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Navigating Darkness: 200 Sad Quotes to Illuminate Your Darkest Days

Discover the profound emotions encapsulated in our carefully curated collection of sad quotes.Delve into the intricate tapestry of human feelings as we explore the depths of sorrow and resilience through poignant words.Our compilation transcends the ordinary,offering solace and understanding to those navigating difficult times.From renowned thinkers to anonymous voices,each quote resonates with universal truths.Join us on a journey through the bittersweet landscape of human experience,where every carefully chosen phrase reflects the spectrum of sadness.Embrace the power of words to heal and connect in our exploration of meaningful sad quotes.

Sad quotes: 

1. “Sadness flies away on the wings of time.”―Jean de La Fontaine

2. “You cannot protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from happiness.”―Jonathan Safran Foer 

3. “Don't cry over someone who wouldn't cry over you.”―Lauren Conrad 

4. “Any fool can be happy.It takes a man with real heart to make beauty out of the stuff that makes us weep.”―Clive Barker,Abarat: Days of Magic,Nights of War 

5. “We must understand that sadness is an ocean,and sometimes we drown,while other days we are forced to swim.”―R.M. Drake 

6. “The word ‘happy’ would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.”—Carl Jung 

7. “Tears are words that need to be written.”―Paulo Coelho 

8. “Sadness is but a wall between two gardens.”―Kahlil Gibran, Sand and Foam 

9. “One must not let oneself be overwhelmed by sadness.”―Jacqueline Kennedy-Onassis 

10. “Sadness is also a kind of defense.”—Ivo Andrich
Sad quotes for life perspective: 

11. "There are moments when I wish I could roll back the clock and take all the sadness away,but I have the feeling that if I did,the joy would be gone as well."–Nicholas Sparks 

12. "Life's under no obligation to give us what we expect."–Margaret Mitchell 

13. "You see,I usually find myself among strangers because I drift here and there trying to forget the sad things that happened to me."–F.Scott Fitzgerald 

14. "Don't go around saying the world owes you a living.The world owes you nothing.It was here first."–Mark Twain 

15. "Things change.And friends leave.And life doesn't stop for anybody."–Stephen Chbosky 

16. "Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act."–Truman Capote 

17. "I have learned now that while those who speak about one's miseries usually hurt,those who keep silence hurt more."–C.S.Lewis 

18. "The excursion is the same when you go looking for your sorrow as when you go looking for your joy."–Eudora Welty 

19. "Don't ever tell anybody anything.If you do,you start missing everybody."–J.D.Salinger 

20. “I wish I could go back to the day I met you and just walk away.”-Unknown
Sad quotes about death and grief: 

21. "So it's true,when all is said and done,grief is the price we pay for love."–E.A.Bucchianeri 

22. "What is hardest to accept about the passage of time is that the people who once mattered the most to us wind up in parentheses."–John Irving 

23. "The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone."–Harriet Beecher Stowe 

24. "It is the unknown we fear when we look upon death and darkness, nothing more."–J.K.Rowling 

25. "It's sad when someone you know becomes someone you knew."–Henry Rollins 

26. "There is a time for departure,even when there's no certain place to go."–Tennessee Williams 

27. "You meet everyone twice in this life,when they come and when they go."–C.CAurel 

28. "Grief is not as heavy as guilt,but it takes more away from you."–Veronica Roth 

29. "Death is a great revealer of what is in a man,and in its solemn shadow appear the naked lineaments of the soul."–E.H.Chapin 

30. "Our dead are never dead to us until we have forgotten them."–George Eliot
Sad love quotes that make sense: 

31. "You know,a heart can be broken,but it keeps on beating,just the same."–Fannie Flagg 

32. "It's amazing how someone can break your heart,and you can still love them with all the little pieces."–Ella Harper 

33. "I keep thinking about this river somewhere,with the water moving really fast.And these two people in the water,trying to hold onto each other,holding on as hard as they can,but in the end it’s just too much.The current’s too strong.They’ve got to let go,drift apart.That’s how it is with us."-Kazuo Ishiguro,Never Let Me Go 

