Quotes on Being Sad

So often we try to make other people feel better by minimizing their pain, by telling them that it will get better (which it will) or that there are worse things in the world (which there are). But that's not what I actually needed. What I actually needed was for someone to tell me that it hurt because it mattered. I have found this very useful to think about over the years, and I find that it is a lot easier and more bearable to be sad when you aren't constantly berating yourself for being sad.

The biggest disease today is not leprosy or tuberculosis, but rather the feeling of being unwanted.

Interdependence is and ought to be as much the ideal of man as self-sufficiency. Man is a social being.

A photograph doesn't gain weight or lose weight, or change from being happy to being sad. It's frozen. You can use it, then recycle it.

So many gods, so many creeds, so many paths that wind and wind while just the art of being kind is all the sad world needs.

The only thing worse than being blind is having sight but no vision.

We deem those happy who from the experience of life have learnt to bear its ills without being overcome by them.

I could see no reason for being sad. It´s just that it makes me unhappy not to feel happy.

There is no greater sorrow than to recall happiness in times of misery.

Better by far you should forget and smile than that you should remember and be sad.

For all sad words of tongue and pen, The saddest are these, 'It might have been'.

But listen to me. For one moment quit being sad. Hear blessings dropping their blossoms around you.

Being unwanted, unloved, uncared for, forgotten by everybody, I think that is a much greater hunger, a much greater poverty than the person who has nothing to eat.

Impart as much as you can of your spiritual being to those who are on the road with you, and accept as something precious what comes back to you from them.

It is quite gratifying to feel guilty if you haven't done anything wrong: how noble! Whereas it is rather hard and certainly depressing to admit guilt and to repent.

Be - don't try to become. Being is enlightenment, becoming is ignorance.

Each contact with a human being is so rare, so precious, one should preserve it.

Fashion is that thing that saved me from being sad.

Our society is run by insane people for insane objectives. I think we're being run by maniacs for maniacal ends and I think I'm liable to be put away as insane for expressing that. That's what's insane about it.

When friends stop being frank and useful to each other, the whole world loses some of its radiance.

Face the facts of being what you are, for that is what changes what you are.