These sad quotes will inspire you. Sad, feeling or showing sorrow, unhappy or affected with or expressive of grief or unhappiness.
Below you will find a collection of motivating, knowledgeable, and encouraging sad quotes, sad sayings, and sad proverbs.
Inspirational Sad Quotes
- “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” ~ Boonaa Mohammed
- “People cry, not because they’re weak. It’s because they’ve been strong for too long.” ~ Johnny Depp
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“Behind every beautiful thing, there’s some kind of pain.” ~ Bob Dylan
- “I think the saddest people always try their hardest to make people happy
because they know what it’s like to feel absolutely worthless
and they don’t want anyone else to feel like that.” ~ Robin Williams - “It’s sad when someone you know becomes someone you knew.” ~ Henry Rollins
- “Sometimes you need to run away just to see who will come after you.” ~ Lisa Page Brooks
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“Nobody deserves your tears, but whoever deserves them will not make you cry.” ~ Gabriel Garcia Marquez
- “I know my heart will never be the same But I’m telling myself I’ll be okay” ~ Sara Evans
- “Stab the body and it heals, but injure the heart and the wound lasts a lifetime.” ~ Mineko Iwasaki
- “Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don’t know how to replenish its source.” ~ Anais Nin , Sad quotes about love
- “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.” ~ Carl Jung
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“The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we begin it so late.” ~ William Mather Lewis
- “You don’t know who is important to you until you actually lose them.” ~ Mahatma Gandhi
- “Sometimes you weren’t supposed to share pain. Sometimes it was best just to deal with it alone.” ~ Sarah Addison Allen
- “Those who do not weep, do not see.” ~ Victor Hugo
- “How sad to see a father with money and no joy. The man studied economics, but never studied happiness.” ~ Jim Rohn
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“It is sad not to love, but it is much sadder not to be able to love.” ~ Miguel de Unamuno
- “Tears are words that need to be written.” ~ Paulo Coelho
- “You cannot protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from happiness.” ~ Jonathan Safran Foer
- “I have learned now that while those who speak about one’s miseries usually hurt, those who keep silence hurt more.” ~ C. S. Lewis
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“Because you speak to me in words, and I look at you with feelings.” ~ Anna Karina
- “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.” ~ Will Smith , Sad quotes about life
- “I’m just a little bit tired If you know what I mean Don’t want to be in a crowd When I can be in a dream.” ~ Jim Steinman
- “Aid my disillusionment, my friend!” ~ Herman Melville
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“Truth is everybody is going to hurt you: you just gotta find the ones worth suffering for.” ~ Bob Marley
- “People do not like to think. If one thinks, one must reach conclusions. Conclusions are not always pleasant.” ~ Helen Keller
- “‘Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.” ~ Alfred Lord Tennyson
- “You can do terrible things when you don’t know who you are.” ~ Adam Rex
- “To dare to live alone is the rarest courage; since there are many who had rather meet their bitterest enemy in the field, than their own hearts in their closet.” ~ Charles Caleb Colton
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“Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.” ~ Washington Irving
- “How sad it is that we give up on people who are just like us.” ~ Fred Rogers
- “It isn’t what you have, or who you are, or where you are, or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about.” ~ Dale Carnegie
- “The good times of today, are the sad thoughts of tomorrow.” ~ Bob Marley
- “She dwelt among the untrodden ways Beside the springs of Dove, A maid whom there were none to praise And very few to love.” ~ William Wordsworth
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“The source of all humor is not laughter, but sorrow.” ~ Mark Twain
- “The longer and more carefully we look at a funny story, the sadder it becomes.” ~ Nikolai Gogol
- “Only a man who has felt ultimate despair is capable of feeling ultimate bliss.” ~ Alexandre Dumas
- “When you’ve suffered a great deal in life, each additional pain is both unbearable and trifling.” ~ Yann Martel
- “Behind every trial and sorrow that He makes us shoulder, God has a reason.” ~ Khaled Hosseini
- “What’s the good of dragging up sufferings which are over, of being unhappy now just because you were then.” ~ Seneca the Younger
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“And ever has it been known that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.” ~ Khalil Gibran
- “Let my soul smile through my heart and my heart smile through my eyes, that I may scatter rich smiles in sad hearts.” ~ Paramahansa Yogananda
- “When you’re sad, you’re not sad. You are merely oblivious to the good things in your life. There is always a crack of light in the darkness. Find it.” ~ Dianna Agron
- “Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.” ~ Winston Churchill
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“Anger, tears, and sadness are only for those who have given up.” ~ Katie Gill
- “A wounded heart will heal in time, and when it does, the memory and love of our lost ones is sealed inside to comfort us.” ~ Brian Jacques
- “I expose slavery in this country because to expose it is to kill it. Slavery is one of those monsters of darkness to whom the light of truth is death.” ~ Frederick Douglass
- “It’s easy to cry when you realize that everyone you love will reject you or die.” ~ Chuck Palahniuk
- “Suicide sometimes proceeds from cowardice, but not always; for cowardice sometimes prevents it; since as many live because they are afraid to die, as die because they are afraid to live.” ~ Charles Caleb Colton
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“There is no greater sorrow than to recall happiness in times of misery.” ~ Dante Alighieri
- “Why do people have to be this lonely? What’s the point of it all? Millions of people in this world, all of them yearning, looking to others to satisfy them, yet isolating themselves. Why? Was the earth put here just to nourish human loneliness?” ~ Haruki Murakami
- “We need never be ashamed of our tears.” ~ Charles Dickens
- “Nothing is more sad than the death of an illusion.” ~ Arthur Koestler
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“Imagine smiling after a slap in the face. Then think of doing it twenty-four hours a day.” ~ Markus Zusak
- “All the world is full of suffering. It is also full of overcoming.” ~ Helen Keller
- “The funniest people are the saddest once” ~ Confucius
- “The greater your capacity to love, the greater your capacity to feel the pain.” ~ Jennifer Aniston , Sad quotes about pain
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“You cannot protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from happiness.” ~ Anonymous
- “In the sphere of thought, absurdity and perversity remain the masters of the world, and their dominion is suspended only for brief periods.” ~ Arthur Schopenhauer
- “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.” ~ Paramahansa Yogananda
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“Love is the distance between reality and pain.” ~ Robyn Hitchcock
- “For all sad words of tongue and pen, The saddest are these, ‘It might have been’.” ~ John Greenleaf Whittier
- “I don’t know what they are called, the spaces between seconds– but I think of you always in those intervals.” ~ Salvador Plascencia
- “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.” ~ Ned Vizzini
- “In human intercourse, the tragedy begins, not when there is a misunderstanding about words, but when silence is not understood.” ~ Henry David Thoreau
Summary: Sad, affected by unhappiness or grief; sorrowful or mournful.
