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.

“In this world, full often, our joys are only the tender shadows which our sorrows cast.”

Henry Ward Beecher

More Sad Quotes

“No matter how old and glorious the models, sad indeed is the woman who sees fashion as a means of self-expression rather than an agent of social control.”

Julie Burchill

“I love music videos, I really do. I think it's kind of sad that it's a dying art form.”

Adam Levine

“'The Taxi Ride,' from my second album, is one people want to hear a lot. I'm consciously trying to walk on the sunny side of the street, to really lift myself into a place of greater positivity, and that's a sad song.”

Jane Siberry

“It is sad to see a woman sacrificing the ties of the affections even to do good.”

Maria Mitchell

“With my schedule being so crazy, I can't call every day or hang out with my friends like I used to and that's definitely sad.”

Jordin Sparks

“My parents' divorce left me with a lot of sadness and pain and acting, and especially humour, was my way of dealing with all that.”

Jennifer Aniston

“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

“And in real life endings aren't always neat, whether they're happy endings, or whether they're sad endings.”

Stephen King

“The attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon shook our nation to the core. Americans were deeply frightened, sad, and angry, and they rallied around a President who, at the time, showed impressive certitude and calm.”

Eliot Spitzer

“I seldom think about my limitations, and they never make me sad. Perhaps there is just a touch of yearning at times but it is vague, like a breeze among flowers.”

Helen Keller

“If we don't make earnest moves toward real solutions, then each day we move one day closer to revolution and anarchy in this country. This is the sad, and yet potentially joyous, state of America.”

Louis Farrakhan

“It's sad, something coming to an end. It cracks you open, in a way - cracks you open to feeling.”

Jennifer Aniston

“I am co-writing a screenplay now and I'm working on the rights to another story I want to do. So I plan to produce and direct. So, for me, I don't really feel that I am vulnerable to that sad baggage that comes with the business of filmmaking.”

Kerry Washington

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