Sadness Quotes

I sometimes wish I could spontaneously combust. Burn until nothing but ash is left, to be washed away by the wind and the rain.

~ A.b. Shepherd

My soul is melting in sadness but I still keep smiling for you.

~ M.f. Moonzajer

That the world I was in could be soft, lovely, and nourishing was more than I could bear, and so I stood there and wept, for I didn't want to love one more thing that could make my heart break into a million little pieces at my feet.

~ Jamaica Kincaid

She had quickly learned that to show unhappiness was to risk the loss of love.

~ P.d. James

Even if times are tough and you're enduring a terrible heartache, it's important to focus your anger on a vibrator, not another person.

~ Chelsea Handler

This life is ironic: for it takes pain to discover pleasure; it takes sadness to know happiness; it takes war to value peace; and it takes hatred to treasure love.[Culled from: Amara & The Strange Elderly Woman]

~ Emmanuel Aghado

There comes a day in life, when you have said all that you ever wanted to say to someone. But that someone is still waiting. Waiting for words to come out. And that’s when you know there is nothing much left. It is time to say goodbye.

~ Anushka Bhartiya

People says it gets easier. People are stupid.-Vlad

~ Heather Brewer

And sometimes you realize the value of the rain by knowing how unreliable and vanishing the rainbow is.

~ Nur Bedeir

It's not a crime to feel sad, down or depressed. Moving through difficult feelings is an essential part of living life authentically. Though society would have us believe that when we are sad, we need to smack a silly smile on our face and pretend everything is okay. Problems arise when we repress, deny or bury these feelings. We need to know when it's time to seek help and support, to avoid becoming overwhelmed by these types of emotion. Life is a bittersweet symphony, we need to hear every instrument and listen to every note.

~ Jaeda Dewalt

A breeze stirred Dovewing's pelt, as is someone had walked past. She lifted her head an saw two figures standing just beyond her Clanmates. One was a badger with a narrow, striped face, the other a grotesque, hairless cat who's blind, bulging eyes saw nothing but everything. They met her gaze and nodded, just once. Thank you. Dovewing heard, quieter then a sigh. There will be three, kin of your kin, who will hold the power of the stars in their paws. They will find a fourth, and the battle between light and dark will be won. A new leader will rise fro the shadows. This s how it always has been, and always will be.-Rock and Midnight, The Last Hope

~ Erin Hunter

Women think that they can make sad things go away by knowing the reason that they happened.

~ Johanna Skibsrud

Most days I live awed by the world we have still, rather than mourning the worlds we have lost. The bandit mask of a cedar waxwing on a bare branch a few feet away; the clear bright sun of a frozen winter noon; the rise of Orion in the eastern evening sky-every day, every night, I give thanks for another chance to notice. I see beauty everywhere; so much beauty I often speak it aloud. So much beauty I often laugh, and my day is made.Still if you wanted to, I think, you could feel sadness without end. I’m not even talking about hungry children or domestic violence or endless wars between supposedly grown men…but ‘you mustn’t be frightened if a sadness rises in front of you, larger than any you even seen,' said Rilke, 'you must realize that something is happening to you, that life has not forgotten you, that it holds you in it hand and will not let you fall.

~ Paul Bogard

My ghost is the only soul who ever comes to cry on my grave... Only the skies cried sincerely on my funeral.

~ Simona Panova

The world was alive, the sky descending; our times were lullabies and sad goodbyes.

~ Nicholaus Patnaude

Because I want to know if I'm allowed to kiss your tears away. Because I want to be able to hold your hand. Because I like you.

~ J.b. Mcgee

Is that what makes me sad? The eagerness and belief that filled me then and exacted a pledge from life that life could never fulfill?

~ Bernhard Schlink

Misery is a river of tears that whispers my name in a constant hiss.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

Why are doors more difficult to openas if some sadness were leaning against them?Why do windows darken and trees bendwhen there is no wind? You call that occasionalroar the roar of a plane and I imaginea time when I might have believed that. But now the darkness has been going onfor too long, and I have accustomed myselfto the pleasure of thinking that soonthere will be no reason to hold on in this placewhere rocks are like water and it’s so difficultto find something solid to hold on to.

