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1. “ You cannot protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from happiness.” 

― Jonathan Safran Foer



2. “ Sadness flies away on the wings of time.” 

― Jean de La Fontaine

3. “ I do believe that if you haven’t learned about sadness, you cannot appreciate happiness.”

Nana Mouskouri 

4. “ We must understand that sadness is an ocean, and sometimes we drown, while other days we are forced to swim.” 

― R.M. Drake

5. “ The word ‘happy’ would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.” 

— Carl Jung

6. “ Some days are just bad, that's all. You have to experience sadness to know happiness, and I remind myself that not every day is going to be a good day, that's just the way it is!” 

 ― Dita Von Teese

7. “ There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power. They speak more eloquently than ten thousand tongues. They are the messengers of overwhelming grief, deep contrition, and unspeakable love.” 

― Washington Irving

8. “ Our sweetest songs are those that tell of the saddest thought. Percy Bysshe Shelley For all sad words of tongue and pen, The saddest are these, 'It might have been'.” 

― John Greenleaf Whittier

9. “Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not, and oftentimes we call a man cold when he is only sad.”

― Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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

― Pablo Neruda



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

― Nikolai V. Gogol

12. “There are two types of people in the world: those who prefer to be sad among others, and those who prefer to be sad alone.” 

― Nicole Krauss

13. “It is sad not to love, but it is much sadder not to be able to love.” 

― Miguel de Unamuno

14. “Relationships are like glass. Sometimes it’s better to leave them broken than try to hurt yourself putting it back together.” 

― Unknown

15. “ Nothing is sadder than the death of an illusion.” 

 ― Arthur Koestler

16. “ Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not, and oftentimes we call a man cold when he is only sad.” 

 ― Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

17. “ Sadness is but a wall between two gardens.” 

 ― Khalil Gibran

18. “ Sadness flies away on the wings of time.” 

 ― Jean de La Fontaine

19. “ Depression is the inability to construct a future.” 

 ― Rollo May

20. “ The tragedy of life is in what dies inside a man while he lives - the death of genuine feeling, the death of inspired response, the awareness that makes it possible to feel the pain or the glory of other men in yourself.” 

 ― Norman Cousins

21. “ Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us sorry but wise.” 

 ― H. G. Wells



22. “ For I have learned to look on nature, not as in the hour of thoughtless youth, but hearing oftentimes The still, sad music of humanity.” 

 ― William Wordsworth

23. “It is sad not to love, but it is much sadder not to be able to love.” 

― Miguel de Unamuno

24. “Falling in love is like holding a candle. Initially, it lightens up the world around you. Then it starts melting and hurts you. Finally, it goes off and everything is darker than ever and all you are left with is the. BURN!” 

 Syed Arshad

25. “I wonder if I could take back every ‘I love you’ ever said to you, would I do it?” 

― Faraaz Kazi

26. “You make me feel like a firefly. Trapped in a bell jar; starved for love.” 

― Ayush Ghoshal

27. “Tears are words that need to be written.” 

― Paulo Coelho

28. “There is one pain, I often feel, which you will never know. It’s caused by the absence of you.”

― Ashleigh Brilliant

29. “One must not let oneself be overwhelmed by sadness.” 

― Jacqueline Kennedy-Onassis

30. “Sadness is also a kind of defense.” 

— Ivo Andrich



31. “The walls we build around us to keep sadness out also keeps out the joy.” 

— Jim Rohn

32. “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 SparksDear John

33. “We’re taught to be ashamed of confusion, anger, fear, and sadness, and to me, they’re of equal value to happiness, excitement, and inspiration.” 

— Alanis Morrisette

34. “Experiencing sadness and anger can make you feel more creative, and by being creative you can get beyond your pain or negativity.” 

— Yoko Ono

35. “Sad hurts but it’s a healthy feeling. It is a necessary thing to feel.” 

— J.K. Rowling

36. “When you think you’re first falling in love, just then you realize you’re falling out of love.”

— David Grayson

37. “With some pain is fraught; Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.” 

— Percy Bysshe Shelley, “To a Skylark”

38. “It is sad not to love, but it is much sadder not to be able to love.” 

— Miguel de Unamuno

39. “Behind every sweet smile, there is a bitter sadness that no one can ever see and feel.” 

— Tupac Shakur

40. “Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not, and oftentimes we call a man cold when he is only sad.” 

― Henry Wadsworth Longfellow



41. “ The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil.” 

 ― Hannah Arendt

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

 ― Henry Ward Beecher

43. “ The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities.”  

― Sophocles

44. “ Sadness is also a kind of defense. Ivo Andric Good humor is the health of the soul, sadness is its poison.” 

 ― Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield

45. “ In deep sadness, there is no place for sentimentality.” 

 ― William S. Burroughs

46. “ First, accept sadness. Realize that without losing, winning isn't so great.”  

― Alyssa Milano

47. “ I really believe that all of us have a lot of darkness in our souls. Anger, rage, fear, sadness. I don't think that's only reserved for people who have horrible upbringings. I think it really exists and is part of the human condition. I think in the course of your life you figure out ways to deal with that.” 

 ― Kevin Bacon

48. “ I do believe that if you haven't learned about sadness, you cannot appreciate happiness.” 

 ― Nana Mouskouri

49. “ Sad will be the day for any man when he becomes contented with the thoughts he is thinking and the deeds he is doing - where there is not forever beating at the doors of his soul some great desire to do something larger; which he knows he was meant and made to do.” 

 ― Phillips Brooks

50. “ Oh, I am very weary, Though tears no longer flow; My eyes are tired of weeping, My heart is sick of woe.” 

 ― Anne Bronte



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