Every emotion is equally important. Sadness is one of those emotions. A person feels sad when they fail or experience loss or grief. Though it is a negative emotion, it is impossible to avoid this universal feeling of sadness. Everyone experiences sadness from time to time. Many external and internal reasons make you sad such as weather, Hormonal imbalance, and vitamin deficiency in the body. It can sometimes make you cry or give you a headache or stomach ache.
Sadness and depression are different. One should seek professional medical help from a mental health expert if one feels low and sad for a long time.
Try talking to someone around you whenever you feel sad. Sharing your feelings can help reduce sadness. Listen to the story of a sad person and understand how they are feeling. Let them know some people care for them. Maybe you are the only one helping. Apart from being unhappy, feeling sad can sometimes motivate a person to become more productive and empathetic. It allows them to understand the good in their life. It can guide you to do better, make necessary decisions and improve your life.
Following are 100 quotes that will help you understand this feeling because feeling sad can lower your confidence and esteem. Below mentioned quotes are here to help.
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Sad quotes
- I am sometimes sad when I hear the personal stories of Tibetan refugees who have been tortured or beaten. Some irritation, some anger comes. But it never lasts long. I always try to think at a deeper level, to find ways to console.
- Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
- All of humanity’s problems stem from man’s inability to sit quietly in a room alone.
Blaise Pascal
- Tears come from the heart and not from the brain.
Leonardo da Vinci
- My room is so quiet and empty it hurts.
Nina LaCour
- The good times of today, are the sad thoughts of tomorrow.
Bob Marley
- Tears are words that need to be written.
Paulo Coelho
- You’re like a song that I heard when I was a little kid but forgot I knew until I heard it again.
Maggie Stiefvater
- You’ve changed me forever. And I’ll never forget you.
Kiera Cass
- Behind every sweet smile, there is a bitter sadness that no one can ever see and feel.
Tupac Shakur
- Sad hurts but it’s a healthy feeling. It is a necessary thing to feel.
J.K. Rowling
- Life’s under no obligation to give us what we expect.
Margaret Mitchell
- Every life has a measure of sorrow, and sometimes this is what awakens us.
Steven Tyler
- It doesn’t hurt to feel sad from time to time.
Willie Nelson
- Don’t cry over someone who wouldn’t cry over you.
Lauren Conrad
- You cannot protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from happiness.
Jonathan Safran Foer
- Nothing is ever certain.
Alice Sebold
- My father’s death, my move, and my frightening and difficult delivery created a tremendous amount of stress, pain, and sadness for me. I was practically devastated beyond recovery.
Brooke Shields
- I didn’t really want to live, so anything that was an investment in time made me angry… but also I just felt sad. When the hopelessness is hurting you, it’s the fixtures and fittings that finish you off.
Angelina Jolie
- I must have something to engross my thoughts, some object in life which will fill this vacuum, and prevent this sad wearing away of the heart.
Elizabeth Blackwell
- I have learned now that while those who speak about one’s miseries usually hurt, those who keep silence hurt more.
S. Lewis
- Life’s under no obligation to give us what we expect. We take what we get and are thankful it’s no worse than it is.
Margaret Mitchell
- Sometimes you’ve got to be able to listen to yourself and be okay with no one else understanding.
Unknown
- A million words would not bring you back, I know because I tried, neither would a million tears, I know because I cried.
Unknown
- Tears are nature’s lotion for the eyes. The eyes see better for being washed by them.
Christian Nestell Bovee
- You can never control who you fall in love with, even when you’re in the most sad, confused time of your life. You don’t fall in love with people because they’re fun. It just happens.
Kirsten Dunst
- You make me feel like a firefly. Trapped in a belljar; starved for love.
Ayushee Ghoshal
- Sadness is but a wall between two gardens.
Kahlil Gibran
- I do believe that if you haven’t learnt about sadness, you cannot appreciate happiness.
Nana Mouskouri
- Sadness flies away on the wings of time.
Jean de La Fontaine
- The sky cries for those filled with sadness.
Sonya Watson
- Death is the dropping of the flower that the fruit may swell.
Henry Ward Beecher
- Every human walks around with a certain kind of sadness. They may not wear it on their sleeves, but it’s there if you look deep.
Taraji P. Henson
- He does something to me, that boy. Every time. It’s his only detriment. He steps on my heart. He makes me cry.
Markus Zusak
- It’s sad to know I’m done. But looking back, I’ve got a lot of great memories.
Bonnie Blair
- I need you to be happy. I need one of us to be happy.
Holly Black
- Scientology is probably one of the most misunderstood things, and it’s sad that it’s so misunderstood.
Stanley Clarke
- So it’s true, when all is said and done, grief is the price we pay for love.
E.A. Bucchianeri
- Sadness is the ambrosia of all art.
Frances Fong
- I was a sad kid.
Malone
- Never be afraid of tears. Tear-filled eyes are capable of seeing truth. Tear-filled eyes are capable of seeing the beauty of life.
- Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow, it only saps today of its joy.
Leo Buscaglia
- It is a sad thing when men have neither the wit to speak well nor the judgment to hold their tongues.
Jean de la Bruyere
- Sad will be the day for any man when he becomes contented with the thoughts he is thinking and the deeds he is doing – where there is not forever beating at the doors of his soul some great desire to do something larger; which he knows he was meant and made to do.
Phillips Brooks
- Melancholy is the happiness of being sad.
Victor Hugo
- Beauty makes idiots sad and wise men merry.
George Jean Nathan
- The sad truth is that opportunity doesn’t knock twice.
Gloria Estefan
- There is a time for departure, even when there’s no certain place to go.
Tennessee Williams
- Delicious tears! The heart’s own dew.
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
- Don’t grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form.
- There’s a lot of insecure, sad people in any profession.
Martin Short
- The day you think there is no improvements to be made is a sad one for any player.
Lionel Messi
- I was lost yesterday, I am found today and I will be forgotten tomorrow.
Santosh Kalwar
- Things change. And friends leave. And life doesn’t stop for anybody.
Stephen Chbosky
- 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
- You fell in love with a storm. Did you really think you would get out unscathed?
Nikita Gill
- People cry, not because they are weak. It is because they’ve been strong for too long.
Johnny Depp
- Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.
Truman Capote
- My greatest regret is not having gone to Wellesley College. it is something I have felt a little sad about my whole life.
Rose Kennedy
- Rejection, though–it could make the loss of someone you weren’t even that crazy about feel gut wrenching and world ending.
Deb Caletti
- 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
- I have learned now that while those who speak about one’s miseries usually hurt, those who keep silence hurt more.
C.S. Lewis
- When you feel sad, it’s okay. It’s not the end of the world.
- Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.
Khalil Gibran
- You meet everyone twice in this life, when they come and when they go.
C.C Aurel
- It’s difficult for me to imagine the rest of my life without you. But I suppose I don’t have to imagine it… I just have to live it.
Ranata Suzuki
- Sadness usually results from one of the following causes either when a man does not succeed or is ashamed of his success.
Seneca
- People are sad. People are broke. People are worried about money, people are worried that they’re not enough and not amounting to anything and they don’t feel good about themselves. People have rough times, and everybody’s pretending it’s not true, and we need to break that veneer.
Eve Ensler
- I think as an American society, when we’re paying too many taxes or dealing with war, we don’t want to see sad things at the movies.
Zoe Saldana
- How sad it is that we give up on people who are just like us.
Fred Rogers
- First, accept sadness. Realize that without losing, winning isn’t so great.
Alyssa Milano
- Sad things happen. They do. But we don’t need to live sad forever.
Mattie Stepanek
- You know, I think we Indians are afraid to show and celebrate our happiness, lest things change around. But I feel that it’s okay to be sad and okay to show when you are happy.
Shah Rukh Khan
- There is no greater sorrow than to recall, in misery, the time when we were happy.
Dante Aligheri
- Art is the most beautiful deception of all. And although people try to incorporate the everyday events of life in it, we must hope that it will remain a deception lest it become a utilitarian thing, sad as a factory.
Claude Debussy
- The excursion is the same when you go looking for your sorrow as when you go looking for your joy.
Eudora Welty
- We never taste happiness in perfection, our most fortunate successes are mixed with sadness.
Pierre Corneille
- 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
- I don’t know who would not classify themselves as a romantic. I think that would be sort of sad.
Natalie Portman
- When you’re happy, you enjoy the music but when you’re sad, you understand the lyrics.
Frank Ocean
- The display of grief makes more demands than grief itself. How few men are sad in their own company.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
- There are moments when I wish I could roll back the clock and take all the sadness away, but I have a feeling that if I did, the joy would be gone as well. So, I take the memories as they come, accepting them all, letting them guide me whenever I can.
Nicholas Sparks
- Some days are just bad days, that’s all. You have to experience sadness to know happiness, and I remind myself that not every day is going to be a good day, that’s just the way it is!
Dita Von Teese
- It was sad when Sid Vicious died… I was freaked out when Phil Lynott died from Thin Lizzy. I cried. It was too crazy.
Dee Dee Ramone
- I hope you find someone who knows how to love you when you are sad.
Nikita Gill
- Breathing is hard. When you cry so much, it makes you realize that breathing is hard.
David Levithan
- Don’t ever tell anybody anything. If you do, you start missing everybody.
J.D. Salinger
- I don’t like people around me sad. I like making people happy.
Tyler
- Life is too short to be angry or sad for long.
Alphonso Davies
- A lot of country music is sad. I think most art comes out of poverty and hard times. It applies to music. Three chords and the truth – that’s what a country song is. There is a lot of heartache in the world.
Willie Nelson
- I think you have to know how you feel when you’re sad and it’s healthy to mourn if a relationship ends.
Leighton Meester
- I really believe that all of us have a lot of darkness in our souls. Anger, rage, fear, sadness. I don’t think that’s only reserved for people who have horrible upbringings. I think it really exists and is part of the human condition. I think in the course of your life you figure out ways to deal with that.
Kevin Bacon
- Experiencing sadness and anger can make you feel more creative, and by being creative you can get beyond your pain or negativity.
Yoko Ono
- The good life is not one immune to sadness but one in which suffering contributes to our development.
Alain de Botton
- I wanted to cry but I didn’t, I probably should have cried, I should have drowned us there in the room ending our suffering.
Jonathan Safran Foer
- Don’t go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.
Mark Twain
- People keep telling me that life goes on, but to me that’s the saddest part.
Unknown
- Heavy hearts, like heavy clouds in the sky, are best relieved by the letting of a little water.
Christopher Morley
- Grief is not as heavy as guilt, but it takes more away from you.
Veronica Roth
- All people are sad clowns. That’s the key to comedy – and it’s a buffer against reality.
Bob Odenkirk
Conclusion
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