Quotes about Sadness

The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.

You can measure the happiness of a marriage by the number of scars that each partner carries on their tongues, earned from years of biting back angry words.

Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.

Sometimes I think of you and I feel giddy. Memory makes me lightheaded, drunk on champagne. All the things we did. And if anyone had said this was the price I would have agreed to pay it. That surprises me; that with the hurt and the mess comes a shift of

So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.

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

Give sorrow words; the grief that does not speak knits up the o-er wrought heart and bids it break.

I can never read all the books I want; I can never be all the people I want and live all the lives I want. I can never train myself in all the skills I want. And why do I want? I want to live and feel all the shades, tones and variations of mental and phy

And once the storm is over, you won’t remember how you made it through, how you managed to survive. You won’t even be sure whether the storm is really over. But one thing is certain. When you come out of the storm, you won’t be the same person who walked

The only thing more exhausting than being depressed is pretending that you're not.

Maybe this world is another planet's Hell.

I measure every grief I meet with narrow, probing eyes – I wonder if it weighs like mine – or has an easier size.

I wish you to know that you have been the last dream of my soul.

Every generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.

Time is the longest distance between two places.

There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.

Sad will be the day for every man when he becomes contented with the thoughts he is thinking and the deeds he is doing.

Pain has an element of blank; It cannot recollect when it began, or if there were a day when it was not. It has no future but itself, Its infinite realms contain Its past, enlightened to perceive new periods of pain.

Better to be without logic than without feeling.

There is only one sin. and that is theft... when you tell a lie, you steal someones right to the truth.

I stand on the sacrifices of a million women before me thinking what can I do to make this mountain taller so the women after me can see farther.

I can't even think of how I shall want you when it comes to that. Because it's all such a dream, that I sometimes wonder if it can really have happened.

Extremism is the enemy of love and of love's subtlety. It does not understand the loveliness of silence.

So, I love you because the entire universe conspired to help me find you.

Happiness can be found, even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light.

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

Nothing thicker than a knife's blade separates happiness from melancholy.

There is no such thing as a natural death: nothing that happens to a man is ever natural, since his presence calls the world into question. All men must die: but for every man his death is an accident, and even if he knows it and consents to it, an unjust

I would like to be the air that inhabits you for a moment only. I would like to be that unnoticed and that necessary.

The purpose of a writer is to keep civilization from destroying itself.

The mark of the immature man is that he wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mark of the mature man is that he wants to live humbly for one.

It is strange how we hold on to the pieces of the past while we wait for our futures.

Any idiot can face a crisis; it's the day-to-day living that wears you out.

Man only likes to count his troubles; he doesn't calculate his happiness.

Treachery and violence are spears pointed at both ends; they wound those who resort to them worse than their enemies.

The last man! Yes, I may well describe that solitary being's feelings, feeling myself as the last relic of a beloved race, my companions extinct before me.

A lie is more comfortable than doubt, more useful than love, more lasting than truth.

The most painful state of being is remembering the future, particularly the one you'll never have.

We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.

Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul?

This is the difference between depression and sorrow - sorrowful, you are in great trouble because something matters...

The world's a little blurry, or maybe it's my eyes.

Memory believes before knowing remembers.

When sorrows come, they come not single spies, but in battalions!

From sorrow to sorrow love crosses its islands and establishes roots that are watered by weeping.

I was sad everyday.

Music is the only thing that understood me.

You can't really feel happy all the time, or else you're not a human being. You'd be a psychopath.