Life Sadness Quotes

#1. By just living one's life, sadness accumulates here and there, be it in the blankets hung out in the sun to dry, the toothbrushes in the bathroom, and the phone history logs.

Makoto Shinkai

#2. I've lost loved ones in my life who never knew how much I loved them. Now I live with the regret that my true feelings for them never were revealed.

Garth Brooks

#3. Truth and life are very difficult to fathom, and I retained of them, without really having got to know them, an impression in which sadness was perhaps actually eclipsed by exhaustion.

Marcel Proust

#4. Again and again, I learn how much friendship enriches my life, bringing warmth, assurance, humour, inspiration, a sense of security. It depends on honesty, trust, loyalty. It's about giving. It's for sharing the good times, but also the tough times, hurt, grief, sadness.

Quentin Bryce

#5. But I saw the pain and sadness in everything, and swirled it round my mouth like a fine wine.

Emma Forrest

#6. The sadness of the incomplete, the sadness that is often Life, but should never be Art.

E. M. Forster

#7. Chronocanine Envy:
Sadness experienced when one realized that, unlike one's dog, one cannot live only in the present tense. As Kierkegaard said, Life must be lived forward.

Douglas Coupland

#8. There is some kind of a sweet innocence in being human- in not having to be just happy or just sad- in the nature of being able to be both broken and whole, at the same time.

C. JoyBell C.

#9. Serve God joyfully. Let there be no sadness in your life: the only true sorrow is sin.

Mother Teresa

#10. You learn, finally, that you'll die, and so you try to hang on to your own life, that gentle, naive kid you used to be, but then after a while the sentiment takes over, and the sadness, because you know for a fact that you can't ever bring any of it back again. You just can't.

Tim O'Brien

#11. If my leg falls off, I'll get a prosthetic. There'd be no deep sadness about. I'd just get on with it! It's called life, and I love life. You have to be positive, and you have to crack on no matter what.

John Lydon

#12. And it made me hurt inside of my bones with sadness. Because in a life that is long and well lived there are sorrows and darkest doldrums that cannot be understood by those who live day to day like it could be any other.

Brian McGreevy

#13. Your perspective is vital to your happiness. Some, blind to the bountiful opportunities around them, live lives of sadness and despair with brief moments of joy. Be alive to the abundant potential that surrounds you so that you live a life of peace and happiness with periods of challenging growth.

Richard G. Scott

#14. Life is directly proportional to happiness and sadness.

Santosh Kalwar

#15. Love has, at its best, made the inherent sadness of life bearable, and its beauty manifest.

Kay Redfield Jamison

#16. Life's pressure is equal to your resistance. Your grief has endless time. Your sadness is bottomless. Your worries are relentless. Your resentment is unquenchable. Your fears are unmovable. Every dimension of your suffering will instruct you, until you have learned your essential lessons.

Bryant McGill

#17. As awful as he could be, I always knew he loved me in a way no one else ever had.

Jeannette Walls

#18. The old deep sadness of life lay in the bottom of her heart and she knew it was there, but she would not allow herself to sink into it. Out of the dark and sullen bottom of a lake the lotus flowers bloomed upon its surface, and she would pluck the flowers.

Pearl S. Buck

#19. Never fall for anyone. It's only sadness that is gifted by them to you in your rest of the life.Kills the loving person inside you.

Debolina Bhawal

#20. Happy people don't fight for the sake of fighting.Happy people don't hurt each other.Sadness must be inside every human being.That made it lighter to bear the burden of a less than fulfilled life.

K.J. Kilton

#21. Sometimes the nicest people are the ones who've been hurt the most

Frances Ivy

#22. She and I were bound together at the border between life and death. It was like that for us from the start

Haruki Murakami

#23. Life has sadness, joy, beauty, like poetry.
So be passionate and write a great story.

Debasish Mridha

#24. There are two word in my world first love the strongest and second chance quotes.

Rohit Dhariwal

#25. Why is it...that the good things that pop up almost always get clobbered by these miserable darn things that seem to choke out everything like stinkweed?

