We enjoy warmth because we have been cold. We appreciate light because we have been in darkness. By the same token, we can experience joy because we have known sadness.
David Weatherford
Nobody really cares if you're miserable, so you might as well be happy.
Cynthia Nelms
In the book of life, the answers aren't in the back.
Charlie Brown
Reject your sense of injury and the injury itself disappears.
Marcus Aurelius
We ask God to forgive us for our evil thoughts and evil temper, but rarely, if ever ask Him to forgive us for our sadness.
R. W. Dale
They say when you are missing someone that they are probably feeling the same, but I don't think it's possible for you to miss me as much as I'm missing you right now.
Edna St. Vincent Millay
...any fool can be happy. It takes a man with real heart to make beauty out of the stuff that makes us weep.
Grandpappy O'Donnell
Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul.
Oscar Wilde
Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened.
Dr. Seuss
If you see a friend without a smile; give him one of yours.
Proverb quotes
You can choose to be happy or sad and whichever you choose that is what you get. No one is really responsible to make someone else happy, no matter what most people have been taught and accept as true.
Sidney Madwed
Don't fear failure so much that you refuse to try new things. The saddest summary of a life contains three descriptions: could have, might have, and should have.
Louis E. Boone
Nobody deserves your tears, but whoever deserves them will not make you cry.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
...there are two types of people in the world: those who prefer to be sad among others, and those who prefer to be sad alone.
Nicole Krauss
All good things must come to an end, but all bad things can continue forever.
Unknown
The walls we build around us to keep sadness out also keeps out the joy.
Jim Rohn
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
So much sadness exists in the world that we are all under obligation to contribute as much joy as lies within our powers.
John Sutherland Bonnel
It's easy to cry when you realize that everyone you love will reject you or die.
Chuck Palahniuk
Good humor is the health of the soul, sadness its poison.
Lord Chesterfield
Smile, even if it's a sad smile, because sadder than a sad smile is the sadness of not knowing how to smile.
Unknown
Anger is just a cowardly extension of sadness. It's a lot easier to be angry at someone than it is to tell them you're hurt.
Tom Gates
Anger, tears and sadness are only for those who have given up.
Katie Gill
The word 'happiness' would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.
Carl Gustav Jung
Lord, make me an instrument of your peace; where there is hatred, let me sow love; where there is injury, pardon; where there is doubt, faith; where there is despair, hope; where there is darkness, light; and where there is sadness, joy.
St. Francis
You cannot prevent the birds of sadness from passing over your head, but you can prevent their making a nest in your hair.
Chinese Proverb
Beauty and sadness always go together. Nature thought beauty too rich to go forth Upon the earth without a meet alloy.
George MacDonald
Change is certain. Peace is followed by disturbances; departure of evil men by their return. Such recurrences should not constitute occasions for sadness but realities for awareness, so that one may be happy in the interim.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Sadness usually results from one of the following causes either when a man does not succeed, or is ashamed of his success.
Seneca
Courage and cheerfulness will not only carry you over the rough places in life, but will enable you to bring comfort and help to the weak-hearted and will console you in the sad hours.
William Osler
Absolute silence leads to sadness. It is the image of death.
Jean Jacques Rousseau
Man could not live if he were entirely impervious to sadness. Many sorrows can be endured only by being embraced, and the pleasure taken in them naturally has a somewhat melancholy character.
Emile Durkheim
Sadness is but a wall between two gardens.
Kahlil Gibran
Sorrow is one of the vibrations that prove the fact of living.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
There is no worse sorrow than remembering happiness in the day of sorrow.
Alfred De Musset
When sorrows come, they come not single spies, but in battalions.
William Shakespeare
Sorrows cannot all be explained away in a life truly lived, grief and loss accumulate like possessions.
Stefan Kanfer
It is a time when one's spirit is subdued and sad, one knows not why; when the past seems a storm-swept desolation, life a vanity and a burden, and the future but a way to death.
Mark Twain
There are moments when, even to the sober eye of Reason, the world of our sad humanity must assume the aspect of Hell.
Edgar Allan Poe
Sadness is always the legacy of the past; regrets are pains of the memory.
Unknown
We gather strength from sadness and from pain Each time we die we learn to live again.
Unknown
No society has been able to abolish human sadness, no political system can deliver us from the pain of living, from our fear of death, our thirst for the absolute. It is the human condition that directs the social condition, not vice versa.
Eugene Ionesco
I can see the humorous side of things and enjoy the fun when it comes; but look where I will, there seems to me always more sadness than joy in life.
Jerome K. Jerome
What is the source of sadness, but feebleness of the mind? What giveth it power but the want of reason? Rouse thyself to the combat, and she quitteth the field before thou strikest.
Akhenaton
A feeling of sadness and longing, That is not akin to pain, And resembles sorrow only As the mist resembles the rain.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
It is an unfortunate personal tragedy. However, when compared to the vast ocean of the collective tragedy faced by my people, my illness is merely a pebble. I am deeply sad that I am crippled by this illness, unable to contribute anything substantial towards the alleviation of the immense suffering and oppression of my people.
