Sad Quotes

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

"Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought."

"Heavy hearts, like heavy clouds in the sky, are best relieved by the letting of a little water."

"Nothing is more sad than the death of an illusion."

"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."

"We look before and after, And pine for what is not; Our sincerest laughter With some pain is fraught; Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought."

"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."

"First, accept sadness. Realize that without losing, winning isn't so great."

"A sad soul can kill quicker than a germ."

"Dying is only one thing to be sad over... Living unhappily is something else."

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

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

"Sadness is also a kind of defence."

"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."

"I'm just a guy who wears TOMS. It's the sad truth."

"Nobody understands another's sorrow, and nobody another's joy."

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

"Don't grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form."

"My parents' divorce left me with a lot of sadness and pain and acting, and especially humour, was my way of dealing with all that."

"Sad will be the day for any man when he becomes contented with the thoughts he is thinking and the deeds he is doing - where there is not forever beating at the doors of his soul some great desire to do something larger; which he knows he was meant and made to do."

"Let's let our men be happy, be sad, be trans, be questioning, be bisexual, be non-conforming, be feminine, be masculine!"

"People are sad. People are broke. People are worried about money, people are worried that they're not enough and not amounting to anything and they don't feel good about themselves. People have rough times, and everybody's pretending it's not true, and we need to break that veneer."

"It doesn't hurt to feel sad from time to time."

"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."

"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."

"I often feel like I have this spirit living inside of me, always dressing in like short mini skirts... but then I start to discover myself. So there are eight spirits, mischievous ones, sad ones, handsome ones, wise ones, and crazy ones."

"Sadness flies away on the wings of time."

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

"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?"

"Sadness is a super important thing not to be ashamed about but to include in our lives. One of the bigger problems with sadness or depression is there's so much shame around it. If you have it you're a failure. You are felt as being very unattractive."

"Keep it simple, keep it sexy, keep it sad."

"I don't fight my ability to sing sad songs: it's what I am good at, so I must be built for that."

"Everybody has their favorite sad songs. That's part of what I love so much about country music. Country music is never afraid to go with a sad song."