Top 10 lists -» Sad Quotes

"You cannot protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from happiness."

– Jonathan Dafran Foer

"No matter what happens, or how bad it seems today, life does go on, and it will be better tomorrow."

– Maya Angelou

"The word 'happy' would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness."

– Carl Jung

"Sadness flies away on the wings of time."

– Jean de La Fontaine

"Crying is cleansing. There's a reason for tears, happiness or sadness."

– Dionne Warwick

"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

"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

"I can choose to sit in perpetual sadness, immobilized by the gravity of my loss, or I can choose to rise from the pain and treasure the most precious gift I have - life itself."

– Walter Anderson

"Sadness is but a wall between two gardens."

– Kahlil Gibran

"It's sad, something coming to an end. It cracks you open, in a way - cracks you open to a feeling."

– Jennifer Aniston

"Life's under no obligation to give us what we expect."

– Margaret Mitchell

"This is what I wish for you: Comfort on difficult days, smiles when sadness intrudes, rainbows to follow the clouds, laughter to kiss your lips, sunsets to warm your heart, hugs when spirits sag, beauty for your eyes to see, friendships to brighten your being, faith so that you can believe, confidence for when you doubt, courage to know yourself, patience to accept the truth, love to complete your life."

– Ralph Waldo Emerson

"There is no sadder sight than a young pessimist."

– Mark Twain

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

– R.M. Drake

"Tears come from the heart and not from the brain."

– Leonardo da Vinci

"Grief can take care of itself, but to get the full value of joy you must have somebody to divide it with."

– Mark Twain

"Breathe. Let go. And remind yourself that this very moment is the only one you know you have for sure."

– Oprah Winfrey

"Death is no more than passing from one room into another. But there's a difference for me, you know. Because in that other room I shall be able to see."

– Helen Keller

"To have felt too much is to end in feeling nothing."

– Dorothy Thompson

"Sorrow looks back, worry looks around, faith looks up."

– Ralph Waldo Emerson

"One of the hardest things in life to learn are which bridges to cross and which bridges to burn."

– Oprah Winfrey

"There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you."

– Maya Angelou

"No one has the right to consume happiness without producing it."

– Helen Keller

"Delicious tears! The heart's own dew."

– Letitia Elizabeth Landon

"For all sad words of tongue and pen, the saddest are these, 'It might have been'."

– John Greenleaf Whittier

"Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it."

– Mark Twain

"Never make someone a priority when all you are to them is an option."

– Maya Angelou

"Some people are going to leave, but that's not the end of your story. That's the end of their part in your story."

– Faraaz Kazi

"I always like walking in the rain, so no one can see me crying."

– Charlie Chaplin

"He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead; his eyes are closed."

– Albert Einstein

"Things change. And friends leave. Life doesn't stop for anybody."

– Stephen Chbosky, "The Perks of Being a Wallflower"