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Sad Quotes

Sad Quotes

When life's got you feeling down, sometimes the only thing to do is embrace it. And for times like that, perhaps some of these quotes will connect with the way you're feeling. We've gathered this collection of some of the saddest quotes we've come across in literature and on the internet.

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Last updated: May 26, 2020

500 Sad Quotes organized by Most Popular

“I have always been an optimistic woman, but time has left me bitter, alone and sad.”
— Paulo Coelho, The Spy
Tagged: Time, Bitterness, Sadness
“How sad and bad and mad it was - but then, how it was sweet.”
— Robert Browning, Confessions
Tagged: Love, Passionate, Madness, Sadness
“I don’t need your sad. I have enough of my own.”
— Fortesa Latifi, Tumblr
Tagged: Sadness, Depression, Poetry
“my teeth are showing but it still doesn’t look like a smile.”
— Fortesa Latifi, Tumblr
Tagged: smiling, Sadness, Depression, Internalization
“I see everything in black, in pain.”
— Claude Monet, Psychoanalytic Perspectives on Art
Tagged: Pain, Suffering, Darkness, Sorrow, Misery, Sad
“September saw a month of tears
And thankin' God that you weren't here
To see me like that”
— Taylor Swift, Tim McGraw
Tagged: Sadness
“There must be something strangely sacred in salt. It is in our tears and in the sea.”
— Khalil Gibran, Sand And Foam
Tagged: salt, Feelings, Water, salt in tears and sea, Sadness, Life
“With all the smiles you brought me I never thought that you could cause me so many tears.”
— Unknown, With all the smiles you brought me, I never thought that you could cause me so many tears.[Vent]
Tagged: Crying, Tears, Sad
“We are so blind that we know neither when to mourn, nor when to rejoice; our mirth and our sadness are nearly always false.”
— Baron de Montesquieu, Persian Letters(Penguin Classics)
Tagged: Blind, Mourn, rejoice, Mirth, Sadness
“Clay Jensen: I cost a girl her life because I was afraid to love her.

Kevin Porter: You can't love someone back to life.

Clay Jensen: You can try.”
— Clay Jensen, 13 Reasons Why, 13 Reasons Why Season 1: Tape 7, Side A
Tagged: Sadness, Regret
“Can't I take away all this pain?”
— Korn, Freak On a Leash
Tagged: Pain, Sad, Need To Leave, Stop It!
“Next time the Big Motherfuckin’ Sad comes calling, don’t pick up the phone.”
— Adam Gnade, The Do-It-Yourself Guide to Fighting the Big Motherfuckin' Sad
Tagged: Depression, Seasonal Depression, Sadness, Motivational
“What made you sad is just as important as with what made you happy.”
— Juansen Dizon
Tagged: Sadness, Happiness, Finding Yourself, Mental Health, Quote of the Moment
“I am crazy sad, and somewhere deep inside, all I want is to fly.”
— Jandy Nelson, The Sky Is Everywhere
Tagged: fly, Sad, Float, Problems
“You are a sad, strange little man, and you have my pity. Farewell.”
— Buzz Lightyear (voice), Toy Story
Tagged: Sad, strange, insults
“'Cause it's hard to be sad when you're doing something good for somebody else.”
— Ernie, On Becoming a God in Central Florida, Season 1: The Gloomy-Zoomies
Tagged: Sad, Acts of Kindness, good deeds
“Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that, and living alone won’t either, for solitude will also break you with its yearning. You have to love. You have to feel. It is the reason you are here on earth. You are here to risk your heart. You are here to be swallowed up.”
— Louise Erdrich, The Painted Drum: A Novel (P.S.)
Tagged: Solitude, Life, Pain, Sadness, Inevitable, Love, Need, Risk, Human Nature
“For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson, The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Modern Library Classics)
Tagged: Life Wisdoms, Life Quotes, Happiness, Sadness
“You're a brother to me
You're my partner in crime
You're the feeling I get
When I'm feeling fine”
— Phoebe Bridgers, Steamroller
Tagged: Relationships, Sadness, Folk Music, Indie Rock
“My heart is sad and lonely
For you I sigh, for you dear only
Why haven't you seen it
I'm all for you body and soul
I spend my days in longing
And wondering why it's me you're wronging”
— John Coltrane, Body And Soul
Tagged: Sad, Lonely, Longing, Heartache
“What do you do when your heart’s in pain?”
— Frank Sinatra, No One Cares
Tagged: Sad, Broken Heart
“You're just a little sinner like the rest of us. I'm almost kind of sad about that.”
— Fish Mooney, Gotham, Season 1: Selina Kyle
Tagged: Sinner, Sad
“Fake a smile, lie and say, you're better now than ever, and your life's okay when it's not.”
— The Script, Six Degrees of Separation
Tagged: Faking it, Unhappy Inside, Sad Selfie Captions, Selfie Captions
“Ilana: I like sad men.

