Sad quotes

Parting is such sweet sorrow that I shall say goodnight till it be morrow.

Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there wondering, fearing.

The world breaks everyone, and afterward, many are strong at the broken places.

The darker the night, the brighter the stars, the deeper the grief, the closer is God!

I took a deep breath and listened to the old brag of my heart. I am, I am, I am.

You cannot find peace by avoiding life.

'Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.

The heart was made to be broken.

No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.

And once the storm is over, you won't remember how you made it through. But one thing is certain. When you come out of the storm, you won't be the same person who walked in.

Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.

There is no greater sorrow than to recall in misery the time when we were happy.

The soul would have no rainbow had the eyes no tears.

Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad.

Sadness flies away on the wings of time.

The pain of parting is nothing to the joy of meeting again.

I have been bent and broken, but — I hope — into a better shape.

You cannot protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from happiness.

The saddest thing about love is that not only the love cannot last forever, but even the heartbreak is soon forgotten.

Tears are words that need to be written.

The word 'happiness' would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.

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

Heavy hearts, like heavy clouds in the sky, are best relieved by the letting of a little water.

Grief is the price we pay for love.

What soap is for the body, tears are for the soul.

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

Where there is sorrow there is holy ground.

The marks humans leave are too often scars.

The deeper that sorrow carves into your being, the more joy you can contain.

Give sorrow words; the grief that does not speak whispers the o'er-fraught heart and bids it break.

When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.

There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power.

It is sad not to be loved, but it is much sadder not to be able to love.

The pain passes, but the beauty remains.

What we have once enjoyed we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us.

The reality is that you will grieve forever. You will not get over the loss of a loved one; you will learn to live with it.

Tears shed for another person are not a sign of weakness. They are a sign of a pure heart.

Melancholy is the happiness of being sad.

Let everything happen to you: beauty and terror. Just keep going. No feeling is final.

I know of a cure for everything: salt water. In one way or the other. Sweat, or tears, or the salt sea.

Sorrow prepares you for joy. It violently sweeps everything out of your house, so that new joy can find space to enter.