lover who does not love forever.”

“Love is not a victory march
It's a cold and it's a broken Hallelujah”

“Art is the only serious thing in the world. And the artist is the only person who is never serious.”

“This moment will just be another story someday.”

“The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.”

“She had tricked him. She had made him leave his old self behind and come into her world, and then before he was really at home in it but too late to go back, she had left him stranded there--like an astronaut wandering about on the moon. Alone.”

“We must find time to stop and thank the people who make a difference in our lives.”

“Accept — then act. Whatever the present moment contains, accept it as if you had chosen it. Always work with it, not against it. Make it your friend and ally, not your enemy. This will miraculously transform your whole life.”

“If we could read the secret history of our enemies, we should find in each man's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility.”

“Let us live so that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.”

“My heart is breaking for a little love”

“Proud people breed sad sorrows for themselves.”

“There are many ways of breaking a heart. Stories were full of hearts broken by love, but what really broke a heart was taking away its dream -- whatever that dream might be.”

“Life seems but a quick succession of busy nothings.”

“Perhaps I know best why it is man alone who laughs; he alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter.”

“no expectations, no disappointments!”

“Basil Hallward is what I think I am: Lord Henry what the world thinks me: Dorian what I would like to be—in other ages, perhaps.”

“Whatever the present moment contains, accept it as if you had chosen it.”

“The love that is not all pain is not all love.”

“Men who give way easily to tears are good. I have nothing to do with those who hearts are dry and who eyes are dry!”

“The saddest thing that befalls a soul
Is when it loses faith in God and woman.”