A. E. Hotchner

#26. You don't become happy by pursuing happiness. You become happy by living a life that means something.

Harold S. Kushner

#27. After a while, I began to notice that the good moments with Brad began to outweigh all the sadness. The sadness that was my life became the moments, and my happiness with Brad became my life

Colleen Hoover

#28. I can't help but think of the years and years of awful I've had. My years of horror and sadness just seem to never fully rest. This life of mine has been an absolute agony.

Sarah Ann Walker

#29. If a man cannot understand the beauty of life, it is probably because life never understood the beauty in him.

Criss Jami

#30. Time heals many wounds but this loss becomes the defining sadness of your life.

Claire Cook

#31. For a moment I had a strange intuition that just this, and in a real, profound sense, is life; and perhaps happiness even - love with a mixture of sadness, reverence, and silent knowledge.

Erich Maria Remarque

#32. Pain pumps blood when heart dies

Munia Khan

#33. Sometimes, all it takes to lift the sadness from another is to let them know how much you appreciate them and how grateful you are having them in your life.

Charles F. Glassman

#34. In the scriptures, we are told you can't really understand happiness unless you understand sadness. You don't know pleasure if you don't know pain. It's part of life. So can you learn something from somebody who has gone from success to success to success? I don't think so.

Clayton Christensen

#35. He turned away; he threw himself on his face on the sofa. 'Oh, Jane! my hope - my love - my life!' broke in anguish from his lips.

Charlotte Bronte

#36. And oh, god, how could so much regret and so much sweetness and so much sadness all be present in that single moment. I was already dead and missing my unlived life. I was already dead and Tobias was mourning.
I tried to smile. For him.

Katherine Applegate

#37. If I have brightened up one single sad childhood, then I have at least accomplished something in my life.

Astrid Lindgren

#38. My hope for all of us is that 'the miles we go before we sleep' will be filled with all the feelings that come from deep caring
delight , sadness, joy, wisdom
and that in all the endings of our life, we will be able to see the new beginnings.

Fred Rogers

#39. Sadness is pervasive, so focus on joy, focus on happiness.

Debasish Mridha

#40. I couldn't leave there without carrying some of her sadness and loneliness with me like a cloak. There was a smell that I've come to think of as life rot. Where a life has spoiled, gone bad through lack of use.

Lisa Unger

#41. 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

#42. There was no lasting happiness ... You just need to be grateful when it comes ...
There was no eternal sadness ... You just need to be patient until it goes
So ... whatever happens, life must go on ..
Just live and love your life ... because we are not immortal .. # andry_lavigne

Andry Lavigne

#43. Many of us live that life where we are only happy when there's a good day passing by, instead of being sad when there's one bad day passing leaving us confused.

Auliq Ice

#44. Despite all the sadness, violence and misery, I still believe in universal peace, goodness, and beauty of humanity.

Debasish Mridha

#45. Time slowly begins to move. Even as we begin to awaken to mundane daily life ... I don't want us to forget ... the sadness of living on the backs of unseen sacrifices.

Kaori Yuki

#46. As the days dwindled towards the end of the week I knew only one thing: I couldn't return to our old life.

Haroon had taken Honour and Al with him,

Ruth Ahmed

#47. In the moonlight which is always sad, as the light of the sun itself is
as the light called human life is
at its coming and its going.

Charles Dickens

#48. I followed all life's pleasures wherever they would lead, but someone I can treasure is all I really need.

Neil Diamond

#49. Don't disguise your tears, don't hide your sadness, don't be afraid to find out who you really are. Because in those fleeting moments you'll summon such beauty and strength that, in no time at all, you'll fully grasp exactly why you're so gossiped about here in the unseen

Mike Dooley

#50. He watched the scene and thought of life; and (as always happened when he thought of life) he became sad. A gentle melancholy took possession of him. He felt how useless it was to struggle against fortune, this being the burden of wisdom which the ages had bequeathed him.

James Joyce

#51. This might sound masochistic or narcissistic, I don't know, but when I'm not playing the game, the validations I feel about life are always through the hardships. I relate more to sadness, in a lot of ways, when I'm not playing.

