Sadness Quotes

She searched her mind for a single day when it had felt good to be alive. There must have been one, surely?

~ Rachel Abbott

He wasn't mad, he was sad.

~ Lionel Shriver

Well here we are, just the four of us that started out together,' said Merry. 'We have left all the rest behind, one after another. It seems almost like a dream that has slowly faded.''Not to me,' said Frodo. 'To me it feels more like falling asleep again.

~ J.r.r. Tolkien

Joe closed his hand over the watch and it was still warm from his father's pocket, ticking against his palm like a heart.

~ Dennis Lehane

And when I looked outside the window, something inside of me churned, swallowing hard I looked up and saw blue. I squeezed my eyes shut, holding back the tears and emotions that were swelling inside of me. And then I realized, the only time that I could feel anything at all, was when I could feel him.

~ Everance Caiser

Tears flood in youyour eyes burningyour heart scars with my name scratched deepMy face is gonemy heart betrayed by your lullabiesI’m a shadow of a girl insideHands are touching younothing takes the place of youHeart wrench, weeps goodbyeLullabies, beautiful and trustingBarely breathing as they break into dustLonely corners meSweeps me off my feetShows me it was better for meFingertips holding closeyour grip not as softFollows me to an empty bedI can’t stop the weakening of my soulmy body is dyingyour tune is holding my mindLet me gosee what I doNo controlNo youYou whisper your sweet goodbyeIf it is small it won’t interrupt my sleepBut my heart you keepYou say it’s for meBut who would be happy?Alone left out in the cold

~ Mercy Cortez

Oh! To live alone, always alone, in the midst of the crowd that surrounds me, without a word of love ever coming to gladden my soul, without a friendly hand reaching out to me!

~ Herculine Barbin

Tragic tales rarely do make sense.

~ Gwenn Wright

Because my life is empty window of nothingness punctuated by meaningless details of totally mundane non-events.

~ M. Beth Bloom

That day we held our hands and each other was indeed a beautiful dream. But, we all wake up in the end.

~ Luke Blaise Pereira

Forgetting who you are is so much more complicated than simply forgetting your name. It's also forgetting your dreams. Your aspirations. What makes you happy. What you pray you'll never have to live without. It's meeting yourself for the first time, and not being sure of your first impression.

~ Jessica Brody

Do you understand the sadness of geography?

~ Michael Ondaatje

I am so sad. I am so sad it makes me heavier than the sum of my parts. I shift, restless, but it doesn’t help. It’s like—time. All this time in here is on me, has its hooks in me. Maybe if I sleep more, I’ll wake up and I’ll feel different, but I can’t. The storm is really happening now and it makes the room feel emptier. Makes me feel emptier.

~ Courtney Summers

I have to go home, Masi.You are my home, bella. I am lost without you. He couldn’t speak. There were no words to recoil the loss consuming him. Massimo brought his hands up to her face. Kissing her one last time. He had to for his sanity. And he did with great passion, knowing he’d hurt her face when she kissed him back. But she did. He heard the cry in her throat as their tongues danced. Warm tears touched his palms as they continued to kiss. His fingertips were wet with sadness. He kept on kissing her. Unable to stop, he needed ten more seconds. Ti amo, I love you. Please don’t leave. I’ve waited my whole life for you. When he pulled his face back, she cried, and he realized he did also.

~ Avery Aster

The weird thing about saying good-bye is that it never gets easier.

~ Alyson Noel

No one was normal, not really.

~ Richelle Mead

Never love that which you cannot keep.

~ Alexandra Adornetto

My heart was in a perpetual state of sadness and the only relief I could find were in those cathartic cries. I lived a fragile existence.

~ Fisher Amelie

I'm pretty lost in becoming all this frost. Bitter, like Winter. Strung-out like a string of pearls.

~ Ashly Lorenzana

A thousand laughing suns are in your eyes. A thousand crying stars in mine.

