Sadness Quotes

life sucks
indeed ,indeed
but you can't help but not
rid life of things you don't need

Sadness gives depth. Happiness gives height. Sadness gives roots. Happiness gives branches. Happiness is like a tree going into the sky, and sadness is like the roots going down into the womb of the earth. Both are needed, and the higher a tree goes, the deeper it goes, simultaneously. The bigger the tree, the bigger will be its roots. In fact, it is always in proportion. That is its balance.

"Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love"

"Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love"

Date a girl who doesn’t read. The girl who reads knows the importance of plot; can trace out the demarcations of a prologue, the sharp ridges of a climax. The girl who reads will be patient with an intermission, expedite a denouement. But of all things, the girl who reads knows most the ineluctable significance of an end; is comfortable with them. She has bid farewell to a thousand heroes with a twinge of sadness.

I was full of a hot, powerful sadness and would have loved to burst into the comfort of tears, but tried hard not to, remembering something my Guru once said -- that you should never give yourself a chance to fall apart because, when you do, it becomes a tendency and it happens over and over again. You must practice staying strong, instead.

We are not allowed this. We are allowed to be deeply into basketball, or Buddhism, or Star Trek, or jazz, but we are not allowed to be deeply sad. Grief is a thing that we are encouraged to “let go of,” to “move on from”...

When I get sad, I stop being sad and be awesome instead. True story.

The sad moment when you see somebody you used to love and care about so much yet now you can barely remember their name and then looking over at the person you now love and care about and thinking that they one day they could also become a stranger.

I don't know what a happy ending is. If something is happy, then the ending must be sad, because it stopped the happy thing. the only time an end is happy is if the thing it ended was bad.

Oh name forever sad! forever dear!
Still breathed in sighs, still ushered with a tear.

She was my rice seed and I was her orange peel.

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

Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps, for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things are and what they ought to be.

Find expression for a sorrow, and it will become dear to you. Find expression for a joy, and you will intensify its ecstasy.

Smile though your heart is aching
Smile even though it's breaking.
When there are clouds in the sky
you'll get by.

If you smile through your pain and sorrow
Smile and maybe tomorrow
You'll see the sun come shining through
For you.

Pain = regret of the past projected into potential negative futures. Otherwise it's just sensation. Being present = peace.

Tonight I can write the saddest lines,
I loved her, and sometimes she loved me too.

A sad soul can kill you quicker, far quicker, than a germ.

Action is the antidote to despair.