Sad Quotes

Sadness is a natural feeling because as humans we have the ability to feel all types of emotions including sadness. We feel sad whenever our loved ones have passed away, whenever we’re disappointed, whenever a close friend or family betrays us, whenever we hear a sad song or watch a sad scene in a movie, or whenever we fail or lose. Sadness is definitely a terrible feeling no one likes. But did you know that sadness can actually become beneficial to us? What we only need to do is to respond appropriately to it. Allow yourself to be sad and then explore the reasons why you’re feeling that way. Identify what you need to stop feeling sad. You will be able to develop and encourage yourself once you find out what you really need.

If you’re sad at this very moment, we want you to know that sadness is part of being human. Don’t worry, it will soon pass. Sadness is the only way for us to know what happiness feels like. It helps us recognize our vulnerabilities and weaknesses and helps us appreciate our wins and losses. Once you learn how to appropriately handle this emotion, you will be able to connect to other people more easily. Others may call the sadness as weak and shameful, but most of them only say this to escape from reality. Remember that emotions are what make this life worth living; without them, there’s nothing to look forward to anymore and life won’t be the same.

We want you to know if you feel sad right now, you are not alone. Here are the most touching sad quotes from people who have been in deep sadness too. We hope these quotes will somehow re-assure you that in time everything is going to be alright.

Sad Quotes

1. I find it sad that by not talking about who I sleep with, that makes me mysterious. There was a time when I would have been called a gentleman. – Kevin Spacey

 

2. I don’t consider myself a celebrity. That would be kind of sad. – Adam Driver

 

3. But it’s a journey and the sad thing is you only learn from experience, so as much as someone can tell you things, you have to go out there and make your own mistakes in order to learn. – Emma Watson

 

4. Can I see another’s woe, and not be in sorrow too? Can I see another’s grief, and not seek for kind relief? – William Blake

 

5. I think social media has taken over for our generation. It’s a big part of our lives, and it’s kind of sad. – Kendall Jenner

 

6. You’d die very sad if you tried to make everyone in the world happy, you know what I mean? You can’t; no one can. – G-Eazy

 

7. I don’t like people around me sad. I like making people happy. – Tyler

 

8. Tears are the summer showers to the soul. – Alfred Austin

 

9. Every word, facial expression, gesture, or action on the part of a parent gives the child some message about self-worth. It is sad that so many parents don’t realize what messages they are sending. – Virginia Satir

 

10. If my world were to cave in tomorrow, I would look back on all the pleasures, excitements and worthwhileness 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

11. 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

 

12. I’ve had an amazing life, but I think I was born with a little bit of sadness in me. I’ve always been attracted to those things, whether it’s sad movies, sad music when you’re sad, you feel everything in a greater way than you do when you’re happy. – Sam Smith

 

13. 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

 

14. Don’t grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form. – Rumi

 

15. 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

16. I’m always sad to leave paradise, but I leave behind the hopes of coming again soon. – Irina Shayk

 

17. The sad duty of politics is to establish justice in a sinful world. – Reinhold Niebuhr

 

18. 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

 

19. I know what I look like – a weird, sad clown puppet. I’m fine with that. – Rainn Wilson

 

20. Being sad and being depressed are two different things. Also, people going through depression don’t look so, while someone sad will look sad. The most common reaction is, ‘How can you be depressed? You have everything going for you. You are the supposed number one heroine and have a plush home, car, movies. What else do you want?’ – Deepika Padukone

 

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

 

22. It’s sad to know I’m done. But looking back, I’ve got a lot of great memories. – Bonnie Blair

 

23. 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

 

24. 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

 

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

 

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

 

27. 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

 

28. First, accept sadness. Realize that without losing, winning isn’t so great. – Alyssa Milano

 

29. It’s sad when someone you know becomes someone you knew. – Henry Rollins

 

30. 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

 

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

32. 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

 

33. Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding. – Khalil Gibran

 

34. When you wake up each morning, you can choose to be happy or choose to be sad. Unless some terrible catastrophe has occurred the night before, it is pretty much up to you. Tomorrow morning, when the sun shines through your window, choose to make it a happy day. – Lynda Resnick

 

35. You can never control who you fall in love with, even when you’re in the saddest, confused time of your life. You don’t fall in love with people because they’re fun. It just happens. – Kirsten Dunst

 

36. Depression is the inability to construct a future. – Rollo May

 

37. Everyone can have their heart broken. Even if you know the relationship isn’t working, it’s still sad. Even in a bad relationship, they’re part of your life for a long time, and saying goodbye to that can be difficult. – James Marsden

 

38. 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

 

39. Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow, it only saps today of its joy. – Leo Buscaglia

 

40. Dying is only one thing to be sad over. Living unhappily is something else. – Morrie Schwartz

 

41. A sad soul can kill quicker than a germ. – John Steinbeck

 

42. I’m not a sad person, upset the whole time, but I seem to be quite emotional. – Freddie Highmore

 

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

 

44. You left and I cried tears of blood. My sorrow grows. It’s not just that You left. But when You left my eyes went with You. Now, how will I cry? – Rumi