Abby Wambach

#52. Everything we come across becomes a part of us. It doesn't matter how small or insignificant it is ... or how devastating. One story here, one story there, that's what I see when I look back at my life. An accumulation of everything I went through.

Bhaskaryya Deka

#53. I felt as if something hung there in the back of my mind, waiting to tarnish whatever happiness I might find. Is it safer to be unhappy? Nothing ever wants to take that away.

Storm Constantine

#54. Loving someone isn't a hard task, it's not a chore, you don't wake up one day and decide to break their heart because you got all hot and bothered, that doesn't happen! he boomed.

Holly Hood

#55. We tend to search for happiness and love forgetting that both can be found when we stop searching for sadness and hate.

Hisham Fawzi

#56. A woman who had fallen out of love with her life

Jhumpa Lahiri

#57. Truth is like beauty; it lies in the mind of the beholder

Bangambiki Habyarimana

#58. I often cry, not from sadness, from the joy of the miraculous beauty of life.

Debasish Mridha

#59. TRIGORIN
Why do I hear a note of sadness that wrings my heart in this cry of a pure soul? If at any time you should have need of my life, come and take it.

Anton Chekhov

#60. When you see the sadness, failure, and darkness
Find the opportunity to turn on the light of success.

Debasish Mridha

#61. Whenever you see the fear and sadness,
be there the source of love and kindness.

Debasish Mridha

#62. And I had the feeling he was far out ahead of me then and in many things. Any time spent with your child is partly a damn sad time, the sadness of life a-going, bright, vivid, each time a last. A loss. A glimpse into what could've been. It can be corrupting. I

Richard Ford

#63. Anyone who has known happiness will never again be able humbly to accept sadness.

Paulo Coelho

#64. Sometimes I feel like all the crap in the world is building up inside me, like all the bad is just filling me like a balloon. I push it all back, live my happy life.
But sometimes that balloon exposed and all the crap lands on everything around me.

Keary Taylor

#65. It occurred to her that all the bad parts of life, the sad parts, the frightening ones, were meant to be offset by moments and memories like this. She had to be present in it, right here, right now.

Martina Boone

#66. Even if death were to fall upon you today like lightning, you must be ready to die without sadness and regret, without any residue of clinging for what is left behind. Remaining in the recognition of the absolute view, you should leave this life like an eagle soaring up into the blue sky.

Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche

#67. A closed heart only creates misery and sadness. An open heart creates love and happiness.

G.E.F. Neilson

#68. Kindness is not feeling sad when you see someone is sad but when you try to take away sadness with your compassion.

Debasish Mridha

#69. Once you have started seeing the beauty of life, ugliness starts disappearing. If you start looking at life with joy, sadness starts disappearing. You cannot have heaven and hell together, you can have only one. It is your choice.

Rajneesh

#70. I have these knives in my chest that can't become words.

Jenim Dibie

#71. we said we would be to each other as two voices, who shadows.

Alexandre Dumas

#72. It's like I have this large black hole in my brain and it's sucking the life out of me. The answers are in there so I sit for hours and stare. No matter how hard and long I look, I only see darkness.

Katie McGarry

#73. My mother's death supervened, and this was the greatest blow I had experienced in my life. I worshipped her ... I could not resign myself to the loss of a being on whom I counted to make invisible the unavoidable blemishes of my soul.

Salvador Dali

#74. Figure out what makes you laugh, and do more of it. Figure out what makes you cry, and do less of it.

Mandy Hale

#75. Little Joe was still behind him. Eli could feel it. He wanted to look back, but he couldn't. The tears were too close. If he were Fancy, he'd turn around and kick and buck and moo and do just about anything to keep his calf near. But Eli wasn't Fancy; he was a farmer.

Sandra Neil Wallace

#76. I feel sad for the people who I hear always plan, plan, plan the next day's event to occur. Life only stands still for them.

Ingrid Nkenlifack

#77. I notice the silvery hair at his temples with a tinge of sadness. Why do parents grow old? Life is a castle of lies slowly dismantled by the passage of time. I regret not spending more time looking at the people I love.

