Sadness Quotes And Sayings

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Here is a collection of sadness quotes and sayings from various authors, celebrities, famous persons, and other sources compiled by allinspiration.com for you to read and enjoy.

“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

“She was a girl who knew how to be happy even when she was sad. And that’s important—you know ”
– Marilyn Monroe

“Of all sad words of tongue or pen, the saddest are these, ‘It might have been. ”
– John Greenleaf Whittier

“So, this is my life. And I want you to know that I am both happy and sad and I’m still trying to figure out how that could be. ”
– Stephen Chbosky

“The reason it hurts so much to separate is because our souls are connected. ”
– Nicholas Sparks

“People worry about kids playing with guns, and teenagers watching violent videos; we are scared that some sort of culture of violence will take them over. Nobody worries about kids listening to thousands – literally thousands – of songs about broken hearts and rejection and pain and misery and loss.”
– Nick Hornby

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

“Anyone who falls in love is searching for the missing pieces of themselves. So anyone who’s in love gets sad when they think of their lover. It’s like stepping back inside a room you have fond memories of, one you haven’t seen in a long time. ”
– Haruki Murakami

“I have the choice of being constantly active and happy or introspectively passive and sad. Or I can go mad by ricocheting in between. ”
– Sylvia Plath

“It is always sad when someone leaves home, unless they are simply going around the corner and will return in a few minutes with ice-cream sandwiches. ”
– Lemony Snicket

“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

“You’re beautiful and sad, I said finally, not looking at him when I did. “Just like your eyes. You’re like a song that I heard when I was a little kid but forgot I knew until I heard it again.” For a long moment there was only the whirring sound of the tires on the road, and then Sam said softly, “Thank you.”
– Maggie Stiefvater

“The sad truth is the truth is sad. ”
– Lemony Snicket

“Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart. The really great men must, I think, have great sadness on earth. ”
– Fyodor Dostoevsky

“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

“She says nothing at all, but simply stares upward into the dark sky and watches, with sad eyes, the slow dance of the infinite stars. ”
– Neil Gaiman

“You should eat a waffle! You can’t be sad if you eat a waffle! ”
– Lauren Myracle

“The good times of today are the sad thoughts of tomorrow. ”
– Bob Marley

“She wasn’t bitter. She was sad, though. But it was a hopeful kind of sad. The kind of sad that just takes time. ”
– Stephen Chbosky

“We laugh and laugh, and nothing can ever be sad, no one can be lost, or dead, or far away: right now we are here, and nothing can mar our perfection, or steal the joy of this perfect moment. ”
– Audrey Niffenegger

“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

“Ignore those that make you fearful and sad, that degrade you back towards disease and death. ”
– Rumi

“He awoke each morning with the desire to do right, to be a good and meaningful person, to be, as simple as it sounded and as impossible as it actually was, happy. And during the course of each day his heart would descend from his chest into his stomach. By early afternoon he was overcome by the feeling that nothing was right, or nothing was right for him, and by the desire to be alone. By evening he was fulfilled: alone in the magnitude of his grief, alone in his aimless guilt, alone even in his loneliness. I am not sad, he would repeat to himself over and over, I am not sad. As if he might one day convince himself. Or fool himself. Or convince others–the only thing worse than being sad is for others to know that you are sad. I am not sad. I am not sad. Because his life had unlimited potential for happiness, insofar as it was an empty white room. He would fall asleep with his heart at the foot of his bed, like some domesticated animal that was no part of him at all. And each morning he would wake with it again in the cupboard of his rib cage, having become a little heavier, a little weaker, but still pumping. And by the midafternoon he was again overcome with the desire to be somewhere else, someone else, someone else somewhere else. I am not sad. ”
– Jonathan Safran Foer

“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

“There are moments when I wish I could roll back the clock and take all the sadness away, but I have a feeling that if I did, the joy would be gone as well. So I take the memories as they come, accepting them all, letting them guide me whenever I can. ”
– Nicholas Sparks

“Dear God, she prayed, “let me be something every minute of every hour of my life. Let me be gay; let me be sad. Let me be cold; let me be warm. Let me be hungry…have too much to eat. Let me be ragged or well dressed. Let me be sincere – be deceitful. Let me be truthful; let me be a liar. Let me be honorable and let me sin. Only let me be something every blessed minute. And when I sleep, let me dream all the time so that not one little piece of living is ever lost.”
– Betty Smith

“The best thing for being sad, replied Merlin, beginning to puff and blow, “is to learn something. That’s the only thing that never fails. You may grow old and trembling in your anatomies, you may lie awake at night listening to the disorder of your veins, you may miss your only love, you may see the world about you devastated by evil lunatics, or know your honour trampled in the sewers of baser minds. There is only one thing for it then — to learn. Learn why the world wags and what wags it. That is the only thing which the mind can never exhaust, never alienate, never be tortured by, never fear or distrust, and never dream of regretting. Learning is the only thing for you. Look what a lot of things there are to learn.”
– T.H. White

“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

“funny how a beautiful song could tell such a sad story ”
– Sarah Dessen

“Songs are as sad as the listener. ”
– Jonathan Safran Foer

“Our true friends are those who are with us when the good things happen. They cheer us on and are pleased by our triumphs. False friends only appear at difficult times, with their sad, supportive faces, when, in fact, our suffering is serving to console them for their miserable lives. ”
– Paulo Coelho

“You’re like a song that I heard when I was a little kid but forgot I knew until I heard it again. ”
– Maggie Stiefvater

“Imagine smiling after a slap in the face. Then think of doing it twenty-four hours a day. ”
– Markus Zusak

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