155 Heart Touching Sad Quotes [Ultimate Selection]

Are you sometimes overwhelmed with feelings of sadness? Even though we all experience moments of sadness, not all of us know how to deal with sadness in a healthy way. To help you in overcoming feelings of hopelessness and melancholy, we have created this hand-picked selection of heartbreaking but also heartwarming sad quotes.

The following quotes will help you in crying it all out of your system so that you can welcome happiness back into your life again. And for even more quotes to help you free yourself from feeling sad, have a look at our list of uplifting depression quotes.

As tough as sadness can be, it acts as a balancing force that helps us to appreciate the joyful and happy moments of life. Without sadness, we couldn’t fully enjoy happiness. So in a sense, happiness and sadness add contrast to our spectrum of emotions.

“Of all sad words of tongue or pen, the saddest are these, ‘It might have been.’”
John Greenleaf Whittier

There are moments in life when it feels as if you’re stuck in sadness. No matter what you do, feelings of anguish, grief, or heartache accompany you. It can be quite difficult to get rid of this kind of “sticky” sadness when you continuously feel down.

These sad quotes about life will help you to work through the pain

While you cannot avoid feeling sad and sorrowful from time to time, you can do a lot about how you deal with these emotions. From early childhood on, we have been taught to avoid negative emotions as much as possible. So instead of working through sadness, we seek to eliminate it quickly, which only makes things worse.

Sadness may feel bad and unnatural but in itself, it isn’t something that is dangerous to you. Running away from sadness, however, only adds more layers of frustration and hopelessness on top of our negative emotions. To help you in welcoming sadness and working through it, we have created the following selection of quotes for you.

155 Heart Touching Sad Quotes [Ultimate Selection]

Trying to avoid negative emotions, in general, is not possible. In fact, ignoring it and trying to distract yourself from it may only make things worse in the long term. What really matters is to willingly approach the sadness you experience and to seek the root causes of it.

What makes the following selection of heartwarming sad quotes so powerful is that they contain thoughts and ideas of many brilliant individuals who themselves were confronted with sadness. Because of their own struggles with distress and hopelessness, these people have found beneficial ways to deal with sadness.

To give you a better overview, we have categorized the following quotes into these sections:

• Sad quotes about life
• Sad love quotes
• Sad depression quotes
• Sad relationship quotes
• Sad breakup quotes
• Heartbroken sad quotes
• Sad friendship quotes

Enjoy reading!

Here’s our selection of heartfelt sad quotes about life

1.

“Any fool can be happy. It takes a man with real heart to make beauty out of the stuff that makes us weep.”
Clive Barker

2.

“Sadness flies away on the wings of time.”
Jean de La Fontaine

3.

“You cannot protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from happiness.”
Jonathan Safran Foer

4.

“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’s its balance.”
Osho Rajneesh

5.

“You must not be frightened if a sadness rises up before you larger than any you have ever seen; if a restiveness, like light and cloud shadows, passes over your hands and over all you do. You must think that something is happening with you, that life has not forgotten you, that it holds you in its hand; it will not let you fall. Why do you want to shut out of your life any uneasiness, any miseries, or any depressions? For, after all, you do not know what work these conditions are doing inside you.”
Rainer Maria Rilke

6.

“Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart. The really great men must, I think, have great sadness on earth.”
Fyodor Dostoevsky

7.

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

8.

“Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul?”
John Keats

9.

“There are as many nights as days, and the one is just as long as the other in the year’s course. Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word ‘happy’ would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.”
Carl Gustav Jung

10.

“Bonds that are woven in sadness are stronger than the ties of joy and pleasure.”
Khalil Gibran

11.

“Ignore those that make you fearful and sad, that degrade you back towards disease and death.”
Rumi Jalalud-Din

12.

“Tears shed for another person are not a sign of weakness. They are a sign of a pure heart.”
José N. Harris

13.

“Ester asked why people are sad.
‘That’s simple,’ says the old man. ‘They are the prisoners of their personal history. Everyone believes that the main aim in life is to follow a plan. They never ask if that plan is theirs or if it was created by another person. They accumulate experiences, memories, things, other people’s ideas, and it is more than they can possibly cope with. And that is why they forget their dreams.’„
Paulo Coelho

14.

