I leave you the best sad quotes from great authors such as Carl Jung, Antoine de Saint-Exupery, Jean-Jacques Rosseau, William Shakespeare, Seneca, Gabriel García Márquez, Dr. Seuss, Khalil Gibran and many more.
You may also be interested in these phrases of depression or these of happiness.
-The heavy hearts, as well as the heavy clouds in the sky, are lightened by letting out a little water. –Cristopher Morley.
-The word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. –Carl Jung.
-Perpetual silence leads to sadness. It is the image of death. –Jean-Jacques Rosseau.
-Nobody deserves your tears, but whoever deserves them will not make you cry. -Gabriel Garcia Marquez.
-Don't cry because something is over, smile because it happened. –Dr. Seuss.
-Sadness is nothing more than a wall between two gardens. -Khalil Gibran.
-Sadness usually arises as a result of one of two causes, either that a person is not successful, or that he is ashamed of his success. –Séneca.
-When sadness arrives, they do not come as isolated events. They come like avalanches. -William Shakespeare.
-Even a happy life cannot exist without a dose of darkness. –Carl Jung.
-The walls we build around us to keep sadness out, also keep happiness out of the way. –Jim Rohn.
-The sadness fades flying on the wings of time. –Jean de La Fontaine.
-Tears are words that need to be written. -Paulo Coelho.
-The pain is one of the shocks that proves the fact of being alive. -Antoine de Saint-Exupéry.
-Experiencing sadness or anger can make you feel more creative, and by feeling more creative, you can overcome your pain or negativity. -Yoko Ono.
-You cannot protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from happiness. –Jonathan Safran Foer.
-Sometimes, crying is the only way your eyes speak when your mouth cannot explain how broken your heart is. -Unknown author.
-There is so much sadness in this world that it is our obligation to contribute as much happiness as possible. –John Sutherland Bonnel.
-Anger is just a cowardly extension of sadness. It is much easier to be angry at someone than to tell them that you are hurt. -Tom Gates.
-Smile, even if it is a sad smile, since sadder than a sad smile, it is the sadness of not knowing how to smile. -Unknown author.
-We must understand that sadness is an ocean, and sometimes we drown, while other times we are forced to swim. –RM Drake.
-I can choose to suffer from perpetual sadness, immobilized by the seriousness of my loss, or I can choose to get up from the pain and treasure the most precious gift I have, life. –Walter Anderson.
-Live by this creed: try to laugh at life and seek happiness instead of sadness. Laughter has always gotten me out of unfortunate situations. –Red Skelton.
-Usually people think that I am a strong and happy person, but behind my smiles, they simply do not know how much pain I am, so much that I am almost broken. -Unknown author.
-The supreme and the insignificant, the light and the dark, the good and the evil. All of them are interwoven to form the miracle that is life, and neither can exist without the other. –Silvestris.
-It will get harder before it gets easier. But it will get better. You just have to get over that moment. -Unknown author.
-An arrow can only be launched by pushing it back. So when life drags you back with its difficulties, it means that it will launch you towards something wonderful. -Unknown author.
-Sometimes when things collapse, it means that they needed to collapse to settle again. -Unknown author.
-Sometimes life doesn't give you something you want, not because you don't deserve it, but because you deserve more. -Unknown author.
-They teach us to be ashamed of confusion, anger, fear and sadness, and for me, they have the same value as happiness, excitement and inspiration. –Alanis Morrisette.
-Sadness is a visitor who will enter your home without a key, but has the ability to kick you out when you are ready. -Unknown author.
-Sadness is nothing more than the absence of joy, in the same way that darkness is nothing more than the absence of light. –Jonathan Lockwood Huie.
-Happiness is part of life, but there is no need to let it dominate your life completely. –Byron Pulsifer.
-Some days are just bad days, that's all. You have to experience sadness to know happiness. And that I remind myself every day, that not every day will be good days, life is just like that! –Dita Von Teese.
-It's sad to know that my work here is done. But looking back, I have a lot of good memories. -Bonnie Blair.
-Every human being carries with him a certain kind of sadness. They might not have it on their sleeves, but it's there if you look hard enough. –Taraji P. Henson.
-Crying is cleaning oneself. There is a reason that tears, happiness and sadness exist. –Dionne Warwick.
-We never had a moment of pure happiness. Our happiest successes are mixed with sadness. –Pierre Corneille.
-In deep sadness there is no room for sentimentality. –William S. Burroughs.
-I have sadness inside me. I have anger inside of me. I have a broken heart inside of me. -Ellen Degeneres.
-I've cried, and you think I'm better for it, but sadness just sleeps inside me, for the rest of my life. –Conor Oberst.
-I really believe that sadness and darkness can be beautiful and therapeutic. –Duncan Sheik.
-We can thank God that we can feel pain and know sadness, since these are the human feelings that make up sadness, as well as mourning.
