120 Sad Life Quotes, Sayings about Sadness That’ll Make You Cry
Sad Life Quotes and Sayings about Sadness
“Tears are words that need to be written.” —Paulo Coelho
“Sadness is but a wall between two gardens.” —Kahlil Gibran
“Sadness is almost never anything but a form of fatigue.” —Andre Gide
“Dying seems less sad than having lived too little.” —Gloria Steinem
“Anger, tears and sadness are only for those who have given up.” —Katie Gill
“How sad it is that we give up on people who are just like us.” —Fred Rogers
“Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.”
“I always like walking in the rain, so no one can see me crying.” —Charlie Chaplin
“We are all so much together, but we are all dying of loneliness.” —Albert Schweitzer
“Numbing the pain for a while will make it worse when you finally feel it.” —J. K. Rowling
“There is no greater sorrow than to recall in misery the time when we were happy.” —Dante
“Nothing records the effects of a sad life as graphically as the human body.” —Naguib Mahfouz
“Truth is everybody is going to hurt you: you just gotta find the ones worth suffering for.” —Bob Marley
“A man is called selfish, not for pursuing his own good, but for neglecting the neighbor’s.” —Richard Whately
“Nobody deserves your tears, but whoever deserves them will not make you cry.” —Gabriel Garcia Marquez
“You cannot protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from happiness.” —Jonathan Safran Foe
“Everyone in life is gonna hurt you, you just have to figure out which people are worth the pain.” —Erica Baican
“How sad to see a father with money and no joy. The man studied economics, but never studied happiness.” —Jim Rohn
“Sorrow is knowledge, those that know the most must mourn the deepest, the tree of knowledge is not the tree of life.” —Lord Byron
“Sadness is a super important thing not to be ashamed about but to include in our lives. One of the bigger problems with sadness or depression is there’s so much shame around it. If you have it you’re a failure. You are felt as being very unattractive.” —Mike Mills
“Sometimes pain is so unmanageable that the idea of spending another day with it seems impossible. Other times pain acts as a compass to help you through the messier tunnels of growing up. But pain can only help you find happiness if you remember it.” —Adam Silvera
“This is what it felt like to have a broken heart. It felt less like a cracking down the middle and more like she had swallowed it whole and it sat bruised and bleeding in the pit of her stomach.” —Wendy Wunder
“A sad thing in life is that sometimes you meet someone who means a lot to you, only to find out in the end it was never bound to be, and you just have to let go.”
“Man could not live if he were entirely impervious to sadness. Many sorrows can be endured only by being embraced, and the pleasure taken in them naturally has a somewhat melancholy character.” —Emile Durkheim
“Half of the secular unrest and dismal, profane sadness of modern society comes from the vain ideas that every man is bound to be a critic for life.” —Henry Van Dyke
“Don’t fear failure so much that you refuse to try new things. The saddest summary of a life contains three descriptions: could have, might have, and should have.”
“Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad.” —Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Sad Quotes about Life
“Tears are words the heart can’t express.” —Gerard Way
“Fight for what’s worth fighting for.” —Anonymous
“You say you care but you leave me alone to cry.” —Anonymous
“It sucks, doesn’t it? Feeling like you’re not good enough.” —Anonymous
“The sad truth is that opportunity doesn’t knock twice.” —Gloria Estefan
“Memories have to be our most painful blessing.” —Kanye West
“This moment will just be another story someday.” —Stephen Chbosky
“Life is sad, life is a bust, all you can do is do what you must.” —Bob Dylan
“To have felt too much is to end in feeling nothing.” —Dorothy Thompson
“One thing you can’t hide — is when you’re crippled inside.” —John Lennon
“You don’t need water to feel like you’re drowning, do you?” —Jodi Picoult
“So sick of pretending that everything is alright because it’s not.” —Anonymous
“It’s sad when someone you know becomes someone you knew.” —Henry Rollins
“What brings us to tears, will lead us to grace. Our pain is never wasted.” —Bob Goff
“The walls we build around us to keep sadness out also keeps out the joy.” —Jim Rohn
“Don’t get lost in your pain, know that one day your pain will become your cure.” —Rumi
“Don’t tell me I’ve changed, when in reality, I just stopped dealing with you.” —Carson Kolhoff