~ Stephen Dobyns

She got on a plane to see a client in California and somewhere over Colorado, the pilot somehow missed the sky.

~ Jonathan Tropper

(…) everything is finite. Life. Love. All this.' (…) 'Sadness too. Although that's harder to let go of than happiness.

~ Lauren Beukes

reality sucks, that's probably why we dream. Why our bodies need sleep. So we can escape. Escape this earth, at least just for a little while. Everynight, we get to go away. Sleep is the only time I feel safe. The only time I can leave this place. This reality that feels like needles sticking into my flesh. This hell that is so hot it makes my hair sweat. Makes mymind melt. In my sleep I hear music, I see faces, songs and smiles and dad hugging me tight. Never letting me go. Telling me to be strong. Telling me not to give up hope. Sometimes I wake up crying. Sometimes I wish I didn't wake up at all - jamie adoff

~ Jamie Adoff

Birds shouldn't be able to find tearsThey are the definition of freedom

~ Maddy Kobar

Soundless echoes - no voice,Sadness doth keep thee at bay,Stagnation rises as ebb & flow,Nothing alters,Unless you choose to break away.

~ Truth Devour

When blackened night falls, darkness exists if one chooses to rely on sight as thy only guide.

~ Truth Devour

I didn't know someone could cry that much, I thought the tears would run out. They don't.

~ Sara Quin

Longing, whether for a passion or person, is one of the most powerful, yet painful, emotions there is. It can drive you to its source under the most extreme conditions, or it can cripple you from obtaining your dreams. When it comes to the pull you feel, always go after it, if not, it'll eat you alive.

~ Jennifer Salaiz

Sometimes, I miss so much the person that I was before the world tore me up in so many places. If only they could have just let me stay that way.

~ C. Joybell C.

My chest tightens: seeing him so upset breaks my own heart. 'Don't you ever wish you could make that bit go away? I say, feeling angry at the past. 'That you could erase those painful memories, forget they every happened, just remember the happy times you had together?''You must never say that,' he reprimands sternly.'But why not?' I look at him in surprise.'Because it's the bad memories that makes you appreciate the good ones. Don't ever wish them away. it's like your nan always used to say, You need both the sun and the rain to make a rainbow.

~ Alexandra Potter

There was no waking from this nightmare, no comforting whisper in the dark that he was safe really, that it was all in his imagination; the last and greatest of his protectors had died, and he was more alone than he had ever been.

~ J.k. Rowling

He owned a whole world full of memories, of lovely moments relived and happy recollections. I'm not saying he was happy or that he didn't suffer. He suffered very much, but he did not despair; he still drew nourishment from what he had been given. But the sadness never left him. Happiness needs more than memories of the past to feed on; it also needs dreams of the future.

~ Jorge Amado

And maybe I’m a liar and I do need it, because being kissed by Josh Bennett is kind of like being saved. It’s a promise and a memory of the future and a book of better stories.When he stops, I’m still here, and he’s still looking at me like he can’t believe I am, and I want to keep that look forever.“Emilia,” he says, and when he does, it warms me to my soul. “Every day you save me.

~ Katja Millay

He watched the scene and thought of life; and (as always happened when he thought of life) he became sad. A gentle melancholy took possession of him. He felt how useless it was to struggle against fortune, this being the burden of wisdom which the ages had bequeathed him.

~ James Joyce

He used to say that he never felt the hardness of the human struggle or the sadness of history as he felt it among those ruins. He used to say, too, that it made one feel an obligation to do one's best.

~ Willa Cather

The tears coursed down her cheeks- not freely, however, for when they came into contact with her heavily beaded eyelashes they assumed an inky color, and pursued the rest of their way in slow black rivulets.

~ F. Scott Fitzgerald

We laugh, that we may not cry.

~ Roger Ebert

Life is so strangeI don't know whyBut somebody, somebody has to cry.

~ Elvis Costello

Dr. Suess said: 'Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened..' I tell my dates: 'Don't cry because it happened, smile because it's over

~ Josh Stern

I feel half faded away like some figure in the background of an old picture.

~ Iris Murdoch

How starved they seemed for ordinary kindness

~ Rohinton Mistry