34. "There is a distinct,awful pain that comes with loving someone more than they love you."–Steve Maraboli 

35. "To have been loved so deeply,even though the person who loved us is gone,will give us some protection forever."–J.K.Rowling 

36. "To have felt too much is to end in feeling nothing."–Dorothy Thompson 

37. "I never got to fall out of love.I just had to move on."-"Christina Lauren,Love and Other Words 

38. "Some stories don’t have happy endings.Even love stories.Maybe especially love stories."-Kristin Hannah,The Nightingale 

39. "Now, you are just a stranger with all my secrets."-Unknown 

40. “Love is so short,forgetting is so long."-Pablo Neruda,Love
Sad quotes for the low points: 

41. "Tears are words the mouth can't say nor can the heart bear."–Joshua Wisenbaker 

42. "Of all the words of mice and men,the saddest are,'It might have been.'"–Kurt Vonnegut 

43. "Being a successful person is not necessarily defined by what you have achieved,but by what you have overcome."–Fannie Flagg 

44. "One thing you can't hide is when you're crippled inside."–John Lennon 

45. "There are years that ask questions and years that answer."–Zora Neale Hurston

46. "Heavy hearts,like heavy clouds in the sky, are best relieved by the letting of a little water."–Christopher Morley 

47. “Long after I have give up,my heart still searches for you without my permission.”-Rudy Francisco 

48. “Some people feel like they don’t deserve love.They walk away quietly into empty spaces,trying to close the gaps of the past.”-Jon Krakauer,Into the Wild 

49. “Who has not sat before his own heart’s curtain? It lifts: and the scenery is falling apart.”-Rainer Maria Rilke 

50. "Tears come from the heart and not from the brain."–Leonardo da Vinci
Heartfelt sad quotes on life: 

51. “Don’t cry because it’s over, smile because it happened.” 

52. “Life is like a piano.White keys represent happiness,black shows sadness.But as you go through life’s journey,remember that the black keys also create music.” 

53. “Heavy hearts, like heavy clouds in the sky,are best relieved by the letting of a little water.” 

54. “Tears are words that need to be written.” 

55. “It’s sad when someone you know becomes someone you knew.” 

56. “You cannot protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from happiness.” 

57. “In the depths of winter,I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer.” 

58. “The word ‘happy’ would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.” 

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

60. “One thing you can’t hide is when you’re crippled inside.”
Meaningful sad quotes on love: 

61. “A broken heart is the worst.It’s like having broken ribs.Nobody can see it,but it hurts every time you breathe.” 

62. “Just because a relationship ends,it doesn’t mean it’s not worth having.” 

63. “The hardest thing to do is watch the one you love,love someone else.” 

64. “Sometimes,your heart needs more time to accept what your mind already knows.” 

65. “It is better to have loved and lost,than never to have loved at all.” 

66. “Sometimes the person you want most is the person you’re best without.” 

67. “One day they’ll realize they lost a diamond while playing with worthless stones.” 

68. “I cannot compromise my respect for your love.You can keep your love,I will keep my respect.” 

69. “Never allow someone to be your priority while allowing yourself to be their option.” 

70. “Love is unconditional.Relationships are not.”
Short sad quotes: 

71. “The good times of today,are the sad thoughts of tomorrow.”~Bob Marley 

72. “It’s sad when someone you know becomes someone you knew.”~Henry Rollins 

73. “Tears come from the heart and not from the brain.”~Leonardo da Vinci 

74. “Grief is not as heavy as guilt,but it takes more away from you.”~Veronica Roth 

75. “When you feel sad,it’s okay. It’s not the end of the world.”~Mac Miller 

76. “It doesn’t hurt to feel sad from time to time.”~Willie Nelson 

77. “Sad things happen.They do.But we don’t need to live sad forever.”~Mattie Stepanek 

78. “You know,a heart can be broken,but it keeps on beating,just the same.”~Fannie Flagg 

79. “Don’t ever tell anybody anything.If you do,you start missing everybody.”~J.D.Salinger 

