Top 61 Sadness Quotes

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Sadness is a part of life. However, you shouldn’t let it take over your life. With that in mind, check out the top 61 sadness quotes.

#61 – 60. Sadness Quotes

61. Melancholy is at the bottom of everything, just as at the end of all rivers is the sea. Can it be otherwise in a world where nothing lasts, where all that we have loved or shall love must die? Is death, then, the secret of life? The gloom of an eternal mourning enwraps, more or less closely, every serious and thoughtful soul, as night enwraps the universe. – Henri Frederic Amiel

60. The perfected future never arrives. Life is full of seemingly endless trouble, and then life ends. Find peace in the imperfect present. – The Stoic Emperor

#59 – 50. Sadness Quotes

59. Sadness flies away on the wings of time. – Jean de La Fontaine

58. Sorrow is better than laughter, for by the sadness of the face the heart is made better. – Bible

57. Tears are words that need to be written. – Paulo Coelho

56. It is foolish to tear one’s hair in grief, as though sorrow would be made less with baldness. – Marcus Tullius Cicero

55. Sadness does not inhere in things; it does not reach us from the world and through mere contemplation of the world. It is a product of our own thought. We create it out of whole cloth. – Emile Durkheim

54. Chasing happiness is guaranteed to make to you unhappy. – Ed Latimore

53. The busy have no time for tears. – Lord (George Gordon) Byron

52. Unhappiness is best defined as the difference between our talents and our expectations. – Edward De Bono

51. There is pleasure in calm remembrance of a past sorrow. – Marcus Tullius Cicero

50. Never be afraid of tears. Tear-filled eyes are capable of seeing truth. Tear-filled eyes are capable of seeing the beauty of life. – Osho

#49 – 40. Sadness Quotes

49. Don’t desire happiness because it creates only unhappiness and nothing else. – Osho

48. The word ‘happy’ would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. – Carl Jung

47. Nothing is funnier than unhappiness, I grant you that. Yes, yes, it’s the most comical thing in the world. – Samuel Beckett

46. Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought. – Percy Bysshe Shelley

45. Never believe straight off in a man’s unhappiness. Ask him if he can still sleep. If the answer’s yes, all’s well. That is enough. – Louis-Ferdinand Celine

44. You cannot protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from happiness. – Jonathan Safran Foer

43. 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

42. Let no one till his death be called unhappy. Measure not the work until the day’s out and the labor done. – Elizabeth Barrett Browning

41. Some say that happiness is not good for mortals, and they ought to be answered that sorrow is not fit for immortals and is utterly useless to any one; a blight never does good to a tree, and if a blight kill not a tree but it still bear fruit, let none say that the fruit was in consequence of the blight. – William Blake

40. And almost everyone when age, disease, or sorrows strike him, inclines to think there is a God, or something very like him. – Arthur H. Clough

#39 – 30. Sadness Quotes

39. 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

38. There are two medicines for all ills: time and silence. – Alexander Dumas

37. Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul. – Oscar Wilde

36. There is no greater sorrow than to recall in misery the time when we were happy. – Dante Alighieri

35. If you eat, invest, and think according to what the ‘news’ advocates, you’ll end up nutritionally, financially and morally bankrupt. – Naval Ravikant

34. Excessive sorrow laughs. Excessive joy weeps. – William Blake

33. 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

32. We must understand that sadness is an ocean, and sometimes we drown, while other days we are forced to swim. – R.M. Drake

31. 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

30. The longer and more carefully we look at a funny story, the sadder it becomes. – Nikolai Gogol

#29 – 20. Sadness Quotes

29. We tell our triumphs to the crowds, but our own hearts are the sole confidants of our sorrows. – Edward George Bulwer-Lytton

28. Life seems but a quick succession of busy nothings. – Jane Austen

27. 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

26. Tears are words the heart can’t express. – Gerard Way

25. 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 to take things as they come along with patience and equanimity. – Carl Jung

24. Man’s unhappiness, as I construe, comes of his greatness; it is because there is an Infinite in him, which with all his cunning he cannot quite bury under the Finite. – Thomas Carlyle

23. Experiencing sadness and anger can make you feel more creative, and by being creative you can get beyond your pain or negativity. – Yoko Ono

22. Perhaps I know best why it is man alone who laughs; he alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter. – Friedrich Nietzsche

21. We should feel sorrow, but not sink under its oppression. – Confucius

20. Blaming other people for things that are going wrong guarantees your continued misery. – Justin Kan

#19 – 10. Sadness Quotes

19. Tears are far more beautiful than anything that you have with you, because tears come from the overflow of your being. – Osho

18. The largest part of what we call ‘personality’ is determined by how we’ve opted to defend ourselves against anxiety and sadness. – Alain de Botton

17. The path of sorrow and that path alone, leads to a land where sorrow is unknown. – William Cowper

16. Had we never lov’d sae kindly, Had we never lov’d sae blindly, Never met — or never parted — we had never been broken-hearted. – Robert Burns

15. Sorrow is knowledge, those that know the most must mourn the deepest, the tree of knowledge is not the tree of life. – Lord (George Gordon) Byron

14. Joys impregnate. Sorrows bring forth. – William Blake

13. It was a fine cry – loud and long – but it had no bottom and it had no top, just circles and circles of sorrow. – Toni Morrison (Sula)

12. To fight aloud is very brave, but gallanter, I know, who charge within the bosom, the Cavalry of Woe. – Emily Dickinson

11. There are seeds of self-destruction in all of us that will bear only unhappiness if allowed to grow. -Dorothea Brande

10. When you lose, do not lose the lesson. – 14th Dalai Lama

#9 – 1. Sadness Quotes

9. 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

8. It is sad and wrong to be so dependent for the life of my life on any human being as I am on you; but I cannot by any force of logic cure myself at this date, when it has become second nature. – Jane Welsh Carlyle

7. Love is not a victory march. It’s a cold and it’s a broken hallelujah. – Leonard Cohen

6. 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

5. It’s sad when someone you know becomes someone you knew. – Henry Rollins

4. Sadness is but a wall between two gardens. – Kahlil Gibran

3. So it’s true, when all is said and done, grief is the price we pay for love. – E.A. Bucchianeri

2. The opposite of love is indifference. – Shane Parrish

1. Feeling lost, crazy and desperate belongs to a good life as much as optimism, certainty and reason. – Alain De Botton

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