“You still make me smile, even if you’re the reason why I’m sad.” —Zakiya And Majid
“There is no worse sorrow than remembering happiness in the day of sorrow.” —Alfred De Musset
“People keep telling me that life goes on, but to me that’s the saddest part.” —Anonymous
“People cry, not because they’re weak. It’s because they’ve been strong for too long.” —Johnny Depp
“You’re going to make it. It’ll be hard but you’re going to make it.” —Anonymous
“You will never find the right person if you never let go of the wrong one.” —Elizabeth Hollomon
“It hurts when you have someone in your heart but you can’t have them in your arms.” —Anonymous
“You’ll never know how strong you are, until being strong is the only choice you have.” —Bob Marley
“The worst feeling is when you feel like you’re annoying the only person you wanna talk to.” —Anonymous
“You fall in love with the most unexpected person at the most unexpected time.” —Anonymous
“I have a thousand reasons to die and many millions of tears to cry.” —Draconian
“Nobody really cares if you’re miserable, so you might as well be happy.” —Cynthia Nelms
“Sorrow is one of the vibrations that prove the fact of living.” —Antoine de Saint-Exupery
“I learned how to be happy because I know what unhappiness felt like.” —Lilly Singh
“Blaming other people for things that are going wrong guarantees your continued misery.” —Justin Kan
“Trust is like an eraser, it gets smaller and smaller after every mistake.” —Anonymous
“Keep smiling… and one day life will get tired of upsetting you.” —Nitya Prakash
“Tears are words the mouth can’t say nor can the heart bear.” —Joshua Wisenbaker
“Sometimes you laugh because you’ve got no more room for crying.” —Terry Pratchett
“It’s sad to know I’m done. But looking back, I’ve got a lot of great memories.” —Bonnie Blair
“To fall in love is awfully simple, but to fall out of love is simply awful.” —Bess Myerson
“It’s easy to cry when you realize that everyone you love will reject you or die.” —Chuck Palahniuk
“All man’s miseries stem from his inability to sit quietly in a room and do nothing.” —Blaise Pascal
“Breathing is hard. When you cry so much, it makes you realize that breathing is hard.” —David Levithan
“Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair.” —William Cowper
“When you’re happy you enjoy the music, but when you’re sad you understand the lyrics.” —Frank Ocean
“Sometimes it takes sadness to know happiness, noise to appreciate silence and absence to value presence.” —Anonymous
“Perhaps, somewhere, some day, at a less miserable time, we may see each other again.” —Vladimir Nabokov
“The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.” —William Mather Lewis
“I try not to miss you, I try to let you go, but in the end, you’re always on my mind.” —Anonymous
“You can’t go back and change the beginning but you can start where you are and change the ending.” —C.S. Lewis
“Be strong now because things will get better. It might be stormy now, but it can’t rain forever. – Anonymous
“Heavy hearts, like heavy clouds in the sky, are best relieved by the letting of a little water.” —Christopher Morley
“Forget all the reasons why it won’t work, and believe the one reason why it will.” —Ziad K. Abdelnour
“Sorrows cannot all be explained away in a life truly lived, grief and loss accumulate like possessions.” —Stefan Kanfer
“Behind every sweet smile, there is a bitter sadness that no one can ever see and feel.” —Tupac Shakur
“Sometimes you’ve got to be able to listen to yourself and be okay with no one else understanding.” —Anonymous
“A million words would not bring you back, I know because I tried, neither would a million tears, I know because I cried.” —Anonymous
“If two people are meant to be together, they will eventually find their way back into each other’s arms… no matter what.” —Anonymous
“Nobody knows about the little meltdowns I have when I’m alone. They only know about the smiles and laughs I show them.” —Anonymous
“Sadness usually results from one of the following causes either when a man does not succeed, or is ashamed of his success.” —Seneca
“My feeling is that there is nothing in life but refraining from hurting others, and comforting those who are sad.” —Olive Schreiner
“We must understand that sadness is an ocean, and sometimes we drown, while other days we are forced to swim.” —R.M. Drake
“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
“As the light begins to intensify, so does my misery, and I wonder how it is possible to hurt so much when nothing is wrong.” —Tabitha Suzuma
“So much sadness exists in the world that we are all under obligation to contribute as much joy as lies within our powers.” —John Sutherland Bonnell
