60 Sad Quotes to Free You from Loneliness
Sad quotes come to your rescue when you all want to comfort yourself with the words you can relate to. There are days when you feel that the world is not the place to live. Then there are days when you feel completely shattered by your own emotions. These are the days when you look for sad quotes to share your pain with others. These are moments which everyone shares. Situations differ but emotions remain identical.
People might not feel your pain, but they can understand your situation.
Read these sad quotes to know the harsh reality of life.
1. “The things we leave unsaid would fill great volumes; what we do say, only the first few pages of introduction.”
2. “It is the evening that breaks one’s heart. At night one only hears the pieces falling.”
3. “It is like spending seventy years of one’s life in a graveyard – being born in one and dying in one. It’s a waste of time – a waste. And one lifetime is so short, it’s over before you know it!”
4. “This stain-covered D-day-break, this night-bitten dawn. this dawn is not that dawn we craved for (Yeh daghdar ujala yeh shab gazida sahr, woh intizar tha jiska yeh wo sahr to nahin).”
5. “Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself.”
6. “It’s not what enters men’s mouths that’s evil,” said the alchemist. “It’s what comes out of their mouths that is.”
7. “Every search begins with beginner’s luck. And every search ends with the victor’s being severely tested.”
8. “Everything that happens once can never happen again. But everything that happens twice will surely happen a third time.”
9. “Some periods of our growth are so confusing that we don’t even recognize that growth is happening. We may feel hostile or angry or weepy and hysterical, or we may feel depressed. It would never occur to us, unless we stumbled upon a book or a person who explained to us, that we were in fact in the process of change, of becoming larger, spiritually, than we were before.
Whenever we grow, we tend to feel it, as a young seed must feel the weight and inertia of the earth as it seeks to break out of its shell on its way to becoming a plant. Often the feeling is anything but pleasant. But what is most unpleasant is not knowing what is happening.
Those long periods when something inside ourselves seems to be waiting, holding its breath, unsure about what the next step should be, eventually become the periods we wait for, for it is in those periods that we realize that we are being prepared for the next phase of our life and that, in all probability, a new level of the personality is about to be revealed.”
10. “Laughter isn’t even the other side of tears. It is tears turned inside out. Truly the suffering is great, here on earth. We blunder along, shredded by our mistakes, bludgeoned by our faults. Not having a clue where the dark path leads us. But overall, we stumble along bravely, don’t you think?”
11. “There are moments when I wish I could roll back the clock and take all the sadness away, but I have the feeling that if I did, the joy would be gone as well.”
12. “Life’s under no obligation to give us what we expect.”
13. “You see, I usually find myself among strangers because I drift here and there trying to forget the sad things that happened to me.”
14. “Don’t go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.”
15. “Things change. And friends leave. And life doesn’t stop for anybody.”
16. “Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.”
17. “I have learned now that while those who speak about one’s miseries usually hurt, those who keep silence hurt more.”
18. “The excursion is the same when you go looking for your sorrow as when you go looking for your joy.”
19. “Don’t ever tell anybody anything. If you do, you start missing everybody.”
20. “I wish I could go back to the day I met you and just walk away.”
21. “I’m not crying because of you; you’re not worth it. I’m crying because my delusion of who you were was shattered by the truth of who you are.”
22. “To live in a hallucination of being loved is more painful than rejection.”
23. “So it’s true, when all is said and done, grief is the price we pay for love.”
24. “What is hardest to accept about the passage of time is that the people who once mattered the most to us wind up in parentheses.”
25. “Our dead are never dead to us until we have forgotten them.”
26. “The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.”
27. “It is the unknown we fear when we look upon death and darkness, nothing more.”
28. “It’s sad when someone you know becomes someone you knew.”
29. “There is a time for departure, even when there’s no certain place to go.”
30. “You meet everyone twice in this life, when they come and when they go.”
31. “Grief is not as heavy as guilt, but it takes more away from you.”
32. “Death is a great revealer of what is in a man, and in its solemn shadow appear the naked lineaments of the soul.”
33. “Death is the dropping of the flower that the fruit may swell.”
34. “You know, a heart can be broken, but it keeps on beating, just the same.”
35. “It’s amazing how someone can break your heart, and you can still love them with all the little pieces.”
36. “I keep thinking about this river somewhere, with the water moving really fast. And these two people in the water, trying to hold onto each other, holding on as hard as they can, but in the end it’s just too much. The current’s too strong. They’ve got to let go, drift apart. That’s how it is with us.”
37. “There is a distinct, awful pain that comes with loving someone more than they love you.”
38. “To have been loved so deeply, even though the person who loved us is gone, will give us some protection forever.”
39. “To have felt too much is to end in feeling nothing.”
40. “Now, you are just a stranger with all my secrets.”
41. “I never got to fall out of love. I just had to move on.”
42. “Some stories don’t have happy endings. Even love stories. Maybe especially love stories.”
43. “Love is so short, forgetting is so long.”
44. “To fall in love is awfully simple, but to fall out of love is simply awful.”
45. “If you gave someone your heart and they died, did they take it with them? Did you spend the rest of forever with a hole inside you that couldn’t be filled?”
46. “You make me feel like a firefly. Trapped in a bell Jar; starved for love.”
47. “You’re like a song that I heard when I was a little kid but forgot I knew until I heard it again.”
48. “There is no greater sorrow than to recall, in misery, the time when we were happy.”
49. “Sometimes you hurt something to help something. Sometimes you have to plow under one thing in order for something else to grow.”
50. Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold.”
51. “Who has not sat before his own heart’s curtain? It lifts and the scenery is falling apart.”
52. “Stab the body and it heals but injure the heart and the wound lasts a lifetime.”
53. “Tears are words the mouth can’t say nor can the heart bear.”
54. “Of all the words of mice and men, the saddest are, ‘It might have been.'”
55. “Being a successful person is not necessarily defined by what you have achieved, but by what you have overcome.”
56. “One thing you can’t hide is when you’re crippled inside.”
57. “There are years that ask questions and years that answer.”
58. “Heavy hearts, like heavy clouds in the sky, are best relieved by the letting of a little water.”
59. “Tears come from the heart and not from the brain.”
60. “Long after I have given up, my heart still searches for you without my permission.”
Remember that sad quotes may only relieve your mood for some time. One has to find ways to overcome the situation of pain and anxiety.
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