Quotes on Sad

Nothing is more sad than the death of an illusion.

Ah! when will this long weary day have end, And lende me leave to come unto my love? - Epithalamion

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.

Human salvation lies in the hands of the creatively maladjusted.

People do not like to think. If one thinks, one must reach conclusions. Conclusions are not always pleasant.

Melancholy: an appetite no misery satisfies.

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.

How sad to see a father with money and no joy. The man studied economics, but never studied happiness.

My sister will die over and over again for the rest of my life. Grief is forever. It doesn't go away; it becomes a part of you, step for step, breath for breath. I will never stop grieving Bailey because I will never stop loving her. That's just how it is. Grief and love are conjoined, you don't get one without the other. All I can do is love her, and love the world, emulate her by living with daring and spirit and joy.

Never despair, but if you do, work on in despair.

Tears are words that need to be written.

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. It is a time when one is filled with vague longings; when one dreams of flight to peaceful islands in the remote solitudes of the sea, or folds his hands and says, What is the use of struggling, and toiling and worrying any more? let us give it all up.

In the English language there are orphans and widows, but there is no word for the parents who loses a child.

Never allow someone to be your priority while allowing yourself to be their option.

Behind every beautiful thing, there's some kind of pain.

She was a genius of sadness, immersing herself in it, separating its numerous strands, appreciating its subtle nuances. She was a prism through which sadness could be divided into its infinite spectrum.

Melancholy is sadness that has taken on lightness.

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.

Have you ever lost someone you love and wanted one more conversation, one more chance to make up for the time when you thought they would be here forever? If so, then you know you can go your whole life collecting days, and none will outweigh the one you wish you had back.

You don't know who is important to you until you actually lose them.

Of all the words of mice and men, the saddest are, "It might have been.