“When you feel like you’ve had it up to here, and you’re mad enough to scream, but you’re sad enough to tear, that’s rock bottom.” —Eminem
“Sweet is the memory of distant friends! Like the mellow rays of the departing sun, it falls tenderly, yet sadly, on the heart.” —Washington Irving
“A feeling of sadness and longing, That is not akin to pain, and resembles sorrow only as the mist resembles the rain.” —Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
“Stop trying to change someone who doesn’t want to change. Stop giving chances to someone who abuses your forgiveness. Stop walking back to the place where your heart ran from. Stop trusting their words and ignoring their actions. Stop breaking your own heart.” —Trent Shelton
“I guess that’s what saying good-bye is always like–like jumping off an edge. The worst part is making the choice to do it. Once you’re in the air, there’s nothing you can do but let go.” —Lauren Oliver
“I used to think the worst thing in life was to end up all alone, it’s not. The worst thing in life is to end up with people who make you feel alone.” —Robin Williams
“I don’t like depending on people because people leave all the time. Because at the end of the day all you have is yourself and that has to be enough.” —Anonymous
“When someone lies to you, it’s because they don’t respect you enough, to be honest, and they think you are too stupid to know the difference.” —Anonymous
Inspirational Quotes about Life and Sadness
“Broken crayons still colors.”
“I was not myself but yet nobody ever noticed.”
“If you are sad, think about the poorest person.”
“Tears are words that can’t be explained.”
“If you are not getting what you want, change the path.”
“Life is hard, you need to be strong from inside.”
“You can wipe out someone’s tear but not their memory.”
“It seems to me that when I will not be there people will miss me.”
“People with golden hearts are not easy to get, they are real gems of life.”
“When you don’t need it, everyone will come but when you need no one comes.”
“It’s better to leave early rather than to feel the pain all the time.”
“Never make your mother cry, she did everything for you before your birth.”
“After every dark night, there is a brighter day waiting for you.”
“Finishing everything is not the solution, your life is not just yours.”
“People will see your success but they won’t see your struggle.”
Quotes About Life And Sadness In Love
“Don’t say no directly to anyone, All are not the same.”
“Love to your loved ones as you did never before.”
“I did love you even when you left me alone.”
“Friendship leads to love, Love leads to new life.”
“Don’t test your love, you just need to experience.”
“Don’t be in confusion, this may lead to separation.”
“If a girl talks to you cares for you that means she needs you all the time.”
“Finding true love is not difficult but to maintain it is very difficult.”
“You treated me like a Chapter but for me, you were my Book.”
“Love is not just physical, but it is about emotional, mental, feeling, caring.”
“Make her smile even if you are the reason for her sadness.”
“One-sided love is purely yours, no other person has right on that.”
“In love, you will have fights but the fight should not go long but the love should go long forever.”
“If you ever get rejected by anyone, don’t worry the problem is not in you but in that person.”
Quotes And Sayings About Sadness Life
“Moving on is not easy.”
“Be alone or be a wise choice is yours.”
“One lie can ruin someone’s life.”
“Nothing can come in between You and me.”
“One better relation creates many relationships.”
“I wish I could lose this memory as fast as I lost you.”
“I don’t cry when you leave me, I cry when you don’t come.”
“The feeling of separation is the worst pain I can feel it.”
“I always waited for your text but you never text me.”
“Just do it everything for him, don’t expect anything in return.”
“She called you just for your voice, but you remain rude.”
“Don’t end up things easily, you know how you got that.”
“The relationship is about feelings, it should not be materialistic.”
“People will come and go, true ones will remain forever.”
“In love, there should be no expectations and limitations.”
“In the beginning, you might not love him, but if you can his love probably then you might fall in love.”
“It’s very difficult to forget someone who had given you so many memories.”
“I smiled U smiled, I cried U cried, I loved U loved and all those never happened again.”
“The relationship is not just meant for making love but to be with each other for lifelong.”
“You can’t clap with one hand, for a good relationship one hand should be of him and another hand should be of her.”