Sad Quotes

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

Truth, Heart, Deep

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

Often, Secret, Times

It's sad when someone you know becomes someone you knew.
Henry Rollins

Someone, Knew, Becomes

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

Times, Touch, Flowers

Sadness is but a wall between two gardens.
Khalil Gibran

Sadness, Two, Between

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

Home, Sadness, Father

Participate joyfully in the sorrows of the world. We cannot cure the world of sorrows, but we can choose to live in joy.
Joseph Campbell

Live, Joy, Cannot

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

Sadness, Joy, Around

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

Live, Regret, Regrets

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

Life, Sadness, Rest

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

Soul, Germ, Quicker

The word 'happiness' would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.
Carl Jung

Happiness, Sadness, Lose

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

Wise, Sorry, Sober

And I remember going to the record studio and there was a park across the street and I'd see all the children playing and I would cry because it would make me sad that I would have to work instead.
Michael Jackson

Work, Children, Remember

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

Happiness, Sadness, Cannot

Isn't it sad to go to your grave without ever wondering why you were born? Who, with such a thought, would not spring from bed, eager to resume discovering the world and rejoicing to be part of it?
Richard Dawkins

Thought, Why, Spring

Sad things happen. They do. But we don't need to live sad forever.
Mattie Stepanek

Live, Happen, Forever

Every life has a measure of sorrow, and sometimes this is what awakens us.
Steven Tyler

Life, Sometimes, Sorrow

In this world, full often, our joys are only the tender shadows which our sorrows cast.
Henry Ward Beecher

Often, Full, Shadows

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

Sadness, Oneself

Live by this credo: have a little laugh at life and look around you for happiness instead of sadness. Laughter has always brought me out of unhappy situations.
Red Skelton

Life, Happiness, Live

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

Anger, Pain, Sadness

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

Words, Might, Tongue

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

Past, Find, Again

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

Another, Sorrow, Grief

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