Sad Quotes

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I love coming up with cheesy quotes from shows and movies to put in cards and emails. Life goes so quick but it is still a good idea to put together a nice quotes list. Here are some Sad quotes items I have now:

  • Sad Quotes: Sayings About Love, Life and Death. If you're feeling depressed, heartbroken or sad, these ready quotes are all you need.
  • Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened.
    Dr. Seuss
  • “Tears are words that need to be written.” 
    Paulo Coelho

  • “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.” 
    Jonathan Safran Foer, Everything Is Illuminated
  • “I can't eat and I can't sleep. I'm not doing well in terms of being a functional human, you know?” 
    Ned Vizzini, It's Kind of a Funny Story
  • “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 Bean Trees
  • I did everything right for someone that does everything wrong..
  • But they all didn’t see the little bit of sadness in me….
  • The World is mad and the people are sad..
  • Man could not live if he were entirely impervious to sadness. Many sorrows can be endured only by being embraced, and the pleasure taken in them naturally has a somewhat melancholy character.
    Emile Durkheim
  • Sadness is but a wall between two gardens.
    Kahlil Gibran
  • Sorrow is one of the vibrations that prove the fact of living.
    Antoine de Saint-Exupery
  • There is no worse sorrow than remembering happiness in the day of sorrow.
    Alfred De Musset
  • 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
  • You left and I cried tears of blood. My sorrow grows. Its not just that You left. But when You left my eyes went with You. Now, how will I cry?
    Rumi
  • There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the 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.
    Washington Irving

  • Nothing is more sad than the death of an illusion.
    Arthur Koestler
  • We never taste happiness in perfection, our most fortunate successes are mixed with sadness.
    Pierre Corneille
  • I really believe that all of us have a lot of darkness in our souls. Anger, rage, fear, sadness. I don't think that's only reserved for people who have horrible upbringings. I think it really exists and is part of the human condition. I think in the course of your life you figure out ways to deal with that.
    Kevin Bacon
  • The walls we build around us to keep sadness out also keeps out the joy.
    Jim Rohn
  • Red is the ultimate cure for sadness.
    Bill Blass
  • Above all things let us never forget that mankind constitutes one great brotherhood; all born to encounter suffering and sorrow, and therefore bound to sympathize with each other.
    Albert Pike

  • 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
  • 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
  • They say it's better to bury your sadness in a graveyard or garden that waits for the spring to wake from its sleep and burst into green.
    Conor Oberst
  • You not wanting me was the beginning of me wanting myself.
  • One day you're going to wake up and realize that you should have tried.
  • When you're in love and you get hurt, it's like a cut. It will heal with time, but the scars will never fade.
  • Love is like magic, but magic is just an illusion.
  • I don't miss him. I miss who I thought he was.
  • Dying is only one thing to be sad over... Living unhappily is something else.
    Morrie Schwartz
  • 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
  • Those who don't know how to weep with their whole heart, don't know how to laugh either.
    Golda Meir
  • 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
  • There is no sadder sight than a young pessimist.
    Mark Twain

  • A feeling of sadness seemingly without a cause..
  • Be careful who you fall in love with,cause someone somewhere not approve…
  • Never put your happiness in someone else’s hands…
  • “This is what it felt like to have a broken heart. It felt less like a cracking down the middle and more like she had swallowed it whole and it sat bruised and bleeding in the pit of her stomach.”
    Wendy Wunder, The Probability of Miracles
  • “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.”
    Katherine Paterson, Bridge to Terabithia
  • “The sun kept on with its slipping away, and I thought how many small good things in the world might be resting on the shoulders of something terrible.”
    Carol Rifka Brunt, Tell the Wolves I’m Home
  • “As the light begins to intensify, so does my misery, and I wonder how it is possible to hurt so much when nothing is wrong.”
    Tabitha Suzuma, Forbidden
  • Oh, I am very weary, Though tears no longer flow; My eyes are tired of weeping, My heart is sick of woe.
    Anne Bronte
  • “Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened.” 
    Dr. Seuss