Anton Balasingham
Sadness does not inhere in things; it does not reach us from the world and through mere contemplation of the world. It is a product of our own thought. We create it out of whole cloth.
Emile Durkheim
Sorrow is like a precious treasure, shown only to friends.
African Proverb
Tears are words the heart can't express.
Unknown
The past is as powerless to darken the present moment as is a shadow to reach up and drag down the form that casts it.
Guy Finley
Much like the hands of a clock go nowhere fast, anxious thoughts run us round-and-round without taking us anywhere!
Guy Finley
The only thing worried thoughts have the power to change is what the next thing will be for you to worry over!
Guy Finley
The only one interested in hearing your sad story is . . . you; and even you wish you didn't have to relive it again!
Guy Finley
Laugh and the world laughs with you, Weep, and you weep alone; For this brave old earth must borrow its mirth, But has trouble enough of its own.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Smile, even if it's a sad smile, because sadder than a sad smile is the sadness of not knowing how to smile.
Unknown
The greatest and the smallest, light and dark, right and wrong - they all come together to form the miracle that is life, and none can exist without the others.
Silvetris
There is not enough darkness in all the world to put out the light of even one small candle.
Robery Alden
Those who fear the darkness have no idea what the light can do.
Katasai Rakshasa
Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.
Kahlil Gibran
Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.
Washington Irving
Better by far you should forget and smile than that you should remember and be sad.
Christina Georgina Rossetti
To dare to live alone is the rarest courage; since there are many who had rather meet their bitterest enemy in the field, than their own hearts in their closet.
Charles Caleb Colton
The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration.
Pearl S. Buck
They that sow in tears shall reap in joy.
Psalms
Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
Jimi Hendrix
There is no greater sorrow than to recall in misery the time when we were happy.
Dante
A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death.
Albert Einstein
The end comes when we no longer talk with ourselves. It is the end of genuine thinking and the beginning of the final loneliness. The remarkable thing is that the cessation of the inner dialogue marks also the end of our concern with the world around us. It is as if we noted the world and think about it only when we have to report it to ourselves.
Eric Hoffer
Hating people is like burning down your house to kill a rat.
Henry Fosdick
As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death.
Leonardo da Vinci
Ships that pass in the night, and speak each other in passing, Only a signal shown, and a distant voice in the darkness; So on the ocean of life, we pass and speak one another, Only a look and a voice, then darkness again and a silence.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
It is loneliness that makes the loudest noise. This is true of men as of dogs.
Eric Hoffer
Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it.
Helen Keller
Pray that your loneliness may spur you into finding something to live for, great enough to die for.
Dag Hammarskjold
My feeling is that there is nothing in life but refraining from hurting others, and comforting those who are sad.
Olive Schreiner
Why is my existence so perfect with dark places? And why do I no longer care?
Lemuel W. H. Ranier
It is impossible for that man to despair who remembers that his Helper is omnipotent.
Jeremy Taylor
I talk to God but the sky is empty.
Sylvia Plath
Dying seems less sad than having lived too little.
Gloria Steinem
The absence of love is the most abject pain.
Herr Lipp
There must be quite a few things a hot bath won't cure, but I don't know many of them.
Sylvia Plath
The people in the darker parts of society need God as much as anyone else.
Anonymous
And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.
Sylvia Plath
To die in order to avoid the pains of poverty, love, or anything that is disagreeable, is not the part of a brave man, but of a coward.
Aristotle
Why do we love the solitude and the solitude? My dear, you need only look into your own darkness-enshrouded spirit to find out.
Anonymous
When sorrows come, they come not single spies, But in battalions.
William Shakespeare
A man is called selfish, not for pursuing his own good, but for neglecting the neighbor's.
Richard Whately
There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when we have not yet known what it is to have suffered and be healed, to have despaired and have recovered hope.
George Eliot
What is deservedly suffered must be borne with calmness, but when the pain is unmerited, the grief is resistless.
Ovid
There is a joy in sorrow which none but a mourner can know.
Tupper
A man should always consider how much he has more than he wants, and how much more unhappy he might be than he really is.
Joseph Addison
Dwelling on the past only blinds you to the future.
Andrew Boyd
It was then, staring into the fear, that my tortured existence was truly born.
Anonymous
We ignore the ones who adore us, and adore the ones who ignore us.
Anonymous
We are more unhappy to see people ahead of us than happy to see people behind us.
Montaigne
I had rather have a fool to make me merry than experience to make me sad.
Shakespeare
I found more joy in sorrow than you could find in joy.
Sara Teasdale
Sadness is almost never anything but a form of fatigue.
Andre Gide
If you are bitter at heart, sugar in the mouth will not help you.
Yiddish Proverb
Nothing is miserable unless you think it so.
Boethius
Since unhappiness excites interest, many, in order to render themselves interesting, feign unhappiness.
Joseph Roux