80. “Melancholy is the happiness of being sad.”~Victor Hugo
Feeling sad quotes: 

81. “Boredom,anger,sadness,or fear are not ‘yours,’not personal.They are conditions of the human mind.They come and go.Nothing that comes and goes is you.”~Eckhart Tolle 

82. “He who has felt the deepest grief is best able to experience supreme happiness.”~Alexandre Dumas 

83. “What is hardest to accept about the passage of time is that the people who once mattered the most to us wind up in parentheses.”~John Irving 

84. “The sky cries for those filled with sadness.”~Sonya Watson 

85. “We must understand that sadness is an ocean,and sometimes we drown,while other days we are forced to swim.”~R.M.Drake 

86. “Your greatest highs come from overcoming your greatest lows.”~Matshona Dhliwayo 

87. “When I despair,I remember that all through history the way of truth and love have always won.”~Mahatma Gandhi 

88. “You cannot protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from happiness.”~Jonathan Safran Foer 

89. “Any fool can be happy.It takes a man with real heart to make beauty out of the stuff that makes us weep.”~Clive Barker 

90. “Sadness is the ambrosia of all art.”~Frances Fong
Sad quotes about death:

91. To live in hearts we leave behind is not to die. 

92. Those who pass by us,do not go alone,and do not leave us alone; they leave a bit of themselves,and take a little of us. 

93. Death leaves a heartache no one can heal,love leaves a memory no one can steal. 

94. I believe that when death closes our eyes we shall awaken to a light,of which our sunlight is but the shadow. 

95. Love,I thought,is stronger than death or the fear of death.Only by it,by love,life holds together and advances. 

96. Our dead are never dead to us,until we have forgotten them. 

97. It matters not how a man dies,but how he lives.The act of dying is not of importance,it lasts so short a time. 

98. Death must be so beautiful.To lie in the soft brown earth,with the grasses waving above one’s head, and listen to silence.To have no yesterday,and no to-morrow.To forget time,to forget life,to be at peace. 

99. Death is not extinguishing the light; it is only putting out the lamp because the dawn has come. 

100. Unable are the loved to die.For love is immortality.
Sad quotes that make you cry: 

101. When sorrows come,they come not single spies,But in battalions. 

102. There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow,when we have not yet known what it is to have suffered and be healed,to have despaired and have recovered hope. 

103. Tears come from the heart and not from the brain. 

104. Hope is the rainbow over the cascading creek of life. 

105. Better by far you should forget and smile.Than that you should remember and be sad. 

106. The deeper that sorrow carves into your being,the more joy you can contain. 

107. There is a sacredness in tears.They are not the mark of weakness,but of power.They speak more eloquently than ten thousand tongues.They are the messengers of overwhelming grief,of deep contrition,and of unspeakable love. 

108. A million words would not bring you back,I know because I tried,neither would a million tears,I know because I cried. 

109. It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses,we must plant more roses. 

110. Memories that touch our hearts are never lost.
Sad breakup quotes about a broken heart: 

111. Relationships are like glass.Sometimes it’s better to leave them broken than to hurt yourself putting it back together. 

112. For all sad words of tongue and pen,the saddest are these,'It might have been.’ 

113. Hearts are made to be broken. 

114. The broken heart.You think you will die,but you keep living,day after day after terrible day.

115. I gave you my heart,I just didn’t expect to get it back in pieces. 

116. I am two fools,I know,For loving,and for saying so.

117. It takes one word to make a person cry,but 1000 words to dry their tears again. 

118. We walked to meet each other up at the time of our love and then we have been irresistibly drifting in different directions,and there’s no altering that.

 119. I have not broken your heart – you have broken it; and in breaking it,you have broken mine. 

120. You don’t die from a broken heart.You only wish you did.
Sad quotes on hurt and healing: 

121. Accept suffering and achieve atonement through it — that is what you must do. 

122. Make the most of your regrets; never smother your sorrow,but tend and cherish it till it comes to have a separate and integral interest.To regret deeply is to live afresh. 

