Sad Qoutes

1.      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.

2.      Beginnings are scary. Endings are usually sad, but it’s the middle that counts the most.

3.      Dying seems less sad than having lived too little.

4.      However long the night, the dawn will break.

5.      Better by far you should forget and smile than that you should remember and be sad.

6.      They that sow in tears shall reap in joy.

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

8.      Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it.

9.      I had rather have a fool make me merry, than experience make me sad.

10.  The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.

11.  Nobody really cares if you’re miserable, so you might as well be happy.

12.  We enjoy warmth because we have been cold. We appreciate light because we have been in darkness. By the same token, we can experience joy because we have known sadness.

13.  Sadness flies away on the wings of time.

14.  A sad spectacle. If they be inhabited, what a scope for misery and folly. If they be not inhabited, what a waste of space.

15.  It is sad to grow old but nice to ripen.

16.  The walls we build around us to keep out the sadness also keep out the joy.

17.  We ask God to forgive us for our evil thoughts and evil temper, but rarely, if ever ask Him to forgive us for our sadness.

18.  You can choose to be happy or sad and whichever you choose that is what you get. No one is really responsible to make someone else happy, no matter what most people have been taught and accept as true.

19. (As sad) as if World War II had never ended. - Nancy Huston

20.  A low grade sadness coursing through me like a virus. - Greg Bottoms

21.  A man should always consider how much he has more than he wants, and how much more unhappy he might be than he really is. - Joseph Addison

22.  A man's sorrow runs uphill; true it is difficult for him to bear, but it is also difficult for him to keep. - Djuna Barnes

23.  A moment of time may make us unhappy forever. - John Gay

24.  A sadness in those eyes like water seeping into a hole you've dug in the earth. - Joyce Carol Oates

25.  A wound heals but the scar remains. – Proverb

26. All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story or tell a story about them. - Isak Dinesen

27.  As I've gotten older, I find I am able to be nourished more by sorrow and to distinguish it from depression. - Robert Bly

28.  But a heart which trusts in God's goodness is armed against sorrow. - Hirosvitha of Gandersheim

29.  Earth has no sorrow that Heaven cannot heal. - Thomas Moore

30.  Emptied with weeping my eyes are two buckets of the waterman as he walks among orchard trees. - Safiya Bint Musafir

31.  Every sorrow suggests a thousand songs, and every song recalls a thousand sorrows, and so they are infinite in number and all the same. - Marilynne Robinson

32.  Everyone is a moon and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody. - Mark Twain

33.  For of all sad words of tongue or pen, the saddest are these: "It might have been!" - John Greenleaf Whittier

34. He who is only wise lives a sad life. - Voltaire

35.  His sadness began to accumulate, like sand. - Tina De Rosa

36.  I am saddest when I sing; so are those who hear me; they are sadder even than I am. - Artemus Ward

37.  I cried at first.....and then, it was such a beautiful day, that I forgot to be unhappy. - Frances Noyes Hart

38.  I found more joy in sorrow than you could find in joy. - Sara Teasdale

39.  I had rather have a fool to make me merry than experience to make me sad. - Shakespeare

40.  I saw sorrow turning into clarity. - Yoko Ono

41. I think if we all acted the way we felt, four out of eight people at a dinner table would be sitting there sobbing. - Jim Carrey

42.  I think writing about unhappiness is probably the source of my popularity, if I have any-after all, most people are unhappy, don't you think? - Philip Larkin

