Browsing Topic Best Sadness Quotes

Don’t cry because it’s over. Smile because it happened.

When you do something noble and beautiful and nobody noticed, do not be sad. For the sun every morning is a beautiful spectacle and yet most of the audience still sleeps.

I will greet this day with love in my heart. And how will I do this? Henceforth will I look on all things with love and be born again. I will love the sun for it warms my bones; yet I will love the rain for it cleanses my spirit. I will love the light for it shows me the way; yet I will love the darkness for it shows me the stars. I will welcome happiness as it enlarges my heart; yet I will endure sadness for it opens my soul. I will acknowledge rewards for they are my due; yet I will welcome obstacles for they are my challenge.

Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart. The really great men must, I think, have great sadness on earth.

What a sad era when it is easier to smash an atom than a prejudice.

When you’re happy you enjoy the music, but when you’re sad you understand the lyrics.

Let others lead small lives, but not you. Let others argue over small things, but not you. Let others cry over small hurts, but not you. Let others leave their future in someone else’s hands, but not you.

Open your eyes, look within. Are you satisfied with the life you’re living?

Only a man who has felt ultimate despair is capable of feeling ultimate bliss.

We tell our triumphs to the crowds, but our own hearts are the sole confidants of our sorrows.

Depressed, anxious, sad, frightened? Yes. But I’ve never been bored.

The tragedy of life is what dies in the hearts and souls of people while they live.

Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness.

Do not judge men by mere appearances; for the light laughter that bubbles on the lip often mantles over the depths of sadness, and the serious look may be the sober veil that covers a divine peace and joy.

They say it is better to be poor and happy than rich and miserable, but how about a compromise like moderately rich and just moody?

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

Sorrow is one of the vibrations that prove the fact of living.

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

Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad.

Journey quietly on your pathway to forever with charity & a smile. When you depart it will be said by all that your legacy was a better world than the one you found.

One cannot collect all the beautiful shells on the beach.

Sadness is more or less like a head cold – with patience, it passes. Depression is like cancer.

Broken hearts are for assholes, are you an asshole?

One cannot be deeply responsive to the world without being saddened very often.

Nobody deserves your tears, but whoever deserves them will not make you cry.

It is impossible for that man to despair who remembers that his Helper is omnipotent.

Traveling is a fool’s paradise. Our first journeys discover to us the indifference of places. At home I dream that at Naples, at Rome, I can be intoxicated with beauty, and lose my sadness. I pack my trunk, embrace my friends, embark on the sea, and at last wake up in Naples, and there beside me is the stern fact, the sad self, unrelenting, identical, that I fled from. I seek the Vatican, and the palaces. I affect to be intoxicated with sights and suggestions, but I am not intoxicated. My giant goes with me wherever I go.

Normalness leads to sadness.

Grief does not end and love does not die and nothing fills its graven place. With grace, pain is transmuted into the gold of wisdom and compassion and the lesser coin of muted sadness and resignation; but something leaden of it remains, to become the kernel arond which more pain accretes (a black pearl): one pain becomes every other pain … unless one strips away, one by one, the layers of pain to get to the heart of the pain – and this causes more pain, pain so intense as to feel like evisceration.

The parts of me that hurt the worst want me to write something for them, but I can’t. I don’t know what to say. I’m lost in all this sadness, and so are they.

It is such a secret place, the land of tears.

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.

There is a special sadness in achievement, in the knowledge that a long-desired goal has been attained at last, and that life must now be shaped toward new ends.

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

I too have known joy and sadness, and, on the whole, I prefer joy.