Sad Quotes

Welcome to my sad quotes page. We all have felt sad once in a while and these quotes are for those who need comfort from sadness. I hope you feel some comfort from these quotes.

• SAD QUOTE OF THE PAGE
  We enjoy warmth because we have been cold. We appreciate light because we have been in darkness. By the same token, we can experience joy because we have known sadness.
  David Weatherford


• There are as many nights as days, and the one is just as long as the other in the year's course. Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word 'happy' would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.
  Carl Jung


• However long the night, the dawn will break.
  African Proverb


• Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of withering, of tarnishing.
  Anais Nin


• Don't fear failure so much that you refuse to try new things. The saddest summary of a life contains three descriptions: could have, might have, and should have.
  Louis E. Boone


• When I look back on all these worries, I remember the story of the old man who said on his deathbed that he had had a lot of trouble in his life, most of which had never happened.
  Winston Churchill


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


• Red is the ultimate cure for sadness.
  Bill Blass


• Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it.
  Helen Keller


• Depression, when it’s clinical, is not a metaphor. It runs in families, and it’s known to respond to medication and to counseling. However truly you believe there’s a sickness to existence that can never be cured, if you’re depressed you will sooner or later surrender and say: I just don’t want to feel bad anymore. The shift from depressive realism to tragic realism, from being immobilized by darkness to being sustained by it, thus strangely seems to require believing in the possibility of a cure…
  Jonathan Franzen


• Beginnings are scary. Endings are usually sad, but it's the middle that counts the most.
  Hope Floats


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


• The ultimate evil is to leave the company of the living before you die.
  Seneca


• Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome
  Jimi Hendrix


• Better by far you should forget and smile than that you should remember and be sad.
  Christina Georgina Rossetti


• They that sow in tears shall reap in joy.
  Psalms


• A man's sorrow runs uphill; true it is difficult for him to bear, but it is also difficult for him to keep.
  Djuna Barnes


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


• Dying seems less sad than having lived too little.
  Gloria Steinem


• Sorrows when shared are less burdensome, though joys divided are increased.
  Josiah Gilbert Holland


• 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


• As I've gotten older, I find I am able to be nourished more by sorrow and to distinguish it from depression.
  Robert Bly


• How sad to see a father with money and no joy. The man studied economics, but never studied happiness.
  Jim Rohn


• A man should always consider how much he has more than he wants, and how much more unhappy he might be than he really is.
  Joseph Addison


• But a heart which trusts in God's goodness is armed against sorrow.
  Hirosvitha of Gandersheim


• All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story or tell a story about them.
  Isak Dinesen

Thanks for passing by my sad quotes. I hope these sad quotes gave you some comfort. We all get sad sometimes but it is important to not forget that it all passes, its all about your own attitude to life. Take care and keep smiling.

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