Sad Quotes
Sad Sayings
What's done is done.
- William Shakespeare
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A moment without joy is an eternity of sadness.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie 
Life is like an onion:
you peel it off one layer at a time,
and sometimes you weep.
- Carl Sandburg
The word "happiness" would lose its meaning
if it were not balanced by sadness.
- Carl Jung
Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth
until the hour of separation.
- Khalil Gibran
When you feel worried and depressed,
consciously form a smile on your face and act upbeat
until the happy feeling becomes genuine.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
"You always..." and "you never..." are code phrases for
"you don't meet my expectations,
so I am declaring you inadequate and unacceptable."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Write your Sad times in Sand,
Write your Good times in Stone.
- George Bernard Shaw
Life doesn't play favorites.
- Anonymous
Collective fear stimulates herd instinct,
and tends to produce ferocity toward
those who are not regarded as members of the herd.
- Bertrand Russell
My Mama always said you've got to put the past behind you
before you can move on.
- the movie Forrest Gump
We are born princes, and the civilizing process makes us frogs.
- Publilius Syrus
Most men lead lives of quiet desperation
and go to the grave with the song still in them.
- Henry David Thoreau
We're never so vulnerable than when we trust someone -
but paradoxically, if we cannot trust,
neither can we find love or joy.
- Walter Anderson
One never notices what has been done;
one can only see what remains to be done.
- Marie Curie
Distance cannot matter - ours is a friendship of the heart.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
I never considered a difference of opinion
in politics, in religion, in philosophy,
as cause for withdrawing from a friend.
- Thomas Jefferson
Each man is afraid of his neighbor's disapproval -
a thing which, to the general run of the human race,
is more dreaded than wolves and death.
- Mark Twain
Those who own much have much to fear.
- Rabindranath Tagore
For all sad words of tongue and pen,
The saddest are these, "It might have been.
- John Greenleaf Whittier
It is sad to grow old but nice to ripen.
- Brigitte Bardot
Resenting someone is a way of never leaving that person.
- Kare Anderson
Humans do have an amazing capacity
for believing what they choose,
and excluding that which is painful.
- Spock (character in Star Trek television series)
Life is a Crazy-Quilt of Suffering and Joy.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Before moving on, you have to clear away your cherished beliefs.
- Dick Raymond
When It's Darkest, Men See the Stars.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Everyone is a moon, and has a dark side
which he never shows to anybody.
- Mark Twain
Mama always said life was like a box of chocolates.
You never know what you're gonna get.
- the movie Forrest Gump
Remember, happiness is just a teardrop away.
- the movie Shrek 2
It is far better to be alone,
than to be in bad company.
- George Washington
We are injured and hurt emotionally,
not so much by other people
or what they say and don't say,
but by our own attitude and our own response.
- Maxwell Maltz
Those who don't know how to weep with their whole heart,
don't know how to laugh either
- Golda Meir
Life is lived in the waiting.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The Principal Causes of Our Suffering
are Our Expectations and Our Assumptions.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Speak when you are angry -
and you will make the best speech you'll ever regret.
- Laurence J. Peter
Envy breeds hate.
- Yiddish Proverb
Life is as easy or as hard as you think it is.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Regret is an appalling waste of time.
- Katherine Mansfield
Regrets are the tears of good deeds left undone
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Do you feel stuck?
Whether in a project, a job, a relationship,
or some other situation,
there is a time for perseverance,
and a time for letting go and moving on.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life is truly known only to those who suffer,
lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat.
- Anais Nin
"Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair!"
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare,
The lone and level sands stretch far away.
- Percy Bysshe Shelley
One of the greatest cause of unhappiness -
perhaps even the only cause of unhappiness - is comparison.
I remember as a young child hearing my mother say,
"Comparisons are odious."
That is one of the oldest sayings in the English language,
and one of the most important.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Absence does not make the heart grow fonder,
but it sure heats up the blood.
- Elizabeth Ashley
Love begins with a smile,
grows with a kiss,
and ends with a teardrop.
- Anonymous
The way I see it, if you want the rainbow,
you gotta put up with the rain.
- Dolly Parton
Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom.
- Rabindranath Tagore
True friendship's laws are by this rule express'd,
Welcome the coming, speed the parting guest.
- Alexander Pope
A relationship, I think, is like a shark.
You know? It has to constantly move forward or it dies.
And I think what we got on our hands is a dead shark.
- the Woody Allen movie Annie Hall (1977)
I seldom think about my limitations,
and they never make me sad.
Perhaps there is just a touch of yearning at times;
but it is vague, like a breeze among flowers.
- Helen Keller
What is the appropriate behavior for a man or a woman
in the midst of this world,
where each person is clinging to his piece of debris?
What's the proper salutation between people
as they pass each other in this flood?
- The Buddha
There is nothing more depressing,
than having everything,
and still feeling sad.
- Janet Jackson
It's so easy to fall in love
but hard to find someone who will catch you.
- Anonymous
Love means not ever having to say you're sorry.
- Erich Segal
Human salvation lies in the hands
of the creatively maladjusted.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
A true friend is one who
overlooks your failures
and tolerates your success.
- Doug Larson
Repressed anger still is anger, it just isn't expressed.
If you truly have no anger, you are blessed and joyful.
If you have repressed anger, know that you have anger,
you just haven't expressed that anger.
Go ahead, express your anger briefly,
pound pillows, scream, curse.
Then take a deep breath, and get over it.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Worry often gives a small thing a big shadow.
- Swedish Proverb
We tell lies when we are afraid...
afraid of what we don't know,
afraid of what others will think,
afraid of what will be found out about us.
But every time we tell a lie,
the thing that we fear grows stronger.
- Williams Tad
All discarded lovers should be given a second chance,
but with somebody else.
- Mae West
If I hadn't met you, I wouldn't like you.
If I didn't like you, I wouldn't love you.
If I didn't love you, I wouldn't miss you.
But I did, I do, and I will.
- Anonymous
True love is a process of co-creation
in which neither feels ownership or superiority.
Jealousy is a highly destructive force
for love and relationships.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Loneliness is not what it seems.
One does not feel lonely because one is alone,
but because of a feeling of lack -
a feeling that something is missing.
Loneliness is essentially independent
of how many other humans are around.
It has much more to do with one's self-esteem -
one's sense of inherent worth.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Absence makes the heart grow fonder.
- Thomas Haynes Bayly
One's first love is always perfect
until one meets one's second love.
- Elizabeth Aston
It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
- Albert Einstein
Love is missing someone whenever you're apart,
but somehow feeling warm inside because you're close in heart.
- Kay Knudsen
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.
- Carl Jung
Endings: sometimes a season of sorrow and grief.
Endings: what must precede new beginnings.
Life is an endless cycle of endings and beginnings.
Renewal and rebirth cannot occur without endings -
as the new year's crop can only be planted and flourish
in the decay of last year.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
When we come into the present,
we begin to feel the life around us again,
but we also encounter whatever we have been avoiding.
We must have the courage to face whatever is present -
our pain, our desires, our grief,
our loss, our secret hopes our love -
everything that moves us most deeply.
- Jack Kornfield
Guilt says I've done something wrong;
... shame says there is something wrong with me.
Guilt says I've made a mistake;
... shame says I am a mistake.
Guilt says what did was not good;
... shame says I am no good.
- John Bradshaw
I'm awash in self-contempt!
- the Woody Allen movie Celebrity
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