We all feel sad sometimes. Feeling sad is common but hardly we can accept this. We feel hurt when we feel sad. Feeling sad sometimes also encourages us. Check out 100+ feeling sad quotes to help you overcome sadness.
1. The word 'happy' would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. Carl Jung
2. Every human walks around with a certain kind of sadness. They may not wear it on their sleeves, but it's there if you look deep. Taraji P. Henson
3. Absolute silence leads to sadness. It is the image of death. Jean-Jacques Rousseau
4. Bad things do happen; how I respond to them defines my character and the quality of my life. I can choose to sit in perpetual sadness, immobilized by the gravity of my loss, or I can choose to rise from the pain and treasure the most precious gift I have - life itself. Walter Anderson
5. I do believe that if you haven't learnt about sadness, you cannot appreciate happiness. Nana Mouskouri
6. Crying is cleansing. There's a reason for tears, happiness or sadness. Dionne Warwick
7. It's sad when someone you know becomes someone you knew. Henry Rollins
8. Heavy hearts, like heavy clouds in the sky, are best relieved by the letting of a little water. Christopher Morley
9. Don't grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form. Rumi
10. First, accept sadness. Realize that without losing, winning isn't so great. Alyssa Milano
11. Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding. Khalil Gibran
12. Depression is the inability to construct a future. Rollo May
13. In deep sadness there is no place for sentimentality. William S. Burroughs
14. Nobody understands another's sorrow, and nobody another's joy. Franz Schubert
15. Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow, it only saps today of its joy. Leo Buscaglia
16. Nothing is more sad than the death of an illusion. Arthur Koestler
17. Red is the ultimate cure for sadness. Bill Blass
18. A sad soul can kill quicker than a germ. John Steinbeck
19. To have felt too much is to end in feeling nothing. Dorothy Thompson
20. A teardrop on earth summons the King of heaven. Charles R. Swindoll
21. You left and I cried tears of blood. My sorrow grows. Its not just that You left. But when You left my eyes went with You. Now, how will I cry? Rumi
22. Tears are the summer showers to the soul. Alfred Austin
23. Sadness is also a kind of defence. Ivo Andric
24. It is sad not to love, but it is much sadder not to be able to love. Miguel de Unamuno
25. How sad it is that we give up on people who are just like us. Fred Rogers
26. Experiencing sadness and anger can make you feel more creative, and by being creative, you can get beyond your pain or negativity. Yoko Ono
27. I don't like people around me sad. I like making people happy. Tyler, The Creator
28. It is sad not to love, but it is much sadder not to be able to love. Miguel de Unamuno
29. We never taste happiness in perfection, our most fortunate successes are mixed with sadness. Pierre Corneille
30. There is no sadder sight than a young pessimist. Mark Twain
31. Experiencing sadness and anger can make you feel more creative, and by being creative, you can get beyond your pain or negativity. Yoko Ono
32. One must not let oneself be overwhelmed by sadness. Jackie Kennedy
33. I know what I look like - a weird, sad clown puppet. I'm fine with that. Rainn Wilson
34. It's hard to watch your life unfold, and sad. Life changes. Cilla Black
35. Good humor is the health of the soul, sadness is its poison. Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield
36. Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought. Percy Bysshe Shelley
37. The sad souls of those who lived without blame and without praise. Dante Alighieri
38. 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. James Russell Lowell
39. Sorrows are like thunderclouds, in the distance they look black, over our heads scarcely gray. Jean Paul
40. Poverty makes you sad as well as wise. Bertolt Brecht
41. My natural disposition is pretty joyful, but you know, I have bad days and sad moments like anybody else. Tracee Ellis Ross
42. Proud people breed sad sorrows for themselves. Emily Bronte
43. I'm not brave, I'm not fantastic. I'm like any other woman. I'm unhappy. I'm difficult. I'm sad. Am I strong, too? Maybe, but not always. There are days when I don't want to see anyone. The most important thing you learn? You can live with it. Sonia Rykiel
44. I think men are mainly unfaithful because as they get older, they feel the urge to prove to themselves that they are still attractive. They need proof from outside the marriage. It's really sad. It's all about them. It's not about their wives at all. Pattie Boyd
45. I think everyone feels alone in their sadness, and there's a certain value to hearing other people's sad stories. Brandon Stanton
46. Live by this credo: have a little laugh at life and look around you for happiness instead of sadness. Laughter has always brought me out of unhappy situations. Red Skelton
47. Next to a lost battle, nothing is so sad as a battle that has been won. Arthur Wellesley
48. To be a character who feels a deep emotion, one must go into the memory's vault and mix in a sad memory from one's own life. Albert Finney
49. Every life has a measure of sorrow, and sometimes this is what awakens us. Steven Tyler
50. Beauty makes idiots sad and wise men merry. George Jean Nathan
51. I like happy endings in movies. I think life has a happy ending. When it's all said and done, it's all something worthwhile, and I want my movies to reflect that. There are enough things to be sad about. When you pop in a movie, let the message be one that's one of hope. Jon Favreau
52. I love the sad songs with their maudlin, self-deprecating, almost funny lyrics. As an Englishman, they make a lot of sense. Teddy Thompson
53. If a man does not control his temper, it is a sad admission that he is not in control of his thoughts. Ezra Taft Benson
54. Do not make best friends with a melancholy sad soul. They always are heavily loaded, and you must bear half. Francois Fenelon
55. love music videos, I really do. I think it's kind of sad that it's a dying art form. Adam Levine
56. Sad things happen. They do. But we don't need to live sad forever. Mattie Stepanek