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

15.

“I know that pain is the most important thing in the universes. Greater than survival, greater than love, greater even than the beauty it brings about. For without pain, there can be no pleasure. Without sadness, there can be no happiness. Without misery, there can be no beauty. And without these, life is endless, hopeless, doomed and damned.”
Harlan Ellison

16.

“The sad truth is the truth is sad.”
Lemony Snicket

17.

“Some people turn sad awfully young. No special reason, it seems, but they seem almost to be born that way. They bruise easier, tire faster, cry quicker, remember longer and, as I say, get sadder younger than anyone else in the world. I know, for I’m one of them.”
Ray Bradbury

18.

“The funniest people are the saddest ones”
Confucius

19.

“There is no beauty in sadness. No honor in suffering. No growth in fear. No relief in hate. It’s just a waste of perfectly good happiness.”
Katerina Stoykova Klemer

20.

“There are moments when I wish I could roll back the clock and take all the sadness away, but I have a feeling that if I did, the joy would be gone as well. So I take the memories as they come, accepting them all, letting them guide me whenever I can.”
Nicholas Sparks

21.

“Do not assume that he who seeks to comfort you now, lives untroubled among the simple and quiet words that sometimes do you good. His life may also have much sadness and difficulty, that remains far beyond yours. Were it otherwise, he would never have been able to find these words.”
Rainer Maria Rilke

22.

“Our sadness is as much a part of our lives as is our laughter.”
James Kavanaugh

23.

“Sad hurts but it’s a healthy feeling. It is a necessary thing to feel. Depression is very different.”
J.K. Rowling

24.

“But listen to me. For one moment
quit being sad. Hear blessings
dropping their blossoms
around you.”
Mawlana Jalal-al-Din Rumi

25.

“In the end, I’ll look back on my life and see that the greatest piece of it was love. The problems, the divorces, the sadness… those will be there too, but just smaller slivers, tiny pieces.”
Sarah Dessen

26.

“Usually when people are sad, they don’t do anything. They just cry over their condition.”
Malcolm X

27.

“How terribly sad it was that people are made in such a way that they get used to something as extraordinary as living.”
Jostein Gaarder

28.

“The way sadness works is one of the strange riddles of the world. If you are stricken with a great sadness, you may feel as if you have been set aflame, not only because of the enormous pain, but also because your sadness may spread over your life, like smoke from an enormous fire.”
Lemony Snicket

29.

“It seems to me that almost all our sadnesses are moments of tension, which we feel as paralysis because we no longer hear our astonished emotions living. Because we are alone with the unfamiliar presence that has entered us; because everything we trust and are used to is for a moment taken away from us; because we stand in the midst of a transition where we cannot remain standing.”
Rainer Maria Rilke

30.

“In the course of life, there is sadness and pain and sorrow, all of which, in their right time and season, are normal – unpleasant, but normal.”
Elizabeth Wurtzel

31.

“You might find it difficult to see anything but your own sadness, the way smoke can cover a landscape so that all anyone can see is black. You may find that if someone pours water all over you, you are damp and distracted, but not cured of your sadness, the way a fire department can douse a fire but never recover what has been burnt down.”
Lemony Snicket

32.

“Be still, sad heart! and cease repining;
Behind the clouds is the sun still shining;
Thy fate is the common fate of all,
Into each life, some rain must fall.”
Henry Wadsworth

33.

“Beginnings are usually scary, and endings are usually sad, but its everything in between that makes it all worth living.”
Bob Marley

34.

“Don’t stay in one place too long. It was the only way to stay ahead of the sadness.”
Rick Riordan

35.

“It is sad when someone you know becomes someone you knew.”
Henry Rollins

36.

“The sadness of the world has different ways of getting to people, but it seems to succeed almost every time.”
Louis-Ferdinand Céline

37.

“It is a sad truth in life that when someone has lost a loved one, friends sometimes avoid the person, just when the presence of friends is most needed.”
Lemony Snicket

38.

“In this sad world of ours, sorrow comes to all; and, to the young, it comes with bitterest agony, because it takes them unawares.”
Abraham Lincoln

39.