43.  If you are bitter at heart, sugar in the mouth will not help you. - Yiddish Proverbs

44.  It is such a secret place, the land of tears. - Antoine de Saint-Exupery

45.  It's a sad and stupid thing to have to proclaim yourself a revolutionary just to be a decent man. - David Harris

46.  Melancholy is the pleasure of being sad. - Victor Hugo

47. Noble deeds and hot baths are the best cures for depression. - Dodie Smith

48.  Nothing is miserable unless you think it so. - Boethius

49.  Oh, the saddest of sights in a world of sin is a little lost pup with his tail tucked in! - Arthur Guiterman

50.  Our aches and pains conform to opinion. A man's as miserable as he thinks he is. - Seneca

51.  People are ashamed of being unhappy. - Avi

52.  Persistent sadness, like a small rain. - Andrei Codrescu

53.  Sad like chimps destined for the moon. - Hugo Charteris

54. Sad soul, I take comfort, nor forget that sunset never failed us yet. - Celia Laighton Thaxter

55.  Sadness like a wall of raw earth. - Glen Duncan

56.  Since unhappiness excites interest, many, in order to render themselves interesting, feign unhappiness. - Joseph Roux

57.  Sorrow and joy have the same Lord. - Charles Reign Scoville

58.  Sorrow is a fruit; God does not allow it to grow on a branch that is too weak to bear it. - Hugo

59.  Sorrow is so easy to express and yet so hard to tell. - Joni Mitchell

60.  Sorrow is tranquility remembered in emotion. - Dorothy Parker

61.  Sorrow looks back, worry looks around, faith looks up. - Quoted in Guidepost Magazine

62.  Sorrow makes us all children again, destroys all difference of intellect. The wisest knows nothing. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

63. Sorrow makes us very good or very bad. - George Sand

64.  Sorrow seems sent for our instruction, as we darken the cages of birds when we teach them to sing. - Jean Paul

65.  Sorrow was like the wind. It came in gusts. - Marjorie K. Rawlings

66.  Sorrows remembered sweeten present joys. - R. Pollock

67.  Sorrows when shared are less burdensome, though joys divided are increased. - Josiah Gilbert Holland

68.  The busy bee has no time for sorrow. - William Blake

69.  The human heart does not stay away too long from that which hurt it most. There is a return journey to anguish that few of us are released from making. - Lillian Smith

70.  The path of sorrow, and that path alone, leads to the land where sorrow is unknown. - William Cowper

71.  The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not. The cure for it is occupation. - George Bernard Shaw

72. The sorrows of humanity are no one's sorrows...A thousand people drowned in floods in China are news: a solitary child drowned in a pond is tragedy. - Josephine Tey

73.  The usual pretext of those who make others unhappy is that they do it for their own good. - Marquis de Vauvenargues

74.  There are times when sorrow seems the only truth. - Oscar Wilde

75.  There is a joy in sorrow which none but a mourner can know. - M. F. Tupper

76.  There is sweet joy that comes to us through sorrow. - Charles H. Spurgeon

77.  They looked sad, like strangers in a storm. - Jerome Charyn

78.  Unhappiness is best described as the difference between our talents and our expectations. - Edward de Bono

79.  Unhappiness is not knowing what we want and killing ourselves to get it. - Don Herold

80.  Unhappy (is) he who cannot do the good he would. - Publius Syrus

81. We are always happiest in the spring, but still there is a certain feeling of sadness. It looks as if everything were coming back except us. - Milwaukee Journal

82.  We are more unhappy to see people ahead of us than happy to see people behind us. - Montaigne

83.  We cannot prevent the birds of sorrow from flying over our heads, but we can refuse to let them build their nests in our hair. - Proverb: Chinese

84.  We could never learn to be brave and patient if there were only joy in the world. - Helen Keller

85.  We often feel sad in the presence of music without words; and often more than that in the presence of music without music. - Mark Twain

86.  When a man has lost all happiness, he's not alive. Call him a breathing corpse. - Sophocles

87.  When down in the mouth, remember Jonah: he came out all right. - Thomas Edison

88.  Years ago a person, he was unhappy, didn't know what to do with himself-he'd go to church, start a revolution-something. Today you're unhappy? Can't figure it out? What is the salvation? Go shopping. - Arthur Miller

89. Sadness is almost never anything but a form of fatigue. - Andre Gide

90. It is quite gratifying to feel guilty if you haven't done anything wrong: how noble! Whereas it is rather hard and certainly depressing to admit guilt and to repent.
    Hannah Arendt
    