Shan Sa

#78. Creating doesn't make us unhappy, unhappiness makes us creative. To create is to live, and in living, we want only to creat more, to set our foundations depper and reach higher toward the sky. If sadness is what makes us creative, then sadness is nothing else but life.

Eric G. Wilson

#79. Don't be sad that it's over.
Be glad that you ever lived to see it.

A.J. Beirens

#80. It suddenly seemed to Laurel that all the absences in her own life, every loss and sadness, every nightmare in the dark, every unexplained melancholy, took the shadowy form of the same unanswered question, something that had been there since she was sixteen years old - her mother's unspoken secret.

Kate Morton

#81. There is no loss, if you cannot remember what you have lost.

Claire North

#82. My life has been like all the lives, long and hard and full of sadness and confusion and horror, a frightening, difficult dream punctuated by brief moments of joy. And as is the case with all people's lives, the moments of joy are never often enough and never long enough.

James Frey

#83. If we are willing, the experience of grief can deepen and widen our ability to participate in life.

John Claypool

#84. I think all tragedies are best told with some humor. You have to relieve the darkness to let the reader get through it. Also, that life has happiness and sadness mixed together. If you told a story that was all darkness, it wouldn't be real.

Alan Lightman

#85. Her death leaves me both depleted and emboldened. That's what tragedy does to you, I am learning. The sadness and wild freedom of it all impart a strange durability. I feel weathered and detached, tucking my head against the winds and trudging forward into life.

Claire Bidwell Smith

#86. People always say humour helps to avoid the dark things in life. I think it's the opposite. Humour helps us understand and partner with the sadness and beauty of life. And sometimes, because we're bathed in laughter, we are protected. Or at least, humour can help us see the world differently.

Bruce McCulloch

#87. It is beautiful, it is endless, it is full and yet seems empty. It hurts us.

Jackson Pearce

#88. I watch her with loving sadness as she dulls her shine to please others. Will this butterfly ever soar? Will she continue to pretend she can't fly? Her greatest life awaits this decision.

Steve Maraboli

#89. When you have feelings like sadness or anger about your cancer or your plight, to mask them is to lead an artificial life.

Steve Jobs

#90. To live without experiencing some shame and blushes of admiration would surely be a wretched life.

Gregor Mendel

#91. The amusements of life, he argued, should be accepted with the same philosophy as its ills. ("The Striding Place")

Gertrude Atherton

#92. Time goes on, and your life is still there, and you have to live it. After a while you remember the good things more often than the bad. Then, gradually, the empty silent parts of you fill up with sounds of talking and laughter again, and the jagged edges of sadness are softened by memories.

Lois Lowry

#93. She was always tired, these days. She put on one of those smiles that wasn't really a smile at all, and they went on.

Jojo Moyes

#94. Man cries, his tears dry up and run out. So he becomes a devil, reduced to a monster.

Kohta Hirano

#95. Death is the greatest goal of anyone. It is something no other living human can achieve

Davis Carlson

#96. Great sadness can be off putting, hard to comprehend, especially if it hasn't been your experience. It's amazing for me to know now that AIDS, for instance, is something a lot of people don't "get," whereas it entirely shaped my social life since the time I was twenty until I was almost forty.

Hilton Als

#97. Thomas had never seen anything like her in his life, and he knew, with a beautiful sort of sadness, that he never would again.

Chris Nicolaisen

#98. It's paramount we take ownership of our lives. Sadness is greatly due to our having sacrificed ourselves over to a power outside of ourselves. We need to be proactive in creating positive thoughts and actions that will align ourselves with where we want to be and what we want to feel in life.

Kaiden Blake

#99. Spontaneous insanity is the real bliss! It's sad that we are honored for playing sane, serious, safe, miserable and controlling in this poor world.

Saurabh Sharma

#100. It struck me tonight how music mirrors life. Fleeting ephemeral moments, made up of beauty, sadness, joy, hope and despair. Melodies which are written in both major and minor keys. Flowing and fleeting. You can't hold onto it, or keep it from changing. Our emotions possess the evanescence of a note.

Virginia Burges