Sadness Sayings and Quotes

Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous old sadness quotes, sadness sayings, and sadness proverbs, collected over the years from a variety of sources.

The best thing for being sad is to learn something. T.H. White
I know a cure for sadness: Let our hands touch something that makes your eyes smile. Mirabai
Tears are often a gift from God, and sadness is a healthy emotion. Alan Loy McGinnis
Beautiful sadness is a myth. Sadness turns our features to clay, not porcelain. David Levithan
When sadness comes, just sit by the side and look at it and say, 'I am the watcher, I am not sadness,' and see the difference. Immediately you have cut the very root of sadness. It is no more nourished. It will die of starvation. We feed these emotions by being identified with them. Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh
Sadness does not last forever when we walk in the direction of that which we always desired. Paulo Coelho
You cannot protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from happiness. Jonathan Safran Foer
A good cry can be wonderful sometimes, and sadness is nothing more than love announced. Sadness and Unhappiness are not the same thing, and it is good to remember that. And there is this: sadness cleanses the heart. Neale Donald Walsch
Experiencing sadness and anger can make you feel more creative, and by being creative, you can get beyond your pain or negativity. Yoko Ono
Sadness flies away on the wings of time. Jean de la Fontaine
Sadness is almost never anything but a form of fatigue. Andre Gide
Life consists of sadness too. And sadness is also beautiful; it has its own depth, its own delicacy, its own deliciousness, its own taste. A man is poorer if he has not known sadness; he is impoverished, very much impoverished. His laughter will be shallow, his laughter will not have depth, because depth comes only through sadness. A man who knows sadness, if he laughs, his laughter will have depth. His laughter will have something of his sadness too, his laughter will be more colorful. Rajneesh
Sometimes when we're feeling sad, it's important just to feel the sadness. Like a snake shedding its skin, old feelings of remorse and regret and hurt and anger often have to come up in order to be released. On the other side we're a better person, capable of a happier life...who we are when we're no longer burdened by the buried feelings that weighed us down, or the self - defeating patterns that the pain produced. Marianne Williamson
When you feel sadness inside, wipe it away by cries and tears! Toba Beta
School is a place were you learn how to be a child. Nayeli Garcia
School just speeds things up... Without school it might take 70 years before you wake up and are able to count. Louis Sachar
The reason for the sadness of this modern age and the men who live in it is that it looks for the truth in everything and finds it. Edmond de Goncourt
What is the source of sadness, but feebleness of the mind? What giveth it power but the want of reason? Rouse thyself to the combat, and she quitteth the field before thou strikest. Akhenaton
A feeling of sadness and longing that is not akin to pain, and resembles sorrow only as the mist resembles the rain. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
All pleasures contain an element of sadness. Jonathan Eybeschutz