Sadness Quotes Quotes

Harsh winters precede pleasant springs.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

Life hands us storms so we can paint rainbows.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

A man in his early prime contemplates on life, shattered by the distortions of society he gazes ahead in time. There were vows of happiness and fairy tale beginnings. Now there is nothing of that sort; now there is nothing that started the tales so bright. It's after all this while that he understands why fairy tales begin with 'once upon a time'...

~ Adhish Mazumder

The dark skies of despair are no match for the bright skies of hope.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

The real you is not you, the real you is what is within you. What is behind your joy or your melancholy. What gives you the reason to ponder. What moves or stops you. What makes you you is you.

~ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

A tree does not despair when its fruit falls to the ground, because it knows in due time, its seeds will rise.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

A storm is an artist who passes by on her way to paint your rainbow.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

Don't pluck a rose's petals and then ask the rose why it is sad.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

Watering a dead flower will not bring it back to life.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

Love that brings you sorrow is better than hate that brings you joy.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

It is in vain to wipe away tears in the rain.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

Heat makes things expand, that is why life sometimes throws us into a fiery furnace.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

Today's tears sweep the road to tomorrow's blessings.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

Your deepest valleys lead you to your highest mountaintops.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

Yes, looking through the eyes of literature we may talk about the beauty of sadness! But in the eyes of truth, sadness is just saddening; there is no beauty there, only a touching desperation!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

An emotionally locked person refuses to let go of their sad memories and live in the now.

~ Kilroy J. Oldster

Boredom and ineffective attempts to escape tedium are the perpetual lot of humankind.

~ Kilroy J. Oldster

Disquietude that springs from the fundamental nature of being a human being is vaster and more encompassing than depression, which has a cause and therefore a cure.

~ Kilroy J. Oldster

I want to drown in my tears,And my tears are my prayers.

~ Luffina Lourduraj

Hope is a better friend than despair.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

The soul's hands carry the heart's burdens.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

The heart smiles when the soul shines.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

Sleep comes, no matter how deep the sadness cuts. It’s like a gift from the universe.

~ Corey Ann Haydu

Everyone experiences the feelings of sadness and loneliness. We might rue our lack of companionship, but some people present a desperate need for aloneness. Being alone allows a person to think, imagine, and take in nature. Because being alone is essential for specific human actions, similar to all other aspects of life, it is a gift.

~ Kilroy J. Oldster

Every heart has a layer of sadness, whether deeply buried or covering the surface for all to see.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

Sadness is like sandpaper; it rubs at our sharper edges, softening and humbling us, making us ready for a coat of compassion.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

No one wants to occupy a black hole of sadness and despair or slip on the tight rope that separates sanity from insanity, and reside in a vortex devoid of reality. I entered the world as a freeman and desire to escape a state of existential vertigo. I yearn to discover a synthesizing spirit of my being and hold my head high, free of doubt, and devoid of fear. I wish to foment the cerebral energy to stave off premature destruction and forevermore blunt an intolerable state of anguish.

~ Kilroy J. Oldster

I've never been the most important thing to anybody - not even myself.

~ Ranata Suzuki

Thinking is a personalized activity that can lead us into a state of happiness or cause us to be sad. Who we are becomes a product of how we think. What we think about and how we integrate knowledge into a comprehensive schema regulates our evolving self-identity. The precision of the human mind and the interplay between cognitive thinking and reactive emotions plays a central role in self-identity.

~ Kilroy J. Oldster

What a wonderful sadness to miss the one you have loved forever, it seems, and know that she is waiting at home.

~ Dan Groat

He had a sadness in his eyes that Carrie recognised as regret.

~ Kassandra Cross

She wore his flowerIn her hairScent of amberSweetened the airHer dress was whiteHer feet bareHe found heavenWaiting thereShe is aliveIn his painful sigh...

~ Dinesh Kumar Biran

You don’t have to wait for a storm to pass to paint your own rainbow.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

If rocks did not persevere under heat and pressure, they would never become diamonds.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

And they can’t understand, what hurts more— Missing the other person, or pretending not to.

~ Khadija Rupa

Count your summers, not your winters.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

If money could buy happiness, the rich would not drown their sorrows in expensive wine.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

No doubt, the biggest challenge before you is to protect yourself from sadness, because happiness belongs to the theory of uncertainty.

~ Dipin Damodharan

A smile is a song from the heart, a tear is a letter from the soul.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

Tears of joy are lighter than smiles of sorrow.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo