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best sad quotes about life

Old age is the sunset of life.

“I get lost inside my mind”

Don’t cry over someone who wouldn’t cry over you.

I always like walking in the rain, so no one can see me crying.

It’s hard to forget someone who gave you so much to remember.

I did everything right for someone that does everything wrong.

“Sometimes, you gotta pretend everything is okay”

Anger, tears and sadness are only for those who have given up. – Katie Gill

Happiness is not the absence of problems, it’s the ability to deal with them. – Steve Maraboli

There is no greater sorrow than to recall in misery the time when we were happy. – Dante

You couldn’t erase the past. You couldn’t even change it. But sometimes life offered you the opportunity to put it right.

People just get kicks out of making other people sad. ~ Maisie Williams

everything in life is luck. – Donald Trump

For some moments in life there are no words. – David Seltzer

A useless life is an early death. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I smile not for that I am happy, but sometimes I smile to hide sadness

What you must understand about me is that I’m a deeply unhappy person. – John Green

The saddest thing is when you are feeling real down, you look around and realize that there is no shoulder for you.

“I not afraid of dying, I’m afraid of suffering” ~ Raheem Kirlew

You can close your eyes to reality but not to memories. ~ Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

It’s sad to know I’m done. But looking back, I’ve got a lot of great memories. ~ Bonnie Blair

When sorrows come, they come not single spies, but in battalions. – William Shakespeare

It takes a minute to like someone, an hour to love someone, but to forget someone takes a lifetime.

I wish I could ignore you as you did.

latest sad quotes about life

Never let to know the reason of your sadness to others, they won’t get it.

They just ask you how are you? You told them you are fine but you are not really fine.

Never compare yourself with others because they don’t know your bad time and you don’t know about theirs.

If you get a reason to be happy, take it. Life is small.

You can’t hide your feeling as it can clearly be seen by your eyes.

If you are a good heart person, you are going through more shit than any other.

In the book of life, the answers aren’t in the back. – Charlie Brown

Life is divided into the horrible and the miserable. – Woody

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

Tears are the summer showers to the soul. ~ Alfred Austin

All-day is not the same, you need to wait and be patient for the good things to happen.

Crying alone does not show that you are weak but it shows that you are strong.

Wipeout your own tears, because if people come to you they will come for a deal.

When you feel the pain, just remember it’s the signal that your sins are getting less.

best sad quotes about life

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

– R.M. Drake

“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

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

– Yoko Ono

“There is no point treating a depressed person as though she were just feeling sad, saying, ‘There now, hang on, you’ll get over it.’ Sadness is more or less like a head cold- with patience, it passes. Depression is like cancer.”

– Barbara Kingsolver

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

– Dante Alighieri

“Depression is the most unpleasant thing I have ever experienced. . . . It is that absence of being able to envisage that you will ever be cheerful again. The absence of hope. That very deadened feeling, which is so very different from feeling sad. Sad hurts but it’s a healthy feeling. It is a necessary thing to feel. Depression is very different.”

– J.K. Rowling

“Sometimes we get sad about things and we don’t like to tell other people that we are sad about them. We like to keep it a secret. Or sometimes, we are sad but we really don’t know why we are sad, so we say we aren’t sad but we really are.”

– Mark Haddon

“Leaning against my father, the sadness finally broke open inside me, hollowing out my heart and leaving me bleeding. My feet felt rooted in the dirt. There were more than two bodies buried here. Pieces of me that I didn’t even know were under the ground. Pieces of dad, too.”

– Laurie Halse Anderson

“The longer and more carefully we look at a funny story, the sadder it becomes.”

– Nikolai Gogol

“There is some kind of a sweet innocence in being human- in not having to be just happy or just sad- in the nature of being able to be both broken and whole, at the same time.”

– C. Joybell

“So it’s true, when all is said and done, grief is the price we pay for love.

– E.A. Bucchianeri

“The largest part of what we call ‘personality’ is determined by how we’ve opted to defend ourselves against anxiety and sadness.

– Alain de Botton

The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.

-William Mather Lewis

Sometimes pain is so unmanageable that the idea of spending another day with it seems impossible. Other times pain acts as a compass to help you through the messier tunnels of growing up. But pain can only help you find happiness if you remember it.

-Adam Silvera

Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.

-Khalil Gibran