  • “When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love have always won. There have been tyrants and murderers, and for a time, they can seem invincible, but in the end, they always fall. Think of it--always.” 
    Mahatma Gandhi
  • “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
  • “You cannot protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from happiness.” 
    Jonathan Safran Foer
  • “I didn't want to wake up. I was having a much better time asleep. And that's really sad. It was almost like a reverse nightmare, like when you wake up from a nightmare you're so relieved. I woke up into a nightmare.” 
    Ned Vizzini, It's Kind of a Funny Story
  • “What you must understand about me is that I’m a deeply unhappy person.” 
    John Green, Looking for Alaska
  • “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?”
    Haruki Murakami, Sputnik Sweetheart
  • “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” 
    Edna St. Vincent Millay
  • “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, Days of Magic, Nights of War
  • “Imagine smiling after a slap in the face. Then think of doing it twenty-four hours a day.” 
    Markus Zusak, The Book Thief


  • “Tonight I can write the saddest lines
    I loved her, and sometimes she loved me too.” 
    Pablo Neruda, Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair
  • “Tears shed for another person are not a sign of weakness. They are a sign of a pure heart.” 
    José N. Harris, MI VIDA: A Story of Faith, Hope and Love
  • “The longer and more carefully we look at a funny story, the sadder it becomes.” 
    Nikolai Gogol
  • “Don't cry over someone who wouldn't cry over you.” 
    Lauren Conrad
  • “Why do beautiful songs make you sad?' 'Because they aren't true.' 'Never?' 'Nothing is beautiful and true.” 
    Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
  • “there are two types of people in the world: those who prefer to be sad among others, and those who prefer to be sad alone.” 
    Nicole Krauss, The History of Love
  • “I'm lonely. And I'm lonely in some horribly deep way and for a flash of an instant, I can see just how lonely, and how deep this feeling runs. And it scares the shit out of me to be this lonely because it seems catastrophic.” 
    Augusten Burroughs, Dry


  • “The worst type of crying wasn't the kind everyone could see--the wailing on street corners, the tearing at clothes. No, the worst kind happened when your soul wept and no matter what you did, there was no way to comfort it. A section withered and became a scar on the part of your soul that survived. For people like me and Echo, our souls contained more scar tissue than life.” 
    Katie McGarry, Pushing the Limits
  • “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, Taggerung
  • “Ester asked why people are sad.
    "That’s simple," says the old man. "They are the prisoners of their personal history. Everyone believes that the main aim in life is to follow a plan. They never ask if that plan is theirs or if it was created by another person. They accumulate experiences, memories, things, other people's ideas, and it is more than they can possibly cope with. And that is why they forget their dreams.” 
    Paulo Coelho, The Zahir
  • “What, if some day or night a demon were to steal after you into your loneliest loneliness and say to you: 'This life as you now live it and have lived it, you will have to live once more and innumerable times more' ... Would you not throw yourself down and gnash your teeth and curse the demon who spoke thus? Or have you once experienced a tremendous moment when you would have answered him: 'You are a god and never have I heard anything more divine.” 
    Friedrich Nietzsche, The Gay Science: with a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs
  • “I don’t know what they are called, the spaces between seconds– but I think of you always in those intervals.” 
    Salvador Plascencia, The People of Paper
  • A thousand words couldn’t bring you back…
    I know this because I tried,
    neither could a thousand tears…
    I know this because I cried,
    you left behind a broken heart and happy memories too…
    but I never wanted memories..
    I only wanted you
  • Some day you’ll cry for me
    Like I cried for you
    Some day you’ll miss me
    Like I miss you
    Some day you’ll need me
    Like I needed you
    Some day you’ll Love me…
    But I won’t Love you…

  • I wonder if you know what you are doing to me…
  • I hate when i am laying in bed looking out my window for the moon and stars,but i can’t find the Moon…
  • Love is the person you think about during the sad songs…
  • There is no such beauty as that which is found in…
  • I am not worthy of being in love…
  • What do you do when the only one who can make you stop crying is the one who made you cry?
  • Don’t trust too much, don’t love too much, don’t care too much because that ‘too much’ will hurt you so much!
  • When you are happy, you enjoy the music. But, when you are sad you understand the lyrics.
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  • It’s sad when you realize you aren’t as important to someone as you thought you were.
  • Usually, people think that I’m a strong, happy person..but behind my smiles they just don’t know how much I’m in pain and almost broken..
  • Sometimes, crying is the only way your eyes speak when your mouth can’t explain how broken your heart is.
  • The ones that you love the most are usually the ones that hurt you the most! <<- That’s true.
  • Nothings worse, is to see them two together, knowing I will never have him again.
  • At some point, you have to realize that some people can stay in your heart but not in your life.
  • Behind my smile is a hurting heart, behind my laugh I’m falling apart. Look closely at me and you will see, the girl I am, it isn’t me…
  • I smile not for that I am happy, but sometimes I smile to hide sadness.
  • I’m afraid of being forgotten. Because it seems everyone I get close to, ends up forgetting me.
  • I’m sick of making things worse.
    I’m sick of being hurt.
    I’m sick of crying myself to sleep.
    I’m sick of hating everything.
    I’m sick of faking a smile.
    I’m sick of feeling this way.
    I’m sick of letting people down.
    I’m sick of being me.
  • The saddest thing is when you are feeling real down,you look around and realize that there is no shoulder for you….

  • I just want to feel like I belong..

  • Don’t take me for granted,cause unlike the rest.I am not afraid to walk away….


  • Did I change or did you just stop loving me…

  • I was born with an enormous need for affection and a terrible need to give it….

  • I don’t understand the love at all..I guess it;s beauty is only at the beginning..

  • May it’s not about the happy ending.May be it’s about story…


  • People walk away easily but they leave their memories with us forever….

  • It’s hard to wait around for something that you know might not happen but it’s even harder to give up,when you know it’s everything you ever wanted…

  • Temporary happiness isn’t worth long term pain…

  • My tears are like anchors that sink my heart to the depths of the deepest ocean….

  • They don’t love me,they know me when they need me…

  • Yesterday I was sad today i am happy yesterday i had a problem today i still have the same problem..

  • Sometimes it takes losing something to realize what you’ve had…
  • You know my name not my story…
  • I don’t think you know what you are doing to me..
  • 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
  • Every human walks around with a certain kind of sadness. They may not wear it on their sleeves, but it's there if you look deep.
    Taraji P. Henson

  • The word 'happiness' would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.
    Carl Jung
  • Tears come from the heart and not from the brain.
    Leonardo da Vinci
  • Heavy hearts, like heavy clouds in the sky, are best relieved by the letting of a little water.
    Christopher Morley

  • Sometimes you hurt the ones who love you most.Sometimes You hold the one’s who leave you lost.And sometimes you learn but it’ s too late it’s too late!!!!

  • My sadness has become an addiction when i’m not sad,i feel lost.I start to panic trying to find my way back which leads me back to my original state : sadness….

  • I’ll be okay is that what you want to say..???


  • 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!

  • Tears come from the heart and not from the brain.
  • Sometimes you don't know how much something means to you until it's taken away.
  • Sometimes you have to let people go because they're toxic to you. Let them go because they take and take and leave you empty.
  • Sometimes we create our own heartbreaks through expectation.
  • For I have learned to look on nature, not as in the hour of thoughtless youth, but hearing oftentimes the still, sad music of humanity.
    William Wordsworth

  • He who is not just is severe, he who is not wise is sad.
    Voltaire
  • Sadness is also a kind of defence.
    Ivo Andric
  • Once upon a time I was falling in love, but now I'm falling apart.
  • Sometimes you don't realize how much you care for someone until they stop caring for you.
  • Trying to forget someone you love is like trying to remember someone you've never met.
  • You never know what you have until it's gone.
  • We enjoy warmth because we have been cold. We appreciate light because we have been in darkness. By the same token, we can experience joy because we have known sadness.
    David Weatherford
  • Nobody really cares if you're miserable, so you might as well be happy.
    Cynthia Nelms
  • In the book of life, the answers aren't in the back.
    Charlie Brown

  • Reject your sense of injury and the injury itself disappears.
    Marcus Aurelius
  • We ask God to forgive us for our evil thoughts and evil temper, but rarely, if ever ask Him to forgive us for our sadness.
    R. W. Dale
  • 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.
    Edna St. Vincent Millay
  • ...any fool can be happy. It takes a man with real heart to make beauty out of the stuff that makes us weep.
    Grandpappy O'Donnell
  • Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul.
    Oscar Wilde
  • If you see a friend without a smile; give him one of yours.
    Proverb quotes
  • If you love me won’t you let me know..!!