“If we never experience the chill of a dark winter, it is very unlikely that we will ever cherish the warmth of a bright summer’s day. Nothing stimulates our appetite for the simple joys of life more than the starvation caused by sadness or desperation.”
Anthon St. Maarten

40.

“Yet each man kills the thing he loves
By each let this be heard
Some do it with a bitter look
Some with a flattering word
The coward does it with a kiss
The brave man with a sword”
Oscar Wilde

41.

“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

42.

“You can’t keep the birds of sadness from flying over your head, but you can keep them from nesting in your hair.”
Sharon Creech

43.

“Maybe we all have darkness inside of us and some of us are better at dealing with it than others.”
Jasmine Warga

44.

“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

45.

“So, this is my life. And I want you to know that I am both happy and sad and I’m still trying to figure out how that could be.”
Stephen Chbosky

46.

“If you expect the worst, you’ll never be disappointed.”
Sarah Desse

47.

“I have the choice of being constantly active and happy or introspectively passive and sad. Or I can go mad by ricocheting in between.”
Sylvia Plath

48.

“The longer and more carefully we look at a funny story, the sadder it becomes.”
Nikolai V. Gogol

49.

“Nothing thicker than a knife’s blade separates happiness from melancholy.”
Virginia Woolf

50.

“You are laughter that breaks through sadness.”
Kiera Cass

51.

“Life is not a PG feel-good movie. Real life often ends badly. Literature tries to document this reality, while showing us it is still possible for us to endure nobly.”
Matthew Quick

52.

“Melancholy is the happiness of being sad.”
Victor Hugo

53.

“Sometimes, when you’re so sad you don’t know what to do, it helps to be angry.”
Cornelia Funke

54.

“I will be stronger than my sadness.”
Jasmine Warga

55.

“The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true.”
James Branch Cabell

56.

“What people forget is a journey to nowhere starts with a single step, too.”
Chuck Palahniuk

57.

“If you board the wrong train, it is no use running along the corridor in the other direction.”
Dietrich Bonhoeffer

58.

“The way sadness works is one of the strangest riddles of the world.”
Lemony Snicket

59.

“The truth is, I feel beyond sad. I feel empty. Numb. „
Elizabeth Scott

60.

“I think the saddest people always try their hardest to make people happy because they know what it’s like to feel absolutely worthless and they don’t want anyone else to feel like that.”
Robin Williams

61.

“One of the greatest tragedies in life is to lose your own sense of self and accept the version of you that is expected by everyone else.”
K.L. Toth

62.

“No sense of the irony of human experience, that we are the highest form of life on earth, and yet ineffably sad because we know what no other animal knows, that we must die.”
Don DeLill

63.

“Sadness is but a wall between two gardens.”
Kahlil Gibran

64.

“That is why I write – to try to turn sadness into longing, solitude into remembrance.”
Paulo Coelho

65.

“I was lost yesterday, I am found today and I will be forgotten tomorrow.”
Santosh Kalwar

Sad love quotes

66.

“So it’s true, when all is said and done, grief is the price we pay for love.”
E.A. Bucchianeri

67.

“Life is both sad and solemn. We are led into a wonderful world, we meet one another here, greet each other – and wander together for a brief moment. Then we lose each other and disappear as suddenly and unreasonably as we arrived.”
Jostein Gaarder

68.

“Love that is washed by tears will remain eternally pure and faithful.”
Khalil Gibran

69.

“I wouldn’t say Love always makes you happy. Sometimes it makes you incredibly sad.”
Rick Riordan

70.

“The silence isn’t so bad, till I look at my hands and feel sad. Because the spaces between my fingers are right where yours fit perfectly.”
Owl City

71.

“The reason it hurts so much to separate is because our souls are connected.”
Nicholas Sparks

72.

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

73.

“You can’t buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.”
Henny Youngman

74.

“Anyone who falls in love is searching for the missing pieces of themselves. So anyone who’s in love gets sad when they think of their lover. It’s like stepping back inside a room you have fond memories of, one you haven’t seen in a long time.”
Haruki Murakami

75.

“There is nothing sweeter in this sad world than the sound of someone you love calling your name.”
Kate DiCamill

76.