-Every man has his secret sadness, which the world does not know, and many times a man is called "cold", when in reality he is only sad. –Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.
-Any fool can be happy. It takes a man with a true heart to extract the beauty of the things that make us cry. –Clive Barker.
-Tears shed by another person are not a sign of weakness. They are the sign of a pure heart. –Jose N. Harris.
-Don't be ashamed to cry. Tears are just water, and flowers, trees, and fruit cannot grow without water. –Brian Jacques.
-Breathing is difficult. When you cry a lot, it makes you realize that breathing is difficult. –David Leviathan.
-No one cares if you are miserable, so you could just as well be happy. –Cynthia Nelms.
-In the book of life, the answers are not on the back. –Charlie Brown.
-They say that when you miss someone it's because they are surely feeling the same way, but I don't think it's possible that you miss me as much as I miss you right now. –Edna St. Vincent Millay.
-You can choose to be happy or sad, and whatever you choose will be what you will have. No one is actually responsible for making someone happy, no matter what most people are taught and accepted as true. - Sindey Madwed.
-Don't be afraid to try new things. The saddest summary may contain the words “it could have been like this”, “it should have been like this”. - Louis E Boone.
-There are two types of people in the world, the first, who prefer to be sad among others, and the second, who prefer to be sad alone. –Nicole Krauss.
-All good things must have an end, but all bad things can continue forever. -Unknown author.
-Good humor is the health of the soul, and sadness is its poison. "Lord Chesterfield."
-Anger, tears and sadness are only for those who have given up. –Katie Gill.
-Lord, make me an instrument of your peace. Where there is hatred let me sow love; where there is damage, sorry; where there is discouragement, hope; where there is sadness, light; and where there is sadness, happiness. -San Francisco.
-Bravery and joy will not only transport you to the harsh places of life, they will also allow you to bring comfort and help to the faint of heart, and will comfort you in the sad hours. –William Osler.
-There is no worse pain than remembering happiness on a sad day. –Alfred de Musset.
-Sadness is the legacy of the past; regrets are the pains of memory. -Unknown author.
-We gather strength from sadness and pain, every time we die, we learn to live again. -Unknown author.
-No society has been able to abolish human sadness. No political system can keep us from the pain of living, the fear of death, and our thirst for the absolute. It is the human condition that directs us to the social condition, not the other way around. –Eugene Ionesco.
-I found more joy in sadness than I could find in happiness itself.-Unknown author.
-Sadness is almost always nothing more than a form of fatigue. –Andre Gide.
-I have learned more from pain than I could have learned from pleasure. -Unknown author.
-I, and not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. I can choose what I will be. Yesterday is dead, and tomorrow has not yet come. I only have one day, today, and I'm going to be happy on this day. -Groucho Marx.
-Nothing is miserable unless you think it is. -Boethius.
-My perception is that if you have not learned from sadness, you cannot appreciate happiness. –Nana Mouskouri.
-Sadness is not inherent in things, it does not reach us from the world and through the mere contemplation of the world. It is a product of our own thinking. We create it entirely from fabric. –Emily Durkeim.
-Sadness is a natural reaction to wake up and see things as they are. But neither can we lose ourselves in sadness, or decide to use this awakening to inspire ourselves to work on changing things the way we want them to be. –Robert Alan Silerstein.
-Sadness is a choice, sadness does not exist. –Jonathan Lockwood Huie.
-Remember that sadness is always temporary. This too shall pass. –Chuck T. Falcon.
-You cannot prevent the birds of sadness from passing over your head, but you can prevent them from nesting in your hair. -Chinese proverb.
-The best thing about being sad is that we learn something. -Theodore White.
-Sadness does not originate from bad circumstances. It comes from bad thoughts - Unknown author.
-One should not let sadness overwhelm one. –Jackie Kennedy.
-First accept the sadness. Then accept that without losing, winning is not so great. –Alyssa Milano.
-We enjoy the heat because we know the cold, we appreciate the light because we have been in the dark. In the same way, we experience joy because we have known sadness. –David Weatherford.
-I look back and see a mixture of emotions: sadness for those who have already left, nostalgia for the times that have passed, but immense gratitude for the wonderful opportunities that have presented themselves along the way. –Dick Van Patten.
-It doesn't matter if they are sad movies, or sad music, when you are sad, you feel everything more intensely than when you are happy. –Sam Smith.
-I am able to see the funny side of things and enjoy the fun when it comes. But where I look, it always seems to me that there is more sadness than happiness in life. –Jerome K. Jerome.
-I am happy, and I could say that I am one of the happiest people I know. Most certainly I have had periods of deep sadness, depression and anguish, and these are the kinds of things that I find interesting to write about. –Richard Marx.
- Part of me is attracted by the nature of sadness, because I believe that life is sad, and I believe that sadness is not something that should be avoided or denied. It is a fact of life, as well as contradictions. –Robert Redford.