Sad Quotes

Sadness is not a problem to be solved — it is a signal to be understood. These quotes sit with grief, melancholy, heartbreak, and loss without rushing to fix them, because sometimes the most helpful thing is knowing you are not the only one who feels this way.

“Participate joyfully in the sorrows of the world. We cannot cure the world of sorrows, but we can choose to live in joy.”

Joseph Campbell

More Sad Quotes

“You get used to sadness, growing up in the mountains, I guess.”

Loretta Lynn

“I look at my people, and I look at those who control them - the political elite. And the sad thing is that the elites are just not interested in the welfare of the people.”

Youssou N'Dour

“I hold the world but as the world, Gratiano A stage where every man must play a part, And mine is a sad one.”

William Shakespeare

“Even when I'm in quite a happy state of mind, I like writing really sad songs. I think a lot of people do.”

Ellie Goulding

“When I seemed to be irritable or sad, my father would quote the learned Dr. Knight, and then say, 'Just go to sleep.' Like all smart aleck kids, I thought the advice was silly. But as I've grown older, I've realized just how smart Knight was.”

Ben Stein

“God is in the sadness and the laughter, in the bitter and the sweet.”

Neale Donald Walsch

“To the indefinite, uncertain mind of the American radical the most contradictory ideas and methods are possible. The result is a sad chaos in the radical movement, a sort of intellectual hash, which has neither taste nor character.”

Emma Goldman

“If I don't make it, I'll be very sad that there are things I didn't do, but I'm happy that I've done what I have.”

Stephen Jay Gould

“Being on your own would be sad, sick and weird. I don't trust myself. I need that balance.”

Daniel Craig

“We look before and after, And pine for what is not Our sincerest laughter With some pain is fraught Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.”

Percy Bysshe Shelley

“They say such nice things about people at their funerals that it makes me sad that I'm going to miss mine by just a few days.”

Garrison Keillor

“Let my soul smile through my heart and my heart smile through my eyes, that I may scatter rich smiles in sad hearts.”

Paramahansa Yogananda

“The first series I wrote, 'L.A. Candy,' was always meant to be a three-book series, so when I started out it was all outlined that way and by the time I was done with the third book, I had become so involved and the process and the stories, I was a little bit sad to be done.”

Lauren Conrad

“So many schools are getting rid of music programs and it's really sad because I know that when I started singing and stuff it was something that I always wanted to do and I never believed in myself to be able to do it.”

Hilary Duff

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