Have you been depressed lately? These sad quotations can help you restore your composure and begin to feel better.
Despite the fact that grief is one of our most basic feelings, it is rarely spoken and certainly never promoted.
Being sad, on the other hand, often allows us to reflect and clear our minds before regaining happiness.
So, even if these sad quotations make you cry, remember that they’re also assisting you in resetting and feeling better.
100+ Quotes About Sadness to Restore Your Composure
Sadness is but a wall between two gardens.___Kahlil Gibran
Sadness is also a kind of defense. – Ivo Andrich
The way sadness works is one of the strange riddles of the world. If you are stricken with a great sadness, you may feel as if you have been set aflame, not only because of the enormous pain but also because your sadness may spread over your life, like smoke from an enormous fire.___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
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
Imagine smiling after a slap in the face. Then think of doing it twenty-four hours a day.― Markus Zusak
Experiencing sadness and anger can make you feel more creative, and by being creative you can get beyond your pain or negativity.___Yoko Ono
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
One must not let oneself be overwhelmed by sadness.___Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
Tonight I can write the saddest lines
I loved her, and sometimes she loved me too.― Pablo Neruda
The walls we build around us to keep sadness out also keeps out the joy.___Jim Rohn
We must understand that sadness is an ocean, and sometimes we drown, while other days we are forced to swim.___R.M. Drake
Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.___Percy Bysshe Shelley
The word ‘happy’ would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.___Carl Jung
In deep sadness there is no place for sentimentality.___William S. Burroughs
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
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.___Taraji P. Henson
Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul.___Oscar Wilde
You cannot protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from happiness.___Jonathan Safran Foer
Sadness gives depth. Happiness gives height. Sadness gives roots. Happiness gives branches. Happiness is like a tree going into the sky, and sadness is like the roots going down into the womb of the earth. Both are needed, and the higher a tree goes, the deeper it goes, simultaneously. The bigger the tree, the bigger will be its roots. In fact, it is always in proportion. That’s its balance.___Osho
We never taste a perfect joy; our happiest successes are mixed with sadness.___Pierre Corneille
The good life is not one immune to sadness but one in which suffering contributes to our development.___Alain de Botton
Behind every sweet smile, there is a bitter sadness that no one can ever see and feel.___Tupac Shakur
Boredom, anger, sadness, or fear are not ‘yours,’ not personal. They are conditions of the human mind. They come and go. Nothing that comes and goes is you.___Eckhart Tolle
Sad Quotes
Sad hurts but it’s a healthy feeling.– J. K. Rowling
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
Life is too short to be angry or sad for long.___Alphonso Davies
You cannot protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from happiness.― Jonathan Safran Foer
The longer and more carefully we look at a funny story, the sadder it becomes.__Nikolai Gogol
I can’t eat and I can’t sleep. I’m not doing well in terms of being a functional human, you know?― Ned Vizzini
When you feel sad, it’s okay. It’s not the end of the world.___Mac Miller
Sadness flies away on the wings of time. – Jean de La Fontaine
We never taste happiness in perfection, our most fortunate successes are mixed with sadness.___Pierre Corneille
What you must understand about me is that I’m a deeply unhappy person.― John Green
Don’t cry over someone who wouldn’t cry over you.― Lauren Conrad
Imagine smiling after a slap in the face. Then think of doing it twenty-four hours a day.― Markus Zusak
We’re taught to be ashamed of confusion, anger, fear and sadness, and to me they’re of equal value to happiness, excitement and inspiration.___Alanis Morissette
Why do beautiful songs make you sad?’ ‘Because they aren’t true.’ ‘Never?’ ‘Nothing is beautiful and true.― Jonathan Safran Foer
They say it’s better to bury your sadness in a graveyard or garden that waits for the spring to wake from its sleep and burst into green.___Conor Oberst
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 C.
