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Read our deep and meaningful sad life quotes and sayings from renowned authors, thinkers, and philosophers.
Rabindranath Tagore has a beautiful quote on overcoming sadness. He quotes, ‘ We read the world wrong and say that it deceives us.’
All our sadness and miseries in life happen because of our misplaced assumptions and expectations in the wrong places.
We read the world wrong because we hope and desire that we will get total peace, satisfaction, and contentment via the world.
When the people, events, and situations fail to live up to our expectations, we feel deceived by the other.
That results in many inner frustrations, mental turmoils, anxiety, pain, and heartaches.
How to not live a sad life?
If you want to come out of a sad life, drop the hope of getting psychological fulfillment from others.
Now the world can become a beautiful place to relate to and experience. Firstly, know discretely what the world can provide and cannot give in terms of mental satisfaction.
That inner understanding will help us relate healthily.
We go through many mental disturbances because we have attached unnecessary hopes to the wrong places outside of ourselves.
Drop the misplaced hope, become light-hearted, and keep understanding the facts of our minds and their relation with the world.
A beautiful harmony between me, my mind, and my world becomes a possibility.
We hope our sad life quotes collection is enriching and thought-provoking.
Best Sad Life Quotes and Sayings
It’s sad when someone you know becomes someone you knew.
– Henry Rollins
Life is sad, life is a bust, all you can do is do what you must.
– Bob Dylan
The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.
– William Mather Lewis
Sorrow is one of the vibrations that prove the fact of living.
– Antoine de Saint-Exupery
To fall in love is awfully simple, but to fall out of love is simply awful.
– Bess Myerson
There is no greater sorrow than to recall in misery the time when we were happy.
– Dante
Behind every sweet smile, there is a bitter sadness that no one can ever see and feel.
– Tupac Shakur
There is no worse sorrow than remembering happiness in the day of sorrow.
– Alfred De Musset
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
Truth is everybody is going to hurt you: you just gotta find the ones worth suffering for.
– Bob Marley
A sad thing in life is that sometimes you meet someone who means a lot to you, only to find out in the end it was never bound to be, and you just have to let go.
– Will Smith
Don’t fear failure so much that you refuse to try new things. The saddest summary of a life contains three descriptions: could have, might have, and should have.
– Louis E. Boone
I always like walking in the rain, so no one can see me crying.
– Charlie Chaplin
Everyone in life is gonna hurt you, you just have to figure out which people are worth the pain.
– Erica Baican
It’s sad to know I’m done. But looking back, I’ve got a lot of great memories.
– Bonnie Blair
Painful Sad Life Quotes and Sayings
Nobody deserves your tears, but whoever deserves them will not make you cry.
– Gabriel Garcia Marquez
If you don’t find a way to do something as work that is fulfilling and enjoyable, then your life is going to be really sad.
– Rudy Giuliani
One’s real life is so often the life that one does not lead.
– Oscar Wilde
Is life so wretched? Isn’t it rather your hands which are too small, your vision which is muddled? You are the one who must grow up.
– Dag Hammarskjold
Nearly everyone has his box of secret pain, shared with no one.
– John Steinbeck
We never actually live, but hope to live, and since we are always planning how to be happy, it is inevitable that we should never be so.
– Blaise Pascal
When you’ve suffered a great deal in life, each additional pain is both unbearable and trifling.
– Yann Martel
We are all so much together, but we are all dying of loneliness.
– Albert Schweitzer
Sadness is but a wall between two gardens.
– Kahlil Gibran
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
Anger, tears and sadness are only for those who have given up.
– Katie Gill
Sometimes pain is so unmanageable that the idea of spending another day with it seems impossible. Other times pain acts as a compass to help you through the messier tunnels of growing up. But pain can only help you find happiness if you remember it.
– Adam Silvera
Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.
– Khalil Gibran
Sorrow is knowledge, those that know the most must mourn the deepest, the tree of knowledge is not the tree of life.
– Lord Byron
It’s easy to cry when you realize that everyone you love will reject you or die.
– Chuck Palahniuk
Deep Sad Life Quotes and Sayings
My feeling is that there is nothing in life but refraining from hurting others, and comforting those who are sad.
– Olive Schreiner
Sadness is almost never anything but a form of fatigue.
– Andre Gide
Numbing the pain for a while will make it worse when you finally feel it.
– J. K. Rowling
Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair.
– William Cowper
As the light begins to intensify, so does my misery, and I wonder how it is possible to hurt so much when nothing is wrong.
– Tabitha Suzuma
I have a thousand reasons to die and many millions of tears to cry.
– Draconian
So much sadness exists in the world that we are all under obligation to contribute as much joy as lies within our powers.
– John Sutherland Bonnell
Sadness is a super important thing not to be ashamed about but to include in our lives. One of the bigger problems with sadness or depression is there’s so much shame around it. If you have it you’re a failure. You are felt as being very unattractive.
– Mike Mills
How sad it is that we give up on people who are just like us.
– Fred Rogers
Tears are words that need to be written.
– Paulo Coelho
Sadness usually results from one of the following causes either when a man does not succeed, or is ashamed of his success.
– Seneca
This is what it felt like to have a broken heart. It felt less like a cracking down the middle and more like she had swallowed it whole and it sat bruised and bleeding in the pit of her stomach.
– Wendy Wunder
You cannot protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from happiness.
