Sad Quotes, Sayings about sadness

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Sadness is the result of unhappy thoughts.

Submitted by Genalin Sarcepuedes.
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Sorrow is the child of too much joy.
- Chinese Proverb

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Don’t criticize something you know nothing about. It only brings people down and makes everyone miserable.
- Laura Hall

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I prefer to be sad than to be happy!
Why!?
Because when your sad you can see all the things that can make you happy!
but
When your happy you can see all the reasons to be sad! :(

Submitted by MeandMyself.
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(As sad) as if World War II had never ended.
- Nancy Huston

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He is a hard man who is only just, and a sad one who is only wise.
- Voltaire

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He (Albert) beat me when you ain’t here. He beat me for not being you.
- Celie

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The walls we build around us to keep out the sadness also keep out the joy.
- Jim Rohn

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Love can sometimes be magic. But magic can sometimes just be an illusion.
- Javan

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A sadness in those eyes like water seeping into a hole you’ve dug in the earth.
- Joyce Carol Oates

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All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story or tell a story about them.
- Isak Dinesen

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Better by far you should forget and smile than that you should remember and be sad.
- Christina G. Rossetti

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A man’s sorrow runs uphill; true it is difficult for him to bear, but it is also difficult for him to keep.
- Djuna Barnes

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As I’ve gotten older, I find I am able to be nourished more by sorrow and to distinguish it from depression.
- Robert Bly

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My feeling is that there is nothing in life but refraining from hurting others, and comforting those who are sad.
- Olive Schreiner

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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

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It’s a recession when your neighbor loses his job: it’s a depression when you lose yours.
- Harry S. Truman

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Nobody deserves your tears, but whoever deserves them will not make you cry.
- Gabriel Garcia Marquez

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A low grade sadness coursing through me like a virus.
- Greg Bottoms

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An ounce of cheerfulness is worth a pound of sadness to serve God with.
- Thomas Fuller

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Sadness flies away on the wings of time.
- Jean De La Fontaine

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Sadness and gladness succeed each other.
- Proverb

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Sadness is but a wall between two gardens.
- Kahlil Gibran

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Melancholy is sadness that has taken on lightness.
- Italo Calvino

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Sadness dulls the heart more than the grossest sin.
- Anonymous

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