    What may seem depressing or even tragic to one person may seem like an absolute scream to another person, especially if he has had between four and seven beers.
    Dave Barry
    
    Unfortunately, I think I'm going to be typecast in Hollywood as the kid who can cry. I don't like putting audiences through those emotional ups and downs. I don't want people to think Dana Hill is so depressing all she does is cry. But the parts are so good, I can't turn them down.
    Dana Hill
    
    For all sad words of tongue and pen, the saddest are these, 'It might have been.'
    John Greenleaf Whittier
    
    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 tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.
    W. M. Lewis
    
    Nobody really cares if you're miserable, so you might as well be happy.
    Cynthia Nelms
    
    Sadness flies away on the wings of time.
    Jean de La Fontaine
    
    I had rather have a fool make me merry, than experience make me sad.
    William Shakespeare
    
    Better by far you should forget and smile than that you should remember and be sad.
    Christina Georgina Rossetti
91. The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.
92. Not all scars show, not all wounds heal. Sometimes you can't always see, the pain someone feels.
93. For all sad words of tongue and pen, the saddest are these, It might have been.
94. The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.
95. Nobody really cares if you’re miserable, so you might as well be happy.
96. A sad spectacle. If they be inhabited, what a scope for misery and folly. If they be not inhabited, what a waste of space.
97. The walls we build around us to keep out the sadness also keep out the joy.
98. We ask God to forgive us for our evil thoughts and evil temper, but rarely, if ever ask Him to forgive us for our sadness.
99. Its hard to hold on to something that you know would never be yours in any way you think of, you just have to learn to let go and face the fact that while good things never last….some don’t even start…..”
100. Life isn’t fair. It’s just fairer than death, that’s all.
101. Staying with someone you really love even if you know its better letting go is like standing under the rain…It felt so good but you know its not right
102. Life is like a taxi. The meter just keeps a-ticking whether you are getting somewhere or just standing still.
103. In the book of life every page has two sides: we human beings fill the upper side with our plans, hopes and wishes, but providence writes on the other side, and what it ordains is seldom our goal.
104. In the game of life it's a good idea to have a few early losses, which relieves you of the pressure of trying to maintain an undefeated season.
105. Expecting life to treat you well because you are a good person is like expecting an angry bull not to charge because you are a vegetarian.
106. Never take life seriously. Nobody gets out alive anyways.
107. When I do something great, no one ever seems to remember, but when I do something wrong, no one can ever seem to forget.
108. There is only one rain cloud in the sky...and it's raining on me. Somehow I'm not surprised.
109. Life doesn't hurt until you think about how much things have changed, who you've lost along the way, and how much of it was your fault.
110. Words hurt more than anything else can, because they last, sometimes forever.
111. I wanna get lost from my life sometimes, sit on the side and watch the world go by, I wanna get lost and I don't know why.
112. Every morning you get up and put on a fake smile...but what if one morning you didn't? Would anyone notice?
113. A sad thing in life is that sometimes you meet someone who means a lot to you only to find out in the end that it was never bound to be and you just have to let go.
114. However long the night, the dawn will break. -African Proverb
115. A single death is a tragedy; a million deaths is a statistic. -Joseph Stalin