  • I know i never even had any chance with you but it still hurts seeing you with someone…

  • I have too many fantasies to be a housewife.I guess i am a fantasy…


  • Never be sad for what is over,just be glad that it was once yours…
  • You can choose to be happy or sad and whichever you choose that is what you get. No one is really responsible to make someone else happy, no matter what most people have been taught and accept as true.
    Sidney Madwed
  • Don't fear failure so much that you refuse to try new things. The saddest summary of a life contains three descriptions: could have, might have, and should have.
    Louis E. Boone
  • Nobody deserves your tears, but whoever deserves them will not make you cry.
    Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  • ...there are two types of people in the world: those who prefer to be sad among others, and those who prefer to be sad alone.
    Nicole Krauss
  • The walls we build around us to keep sadness out also keeps out the joy.
    Jim Rohn
  • 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
  • So much sadness exists in the world that we are all under obligation to contribute as much joy as lies within our powers.
    John Sutherland Bonnel
  • It's easy to cry when you realize that everyone you love will reject you or die.
    Chuck Palahniuk
  • Good humor is the health of the soul, sadness its poison.
    Lord Chesterfield
  • Anger is just a cowardly extension of sadness. It's a lot easier to be angry at someone than it is to tell them you're hurt.
    Tom Gates
  • Anger, tears and sadness are only for those who have given up.
    Katie Gill
  • The word 'happiness' would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.
    Carl Gustav Jung

  • Lord, make me an instrument of your peace; where there is hatred, let me sow love; where there is injury, pardon; where there is doubt, faith; where there is despair, hope; where there is darkness, light; and where there is sadness, joy.
    St. Francis
  • You cannot prevent the birds of sadness from passing over your head, but you can prevent their making a nest in your hair.
    Chinese Proverb
  • Beauty and sadness always go together. Nature thought beauty too rich to go forth Upon the earth without a meet alloy.
    George MacDonald
  • Change is certain. Peace is followed by disturbances; departure of evil men by their return. Such recurrences should not constitute occasions for sadness but realities for awareness, so that one may be happy in the interim.
    Percy Bysshe Shelley
  • Sadness usually results from one of the following causes either when a man does not succeed, or is ashamed of his success.
    Seneca
  • Courage and cheerfulness will not only carry you over the rough places in life, but will enable you to bring comfort and help to the weak-hearted and will console you in the sad hours.
    William Osler
  • Absolute silence leads to sadness. It is the image of death.
    Jean Jacques Rousseau
  • When sorrows come, they come not single spies, but in battalions.
    William Shakespeare
  • Sorrows cannot all be explained away in a life truly lived, grief and loss accumulate like possessions.
    Stefan Kanfer
  • It is a time when one's spirit is subdued and sad, one knows not why; when the past seems a storm-swept desolation, life a vanity and a burden, and the future but a way to death.
    Mark Twain

  • There are moments when, even to the sober eye of Reason, the world of our sad humanity must assume the aspect of Hell.
    Edgar Allan Poe
  • Sadness is always the legacy of the past; regrets are pains of the memory.
  • “Depression is like a heaviness that you can’t ever escape. It crushes down on you, making even the smallest things like tying your shoes or chewing on toast seem like a twenty-mile hike uphill. Depression is a part of you; it’s in your bones and your blood.”
    Jasmine Warga, My Heart and Other Black Holes
  • “I wanted to kill someone and I wanted to die and I wanted to run as far and as fast as I could because she was never coming back. She had fallen off the face of the earth and she was never coming back.”
    Melissa Kantor, Maybe One Day
  • Never run back to whatever broke you.
  • If you don't let your past die, your past won't let you live.
  • “There’s death all around us. Everywhere we look. 1.8 people kill themselves every second. We just don’t pay attention. Until we do.”
    Cynthia Hand, The Last Time We Say Goodbye
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  • “I guess that’s what saying good-bye is always like–like jumping off an edge. The worst part is making the choice to do it. Once you’re in the air, there’s nothing you can do but let go.”
    Lauren Oliver, Before I Fall
  • “But grief makes a monster out of us sometimes . . . and sometimes you say and do things to the people you love that you can’t forgive yourself for.”
    Melina Marchetta, Jellicoe Road
  • Smile, even if it's a sad smile, because sadder than a sad smile is the sadness of not knowing how to smile.
  • “Ho! Ho! Ho! To the bottle I go
    To heal my heart and drown my woe
    Rain may fall, and wind may blow
    And many miles be still to go
    But under a tall tree will I lie
    And let the clouds go sailing by” 
    J.R.R. Tolkien
  • Never let an old flame burn you twice.
  • You can never love people as much as you can miss them.
  • You left without a reason, so please don't come back with an excuse.
  • “Sigh no more, ladies, sigh no more,
    Men were deceivers ever,-
    One foot in sea and one on shore,
    To one thing constant never.” 
    William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing

 

 







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