Sayid Jarrah: I'm sorry to hear that.”
— Sayid Jarrah, Lost, Season 5: He's Our You
Tagged: Sad Men, Sad, SASS
“No one likes to see people in moods of despair they themselves have survived.”
— F. Scott Fitzgerald, A Life in Letters(Penguin Classics)
Tagged: Sadness, Despair, Struggle, Survival
“The problem with being the rock is no one asks if you’re starting to crumble.”
— Ellen Hopkins, via Tumblr
Tagged: strength, Alone, Sadness
“In the end, we’re all alone and no one is coming to save you.”
— John Reese, Person of Interest, Season 1: Mission Creep
Tagged: Sad, Alone, No One
“Can you see me? All of me? Probably not. No one ever really has.”
— Jeffrey Eugenides, Middlesex
Tagged: self, Person, judged by society, society's standard, self awareness, Self & Identity, Self Boundaries, Sad
“No one stays for you. Everybody stays depending on their need for you.”
— Ahlam Mosteghanemi, Rupi Kaur quoting Ahlam Mosteghanemi
Tagged: Stay, Relationship, Needs, Sad, Cynical
“My feelings? Oh, don't worry about those, no one else does.”
— Unknown
Tagged: Sad, Feelings, Being Forgotten, Alone
“It is easy to disappear when no one is looking at you.”
— Kristin Hannah, The Nightingale: A Novel
Tagged: Unnoticed, Leaving, Disappearing, Sadness, Loneliness, Solitude
“No one forgets the truth – they just get better at lying.”
— Richard Yates, Revolutionary Road
Tagged: Truth, Honesty, lying, Lies, good at lying, People, humans, Life, blind eye, Sad
“Beginnings are usually scary and endings are usually sad, but it's everything in between that makes it all worth living.”
— Bob Marley, 30 Bob Marley Quotes On Life, Love and Money
Tagged: scary, Start, Sad
“I think and think and think. I‘ve thought myself out of happiness one million times, but never once into it.”
— Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
Tagged: Macros, handwriting, Purple, Think, Thinking, Thought, Happiness, Anxiety, Depression, Mental Health, Sad, Intelligence
“When she is happy, she can't stop talking, when she is sad she doesn't say a word.”
— Ann Brashares, Girls in Pants: The Third Summer of the Sisterhood
Tagged: Happiness, Sadness, Silence, H4D-7
“Touch me. Soft eyes. Soft soft soft hand. I am lonely here. Sad too. Touch, touch me.”
— James Joyce, Ulysses
Tagged: Lonely, Sad, romance, Connection
“We are Sex Bob-Omb and we are here to make you think about death and get sad and stuff.”
— Scott Pilgrim, Scott Pilgrim vs. the World
Tagged: Bands, sex bomb, Death, Sad
“I've never seen meerkats and a sad person at the same time. It's like a weird art installation.”
— Arnold, Please Like Me, Season 2: Lapin A La Cocotte
Tagged: Meerkats, Sad, Simile Examples, Art Installation
“There comes a point where there aren’t any tears left. When we have lost what we’ve held dear all that’s left are the memories.”
— Samantha King, Born to Love, Cursed to Feel
Tagged: Relationships, Heartbreak, Sad
“Who shall unravel the mystery of a woman's weeping? Who shall declare whether it is pain or a relief to the over-charged heart? . . . When love's burning finger touches the pulse, and marks its slow or rapid beatings. And Thelma wept, as many of her sex weep, without knowing why, save that all suddenly she felt herself most lonely and forlorn.”
— Marie Corelli, Thelma
Tagged: Lonely, Loneliness, Solitude, Sadness, Melancholy, Depression
“My friends, no one, not in my situation, can appreciate my feeling of sadness at this parting. To this place, and the kindness of these people, I owe everything. Here I have lived a quarter of a century, and have passed from a young to an old man. Here my children have been born, and one is buried. I now leave, not knowing when, or whether ever, I may return, with a task before me greater than that which rested upon Washington. Without the assistance of the Divine Being who ever attended him, I cannot succeed. With that assistance I cannot fail. Trusting in Him who can go with me, and remain with you, and be everywhere for good, let us confidently hope that all will yet be well. To His care commending you, as I hope in your prayers you will commend me, I bid you an affectionate farewell.”
— Abraham Lincoln
Tagged: George Washington, God, Farewell, Sadness
“You are an autumn sky, suffused with a rose. Yet sadness rises in me like the sea, and on my somber lip, when it outflows, leaves its salt burning slime for memory.”
— Charles Baudelaire, Les Fleurs du Mal: The Flowers of Evil: the complete dual language edition, fully revised and updated
Tagged: Nature, the nature of love, Sadness, depression is not a choice
“All the best parts of art come from pain turned to celebration.”
— Natalia Kills, Review: Natalia Kills – Perfectionist(2011)
Tagged: Art, Pain, outcome, Passion, Sadness, Loneliness
“Don't be scared...Women can handle the worst kind of pain. You'll find out one day.”
— Gayle Forman, If I Stay
Tagged: Heartbreak, Love, Sadness
“If you are silent about your pain, they’ll kill you and say you enjoyed it.”
— Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God
Tagged: Pain, Silence, Sadness
“Pain has a way of clipping our wings and keeping us from being able to fly.”
— William P. Young, The Shack: Where Tragedy Confronts Eternity
Tagged: Pain, Holding Back, Paralyzing, Sadness
“My heart is so tired.”
— Markus Zusak, The Book Thief
Tagged: heart, Sad, Exhausted, Ready To Give Up
“Deep in her secret heart, in the pure place she protects, she is afraid she will always be alone - that she will go through life without being known. And she will not survive that.”
— Rene Denfeld, The Enchanted
Tagged: fears, Sad
“Even if your life holds a lot of beauty. Even if your cup is full and your days are blessed. You’re allowed to be affected. You’re allowed to hurt. You’re allowed to feel broken and sad. And you deserve a space to talk about it. Always.”
— Daniell Koepke, Daring To Take Up Space
Tagged: Feeling Bad, Sadness, Overcoming Negative Feelings, Talking About Emotions, Emotionality
“I smile and laugh and carry on like my heart's still in one piece, but beneath it all, I am dying.”
— Melody Carlson, Deep Green: Color Me Jealous
Tagged: Smiles, Laughter, Sadness, H4D-7