Sad Quotes

When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love has always won. There have been tyrants and murderers and for a time they seem invincible, but in the end, they always fall... think of it, always.

If you know someone who has lost a child, and you're afraid to mention them because you think you might make them sad by reminding them that they died-you're not reminding them. They didn't forget they died. What you're reminding them of is that you remembered that they lived, and that is a great gift.

Hating people is like burning down your own house to get rid of a rat.

Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart. The really great men must, I think, have great sadness on earth.

If you want to be sad, no one in the world can make you happy. But if you make up your mind to be happy, no one and nothing on earth can take that happiness from you.

beginnings are usually scary, and endings are usually sad, but its everything in between that makes it all worth living.

Write your Sad times in Sand, Write your Good times in Stone.

I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend.

Today I begin to understand what love must be, if it exists... When we are parted, we each feel the lack of the other half of ourselves. We are incomplete like a book in two volumes of which the first has been lost. That is what I imagine love to be: incompleteness in absence.

Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.

Tears are words the heart can't express

When you do something noble and beautiful and nobody noticed, do not be sad. For the sun every morning is a beautiful spectacle and yet most of the audience still sleeps.

Nobody deserves your tears, but whoever deserves them will not make you cry.

Whatever you resist you become. If you resist anger, you are always angry. If you resist sadness, you are always sad. If you resist suffering, you are always suffering. If you resist confusion,you are always confused. We think that we resist certain states because they are there, but actually they are there because we resist them.

To love. To be loved. To never forget your own insignificance. To never get used to the unspeakable violence and the vulgar disparity of life around you. To seek joy in the saddest places. To pursue beauty to its lair. To never simplify what is complicated or complicate what is simple. To respect strength, never power. Above all, to watch. To try and understand. To never look away. And never, never to forget.

Usually when people are sad, they don't do anything. They just cry over their condition. But when they get angry, they bring about a change.

Sad will be the day when the American people forget their traditions and their history, and so longer remember that the country they love, the institutions they cherish, and the freedom they hope to preserve, were born from the throes of armed resistance to tyranny, and nursed in the rugged arms of fearless men.

The good times of today, are the sad thoughts of tomorrow.

There are wounds that never show on the body that are deeper and more hurtful than anything that bleeds.

When you're happy you enjoy the music, but when you're sad you understand the lyrics.

I hate myself, and I want to die

Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.

A dog reflects the family life. Whoever saw a frisky dog in a gloomy family, or a sad dog in a happy one? Snarling people have snarling dogs, dangerous people have dangerous ones.

Never underestimate the power of human stupidity.

Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom.

Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better take things as they come along with patience and equanimity.

Nobody's going to do your life for you. You have to do it yourself, whether you're rich or poor, out of money or raking it in, the beneficiary of ridiculous fortune or terrible injustice. And you have to do it no matter what is true. No matter what is hard. No matter what unjust, sad, sucky things befall you. Self-pity is a dead-end road. You make the choice to drive down it. It's up to you to decide to stay parked there or to turn around and drive out.

The best protection any woman can have... is courage.

Love is also like a coconut which is good while it is fresh, but you have to spit it out when the juice is gone, what's left tastes bitter.

Birds... scream at the top of their lungs in horrified hellish rage every morning at daybreak to warn us all of the truth. They know the truth. Screaming bloody murder all over the world in our ears, but sadly we don't speak bird.

I declare to you that woman must not depend upon the protection of man, but must be taught to protect herself, and there I take my stand.

You have to hurt in order to know. Fall in order to grow. Lose in order to gain. Because most of life's lessons are learned through pain

Those who are heartless, once cared too much.

All good things must come to an end.

The greatest and noblest pleasure which we have in this world is to discover new truths, and the next is to shake off old prejudices.

When we are upset, it’s easy to blame others. However, the true cause of our feelings is within us. For example, imagine yourself as a glass of water. Now, imagine past negative experiences as sediment at the bottom of your glass. Next, think of others as spoons. When one stirs, the sediment clouds your water. It may appear that the spoon caused the water to cloud – but if there were no sediment, the water would remain clear no matter what. The key, then, is to identify our sediment and actively work to remove it.

Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source.

A wise girl kisses but doesn't love, listens but doesn't believe, and leaves before she is left.

Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad.

Never make someone a priority when all you are to them is an option.

How do I change? If I feel depressed I will sing. If I feel sad I will laugh. If I feel ill I will double my labor. If I feel fear I will plunge ahead. If I feel inferior I will wear new garments. If I feel uncertain I will raise my voice. If I feel poverty I will think of wealth to come. If I feel incompetent I will think of past success. If I feel insignificant I will remember my goals. Today I will be the master of my emotions.

Stab the body and it heals, but injure the heart and the wound lasts a lifetime.

I don’t know what they are called, the spaces between seconds– but I think of you always in those intervals.

Because you speak to me in words, and I look at you with feelings.

I believe that the horrifying deterioration in the ethical conduct of people today stems from the mechanization and dehumanization of our lives. A disastrous by-product of the development of the scientific and technical mentality. We are guilty. Man grows cold faster than the planet he inhabits.

Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.

People cry, not because they're weak. It's because they've been strong for too long.

In a real dark night of the soul, it is always three o'clock in the morning, day after day.

Red is the ultimate cure for sadness.

I didn't want to wake up. I was having a much better time asleep. And that's really sad. It was almost like a reverse nightmare, like when you wake up from a nightmare you're so relieved. I woke up into a nightmare.