“Grief, a type of sadness that most often occurs when you have lost someone you love, is a sneaky thing, because it can disappear for a long time, and then pop back up when you least expect it.”
Lemony Snicket

77.

“She recognized the strange happiness that came from loving something without knowing why you did, that strange happiness that was sometimes so big that it felt like sadness.”
Maggie Stiefvater

78.

“They say when you are missing someone that they are probably feeling the same, but I don’t think it’s possible for you to miss me as much as I’m missing you right now”
Edna St. Vincent Millay

79.

“She was a girl who knew how to be happy even when she was sad. And that’s important – you know „
Marilyn Monroe

Sad depression quotes

80.

“The sadness will last forever.”
Vincent van Gogh

81.

“I didn’t want to wake up. I was having a much better time asleep. And that’s really sad. It was almost like a reverse nightmare, like when you wake up from a nightmare you’re so relieved. I woke up into a nightmare.”
Ned Vizzini

82.

“That’s the thing about depression: A human being can survive almost anything, as long as she sees the end in sight. But depression is so insidious, and it compounds daily, that it’s impossible to ever see the end.”
Elizabeth Wurtzel

83.

“Birds scream at the top of their lungs in horrified hellish rage every morning at daybreak to warn us all of the truth, but sadly we don’t speak bird.”
Kurt Cobain

84.

“I felt sad because I realized that once people are broken in certain ways, they can’t ever be fixed, and this is something nobody ever tells you when you are young.”
Douglas Coupland

85.

“Depression is the most unpleasant thing I have ever experienced… It is that absence of being able to envisage that you will ever be cheerful again. The absence of hope.”
J.K. Rowling

86.

“Depression is like a heaviness that you can’t ever escape. It crushes down on you, making even the smallest things like tying your shoes or chewing on toast seem like a twenty-mile hike uphill. Depression is a part of you; it’s in your bones and your blood.”
Jasmine Warga

87.

“That’s the thing about depression. When I feel it deeply, I don’t want to let it go. It becomes a comfort.”
Stephanie Perkins

88.

“From the moment we are born, we begin to die.”
Janne Teller

89.

“Depression, instead, is flat, hollow, and unendurable. It is also tiresome. People cannot abide being around you when you are depressed.”
Kay Redfield Jamison

90.

“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

91.

“Tears, idle tears, I know not what they mean,
Tears from the depths of some divine despair
Rise in the heart, and gather to the eyes,
In looking on the happy autumn fields,
And thinking of the days that are no more.”
Alfred Lord Tennyson

92.

“He wanted to cry quietly but not for himself: for the words, so beautiful and sad, like music.”
James Joyce

93.

“I’ll never forget how the depression and loneliness felt good and bad at the same time. Still does.”
Henry Rollins

Sad relationship quotes

94.

“The most painful thing is losing yourself in the process of loving someone too much, and forgetting that you are special too.”
Ernest Hemingway

95.

“I know I am but summer to your heart, and not the full four seasons of the year.”
Edna St. Vincent Millay

96.

“She was a genius of sadness, immersing herself in it, separating its numerous strands, appreciating its subtle nuances. She was a prism through which sadness could be divided into its infinite spectrum.”
Jonathan Safran Foer

97.

“We’re all seeking that special person who is right for us. But if you’ve been through enough relationships, you begin to suspect there’s no right person, just different flavors of wrong.”
Andrew Boyd

98.

“I’ve been fighting to be who I am all my life. What’s the point of being who I am, if I can’t have the person who was worth all the fighting for?”
Stephanie Lennox

99.

“Indifference and neglect often do much more damage than outright dislike.”
J.K. Rowling

100.

“I mean, if the relationship can’t survive the long term, why on earth would it be worth my time and energy for the short term?”
Nicholas Sparks

101.

“When we’re incomplete, we’re always searching for somebody to complete us. When, after a few years or a few months of a relationship, we find that we’re still unfulfilled, we blame our partners and take up with somebody more promising. This can go on and on until we admit that while a partner can add sweet dimensions to our lives, we, each of us, are responsible for our own fulfillment. Nobody else can provide it for us, and to believe otherwise is to delude ourselves dangerously and to program for eventual failure every relationship we enter.”
Tom Robbins

102.

