Sad Life Quotes

Everyone has those days when they feel depressed. Being pleased and sad at different times are both very natural emotions. When life becomes too much, we frequently want to wallow in our woes, have a little pity party, and let the feelings consume us.

There are a zillion and one things that can throw us off balance in today's uncertain world, including the ongoing pandemic, the inability to spend as much time with loved ones as we'd like, mending a broken heart, the stress of being pushed in too many directions, and even grief, guilt, or anxiety over significant changes.

Sad Feeling Quotes about Love

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

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

Don't cry over someone who wouldn't cry over you. ― Lauren Conrad

Any fool can be happy. It takes a man with a real heart to make beauty out of the stuff that makes us weep. ― Clive Barker, Abarat: Days of Magic, Nights of War

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

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

Tears are words that need to be written. ― Paulo Coelho

Sadness is but a wall between two gardens. ― Kahlil Gibran

One must not let oneself be overwhelmed by sadness. ― Jacqueline Kennedy-Onassis

Sadness is also a kind of defense. — Ivo Andrich

Sad Feeling Quotes about Love and Life

The walls we build around us to keep sadness out also keep out the joy. — Jim Rohn

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 Morrisette

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

Sad hurts but it's a healthy feeling. It is a necessary thing to feel. — J.K. Rowling

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, The History of Love

Some pain is fraught; our sweetest songs are those that tell of the saddest thought. — Percy Bysshe Shelley, To a Skylark

It is sad not to love, but it is much sadder not to be able to love. — Miguel de Unamuno

Behind every sweet smile, there is a bitter sadness that no one can ever see and feel. — Tupac Shakur

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

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

Sad Relationship Quotes

In deep sadness there is no place for sentimentality. ― William S. Burroughs, Queer

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

Better by far you should forget and smile than that you should remember and be sad. ― Christina Rossetti, Pre-Raphaelite Poetry: An Anthology

We never taste happiness in perfection, our most fortunate 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

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

When you feel sad, it’s okay. It’s not the end of the world. — Mac Miller

It doesn’t hurt to feel sad from time to time. — Willie Nelson

Melancholy is the happiness of being sad. ― Victor Hugo

Sad things happen. They do. But we don’t need to live sad forever. — Mattie Stepanek

Sad Quotes from Literature

The good times of today, are the sad thoughts of tomorrow. — Bob Marley

It's sad when someone you know becomes someone you knew. — Henry Rollins

Tears come from the heart and not from the brain. — Leonardo da Vinci

A million words would not bring you back, I know because I tried, neither would a million tears, I know because I cried. — Unknown

One thing you can't hide is when you're crippled inside. — John Lennon, Crippled Inside

Things change. And friends leave. Life doesn't stop for anybody. — Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

I have learned now that while those who speak about one's miseries usually hurt, those who keep silence hurt more. ― S. Lewis

Breathing is hard. When you cry so much, it makes you realize that breathing is hard. — David Levithan, Love is the Higher Law

To have felt too much is to end in feeling nothing. — Dorothy Thompson

People keep telling me that life goes on, but to me that’s the saddest part. — Unknown

Feeling Sad Quotes

Life's under no obligation to give us what we expect. We take what we get and are thankful it's no worse than it is. ― Margaret Mitchell, Gone with the Wind

There is no despair as 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, Middlemarch

As the light begins to intensify, so does my misery, and I wonder how it is possible to hurt so much when nothing is wrong. ― Tabitha Suzuma, Forbidden

Sometimes you've got to be able to listen to yourself and be okay with no one else understanding. — Unknown

Tears are words the mouth can't say nor can the heart bear. ― Joshua Wisenbaker

Heavy hearts, like heavy clouds in the sky, are best relieved by the letting of a little water. ― Christopher Morley

What brings us to tears, will lead us to grace. Our pain is never wasted. — Bob Goff

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

Don't grieve. Anything you lose comes around in another form. — Rumi