Sadness Quotes

The death of loved ones often awakens the death inside of us.

~ Sandra Chami Kassis

He was beneath the waves, a creature crawling the ocean bottom.

~ Doppo Kunikida

How could we be sorrow, if there is a song?

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Sadness is a grieve spirit.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Don't stop yourself from greatness before you've begun from fear or from self-doubt. You were put here on this planet to do great things, to pioneer change by way of your own personal uniqueness, and to express yourself and share your happiness with others.

~ Kaiden Blake

It's paramount we take ownership of our lives. Sadness is greatly due to our having sacrificed ourselves over to a power outside of ourselves. We need to be proactive in creating positive thoughts and actions that will align ourselves with where we want to be and what we want to feel in life.

~ Kaiden Blake

Though we are emotional beings, we are not our emotions. Remember this the next time you find yourself struggling.

~ Kaiden Blake

Why do people have to be this lonely? What's the point of it all? Millions of people in this world, all of them yearning, looking to others to satisfy them, yet isolating themselves. Why? Was the earth put here just to nourish human loneliness?

~ Haruki Murakami

What you must understand about me is that I’m a deeply unhappy person.

~ John Green

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.

~ Nicole Krauss

I'm lonely. And I'm lonely in some horribly deep way and for a flash of an instant, I can see just how lonely, and how deep this feeling runs. And it scares the shit out of me to be this lonely because it seems catastrophic.

~ Augusten Burroughs

Nothing thicker than a knife's blade separates happiness from melancholy.

~ Virginia Woolf

Was I bitter? Absolutely. Hurt? You bet your sweet ass I was hurt. Who doesn't feel a part of their heart break at rejection. You ask yourself every question you can think of, what, why, how come, and then your sadness turns to anger. That's my favorite part. It drives me, feeds me, and makes one hell of a story.

~ Jennifer Salaiz

When you've suffered a great deal in life, each additional pain is both unbearable and trifling.

~ Yann Martel

I didn't know why I was going to cry, but I knew that if anybody spoke to me or looked at me too closely the tears would fly out of my eyes and the sobs would fly out of the throat and I'd cry for a week.

~ Sylvia Plath

I hope no one who reads this book has been quite as miserable as Susan and Lucy were that night, but if you have been - if you've been up all night and cried till you have no more tears left in you - you will know that there comes in the end a sort of quietness. You feel as if nothing is ever going to happen again.

~ C.s. Lewis

I said uselessly, Sam, don't go.Sam cupped my face in his hands and looked me in the eyes. His eyes were yellow, sad, wolf, mine. These stay the same. Remember that when you look at me. Remember it's me. Please.

~ Maggie Stiefvater

The sadness will last forever.

~ Vincent Van Gogh

Sometimes we get sad about things and we don't like to tell other people that we are sad about them. We like to keep it a secret. Or sometimes, we are sad but we really don't know why we are sad, so we say we aren't sad but we really are.

~ Mark Haddon

The way sadness works is one of the strange riddles of the world. If you are stricken with a great sadness, you may feel as if you have been set aflame, not only because of the enormous pain, but also because your sadness may spread over your life, like smoke from an enormous fire. You might find it difficult to see anything but your own sadness, the way smoke can cover a landscape so that all anyone can see is black. You may find that if someone pours water all over you, you are damp and distracted, but not cured of your sadness, the way a fire department can douse a fire but never recover what has been burnt down.

~ Lemony Snicket

I did not know how to reach him, how to catch up with him... The land of tears is so mysterious.

~ Antoine De Saint-Exupéry

The only sadnesses that are dangerous and unhealthy are the ones that we carry around in public in order to drown them out with the noise; like diseases that are treated superficially and foolishly, they just withdraw and after a short interval break out again all the more terribly; and gather inside us and are life, are life that is unlived, rejected, lost, life that we can die of.

~ Rainer Maria Rilke

I went to bed and woke in the middle of the night thinking I heard someone cry, thinking I myself was weeping, and I felt my face and it was dry.Then I looked at the window and thought: Why, yes, it's just the rain, the rain, always the rain, and turned over, sadder still, and fumbled about for my dripping sleep and tried to slip it back on.

~ Ray Bradbury

Tears are words the mouth can't say nor can the heart bear.

~ Joshua Wisenbaker

Suddenly this defeat.This rain.The blues gone grayAnd the browns gone grayAnd yellowA terrible amber.In the cold streetsYour warm body.In whatever roomYour warm body.Among all the peopleYour absenceThe people who are alwaysNot you.I have been easy with treesToo long.Too familiar with mountains.Joy has been a habit.NowSuddenlyThis rain.

~ Jack Gilbert

From the moment we are born, we begin to die.

~ Janne Teller

You can't keep the birds of sadness from flying over your head, but you can keep them from nesting in your hair.

~ Sharon Creech

It always is harder to be left behind than to be the one to go...

~ Brock Thoene

You really didn't see the sadness or the longing unless you already knew it was there. But that was the trick, wasn't it? Everyone had their disappointment and their baggage; only, some people carried it in their inside pockets and not on their backs.

~ Maggie Stiefvater

The sadness of the world has different ways of getting to people, but it seems to succeed almost every time.

~ Louis-Ferdinand Céline

I think there is something beautiful in reveling in sadness. The proof is how beautiful sad songs can be. So I don’t think being sad is to be avoided. It’s apathy and boredom you want to avoid. But feeling anything is good, I think. Maybe that’s sadistic of me.

~ Joseph Gordon-Levitt

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.

~ Elizabeth Scott

I'd rather laugh with the sinners than cry with the saints.

~ Billy Joel

The tragedy of this world is that no one is happy, whether stuck in a time of pain or of joy. The tragedy of this world is that everyone is alone. For a life in the past cannot be shared with the present. Each person who gets stuck in time gets stuck alone.

~ Alan Lightman

It is a grave injustice to a child or adult to insist that they stop crying. One can comfort a person who is crying which enables him to relax and makes further crying unnecessary; but to humiliate a crying child is to increase his pain, and augment his rigidity. We stop other people from crying because we cannot stand the sounds and movements of their bodies. It threatens our own rigidity. It induces similar feelings in ourselves which we dare not express and it evokes a resonance in our own bodies which we resist.

~ Alexander Lowen

It was that sort of sleep in which you wake every hour and think to yourself that you have not been sleeping at all; you can remember dreams that are like reflections, daytime thinking slightly warped.

~ Kim Stanley Robinson

I wish to cry. Yet, I laugh, and my lipstick leaves a red stain like a bloody crescent moon on the top of the beer can.

~ Sylvia Plath

It's OK not to be OK.

~ Lindsey Kelk

I told myself that if I didn't care, this wouldn't have hurt so much - surely that proved I was alive and human and all those touchy-feely things, for once and for all. But that wasn't a relief, not when I felt like a skyscraper with dynamite on every floor.

~ Jodi Picoult

Lie still, lie still, my breaking heart; My silent heart, lie still and break: Life, and the world, and mine own self, are changed For a dream's sake.

~ Christina Rossetti