“True love is usually the most inconvenient kind.”
Kiera Cass

103.

“People like to say love is unconditional, but it’s not, and even if it was unconditional, it’s still never free. There’s always an expectation attached. They always want something in return.”
Katja Millay

104.

“I suffer from girlnextdooritis where the guy is friends with you and that’s it.”
Taylor Swift

Sad breakup quotes

105.

“The saddest thing is to be a minute to someone, when you’ve made them your eternity.”
Sanober Khan

106.

“This is what it felt like to have a broken heart. It felt less like a cracking down the middle and more like she had swallowed it whole and it sat bruised and bleeding in the pit of her stomach.”
Wendy Wunder

107.

“The shattering of a heart when being broken is the loudest quiet ever.”
Carroll Bryant

108.

“There’s so much more to life than finding someone who will want you, or being sad over someone who doesn’t.”
Emery Allen

109.

“The most difficult aspect of moving on is accepting that the other person already did.”
Faraaz Kazi

110.

“To me our love was everything and you were my whole life. It is not very pleasant to realize that to you it was only an episode.”
W. Somerset Maugham

111.

“It hurts to let go. Sometimes it seems the harder you try to hold on to something or someone the more it wants to get away.”
Henry Rollins

112.

“I know my heart will never be the same but I’m telling myself I’ll be okay”
Sara Evans

113.

“It is in that moment, when you really lay down your cards and see the relationship for what it was, that you’ll find the freedom to let it go.”
Greg Behrendt

114.

“No matter how bad you want a person, if your hearts are in two different places, you’ll have to pass and move on.”
Alexandra Elle

115.

“Isn’t it funny how the memories you cherish before a breakup can become your worst enemies afterwards?”
Allyson Braithwaite Condie

116.

“Time will make it worse! You’re… the other half of his soul. He’s never going to get over you. And no matter how much you hope that you will… you’ll never get over him. You’re going to wake up one day and realize what you’ve done, and you’re going to regret the time you wasted apart from him for the rest of your life.”
Jamie McGuire

117.

“Yes, I understand why things had to happen this way. I understand his reason for causing me pain. But mere understanding does not chase away the hurt. It does not call upon the sun when dark clouds have loomed over me.”
Jocelyn Soriano

118.

“You fell in love with a storm. Did you really think you would get out unscathed?”
Nikita Gill

119.

“It is better to lock up your heart with a merciless padlock, than to fall in love with someone who doesn’t know what they mean to you.”
Michael Bassey Johnson

120.

“Sadly enough, the most painful goodbyes are the ones that are left unsaid and never explained.”
Jonathan Harnisch

Heartbroken sad quotes

121.

“Why do people have to be this lonely? What’s the point of it all? Millions of people in this world, all of them yearning, looking to others to satisfy them, yet isolating themselves. Why? Was the earth put here just to nourish human loneliness?”
Haruki Murakami

122.

“When you’ve suffered a great deal in life, each additional pain is both unbearable and trifling.”
Yann Martel

123.

“I am always sad, I think. Perhaps this signifies that I am not sad at all, because sadness is something lower than your normal disposition, and I am always the same thing. Perhaps I am the only person in the world, then, who never becomes sad. Perhaps I am lucky.”
Jonathan Safran Foer

124.

“What a sad era when it is easier to smash an atom than a prejudice.”
Albert Einstein

125.

“Something so sad has hold of us that the breath leaves and we can’t even cry.”
Charles Bukowski

126.

“Some things are so sad that only your soul can do the crying for them.”
Gregory David Roberts

127.

“Are the days of winter sunshine just as sad for you, too? When it is misty, in the evenings, and I am out walking by myself, it seems to me that the rain is falling through my heart and causing it to crumble into ruins.”
Gustave Flaubert

128.

“You tell yourself that if they see you cry, it will hurt them, and you will be nothing but a Sadness in their lives, and you must not become a mere sadness, so you will not cry, and you say all of this to yourself while looking up at the ceiling, and then you swallow even though your throat does not want to close and you look at the person who loves you and smile.”
John Green

129.

“I often cry when I am happy, and smile when I am sad.”
Anne Brontë

130.

