Sad quotes

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

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

“There is no such thing in life as normal”

“Proud people breed sad sorrows for themselves.”

“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.”

“Sadness is silent, it is yours. It is coming because you are alone. It is giving you a chance to go deeper into your aloneness. Rather than jumping from one shallow happiness to another shallow happiness and wasting your life, it is better to use sadness as a means for meditation. Witness it. It is a friend! It opens the door of your eternal aloneness.”

“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.”

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

“Feeling lost, crazy and desperate belongs to a good life as much as optimism, certainty and reason.”

“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.”

“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.”

“Our sweetest songs are those of saddest thought.”

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

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

“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.”

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

“Sadness flies away on the wings of time.”

“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.”

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

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

“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.”

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

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

“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.”

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

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

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

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

“Perhaps it was freedom itself that choked her.”

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

“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.”

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

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

“It is sad to grow old but nice to ripen.”

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

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

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

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

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

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

“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.”

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

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

“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.”

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

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

“Every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.”

“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.”

“I begin to long for some little language such as lovers use, broken words, inarticulate words, like the shuffling of feet on pavement.”

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

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

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

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

“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.”

“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.”

“Melancholy is the happiness of being sad.”

“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.”

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

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

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

“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.”

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

“Life is to be lived, not controlled.”

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

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

“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?”

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

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

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

“You are what you love, not what loves you.”

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

“The way we see the problem is the problem.”

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

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

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

“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.”

“None of it is important or all of it is.”

“no expectations, no disappointments!”

“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.”

“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.”

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

“The trouble is, you think you have time.”

“They say when you are missing someone that they are probably feeling the same, but I don't think it's possible for you to miss me as much as I'm missing you right now”

“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.”

“This moment will just be another story someday.”

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

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

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

“The trouble is, you think you have time.”

“Tears are words that need to be written.”

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

“My heart is breaking for a little love”

“I had to smile at the man. I mean, you have to smile at idiots and children.”