Sad Quotes

"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."

"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!"

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

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

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

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

"Sorrows are like thunderclouds, in the distance they look black, over our heads scarcely gray."

"Those who don't know how to weep with their whole heart, don't know how to laugh either."

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

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

"The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil."

"Tears come from the heart and not from the brain."

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

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

"Make the most of your regrets; never smother your sorrow, but tend and cherish it till it comes to have a separate and integral interest. To regret deeply is to live afresh."

"Nothing is more sad than the death of an illusion."

"Participate joyfully in the sorrows of the world. We cannot cure the world of sorrows, but we can choose to live in joy."

"Sadness flies away on the wings of time."

"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."

"Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad."

"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."

"Tears are the summer showers to the soul."

"A sad soul can kill quicker than a germ."

"There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when we have not yet known what it is to have suffered and be healed, to have despaired and have recovered hope."

"There is no sadder sight than a young pessimist."

"Proud people breed sad sorrows for themselves."

"Crying is cleansing. There's a reason for tears, happiness or sadness."

"Every life has a measure of sorrow, and sometimes this is what awakens us."

"Depression is the inability to construct a future."

"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."