Nobody ever comes prepared for heartbreak - it always comes unannounced, unexpected, and unwelcomed. And, same as with any emotion, heartbreak cannot just be swept under a rug and forgotten for good, but rather be lived through and dealt with. No matter the cause of your sorrow, though, a wise word always helps you to live through even the darkest of days, yet expecting those near and dear to you to always know the right thing to say is also a bit unrealistic. So, if you are still searching for words of solace that would ring true to you, why not try looking at our collection of sad quotes? Who knows, you might find just the elixir to calm your soul in there.
These quotes about loss and life come from various famous people, too - from Leonardo Da Vinci to Steven Tyler, no one is safe from feeling such deep, heart-wrenching emotions. Yet, their thoughts, put into beautiful sentences, carry a healing power in themselves, and while some might do nothing to help, others will surely comfort and console you. On the other hand, these beautiful quotes might also help you comfort those around you who are going through tough times right now.
So, prepare yourself to read some of the most moving quotes about life, loss, and sorrow, for they are just a bit further down. Once you are there, vote for the deep quotes that deserve to be on the top of this list and share this article with those you think need a comforting word.
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"People cry, not because they’re weak. It’s because they’ve been strong for too long." - Johnny Depp
I wish this man the best of luck!!! I'm convinced he did not do what he has been accused of doing. Cry on strong man.
"Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live." - Norman Cousins
"Two possibilities exist: either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying." - Arthur C. Clarke
"Sometimes you've got to be able to listen to yourself and be okay with no one else understanding."
"When you're happy you enjoy the music. When you're sad you understand the lyrics." - Frank Ocean
"The good times of today, are the sad thoughts of tomorrow." - Bob Marley
"Tears come from the heart and not from the brain." - Leonardo da Vinci
"The word ‘happy’ would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness." - Carl Jung
"As your kids grow they may forget what you said, but won't forget how you made them feel." - Kevin Heath
"Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow, it only saps today of its joy." - Leo Buscaglia
"Behind every sweet smile, there is a bitter sadness that no one can ever see and feel." - Tupac Shakur
"I always like walking in the rain, so no one can see me crying." - Charlie Chaplin
"The largest part of what we call ‘personality’ is determined by how we’ve opted to defend ourselves against anxiety and sadness." - Alain de Botton
“The prettiest smiles hide the deepest secrets. The prettiest eyes have cried the most tears. And the kindest hearts have felt the most pain.”
"We’re taught to be ashamed of confusion, anger, fear and sadness, and to me they’re of equal value to happiness, excitement and inspiration." - Alanis Morissette
"People keep telling me that life goes on, but to me, that’s the saddest part."
I will have lost my mother 10 years this coming August. She and I were closer than 2 best friends could be. We would talk on the phone at lease 2-3 times a day. We lived about 80 miles apart but it seemed just like minutes and I would run down and see her one evening during the week and spent almost every weekend with her. My children were 18 and 16 at the time, and I am glad that they came away with having a since of family and community and not chasing the almighty dollar. Yes, life goes on, but it will never be the same. Not only is Momma gone, but the kids have grown and are out on their own. Yes, life goes on, but a heart has been broken.
“A million words would not bring you back, I know because I tried, neither would a million tears, I know because I cried.”
Dawn; I lost my dad to Covid last year I am 12 No matter how Lonley or exhausted you feel there is always something to live for A family member, a favorite location or book, or even for the promise of tomorrow Live on for your mother
"When a girl cries, it's not usually over one thing. It's built up anger and emotions that she's been holding in for too long." - Joe King
"Who do you turn to when the only person in the world that can stop you from crying, is exactly the one making you cry?" - Anita Room
"I have learned now that while those who speak about one's miseries usually hurt, those who keep silence hurt more." - C.S. Lewis
"So it's true when all is said and done, grief is the price we pay for love." - E.A. Bucchianeri
"What is hardest to accept about the passage of time is that the people who once mattered the most to us wind up in parentheses." - John Irving
"The longer and more carefully we look at a funny story, the sadder it becomes." - Nikolai Gogol
"Those who don’t know how to weep with their whole heart, don’t know how to laugh either." - Golda Meir
"It is sadder to find the past again and find it inadequate to the present than it is to have it elude you and remain forever a harmonious conception of memory." - F. Scott Fitzgerald
“The pain never really goes away; you just elevate and get used to it by growing stronger.” - Ritu Ghatourey
“I hate pain, despite my ability to tolerate it beyond all known parameters, which is not necessarily a good thing.” - Hunter S.
"The human condition is a good one in that no one is unhappy except by his own fault." - Seneca
That one's straight up toxic gaslighting. Imagine telling this to a child with abusive parents, or a rape victim.
"Tears shed for another person are not a sign of weakness. They are a sign of a pure heart." - Jose N. Harris
"Never be afraid of tears. Tear-filled eyes are capable of seeing the truth. Tear-filled eyes are capable of seeing the beauty of life." - Osho
"My body and heart weren't made for this. I'm tired of being tired and I'm tired of being sad." - Don Keigh
"Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first." - Mark Twain
"Crying is all right in its way while it lasts. But you have to stop sooner or later, and then you still have to decide what to do." - C. S. Lewis
"Experiencing sadness and anger can make you feel more creative, and by being creative, you can get beyond your pain or negativity." - Yoko Ono
"We must understand that sadness is an ocean, and sometimes we drown, while other days we are forced to swim." - R.M. Drake
"The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities." - Sophocles
"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.