123. What do you do when the only one who can make you stop crying is the one who made you cry? 

124. Just because you are sad,it doesn’t mean that you are not strong or loved.Know that you are. 

125. The wound is the place where the light enters you 

126. We are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it to the full. 

127. No one heals himself by wounding another. 

128. It’s when we start working together that the real healing takes place. 

129. When I stand before thee at the day’s end,thou shalt see my scars and know that I had my wounds and also my healing. 

130. Some people cannot be cured,but everyone can heal.
Deep sad quotes: 

131. Give sorrow words: the grief that does not speak whispers the o’er-fraught heart,and bids it break. 

132. You don’t need someone to complete you.You only need someone who accepts you completely. 

133. Nothing can cure the soul but the senses,just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul. 

134. Before Alice got to Wonderland, she had to fall. 

135. Let us remember that sorrow alone is the creator of great things. 

136. It is sadder to find the past again and find it inadequate to the present than it is to have it elude you and remain forever a harmonious conception of memory. 

137. Sometimes you’ve got to be able to listen to yourself and be okay with no one else understanding. 

138. If we could read the secret history of our enemies,we should find in each one’s life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all our hostility. 

139. Joy’s recollection is no longer joy,while Sorrow’s memory is a sorrow still. 

140. The rose and the thorn,and sorrow and gladness are linked together.
Short sad quotes about life: 

141. “Trying to avoid sadness is trying to avoid life.”—Maxime Lagacé 

142. “You are not alone.Everyone is fighting a battle you know nothing about.”—Priyanshu Singh 

143. “The funniest people are the saddest ones.”—Confucius 

144. “Life is too short to be angry or sad for long.”—Alphonso Davies 

145. “You’re sad because you’re afraid of reality.”—Maxime Lagacé 

146. “Proud people breed sad sorrows for themselves.”—Emily Brontë 

147. “The sad truth is that opportunity doesn’t knock twice.”—Gloria Estefan 

148. “Sadness flies away on the wings of time.”—Jean de La Fontaine 

149. “You only pass through this life once,you don’t come back for an encore.”–Elvis Presley 

150. “Sadness is but a wall between two gardens.”—Khalil Gibran
Quotes about sadness in life: 

151. “Behind every sweet smile,there is a bitter sadness that no one can ever see and feel.”—Tupac Shakur 

152. “You cannot protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from happiness.”—Jonathan Safran Foer 

153. “Rejecting the moment creates friction.Friction creates confusion.Confusion creates sadness.”—Maxime Lagacé 

154. “The good life is not one immune to sadness but one in which suffering contributes to our development.”—Alain de Botton 

155. “Your sadness is a gift.Don’t reject it.Don’t rush it.Live it fully and use it as fuel to change and grow.”—Maxime Lagacé 

156. “Sadness usually results from one of the following causes either when a man does not succeed,or is ashamed of his success.”—Seneca 

157. “We must understand that sadness is an ocean,and sometimes we drown, while other days we are forced to swim.”—R.M.Drake 

158. “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 

159. “It’s good to leave each day behind,like flowing water,free of sadness.Yesterday is gone and its tale told.Today new seeds are growing.”—Rumi 

160. “I don’t have to kill myself,living my life is just the same.”—Aaron Scheerer
Sad deep quotes on life: 

161. “Every life has a measure of sorrow,and sometimes this is what awakens us.”—Steven Tyler 

162. “There is no worse sorrow than remembering happiness in the day of sorrow.”—Alfred De Musset 

163. “Truth is everybody is going to hurt you: you just gotta find the ones worth suffering for.”—Bob Marley 

164. “Nobody really cares if you’re miserable, so you might as well be happy.”—Cynthia Nelms 

165. “There is no greater sorrow than to recall in misery the time when we were happy.”—Dante 

166. “Nobody deserves your tears,but whoever deserves them will not make you cry.”—Gabriel Garcia Marquez 

167. “Two possibilities exist: either we are alone in the Universe or we are not.Both are equally terrifying.”—Arthur C.Clarke 

168. “I can choose to sit in perpetual sadness,immobilized by the gravity of my loss,or I can choose to rise from the pain and treasure the most precious gift I have – life itself.”—Walter Anderson 

