Sad Quotes And Sayings

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“The word ‘happiness‘ would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.”
– Carl Gustav Jung

“To dare to live alone is the rarest courage; since there are many who had rather meet their bitterest enemy in the field, than their own hearts in their closet. ”
– Charles Caleb Colton

“In the book of life, the answers aren’t in the back.”
– Charlie Brown

“Sorrow is the child of too much joy.”
– Chinese Proverb

“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

“Better by far you should forget and smile than that you should remember and be sad.”
– Christina G. Rossetti

“It’s easy to cry when you realize that everyone you love will reject you or die.”
– Chuck Palahniuk

“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

“Pray that your loneliness may spur you into finding something to live for, great enough to die for.”
– Dag Hammarskjold

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

“A man’s sorrow runs uphill; true it is difficult for him to bear, but it is also difficult for him to keep.”
– Djuna Barnes

“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

“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

“Do not apologize for crying. Without this emotion, we are only robots.”
– Elizabeth Gilbert

“I have been smashed and put back together so many times nothing works right. Nothing is where it should be, heavy thumping in my shoulder where my heart now beats.”
– Elizabeth Scott

“Laugh and the world laughs with you, Weep, and you weep alone; For this brave old earth must borrow its mirth, But has trouble enough of its own.”
– Ella Wheeler Wilcox

“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 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

“It is loneliness that makes the loudest noise. This is true of men as of dogs.”
– Eric Hoffer

“The end comes when we no longer talk with ourselves. It is the end of genuine thinking and the beginning of the final loneliness.”
– Eric Hoffer

“One cannot be deeply responsive to the world without being saddened very often.”
– Erich Fromm

“And lastly from that period I remember riding in a taxi one afternoon between very tall buildings under a mauve and rosy sky; I began to bawl because I had everything I wanted and knew I would never be so happy again.”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald

“Nobody deserves your tears, but whoever deserves them will not make you cry.”
– Gabriel Garcia Marquez

“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.”
– George Eliot

“Beauty and sadness always go together. Nature thought beauty too rich to go forth Upon the earth without a meet alloy.”
– George MacDonald

“Dying seems less sad than having lived too little.”
– Gloria Steinem

“A low grade sadness coursing through me like a virus.”
– Greg Bottoms

“The past is as powerless to darken the present moment as is a shadow to reach up and drag down the form that casts it.”
– Guy Finley

“It’s a recession when your neighbor loses his job: it’s a depression when you lose yours.”
– Harry S. Truman

“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

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