"There is no point treating a depressed person as though she were just feeling sad, saying, ‘There now, hang on, you’ll get over it.’ Sadness is more or less like a head cold- with patience, it passes. Depression is like cancer." - Barbara Kingsolver
"Our dead are never dead to us until we have forgotten them." - George Eliot
"Breathing is hard. When you cry so much, it makes you realize that breathing is hard." - David Levithan
"As the light begins to intensify, so does my misery, and I wonder how it is possible to hurt so much when nothing is wrong." - Tabitha Suzuma
"Heavy hearts, like heavy clouds in the sky, are best relieved by the letting of a little water." - Christopher Morley
"Make the most of your regrets; never smother your sorrow, but tend and cherish it till it comes to have a separate and integral interest. To regret deeply is to live afresh." - Henry David Thoreau
“Pain is temporary but the person who hurt you is permanently never going to change, move on.”
“If you can sit with your pain, listen to your pain, and respect your pain—in time you will move through your pain.” - Bryant McGill
"There are moments when I wish I could roll back the clock and take all the sadness away, but I have the feeling that if I did, the joy would be gone as well." - Nicholas Sparks
"For all sad words of tongue and pen, The saddest are these, ‘It might have been.’" - John Greenleaf Whittier
"Better by far you should forget and smile that you should remember and be sad." - Christina Rossetti
"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." - Khalil Gibran
"You are not alone. Everyone is fighting a battle you know nothing about." - Priyanshu Singh
"How did I go from that little five-year-old, always happy and always laughing to... this?" - Chester Minnit
"The wrong person will never give you what you want, but they'll make sure they get what they want from you."
"A million words would not bring you back, I know because I tried, neither would a million tears, I know because I cried."
"Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not, and oftentimes we call a man cold when he is only sad." - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
"Some days are just bad days, that’s all. You have to experience sadness to know happiness, and I remind myself that not every day is going to be a good day, that’s just the way it is!" - Dita Von Teese
"Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul." - Oscar Wilde
"We never taste happiness in perfection, our most fortunate successes are mixed with sadness." - Pierre Corneille
"They say it’s better to bury your sadness in a graveyard or garden that waits for the spring to wake from its sleep and burst into green." - Conor Oberst
"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
"The good life is not one immune to sadness but one in which suffering contributes to our development." - Alain de Botton
"Boredom, anger, sadness, or fear are not ‘yours,’ not personal. They are conditions of the human mind. They come and go. Nothing that comes and goes is you." - Eckhart Tolle
"Sad people dislike the happy, and the happy the sad; the quick thinking the sedate, and the careless the busy and industrious." - Horace
"The saddest thing that befalls a soul Is when it loses faith in God and woman." - Alexander Smith
"It is sad not to love, but it is much sadder not to be able to love." - Miguel de Unamuno
"It’s sad, something coming to an end. It cracks you open, in a way – cracks you open to feeling." - Jennifer Anniston
"You’re sad because you’re wasting your potential. You know it, your family knows it, everyone knows it. Do something useful." - Carlos Del Valle
"I have the choice of being constantly active and happy or introspectively passive and sad." - Sylvia Plath
"There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power. They speak more eloquently than ten thousand tongues. They are the messengers of overwhelming grief, of deep contrition, and of unspeakable love." - Washington Irving
"Tears are the natural penalties of pleasure. It is a law that we should pay for all that we enjoy." - William Gilmore Simms
"Sorrows are like thunderclouds, in the distance they look black, over our heads scarcely gray." - Jean Paul
"Broken relationships are a source of heavy heartbreak that seem to affect every family." - Jerry B. Jenkins
"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." - Chester Minnit
"When she is happy, she can't stop talking, when she is sad, she doesn't say a word." - Ann Brashares
"The worst feeling isn't being lonely, it's being forgotten by someone you'd never forget." - Helen Hywater
"You see, I usually find myself among strangers because I drift here and there trying to forget the sad things that happened to me." - F. Scott Fitzgerald
"The excursion is the same when you go looking for your sorrow as when you go looking for your joy." - Eudora Welty
"Don't ever tell anybody anything. If you do, you start missing everybody." - J.D. Salinger
"You cannot protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from happiness." - Jonathan Safran Foer
"It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses, we must plant more roses." - George Eliot
"Every life has a measure of sorrow, and sometimes this is what awakens us." - Steven Tyler
“Don’t ignore the lessons of pain nor walk the same path again, or it may happen again. Strive to preserve your newfound peace.” - Terry Mark
“We must hurt in order to grow, fail in order to know, and lose in order to gain. Because some lessons in life, are best learned through the pain!”
"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
"Tears are nature’s lotion for the eyes. The eyes see better for being washed by them." - Christian Nestell Bovee
