Sad quotes
444 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
"When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love has always won. There have been tyrants and murderers and for a time they seem invincible, but in the end, they always fall... think of it, always."
"Hating people is like burning down your own house to get rid of a rat."
"Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart. The really great men must, I think, have great sadness on earth."
"If you want to be sad, no one in the world can make you happy. But if you make up your mind to be happy, no one and nothing on earth can take that happiness from you."
"beginnings are usually scary, and endings are usually sad, but its everything in between that makes it all worth living."
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"Write your Sad times in Sand, Write your Good times in Stone."
"I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend."
"When you do something noble and beautiful and nobody noticed, do not be sad. For the sun every morning is a beautiful spectacle and yet most of the audience still sleeps."
"Nobody deserves your tears, but whoever deserves them will not make you cry."
"Usually when people are sad, they don't do anything. They just cry over their condition. But when they get angry, they bring about a change."
"The good times of today, are the sad thoughts of tomorrow."
"I hate myself, and I want to die"
"Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction."
"A dog reflects the family life. Whoever saw a frisky dog in a gloomy family, or a sad dog in a happy one? Snarling people have snarling dogs, dangerous people have dangerous ones."
"Never underestimate the power of human stupidity."
"Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom."
"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. It is far better take things as they come along with patience and equanimity."
"Nobody's going to do your life for you. You have to do it yourself, whether you're rich or poor, out of money or raking it in, the beneficiary of ridiculous fortune or terrible injustice. And you have to do it no matter what is true. No matter what is hard. No matter what unjust, sad, sucky things befall you. Self-pity is a dead-end road. You make the choice to drive down it. It's up to you to decide to stay parked there or to turn around and drive out."
"Love is also like a coconut which is good while it is fresh, but you have to spit it out when the juice is gone, what's left tastes bitter."
"Birds... scream at the top of their lungs in horrified hellish rage every morning at daybreak to warn us all of the truth. They know the truth. Screaming bloody murder all over the world in our ears, but sadly we don't speak bird."
"The greatest and noblest pleasure which we have in this world is to discover new truths, and the next is to shake off old prejudices."
"Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source."
"A wise girl kisses but doesn't love, listens but doesn't believe, and leaves before she is left."
"Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad."
"Never make someone a priority when all you are to them is an option."