169. “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 

170. “I always like walking in the rain,so no one can see me crying.”—Charlie Chaplin
Being sad quotes: 

171. “Melancholy is the happiness of being sad.”―Victor Hugo 

172. “Fashion is that thing that saved me from being sad.”—Lady Gaga 

173. “You need to try to master the ability to feel sad without actually being sad.”—Laurie Anderson 

174. “Being sad with the right people is better than being happy with the wrong ones.”—Philippos Syrigos 

175. “What do you know about being sad?’ ‘I know you don’t need a reason.”—Aryn Kyle 

176. “I’m so glad I spent 10 years being sad and lonely.”—Caitlin Moran 

177. “It is ridiculous that I have so many shoes I don’t wear.I worry that they’re sitting there, being sad.”—Graham Coxon 

178. “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.”—Chuck Close 

179. “I’ve never thought of my characters as being sad.On the contrary,they are full of life.They didnt choose tragedy.Tragedy chose them.”—Juliette Binoche 

180. “I miss the comfort in being sad.”—Frances Farmer
Inspirational sad quotes: 

181. “Nothing sadder than seeing a person settle for so much lower than their potential.”—Ed Latimore 

182. “The more you consume,the sadder you get.The sadder you get,the more you consume.Create instead.”—Maxime Lagacé 

183. “You’re sad because you’re wasting your potential.You know it,your family knows it,everyone knows it.Do something useful.”—Carlos Del Valle 

184. “To have felt too much is to end in feeling nothing.”—Dorothy Thompson 

185. “The scars we sustain,the weaknesses we attain, are temporary.”—Mo Gawdat 

186. “Experiencing sadness and anger can make you feel more creative,and by being creative,you can get beyond your pain or negativity.”—Yoko Ono 

187. “It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses,we must plant more roses.”—George Eliot 

188. “It is sadder to find the past again and find it inadequate to the present than it is to have it elude you and remain forever a harmonious conception of memory.”—F.Scott Fitzgerald 

189. “Make the most of your regrets; never smother your sorrow,but tend and cherish it till it comes to have a separate and integral interest.To regret deeply is to live afresh.”—Henry David Thoreau 

190. “Don’t grieve.Anything you lose comes round in another form.”—Rumi
Last quotes for sad life: 

191. “Sorrow on another’s face often looks like coldness,bitterness,resentment,unfriendliness,apathy,disdain, or disinterest when it is in truth purely sadness.”—Richelle E.Goodrich 

192. “Only strong people can find happiness from the sadness surrounding them.”—Sahaj Oberoi 

193. “To each of us some rain must fall because life is not always cast in a play that has the script you expect or want.”—Catherine Pulsifer 

194. “We all have to strive to improve our life and quit blaming others because we aren’t getting what we want.”—Deanna Jewel 

195. “Happiness would not be fully appreciated without an experience of its opposite, sadness.”—Richard Daly 

196. “Women think that they can make sad things go away by knowing the reason that they happened.”—Johanna Skibsrud 

197. “I’m strong because I know my weaknesses.I’m wise because I’ve been foolish.I laugh because I’ve known sadness.”—Ziad K.Abdelnour 


198. “Almost all sadness comes from thinking about the past,and all worry from thinking about the future – present-mindedness is your only safe haven.”—Bryant McGill 

199. “There are moments when I wish I could roll back the clock and take all the sadness away,but I have the feeling that if I did,the joy would be gone as well.”—Nicholas Spark 

200. “Life goes on… with or without you.”—Faraaz Kazi
In the symphony of human emotions,our collection of sad quotes serves as a poignant melody,echoing the shared experiences of heartache and resilience.As we conclude this exploration,remember that embracing sadness can be a cathartic and transformative process.These quotes are not just words;they are beacons of empathy and understanding.Let these profound expressions be your companions in moments of sorrow,reminding you that even in sadness,there is a beauty that connects us all.Find solace in these timeless reflections and let them guide you towards healing. 

By: QuotidianVerse Team.

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