45. The rose and the thorn, and sorrow and gladness are linked together. – Saadi

 

46. Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us sorry but wise. – H. G. Wells

 

47. There’s no excuse to be bored. Sad, yes. Angry, yes. Depressed, yes. Crazy, yes. But there’s no excuse for boredom, ever. – Viggo Mortensen

 

48. A teardrop on earth summons the King of heaven. – Charles R. Swindoll

 

49. For all sad words of tongue and pen, The saddest are these, ‘It might have been’. – John Greenleaf Whittier

50. Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought. – Percy Bysshe Shelley

 

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

 

52. Sadness is also a kind of defense. – Ivo Andric

 

53. 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

 

54. I think Paris smells not just sweet but melancholy and curious, sometimes sad but always enticing and seductive. She’s a city for all senses, for artists and writers and musicians and dreamers, for fantasies, for long walks and wine and lovers and, yes, for mysteries. – M. J. Rose

 

55. Sadness is but a wall between two gardens. – Khalil Gibran

 

56. The sad truth is that the civil rights movement cannot be reborn until we identify the causes of black suffering, some of them self-inflicted. Why can’t black leaders organize rallies around responsible sexuality, birth within marriage, parents reading to their children and students staying in school and doing homework? – Henry Louis Gates

 

57. 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 are those days when you feel like Superman. It’s just the balance of the world. I just write to feel better. – Mac Miller

 

58. 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

 

59. There is no sadder sight than a young pessimist. – Mark Twain

 

60. Above all things let us never forget that mankind constitutes one great brotherhood; all born to encounter suffering and sorrow, and therefore bound to sympathize with each other. – Albert Pike

 

61. The sad and horrible conclusion is that no one cared that Jews were being murdered. This is the Jewish lesson of the Holocaust and this is the lesson which Auschwitz taught us. – Ariel Sharon

 

62. The true artist is not proud: he unfortunately sees that art has no limits; he feels darkly how far he is from the goal, and though he may be admired by others, he is sad not to have reached that point to which his better genius only appears as a distant, guiding sun. – Ludwig van Beethoven

 

63. The tragedy of life is in what dies inside a man while he lives – the death of genuine feeling, the death of inspired response, the awareness that makes it possible to feel the pain or the glory of other men in yourself. – Norman Cousins

 

64. 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

 

65. 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

 

66. I’m lonely. And I’m lonely in some horribly deep way and for a flash of an instant, I can see just how lonely, and how deep this feeling runs. And it scares the shit out of me to be this lonely because it seems catastrophic. – Augusten Burroughs

 

67. 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

 

68. 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.

 

69. Ester asked why people are sad. “That’s simple,” says the old man. “They are the prisoners of their personal history. Everyone believes that the main aim in life is to follow a plan. They never ask if that plan is theirs or if it was created by another person. They accumulate experiences, memories, things, other people’s ideas, and it is more than they can possibly cope with. And that is why they forget their dreams. – Paulo Coelho

 

70. What, if some day or night a demon were to steal after you into your loneliest loneliness and say to you: ‘This life as you now live it and have lived it, you will have to live once more and innumerable times more’ Would you not throw yourself down and gnash your teeth and curse the demon who spoke thus? Or have you once experienced a tremendous moment when you would have answered him: ‘You are a god and never have I heard anything more divine. – Friedrich Nietzsche

 

71. 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

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

 

73. One must not let oneself be overwhelmed by sadness. – Jackie Kennedy

 

74. The day you think there is no improvements to be made is a sad one for any player. – Lionel Messi

 

75. Wondrous is the strength of cheerfulness, and its power of endurance – the cheerful man will do more in the same time, will do it; better, will preserve it longer, than the sad or sullen. – Thomas Carlyle

 

76. A photograph doesn’t gain weight or lose weight, or change from being happy to being sad. It’s frozen. You can use it, then recycle it. – Chuck Close

 

77. We never taste happiness in perfection, our most fortunate successes are mixed with sadness. – Pierre Corneille

 

78. When I design and wonder what the point is, I think of someone having a bad time in their life. Maybe they are sad and they wake up and put on something I have made and it makes them feel just a bit better. So, in that sense, fashion is a little help in the life of a person. But only a little. – Miuccia Prada

79. I am closest to my mother, as she is my rock, my pillar of strength, and my world. Not only has she stood by me through all times – happy, sad, and otherwise – but there have even been moments when I had completely lost hope, and her immense belief in me had lifted me up. – Amruta Khanvilkar

 

80. Oh, I am very weary, Though tears no longer flow; My eyes are tired of weeping, My heart is sick of woe. – Anne Bronte

 

81. I never made it to the school choir because the music teacher didn’t like my voice. I was pretty sad. But he was probably right; I did have a voice a bit like a goat, but my dad told me to never give up and to keep going, and it’s paid off. – Shakira

 

82. The value of beauty and inspiration is very much underrated, no question. But I want to be clear: I’m not trying to be anyone’s savior. I’m just trying to think about the future and not be sad. – Elon Musk

 