– Jonathan Safran Foe
Half of the secular unrest and dismal, profane sadness of modern society comes from the vain ideas that every man is bound to be a critic for life.
– Henry Van Dyke
Nothing records the effects of a sad life so graphically as the human body.
– Naguib Mahfouz
Meaningful Sad Life Quotes and Sayings
The walls we build around us to keep sadness out also keeps out the joy.
– Jim Rohn
Man could not live if he were entirely impervious to sadness. Many sorrows can be endured only by being embraced, and the pleasure taken in them naturally has a somewhat melancholy character.
– Emile Durkheim
Sorrows cannot all be explained away in a life truly lived, grief and loss accumulate like possessions.
– Stefan Kanfer
Dying seems less sad than having lived too little.
– Gloria Steinem
I guess that’s what saying good-bye is always like – like jumping off an edge. The worst part is making the choice to do it. Once you’re in the air, there’s nothing you can do but let go.
– Lauren Oliver
Nobody really cares if you’re miserable, so you might as well be happy.
– Cynthia Nelms
How sad to see a father with money and no joy. The man studied economics, but never studied happiness.
– Jim Rohn
Breathing is hard. When you cry so much, it makes you realize that breathing is hard.
– David Levithan
Life’s under no obligation to give us what we expect.
– Margaret Mitchell
Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.
– Norman Cousins
Sadness flies away on the wings of time.
– Jean de la Fontaine
We must understand that sadness is an ocean, and sometimes we drown, while other days we are forced to swim.
– R.M. Drake
Some days are just bad days, 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
Life is made of so many partings welded together.
– Charles Dickens
The good life is not one immune to sadness but one in which suffering contributes to our development.
– Alain De Botton
Uplifting Sad Life Quotes and Sayings
Your sadness is a gift. Don’t reject it. Don’t rush it. Live it fully and use it as fuel to change and grow.
– Maxime Lagacé
Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better to take things as they come along with patience and equanimity.
– Carl Jung
The sadness will last forever.
– Vincent Van Gogh
I used to think the worst thing in life was to end up all alone, it’s not. The worst thing in life is to end up with people who make you feel alone.
– Robin Williams
What need is there to weep over parts of life? The whole of it calls for tears.
– Seneca
Some people seemed to get all sunshine, and some all shadow.
– Louisa May Alcott
Modern society tends to emphasize buoyancy and cheerfulness but we have to admit that reality is, for the most part, about grief and loss.
– Alain De Botton
Most of our life is a battle, a strain, the anxiety, the guilt, the despair, the immense sense of loneliness and sorrow, that is our life. That is actually what is and we are unwilling to face it.
– Jiddu Krishnamurti
Sorrow is an inextricable part of life. Whoever lives experiences it. There’s no escape. If we understand this then we would stop bewailing every misfortune that occurs. Life is a bargain. You want joy but you can’t have it without suffering. You must accept the whole package.
– The Ancient Sage
Joy comes to us like butterflies, but sorrow like wasps.
– James Lendall Basford
Life doesn’t hurt until you think about how much things have changed, who you’ve lost along the way, and how much of it was your fault.
– Jamila M. Allen
It is a time when one’s spirit is subdued and sad, one knows not why; when the past seems a storm-swept desolation, life a vanity and a burden, and the future but a way to death.
– Mark Twain
Don’t be sad, don’t be angry, if life deceives you! Submit to your grief; your time for joy will come, believe me.
– Aleksandr Pushkin
Who except the gods can live without any pain?
– Aeschylus
Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.
– Baltasar Gracian
Heartache Sad Life Quotes and Sayings
Misfortune comes to all men.
– Chinese Proverb
Unhappiness is best defined as the difference between our talents and our expectations.
– Dr. Edward De Bono
To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.
– Oscar Wilde
Life is never fair. And perhaps it is a good thing for most of us that it is not.
– Oscar Wilde
Man is himself the author of every sorrow he endures.
– Roman Proverb
Sorrow, then, and all that it teaches one, is my new world.
– Oscar Wilde
There is no day without sorrow.
– Roman Proverb
The groundwork of life is sorrow.
– D.H. Lawrence
For us, there is only one season, the season of sorrow.
– Oscar Wilde
My life is consumed by anguish and my years by groaning; my strength fails because of my affliction, and my bones grow weak.
– Psalm 31:9-10
My heart is broken, hearts are made to be broken: that is why God sends sorrow into the world.
– Oscar Wilde
Grief comes with many losses. Whatever its cause, grief will come to all of us.
– Rev. Billy Graham
Many times in the midst of the sin, suffering, and sorrow of this life there is a tug at our soul. That is homesickness coupled with anticipation.
– Rev. Billy Graham
Life was suddenly too sad. And yet it was beautiful. The beauty was dimmed when the sadness welled up. And the beauty would be there again when the sadness went. So the beauty and sadness belonged together somehow.
– William Steig
The bee of sorrow had stung his heart.
– Isaac Babel
Where there is sorrow there is holy ground. Some day you will realize what this means. You will know nothing of life till you do.
– Oscar Wilde
Grief which is not dealt with properly can cause us to lose our perspective on life.
– Rev. Billy Graham
I carry with me a level of sadness so profound that it will be with me forever.
– Verhoeven
The way sadness works is one of the strange riddles of the world. If you are stricken with a great sadness, you may feel as if you have been set aflame, not only because of the enormous pain but also because your sadness may spread over your life, like smoke from an enormous fire.
– Lemony Snicket
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