~ Ahmad Shamlou

Everyone wanted what she couldn't have.

~ Richelle Mead

I made so many promises when I arrived here.Now I'm not so sure. Now I'm worried. Now my mind is a traitor because my thoughts crawl out of bed every morning with darting eyes and sweating palms and nervous giggles that sit in my chest, build in my chest, threaten to burst through my chest, and the pressure is tightening and tightening and tighteningLife around here isn't what I expected it to be.

~ Tahereh Mafi

Through the anger came something I recognized, the sadness that can result from too many years absorbing the poison of others. - Alex Delaware on Dr. Lehmann

~ Jonathan Kellerman

no matter how big his smile or how loud his laugh, you could hear the hurt underneath.

~ Kirby Larson

Dear, sweet, beautiful girl

~ Tahereh Mafi

I realize all the uncountable manifestations the thinking-mind invents to place wall of horror before its pure perfect realization that there is no wall and no horror just Transcendental Empty Kissable Milk Light of Everlasting Eternity's true and perfectly empty nature.

~ Jack Kerouac

Because minds do blow and hearts do break. Those are not just sayings. And wolves and roaches are not the only creatures that chew off their legs to get out of traps—human beings do that, too.

~ Robin Silverman

My dad was a magician too. Got in his car and disappeared.

~ Cath Crowley

I wanted to putt my hand on this hand and hold it still under mine, made still by his made still. Oh he was bright and I was dark and I gave him all my darkness on that ship; but we joined, for all good things in the world, and to find somethin together; and loved, I never knew I could do it and was afraid; and on the bow of the ship that night that he said, What have we done Christy?I said, wonderin too, But somethin good will come of this, I know somethin good will come of this...Only sorrow came.

~ William Goyen

Then I played the song that hides in the center of me. That wordless music that moves through the secret places in my heart. I played it carefully, strumming it slow and low into the dark stillness of the night. I would like to say it is a happy song, that it is sweet and bright, but it is not.

~ Patrick Rothfuss

Hands that never touch. Lips that never meet. The Almost Lovers, never to be.

~ Rae Hachton

Booze makes you stupid and like it. It makes you fall around and not care. And eventually, stupid is the only way you know how to be. Cocaine makes you feel important, that life matters, that you matter. That the music is better than it really is. That every conversation is profound and that all pretenses have been stripped away. Ecstasy makes you dance all night and love your friends so much, in a way that you've never been able to tell them about before. Acid makes you see pretty colours and makes things breathe. But Sadness, there is nothing like Sadness.

~ Pleasefindthis

I walk out the door with a heavy feeling in my heart as another secret falls on top of it.

~ Jessica Sorensen

He looks at me, and I don't know what he sees. I used to think it was Rose. But she's not here with us now, in this room. It's just him and me, and the books. I feel like our lives are in those books. I feel like all the words on the pages are for us.

~ Lauren Destefano

I preferred to look at the sea, which said nothing and never made you feel alone.

~ Paula Mclain

It's quiet for a while, and then Rowan says; We could talk now. We're alone out here. No walls.There are always walls. I say.

~ Lauren Destefano

Madoka: I want to erase the tears of all those who trusted in hope. I want them to be left with a smile on their faces.

~ Magica Quartet

Our sadness won’t be of the searing kind but more like a blend of joy and melancholy: joy at the perfection we see before us, melancholy at an awareness of how seldom we are sufficiently blessed to encounter anything of its kind. The flawless object throws into perspective the mediocrity that surrounds it. We are reminded of the way we would wish things always to be and of how incomplete our lives remain.

~ Alain De Botton

The only thing that will ever be real, is this moment,' I turned to the statue, 'when you made me feel alive, when you made me feel real, when I felt like you really love me. Now? I'm just your monster, Frankie. I will always be a monster.

~ Rae Hachton

Nights without work I spent with whisky and books.

~ Haruki Murakami