Being Sad Quotes

Face the facts of being what you are, for that is what changes what you are.

That is all I want in life: for this pain to seem purposeful.

Being part of the natural world reminds me that innocence isn't ever lost completely; we just need to maintain our goodness to regain it.

Someone once accused me of being like Eliot Ness. I sad no sir, I'm not E.N., but I can promise you that I'm not Al Capone!

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

Wholeness is not achieved by cutting off a portion of one’s being, but by integration of the contraries.

I never understood the point of being sad when I could choose to be happy

The world isn't perfect, and some days it wears you down. You can either accept that, and face it, and be a help to others instead of a hindrance. Or you can decide the rules are too tough and they shouldn't apply to you, and you can ignore them and make things harder for everybody else. Sometimes life is about being sad and doing things anyway. Sometimes it's about being hurt and doing things anyway. The point isn't perfection. The point is doing it anyway.

Each contact with a human being is so rare, so precious, one should preserve it.

All of our unhappiness comes from our inability to be alone.

The best thing for being sad ... is to learn something.

I love playing football, being out on the pitch with a ball, and I will be a little sad when that ends.

Be - don't try to become. Being is enlightenment, becoming is ignorance.

Non-violence is not a garment to be put on and off at will. Its seat is in the heart, and it must be an inseparable part of our being.

I miss the comfort in being sad.

The sad events that occur in my life are the sad events that happen to everybody, with losing friends and family, but that is a natural occurrence, as natural as being born.

Melancholy is the pleasure of being sad.

I cried at first, and then, it was such a beautiful day, that I forgot to be unhappy.

But listen to me. For one moment quit being sad. Hear blessings dropping their blossoms around you.

When friends stop being frank and useful to each other, the whole world loses some of its radiance.

Humanitarianism consists in never sacrificing a human being to a purpose.

There's a word in Japanese for being sad in the springtime - a whole word for just being sad - about how pretty the flowers are and how soon they're going to die.

For a moment, I thought of the word happy and it was a word that just, well, it felt like it was visiting me. I knew it wouldn’t last for very long and I’d be sad again and then it would be worse because it’s one thing to be sad and it’s another thing to be sad once you’ve been happy. Being sad after you’ve been happy is the worst thing in the world.

Being is the great explainer.

What may seem depressing or even tragic to one person may seem like an absolute scream to another person, especially if he has had between four and seven beers.

It's sad when girls think they don't have anything going on except being pretty.

Nostalgia is a way of remembering people and places and things, and wishing things hadn't changed. It has a sweetness to it. Sadness is just--well--being sad.

I've had a lot of people online say they're going to kill me at my shows. A lot of people say they're going to punch me in the face - never happened. It's just people being sad because their life sucks.

It is quite gratifying to feel guilty if you haven't done anything wrong: how noble! Whereas it is rather hard and certainly depressing to admit guilt and to repent.

It's, like, you know, if you're sad, it's a way of connecting with other people. And we - a lot of times we sort of feel embarrassed by being sad, and we go off by ourselves to hide and cry by ourselves. But, really, it's a way of re-establishing relationship.

Impart as much as you can of your spiritual being to those who are on the road with you, and accept as something precious what comes back to you from them.

The length of this document defends it well against the risk of its being read.

Having emotional connections to things that don't really exist, like looking at a green ball and really loving that green ball, and being sad whether it's around or not. Stuff like that. I've never done acting at this level before so it was a huge challenge for me. It was a hurdle to overcome just to survive.

I could see no reason for being sad. It´s just that it makes me unhappy not to feel happy.

Melancholy is the happiness of being sad.

Fashion is that thing that saved me from being sad.

Ive never thought of my characters as being sad. On the contrary, they are full of life. They didnt choose tragedy. Tragedy chose them.

What's really sad is that a lot of very talented people are being forced to do things that are very embarrassing and I don't intend to be one of them.

For the very first time the young are seeing history being made before it is censored by their elders.

Why do people spend their time being sad when they could be happy?

One defeats a fanatic precisely by not being a fanatic oneself, but on the contrary by using one's intelligence.

Singing about your sadness unburdens your soul. But the blues hollers shouted about more than being sad. They were also delivering messages in musical code. If the master was coming, you might sing a hidden warning to the other field hands . . . The blues could warn you what was coming. I could see the blues was about survival.

Nothing big ever came from being small.

As we have said, robust souls are sometimes almost, but not entirely, overthrown by strokes of misfortune....Despair has steps leading upward. From total depression we rise to despondency, from despondency to affliction, from affliction to melancholy. Melancholy is a twilight state in which suffering transmutes into a somber joy....Melancholy is the enjoyment of being sad.

It is ridiculous that I have so many shoes I don't wear. I worry that they're sitting there, being sad.

The only thing worse than being sad is for others to know you are sad.

As one gets older being sad and miserable can become a bit of a habit. To counteract this, she suggests making a point of savoring such things as the tastiness of a piece of fruit, or other small things we might have been prone to overlook during our younger, busier days.

Americans should know that Iranians are just as decent, human and rational as other human beings. Sadly, the mainstream media in the U.S. regularly fails to recognize and reflect this.

A photograph doesn't gain weight or lose weight, or change from being happy to being sad. It's frozen. You can use it, then recycle it.

What's the point of being sad?" he says. "We're here now.