83. It is sadder to find the past again and find it inadequate to the present than it is to have it elude you and remain forever a harmonious conception of memory. F. – Scott Fitzgerald

 

84. 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

 

85. The tree I had in the garden as a child, my beech tree, I used to climb up there and spend hours. I took my homework up there, my books, I went up there if I was sad, and it just felt very good to be up there among the green leaves and the birds and the sky. – Jane Goodall

 

86. The sad truth is that opportunity doesn’t knock twice. – Gloria Estefan

87. And in real life endings aren’t always neat, whether they’re happy endings, or whether they’re sad endings. – Stephen King

 

88. I must have something to engross my thoughts, some object in life which will fill this vacuum, and prevent this sad wearing away of the heart. – Elizabeth Blackwell

 

89. I was going to McDonald’s and Taco Bell every day. The kids behind the counter knew me – it wouldn’t even faze them. Or I’d sit up at Denny’s or Big Boy and just eat by myself. It was sad. I got so heavy that people started to not recognize me. – Eminem

 

90. Was there ever such stuff as great as part of Shakespeare? Only one must not say so! But what think you? – What? – Is there not sad stuff? What? – What? – George III of the United Kingdom

 

91. I love sad. Sadness makes you feel more than anything. – Jeff Ament

 

92. The sad souls of those who lived without blame and without praise. – Dante Alighieri

 

93. I’m not brave, I’m not fantastic. I’m like any other woman. I’m unhappy. I’m difficult. I’m sad. Am I strong, too? Maybe, but not always. There are days when I don’t want to see anyone. The most important thing you learn? You can live with it. – Sonia Rykiel

 

94. Love lies in those unsent drafts in your mailbox. Sometimes you wonder whether things would have been different if you’d clicked ‘Send’. – Faraaz Kazi

 

95. I will wait for you till the day I can forget you or till the day you realize you cannot forget me. – Herryicm

 

96. There is a distinct, awful pain that comes with loving someone more than they love you. – Steve Maraboli

 

97. Walking alone is not difficult but when we have walked a mile worth a thousand years with someone then coming back alone is what is difficult. – Faraaz Kazi

 

98. Part of me aches at the thought of her being so close yet so untouchable.    – Nicholas Sparks

 

99. Sometimes your eyes are not the only place the tears fall from. – Faraaz Kazi

 

100. There is no disguise which can hide love for long where it exists, or simulate it where it does not. – La Rochefoucauld

 

101. For all sad words of tongue and pen, the saddest are these, “It might have been. – John Greenleaf Whittier

 

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

 

103. Sometimes I wish I were a little kid again, skinned knees are easier to fix than broken hearts.

104. When love is lost, do not bow your head in sadness; instead keep your head up high and gaze into heaven for that is where your broken heart has been sent to heal.

 

105. Count the garden by the flowers, never by the leaves that fall. Count your life with smiles and not the tears that roll.

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

 

107. I do believe that if you haven’t learnt about sadness, you cannot appreciate happiness. – Nana Mouskouri

 

108. Crying is cleansing. There’s a reason for tears, happiness or sadness. – Dionne Warwick

 

109. 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

 

110. Nobody understands another’s sorrow, and nobody another’s joy. – Franz Schubert

 

111. In deep sadness, there is no place for sentimentality. – William S. Burroughs

 

112. Red is the ultimate cure for sadness. – Bill Blass

 

113. We never taste a perfect joy; our happiest successes are mixed with sadness. – Pierre Corneille

 

114. There is one pain, I often feel, which you will never know. It’s caused by the absence of you. – Ashleigh Brilliant

 

115. Let your tears come. Let them water your soul. – Eileen Mayhew

 

116. They say follow your heart, but if your heart is in a million pieces which piece do you follow?

 

117. The soul would have no rainbow had the eyes no tears. – John Vance Cheney

 

118. Remember me with smiles and laughs, for that’s how I’ll remember you. If you can only remember me with sadness and tears, then don’t remember me at all.

 

119. It’s sad when someone you know becomes someone you knew.

 

120. When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love have always won. There have been tyrants and murderers, and for a time, they can seem invincible, but in the end, they always fall. Think of it–always. – Mahatma Gandhi

 

121. Why do people have to be this lonely? What’s the point of it all? Millions of people in this world, all of them yearning, looking to others to satisfy them, yet isolating themselves. Why? Was the earth put here just to nourish human loneliness? – Haruki Murakami

 

122. What you must understand about me is that I’m a deeply unhappy person. – John Green

 

123. 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

 

124. 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

 

125. Tonight I can write the saddest lines. I loved her, and sometimes she loved me too. – Pablo Neruda

 

126. The longer and more carefully we look at a funny story, the sadder it becomes. – Nikolai Gogol

 

127. Don’t cry over someone who wouldn’t cry over you. – Lauren Conrad

 

128. 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

 

129. The worst type of crying wasn’t the kind everyone could see–the wailing on street corners, the tearing at clothes. No, the worst kind happened when your soul wept and no matter what you did, there was no way to comfort it. A section withered and became a scar on the part of your soul that survived. For people like me and Echo, our souls contained more scar tissue than life. – Katie McGarry