For all sad words of tongue and pen, The saddest are these, ‘It might have been.’___John Greenleaf Whittier
A sad soul can kill quicker than a germ.___John Steinbeck
It doesn’t hurt to feel sad from time to time.___Willie Nelson
Sad people dislike the happy, and the happy the sad; the quick thinking the sedate, and the careless the busy and industrious.___Horace
Tears shed for another person are not a sign of weakness. They are a sign of a pure heart.― José N. Harris
The longer and more carefully we look at a funny story, the sadder it becomes.― Nikolai V. Gogol
The saddest thing that befalls a soul is when it loses faith in God and woman.___Alexander Smith
He who is not just is severe, he who is not wise is sad.__Voltaire
The old know what they want; the young are sad and bewildered.___Logan Pearsall Smith
It’s sad when someone you know becomes someone you knew.___Henry Rollins
It is sad not to love, but it is much sadder not to be able to love.___Miguel de Unamuno
Melancholy is the happiness of being sad. – Victor Hugo
Better by far you should forget and smile that you should remember and be sad.___Christina Rossetti
Tears are words that need to be written.― Paulo Coelho
It’s pretty sad when you have to choose between the lesser of two evils.___Meg White
Sometimes we get sad about things and we don’t like to tell other people that we are sad about them. We like to keep it a secret. Or sometimes, we are sad but we really don’t know why we are sad, so we say we aren’t sad but we really are.___Mark Haddon
Proud people breed sad sorrows for themselves. – Emily Brontë
Sad things happen. They do. But we don’t need to live sad forever.___Mattie Stepanek
There is no sadder sight than a young pessimist.___Mark Twain
It is sad to grow old but nice to ripen.___Brigitte Bardot
The good times of today, are the sad thoughts of tomorrow.___Bob Marley
Beauty makes idiots sad and wise men merry.___George Jean Nathan
How sad it is that we give up on people who are just like us.___Fred Rogers
The human condition is a good one in that no one is unhappy except by his own fault.__Seneca
Usually when people are sad, they don’t do anything. They just cry over their condition. But when they get angry, they bring about a change.___Malcolm X
The pain never really goes away; you just elevate and get used to it by growing stronger.___Ritu Ghatourey
I have the choice of being constantly active and happy or introspectively passive and sad.___Sylvia Plath
Sadness flies away on the wings of time.___Jean de La Fontaine
It’s sad, something coming to an end. It cracks you open, in a way – cracks you open to feeling.___Jennifer Anniston
You’re sad because you’re wasting your potential. You know it, your family knows it, everyone knows it. Do something useful.___Carlos Del Valle
Mostly it is loss which teaches us about the worth of things. – Arthur Schopenhauer
The wound is the place where the light enters you.___Rumi
Crying and Tears Quotes
Tears shed for another person are not a sign of weakness. They are a sign of a pure heart.___Jose N. Harris
Don’t be ashamed to weep; ’tis right to grieve. Tears are only water, and flowers, trees, and fruit cannot grow without water. But there must be sunlight also. A wounded heart will heal in time, and when it does, the memory and love of our lost ones is sealed inside to comfort us.__Brian Jacques
Tears are words the mouth can’t say nor can the heart bear.___Joshua Wisenbaker
Tears are words that need to be written. – Paolo Coelho
Heavy hearts, like heavy clouds in the sky, are best relieved by the letting of a little water.___Christopher Morley
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.___Washington Irving
Tears come from the heart and not from the brain.___Leonardo da Vinci
Delicious tears! The heart’s own dew.___Letitia Elizabeth Landon
Crying is cleansing. There’s a reason for tears, happiness or sadness.__Dionne Warwick
Tears are nature’s lotion for the eyes. The eyes see better for being washed by them.__Christian Nestell Bovee
Those who don’t know how to weep with their whole heart, don’t know how to laugh either.___Golda Meir
A teardrop on earth summons the King of heaven.___Charles R. Swindoll
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
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
I always like walking in the rain, so no one can see me crying.___Charlie Chaplin
People cry, not because they’re weak. It’s because they’ve been strong for too long.___Johnny Depp
Tears are the summer showers to the soul. – Alfred Austin
Those who do not weep, do not see.__Victor Hugo, Les Misérables
The cure for anything is salt water – sweat, tears, or the sea.___Isak Dinesen
Sorrow Quotes
There is no greater sorrow than to recall in misery the time when we were happy.___Dante Alighieri
Tears are words the heart can’t express. – Gerard Way
Tears are the natural penalties of pleasure. It is a law that we should pay for all that we enjoy.___William Gilmore Simms
What brings us to tears, will lead us to grace. Our pain is never wasted.___Bob Goff
Sometimes you laugh because you’ve got no more room for crying.___Terry Pratchett
Crying is all right in its way while it lasts. But you have to stop sooner or later, and then you still have to decide what to do.___C. S. Lewis, The Silver Chair
Sorrow looks back, worry looks around, faith looks up.__Ralph Waldo Emerson
Every life has a measure of sorrow, and sometimes this is what awakens us.__Steven Tyler
Nobody understands another’s sorrow, and nobody another’s joy.___Franz Schubert
Words are less needful to sorrow than to joy.___Helen Hunt Jackson
Sorrows are like thunderclouds, in the distance they look black, over our heads scarcely gray.__Jean Paul
Let us remember that sorrow alone is the creator of great things.___Ernest Renan
In the valley of sorrow, spread your wings.__Susan Sontag
Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow, it only saps today of its joy.___Leo Buscaglia
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.___Henry David Thoreau
There is prodigious strength in sorrow and despair. – Charles Dickens
The rose and the thorn, and sorrow and gladness are linked together.___Saadi
The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities.__Sophocles
If we could read the secret history of our enemies we should find in each man’s life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility.___Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
A long life makes acquaintance with a thousand ills. – Publilius Syrus
The fundamental delusion – there is something out there that will make me happy and fulfilled forever.___Naval Ravikant
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
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