Sad Quotes

The ocean doesn't want me today, But I'll come back tomorrow to play. The riptide is waging And the life guard's away But the ocean doesn't want me today

Behind every trial and sorrow that He makes us shoulder, God has a reason.

. . . owning a dog always ended with this sadness because dogs just don't live as long as people do.

But Love has pitched his mansion in the place of excrement. For nothing can be sole or whole that has not been rent.

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.

Everyone in life is gonna hurt you, you just have to figure out which people are worth the pain.

O call not me to justify the wrong, That thy unkindness lays upon my heart, Wound me not with thine eye but with thy tongue, Use power with power, and slay me not by art.

There is a joy in sorrow which none but a mourner can know.

I love you. I love you. I send this message through my fingers and into his, up his arm and into his heart. Hear me. I love you. And I'm sorry to leave you.

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

There are hurts so deep that one cannot reach them or heal them with words.

This have I known always: Love is no more than the wide blossom which the wind assails, than the great tide that treads the shifting shore, strewing fresh wreckage gathered in the gales; Pity me that the heart is slow to learn, that the swift mind beholds at every turn.

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

They say time heals all wounds, but that presumes the source of the grief is finite

Anger, tears and sadness are only for those who have given up.

Live with it. You live with pleasure, don't you? Why don't you live with suffering completely? Can you live with it in the sense of not escaping from it? What takes place? Watch. The mind is very clear, sharp. It is faced with the fact. The very suffering transformed into passion is enormous. From that arises a mind that can never be hurt. Full stop. That is the secret.

I declare to you that woman must not depend upon the protection of man, but must be taught to protect herself, and there I take my stand.

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.

Aid my disillusionment, my friend!

Suffering, if it does not diminish love, will transport us to the furthest shore.

Hearts can break. Yes, hearts can break. Sometimes I think it would be better if we died when they did, but we don't.

I believe that if I should die, and you were to walk near my grave, from the very depths of the earth I would hear your footsteps.

Good humor is the health of the soul, sadness is its poison.

A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.

We the willing, led by the unknowing, are doing the impossible for the ungrateful. We have done so much, with so little, for so long, we are now qualified to do anything, with nothing.

I can't eat and I can't sleep. I'm not doing well in terms of being a functional human, you know?

Hating people is like burning down your own house to get rid of a rat.

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.

A Strange melancholy pervades me to which I hesitate to give the grave and beautiful name of sorrow. The idea of sorrow has always appealed to me but now I am almost ashamed of it's complete egoism. I have known boredom, regret, and occasionally remorse, but never sorrow. Today it envelops me like a silken web, enervating and soft, and sets me apart from everybody else.

In the Book of Life, The answers aren't in the back.

O Captain! My Captain! our fearful trip is done.

Perhaps I know best why it is man alone who laughs; he alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter.

You cannot protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from happiness.

If you want to be sad, no one in the world can make you happy. But if you make up your mind to be happy, no one and nothing on earth can take that happiness from you.

I think the saddest people always try their hardest to make people happy because they know what it's like to feel absolutely worthless and they don't want anyone else to feel like that.

I'm sorry for the anguished hearts that break with passion's strain, But I'm sorrier for the poor starved souls that never knew love's pain, Who hunger on through barren years not tasting joys they crave, For sadder far is such a lot than weeping o'er a grave.

I know I can feel bad, when I get in a bad mood, and the world can look so sad, only you make me feel good.

I'm having a bad day. I am not size six. My legs are not skinny as sticks, and dammit, someone's got to pay. I'm afraid that I can't satisfy myself and that my happiness depends on someone else. I feel weak, so you're gonna take the fall. You're so shallow.

I have been smashed and put back together so many times nothing works right. Nothing is where it should be, heavy thumping in my shoulder where my heart now beats.

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

Sadness usually results from one of the following causes either when a man does not succeed, or is ashamed of his success.

And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.

You don't know who is important to you until you actually lose them.

There's no excuse to be bored. Sad, yes. Angry, yes. Depressed, yes. Crazy, yes. But there's no excuse for boredom, ever.

Whatever you resist you become. If you resist anger, you are always angry. If you resist sadness, you are always sad. If you resist suffering, you are always suffering. If you resist confusion,you are always confused. We think that we resist certain states because they are there, but actually they are there because we resist them.

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

There is nothing so slipperily alluring as sadness; we become sad in the first place by having nothing stirring to do; we continue in it, because we have found a snug sofa at last.

It is salutary to train oneself to be no more affected by censure than by praise.

In the sphere of thought, absurdity and perversity remain the masters of the world, and their dominion is suspended only for brief periods.

Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.