“I remember watching the mascara tears flood the ivories and I thought, “It’s OK to be sad.” I’ve been trained to love my darkness.”
Lady Gaga

131.

“I felt like crying but nothing came out. it was just a sort of sad sickness, sick sad, when you can’t feel any worse. I think you know it. I think everybody knows it now and then. but I think I have known it pretty often, too often.”
Charles Bukowski

132.

“The sadness is so heavy that I can’t get away from it. Not ever.”
Nina LaCour

133.

“The good times of today are the sad thoughts of tomorrow.”
Bob Marley

134.

“She wasn’t bitter. She was sad, though. But it was a hopeful kind of sad. The kind of sad that just takes time. „
Stephen Chbosky

135.

“Melancholy is sadness that has taken on lightness.”
Italo Calvino

136.

“Sometimes we get sad about things and we don’t like to tell other people that we are sad about them. We like to keep it a secret. Or sometimes, we are sad but we really don’t know why we are sad, so we say we aren’t sad but we really are.”
Mark Haddon, The

137.

“The only sadnesses that are dangerous and unhealthy are the ones that we carry around in public in order to drown them out with the noise; like diseases that are treated superficially and foolishly, they just withdraw and after a short interval break out again all the more terribly; and gather inside us and are life, are life that is unlived, rejected, lost, life that we can die of.”
Rainer Maria Rilke

Sad friendship quotes

138.

“The worst pain in the world goes beyond physical. Even further beyond any other emotional pain one can feel. It is in the betrayal of a friend.”
Heather Brewer

139.

“The knives of betrayal and drama cut deep and hurt… but they also trim away the nonsense and reveal your true friends.”
Steve Maraboli

140.

“It’s hard to tell who has your back from who has it long enough just to stab you in it.”
Nicole Richie

141.

“Some people are willing to betray years of friendship just to get a little bit of the spotlight.”
Lauren Conrad

142.

“Oh, sometimes I think it is of no use to make friends. They only go out of your life after a while and leave a hurt that is worse than the emptiness before they came.”
L.M. Montgomery

143.

“An honest enemy is better than a false friend. When in doubt, pay more attention to what people do and less to what they say. Actions not only speak louder than words, they are more difficult to fake.”
Zero Dean

144.

“The path of social advancement is, and must be, strewn with broken friendships.”
H.G. Wells

145.

“The lesser the friends, the lesser the chances of betrayal.”
Tupac Shakur

146.

“Two people who were once very close can without blame or grand betrayal become strangers. Perhaps this is the saddest thing in the world.”
Warsan Shire

147.

“Make as many friends as you can, but don’t build your life on them alone. It’s an unstable foundation.”
Sean Covey

148.

“Friendship is delicate as a glass, once broken it can be fixed but there will always be cracks.”
Waqar Ahmed

149.

“A friendship that can cease has never been real.”
St. Jerome

150.

“Trust is earned, respect is given, and loyalty is demonstrated. Betrayal of any one of those is to lose all three.”
Ziad K. Abdelnour

151.

“True friendship is like a rose: we don’t realize its beauty until it fades.”
Evelyn Loeb

152.

“Men kick friendship around like a football, but it doesn’t seem to crack. Women treat it like glass and it goes to pieces.”
Anne Morrow Lindbergh

153.

“It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.”
Friedrich Nietzsche

154.

“I had acquaintances… but then they’d always start trying to get away, like they’d turned over some stone in my personality and found a poisonous snake.”
Jason Schmidt

155.

“There is no sadder sight than a young pessimist.”
Mark Twain

We hope you enjoyed this collection of heartbreaking sad quotes.

When you are confronted with sadness that does not seem to go away, ask yourself if you are trying to escape it. The unwillingness to confront your sadness and to work through it may make it even worse in the long run. If you allow your sadness to just be instead of running away from it, you can train yourself not to be afraid of negative feelings.

When you have accomplished this important step, your ability to tolerate sadness will strengthen. At the same time, you will be equipped with the mental calmness to observe your feelings and to deal with the root causes of it. We hope that our selection of sad quotes has helped you in getting this process started.

Feel free to return back to this article whenever you feel that sadness starts overwhelming you again.

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