57. I have the choice of being constantly active and happy or introspectively passive and sad. Sylvia Plath
58. It doesn't hurt to feel sad from time to time. Willie Nelson
59. Sad people dislike the happy, and the happy the sad; the quick thinking the sedate, and the careless the busy and industrious. Horace
60. Better by far you should forget and smile that you should remember and be sad. Christina Rossetti
61. 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
62. Melancholy and sadness are the start of doubt... doubt is the beginning of despair; despair is the cruel beginning of the differing degrees of wickedness. Comte de Lautreamont
63. Everything takes me longer than I expect. It's the sad truth about life. Donna Tartt
64. In this sad world of ours, sorrow comes to all; and to the young, it comes with bitterest agony because it takes them unawares. I have had experience enough to know what I say. Abraham Lincoln
65. It's sad that we never get trained to leave assumptions behind. Sebastian Thrun
66. The sad fact is that spending rises every year, no matter what people want or say they want. Ben Stein
67. Sad Patience, too near neighbour to despair. Matthew Arnold
68. Poverty is not just a sad accident, but it's also a result of the fact that some people make a lot of money off low-income families and directly contribute to their poverty. Matthew Desmond
69. The sad events that occur in my life are the sad events that happen to everybody, with losing friends and family, but that is a natural occurrence, as natural as being born. Sergio Aragones
70. Fashion is that thing that saved me from being sad. Lady Gaga
71. Love Is Louder is a movement that is hopefully going to bring some awareness and make some noise when it comes to teens who are feeling suicidal or even just sad, outcasts, and being bullied, and really feel like they have nowhere to turn to. Brittany Snow
72. The sad truth is that excellence makes people nervous. Shana Alexander
73. Morality comes with the sad wisdom of age, when the sense of curiosity has withered. Graham Greene
74. It is sad to grow old but nice to ripen. Brigitte Bardot
75. You want people to feel something when you tell a story, whether they feel happy or whether they feel sad. Harry Dean Stanton
76. It's sad that people forget sometimes that there is a whole legitimate world of artists and actors out there that work their entire life, every day on perfecting their craft, but yet don't get any acknowledgement for their extraordinary commitment to their profession. Yolanda
77. A tragedy need not have blood and death; it's enough that it all be filled with that majestic sadness that is the pleasure of tragedy. Jean Racine
78. I think that's very sad, that I haven't allowed my heart to be broken. I have broken a few. Sally Field
79. Life is sad. People, you know, are going to pass, and you know that you will one day. James Mercer
80. I'm sad and blue, about nobody but you. I told you that I loved you right from the start, you told me the same and now you try to break my little heart. Leon Redbone
81. I think I have a dark view of the world. I have to make everything funny, otherwise it all seems so sad. Moon Unit Zappa
82. It makes me so desperately sad to witness just how unforgivably wretched our world has become. Ralph Steadman
83. Keep it simple, keep it sexy, keep it sad. Mitch Miller
84. It is one of the most saddening things in life that, try as we may, we can never be certain of making people happy, whereas we can almost always be certain of making them unhappy. Thomas Huxley
85. Everyone feels sad occasionally. A full range of emotions is part of what makes us human. Michael Greger
86. Death makes us sad, but it can also make us feel more alive. Sally Mann
87. Your joys and sorrows. You can never tell them. You cheapen the inside of yourself if you do tell them. Greta Garbo
88. Being on your own would be sad, sick and weird. I don't trust myself. I need that balance. Daniel Craig
89. Life will take its toll on all of us. We get injured, we get old. It's really sad to try to run away from these harsh realities of life. Looks are not everything. I am not going to look beautiful all the time. Aishwarya Rai Bachchan
90. If you're sad about what you see in the mirror when you wake up every morning, you must change it. Azzedine Alaia
91. Actually, the moment of victory is wonderful, but also sad. It means that your trip is ended. Bill Toomey
92. It's sad, something coming to an end. It cracks you open, in a way - cracks you open to feeling. Jennifer Aniston
93. You get used to sadness, growing up in the mountains, I guess. Loretta Lynn
94. It's sad how people want to see us females go against each other. Never been for that. Never will. Ciara
95. It doesn't help to contemplate how sad your life is. You have to move on. Teri Garr
96. Don't eat because you're angry, bored, sad, or stressed. John Rampton
97. You can't have an up without a down, a right without a left, a back without a front - or a happy without a sad. Harlan Coben
98. Dwight is a sad clown. You've seen those paintings of sad clown. Rainn Wilso
99. Sadness is a super important thing not to be ashamed about but to include in our lives. One of the bigger problems with sadness or depression is there's so much shame around it. If you have it you're a failure. You are felt as being very unattractive. Mike Mills
100. Tears are the natural penalties of pleasure. It is a law that we should pay for all that we enjoy. William Gilmore Simms
101. You have to let it all hang out, let go of the ideas that were more comfortable and embrace some of the sadness in your life. Madeleine Peyroux
102. It can be really powerful to write something when you're sad. Kathryn Stockett
103. You play to different parts of yourself when you take on various roles. Like, you are your confident self when you're playing this person, and you're your sad self when playing another person - but it's all a part of you somewhere.
104. A lot of my characters are underdogs or sad or lonely, but I had a comfortable, golden sort of childhood. Anthony Browne
105. Nobody destroys people - people destroy themselves, and it's very, very sad. John Catsimatidis
