Sad - Quotes & Sayings

Heavy hearts, like heavy clouds in the sky, are best relieved by the letting of a little water.

Christopher Morley

It's sad to know I'm done. But looking back, I've got a lot of great memories.

Bonnie Blair

The good times of today, are the sad thoughts of tomorrow.

Bob Marley

Tears come from the heart and not from the brain.

Leonardo da Vinci

Let my soul smile through my heart and my heart smile through my eyes, that I may scatter rich smiles in sad hearts.

Paramahansa Yogananda

The word 'happy' would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.

Carl Jung

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

Henry Rollins

I am closest to my mother, as she is my rock, my pillar of strength, and my world. Not only has she stood by me through all times - happy, sad, and otherwise - but there have even been moments when I had completely lost hope, and her immense belief in me had lifted me up.

Amruta Khanvilkar

Grief is never something you get over. You don't wake up one morning and say, 'I've conquered that; now I'm moving on.' It's something that walks beside you every day. And if you can learn how to manage it and honour the person that you miss, you can take something that is incredibly sad and have some form of positivity.

Terri Irwin

When you feel sad, it's okay. It's not the end of the world. Everyone has those days when you doubt yourself, and when you feel like everything you do sucks, but then there's those days when you feel like Superman. It's just the balance of the world. I just write to feel better.

Mac Miller

It's time to say goodbye, but I think goodbyes are sad and I'd much rather say hello. Hello to a new adventure.

Ernie Harwell

First, accept sadness. Realize that without losing, winning isn't so great.

Alyssa Milano

Depression is the inability to construct a future.

Rollo May

When you wake up each morning, you can choose to be happy or choose to be sad. Unless some terrible catastrophe has occurred the night before, it is pretty much up to you. Tomorrow morning, when the sun shines through your window, choose to make it a happy day.

Lynda Resnick

Sadness flies away on the wings of time.

Jean de La Fontaine

Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.

Khalil Gibran

Everyone can have their heart broken. Even if you know the relationship isn't working, it's still sad. Even in a bad relationship, they're part of your life for a long time, and saying goodbye to that can be difficult.

James Marsden

The walls we build around us to keep sadness out also keeps out the joy.

Jim Rohn

Nobody understands another's sorrow, and nobody another's joy.

Franz Schubert

Red is the ultimate cure for sadness.

Bill Blass

Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow, it only saps today of its joy.

Leo Buscaglia

Don't grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form.

Rumi

Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us sorry but wise.

H. G. Wells

We never taste a perfect joy; our happiest successes are mixed with sadness.

Pierre Corneille

A teardrop on earth summons the King of heaven.

Charles R. Swindoll

I'm not brave, I'm not fantastic. I'm like any other woman. I'm unhappy. I'm difficult. I'm sad. Am I strong, too? Maybe, but not always. There are days when I don't want to see anyone. The most important thing you learn? You can live with it.

Sonia Rykiel

In deep sadness there is no place for sentimentality.

William S. Burroughs

There are times I am happy. There are times I am sad. But I always try to separate emotion from the need to reach for something stronger, deeper. And then no matter the emotion, I can reach for a stability that helps me accomplish what is the goal.

Troy Polamalu

There's no excuse to be bored. Sad, yes. Angry, yes. Depressed, yes. Crazy, yes. But there's no excuse for boredom, ever.

Viggo Mortensen

Being sad and being depressed are two different things. Also, people going through depression don't look so, while someone sad will look sad. The most common reaction is, 'How can you be depressed? You have everything going for you. You are the supposed number one heroine and have a plush home, car, movies... What else do you want?'

Deepika Padukone

Nothing is more sad than the death of an illusion.

Arthur Koestler

I am convinced that material things can contribute a lot to making one's life pleasant, but, basically, if you do not have very good friends and relatives who matter to you, life will be really empty and sad and material things cease to be important.

David Rockefeller

Sadness is also a kind of defence.

Ivo Andric

Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Oh, I am very weary, Though tears no longer flow; My eyes are tired of weeping, My heart is sick of woe.

Anne Bronte

I'm not a sad person, upset the whole time, but I seem to be quite emotional.

Freddie Highmore

A sad soul can kill quicker than a germ.

John Steinbeck

For me, singing sad songs often has a way of healing a situation. It gets the hurt out in the open into the light, out of the darkness.

Reba McEntire

To have felt too much is to end in feeling nothing.

Dorothy Thompson

Dying is only one thing to be sad over... Living unhappily is something else.

Morrie Schwartz

When you're happy you don't always have to be laughing, and when you're sad you don't have to be crying; sometimes it's the opposite. You laugh when you're the most upset.

Freddie Highmore

The rose and the thorn, and sorrow and gladness are linked together.

Saadi

Every word, facial expression, gesture, or action on the part of a parent gives the child some message about self-worth. It is sad that so many parents don't realize what messages they are sending.

Virginia Satir

For all sad words of tongue and pen, The saddest are these, 'It might have been'.

John Greenleaf Whittier

The tragedy of life is in what dies inside a man while he lives - the death of genuine feeling, the death of inspired response, the awareness that makes it possible to feel the pain or the glory of other men in yourself.

Norman Cousins

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

The tree I had in the garden as a child, my beech tree, I used to climb up there and spend hours. I took my homework up there, my books, I went up there if I was sad, and it just felt very good to be up there among the green leaves and the birds and the sky.

Jane Goodall

I don't like people around me sad. I like making people happy.

Tyler, The Creator

Sadness is but a wall between two gardens.

Khalil Gibran

When you are joyous, look deep into your heart and you shall find it is only that which has given you sorrow that is giving you joy. When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.

Khalil Gibran