Sad quotes
The good times of today, are the sad thoughts of tomorrow.
– Bob Marley
A teardrop on earth summons the King of heaven.
– Charles R. Swindoll
You left and I cried tears of blood. My sorrow grows. Its not just that You left. But when You left my eyes went with You. Now, how will I cry?
– Rumi
When you feel sad, it’s okay. It’s not the end of the world. Everyone has those days when you doubt yourself, and when you feel like everything you do sucks, but then there’s those days when you feel like Superman. It’s just the balance of the world. I just write to feel better.
– Mac Miller
Tears come from the heart and not from the brain.
– Leonardo da Vinci
Never make a decision when you are upset, sad, jealous or in love.
– Mario Teguh
Heavy hearts, like heavy clouds in the sky, are best relieved by the letting of a little water.
– Christopher Morley
It’s sad when you see most of your friends in the business gone, like Tommy Cooper, Frankie Howard, Eric Morecambe, Roy Castle, Les Dawson. They were very dear to me. You no longer have the chance to bump into them at a celebrity do.
– Bruce Forsyth
When you’re happy you don’t always have to be laughing, and when you’re sad you don’t have to be crying; sometimes it’s the opposite. You laugh when you’re the most upset.
– Freddie Highmore
For me, singing sad songs often has a way of healing a situation. It gets the hurt out in the open into the light, out of the darkness.
– Reba McEntire
Being an old farm boy myself, chickens coming home to roost never did make me sad; they’ve always made me glad.
– Malcolm X
The rose and the thorn, and sorrow and gladness are linked together.
– Saadi
The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil.
– Hannah Arendt
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
Crying is cleansing. There’s a reason for tears, happiness or sadness.
– Dionne Warwick
I know what I look like – a weird, sad clown puppet. I’m fine with that.
– Rainn Wilson
It’s a source of great sadness to me that my father died without having seen me do anything worthwhile. He was constantly having to make excuses for me.
– Daniel Day-Lewis
Let my soul smile through my heart and my heart smile through my eyes, that I may scatter rich smiles in sad hearts.
– Paramahansa Yogananda
There are times I am happy. There are times I am sad. But I always try to separate emotion from the need to reach for something stronger, deeper. And then no matter the emotion, I can reach for a stability that helps me accomplish what is the goal.
– Troy Polamalu
If you don’t know about pain and trouble, you’re in sad shape. They make you appreciate life.
– Evel Knievel
I get mad. I get sad. I have all those emotions. But I just like to keep them to myself. I don’t think my fans need to be bothered with if I’m mad or sad about something. I should just be concerned that they are keeping up with my music or I’m making them happy with my show.
– Demi Lovato
It’s sad to know I’m done. But looking back, I’ve got a lot of great memories.
– Bonnie Blair
Why does the rest of the world put up with the hypocrisy, the need to put a happy face on sorrow, the need to keep on keeping on?… I don’t know the answer, I know only that I can’t.
– Elizabeth Wurtzel
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
We never taste a perfect joy; our happiest successes are mixed with sadness.
– Pierre Corneille
I do believe that if you haven’t learnt about sadness, you cannot appreciate happiness.
– Nana Mouskouri
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
Every life has a measure of sorrow, and sometimes this is what awakens us.
– Steven Tyler
I really believe that all of us have a lot of darkness in our souls. Anger, rage, fear, sadness. I don’t think that’s only reserved for people who have horrible upbringings. I think it really exists and is part of the human condition. I think in the course of your life you figure out ways to deal with that.
– Kevin Bacon
For all sad words of tongue and pen, The saddest are these, ‘It might have been’.
– John Greenleaf Whittier
Sadness is but a wall between two gardens.
– Khalil Gibran
Dying is only one thing to be sad over… Living unhappily is something else.
– Morrie Schwartz
It’s time to say goodbye, but I think goodbyes are sad and I’d much rather say hello. Hello to a new adventure.
– Ernie Harwell
A comfortable old age is the reward of a well-spent youth. Instead of its bringing sad and melancholy prospects of decay, it would give us hopes of eternal youth in a better world.
– Maurice Chevalier
When sparrows build and the leaves break forth, My old sorrow wakes and cries.
– Jean Ingelow
Red is the ultimate cure for sadness.
– Bill Blass
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
We never taste happiness in perfection, our most fortunate successes are mixed with sadness.
– Pierre Corneille
In deep sadness there is no place for sentimentality.
– William S. Burroughs
Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.
– Percy Bysshe Shelley
You get used to sadness, growing up in the mountains, I guess.
– Loretta Lynn
Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.
– Khalil Gibran
The word ‘happy’ would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.
– Carl Jung
Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow, it only saps today of its joy.
– Leo Buscaglia
If my world were to cave in tomorrow, I would look back on all the pleasures, excitements and worthwhilenesses I have been lucky enough to have had. Not the sadness, not my miscarriages or my father leaving home, but the joy of everything else. It will have been enough.
– Audrey Hepburn
Everything’s complicated, even those things that seem flat in their bleakness or sadness.
– Nick Hornby
Depression is the inability to construct a future.
– Rollo May
Sadness flies away on the wings of time.
– Jean de La Fontaine
We all go through sad times, but I was brought up to be positive.
– Jess Glynne
I am convinced that material things can contribute a lot to making one’s life pleasant, but, basically, if you do not have very good friends and relatives who matter to you, life will be really empty and sad and material things cease to be important.
– David Rockefeller
I am very sad for men and women trapped in any relationship where there is cruelty, dominance, inequity. I long for the liberation of all people.
– Jasmine Guy
The walls we build around us to keep sadness out also keeps out the joy.
– Jim Rohn
Nobody understands another’s sorrow, and nobody another’s joy.
– Franz Schubert
First, accept sadness. Realize that without losing, winning isn’t so great.
– Alyssa Milano
When you are joyous, look deep into your heart and you shall find it is only that which has given you sorrow that is giving you joy. 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
I think the thing’s that perhaps sad really is that younger people haven’t come in and I think it must have been absolutely fantastic to have worked in the 50’s when you had all of the great Broadway composers and when West Side Story didn’t win the Tony Award.
– Andrew Lloyd Webber
Nothing is more sad than the death of an illusion.
– Arthur Koestler
I’m not a sad person, upset the whole time, but I seem to be quite emotional.
– Freddie Highmore
I’ve cried, and you’d think I’d be better for it, but the sadness just sleeps, and it stays in my spine the rest of my life.
– Conor Oberst
The sad truth is that opportunity doesn’t knock twice.
– Gloria Estefan
Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us sorry but wise.
– H. G. Wells
It is very sad for a man to make himself servant to a single thing; his manhood all taken out of him by the hydraulic pressure of excessive business.
– Theodore Parker
We tell them that we believe it will be beautiful because that is our specialty, we only create joy and beauty. We have never done a sad work. Through the drawings, we hope a majority will be able to visualize it.
– Christo
I think it’s sad to me that I had to make a decision to not play the game that I feel like I’m best at and that I love. But if it was just about the game itself, I’d be there in a heartbeat. But that’s not how the real world works.
– Tiffeny Milbrett
It’s sad when someone you know becomes someone you knew.
– Henry Rollins
You can never control who you fall in love with, even when you’re in the most sad, confused time of your life. You don’t fall in love with people because they’re fun. It just happens.
– Kirsten Dunst
Tears are the summer showers to the soul.
– Alfred Austin
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