Sad Quotes
Life isn’t always blue skies and sunshine. And when a black cloud ruins our day, these sad quotes may ease our burden somewhat by assuring us that we are not alone in our despair.
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.
-Louis E. Boone
The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being.
His heart withers if it does not answer another heart.
His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration.
- Pearl S. Buck
When I look back on all these worries, I remember the story of the old man who said on his deathbed that he had had a lot of trouble in his life, most of which had never happened.
-Winston Churchill
We ask God to forgive us for our evil thoughts and evil temper, but rarely, if ever ask Him to forgive us for our sadness.
-R.W. Dale
There is no greater sorrow than to recall in misery the time when we were happy.
-Dante
It’s such a straightforward sort of colour.
I never squint at a black tee shirt, wondering if it goes with my black jeans.
I never have to get up in the morning, thinking “I wonder what colour I’ll wear today.”
And black goes with anything.
As long as the anything is black.
- Neil Gaiman
Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.
-Kahlil Gibran
Life is pleasant.
Death is peaceful.
It’s the transition that’s troublesome
-Jimi Hendrix
Love can sometimes be magic.
But magic can sometimes… just be an illusion.
-Javan
There are as many nights as days, and the one is just as long as the other in the year’s course.
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.
-Carl Jung
I seldom think about my limitations, and they never make me sad.
Perhaps there is just a touch of yearning at times; but it is vague, like a breeze among flowers.
-Helen Keller
Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don’t know how to replenish its source.
It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of withering, of tarnishing.
-Anais Nin
They that sow in tears shall reap in joy.
-Psalm 126:5
How sad to see a father with money and no joy.
The man studied economics, but never studied happiness.
-Jim Rohn
Dying seems less sad than having lived too little.
-Gloria Steinem
For all sad words of tongue and pen, the saddest are these, ‘It might have been.’
-John Greenleaf Whittier
It is a very sad thing that nowadays there is so little useless information.
-Oscar Wilde
As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death.
-Leonardo da Vinci
Sometimes we just can’t help but wallow in our sadness. Perhaps it may even be necessary, all the better to appreciate the little blessings we receive in life. But if we choose to walk in the rain, we need not get drenched. And there’s always that rainbow to look forward to afterwards.
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