116. Red is the ultimate cure for sadness.-Bill Blass
117. Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.-Kahlil Gibran
118. There will always be death and taxes; however, death doesn't get worse every year. -Anonymous
119. Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.-Washington Irving
120. Sadness flies away on the wings of time. -Jean de La
121. Fontaine Better by far you should forget and smile than that you should remember and be sad.-Christina Georgina Rossetti  
122. Love can sometimes be magic. But magic can sometimes... just be an illusion.-Javan
123. For all sad words of tongue and pen, the saddest are these, 'It might have been.' -John Greenleaf Whittier
124. They that sow in tears shall reap in joy. -Psalms
125. Love seeketh not itself to please, nor for itself hath any care, but for another gives its ease, and builds a Heaven in Hell's despair.-William Blake
126. For of all sad words of tongue or pen, the saddest are these, "It might have been!"-John Greenleaf Whittier  
127. The walls we build around us to keep out the sadness also keep out the joy. -Jim Rohn
128. To dare to live alone is the rarest courage; since there are many who had rather meet their bitterest enemy in the field, than their own hearts in their closet. -Charles Caleb Colton
129. No my friend, darkness is not everywhere, for here and there I find faces illuminated from within; paper lanterns among the dark trees. -Carole Borges
130. I seldom think about my limitations, and they never make me sad.
     Perhaps there is just a touch of yearning at times; but it is vague, like a breeze among flowers. -Helen Keller
131. There is no greater sorrow than to recall in misery the time when we were happy. -Dante
132. It is better to have loved and lost than never to have lost at all.-Samuel Butler
133. Hating people is like burning down your house to kill a rat -Henry Fosdick
134. How sad to see a father with money and no joy. The man studied economics, but never studied happiness. -Jim Rohn
135. It is a very sad thing that nowadays there is so little useless information. -Oscar Wilde
136. As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death.-Leonardo da Vinci
137. It is loneliness that makes the loudest noise. This is true of men as of dogs. -Eric Hoffer
138. Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it.
     -Helen Keller Pray that your loneliness may spur you into finding something to live for, great enough to die for.
     -Dag Hammarskjold My feeling is that there is nothing in life but refraining from hurting others, and comforting those who are sad.-Olive Schreiner
139. Dying seems less sad than having lived too little. -Gloria Steinem
140. Suicide is not a remedy.-James A. Garfield
141. The absence of love is the most abject pain.-Herr Lipp
142. There must be quite a few things a hot bath won't cure, but I don't know many of them.-Sylvia Plath
143. He is the truly courageous man who never depends. -Confucius.
144. Bid abhorrence, hiss it round the world. -Young.
145. Dreadful is their doom, whom doubt has drive To censure fate, and pious hope forego. -Beattie.
146. Despair is infidelity and death. -Whittier.
147. To die in order to avoid the pains of poverty, love, or anything that is disagreeable, is not the part of a brave man, but of a coward. -Aristotle.
148. I laugh, I smile, and I take Prozac-Anonymous
149. The people in the darker parts of society need God as much as anyone else-Anonymous
150. Why is my existence so perfect with dark places? And why do I no longer care?-Lemuel W. H. Ranier It is impossible for that man to despair who remembers that his Helper is mnipotent. -Jeremy Taylor    
151. I talk to God but the sky is empty. -Sylvia Plath
152. Despair is the conclusion of fools. -Beaconsfield
153. I took a deep breath and listened to the old bray of my heart. I am. I am. I am. -Sylvia Plath  
154. The agony in my desires mirrors the poetry of my crystalline purpose.-Julian Myndfyre
155. Why are my desires so immortal with night? And why do I no longer care?"-Anonymous
156. Beward of desperate steps. The darkest day, Live till to-morrow, will have pass'd away. -Cowper
157. The coward sneaks to death; the brave live on. -Dr. George Sewell
158. The graveyards in my visions mirror the pain of my flawed desires.-Z. Hazel Ballantine
159. Religion converts despair, which destroys, into resignation, which submits. -Lady Blessington  
160. There are many dreams to be found in damnation. But you may need to sacrifice your cryptic spirit to find them...-Anonymous
161. The agony in my fears mirrors the blood of my bitter solitude.-Lemuel W. H. Ranier
162. It was then, staring into the fear, that my tortured existence was truly born.-Anonymous
163. We ignore the ones who adore us, and adore the ones who ignore us.-Anonymous
164. When sorrows come, they come not single spies, But in battalions. -William Shakespeare
165. A man is called selfish, not for pursuing his own good, but for neglecting the neighbor's. -Richard Whately
166. What is deservedly suffered must be borne with calmness, but when the pain is unmerited, the grief is resistless. -Ovid
167. There is a joy in sorrow which none but a mourner can know. -Tupper