Life’s under no obligation to give us what we expect. – Margaret Mitchell
Some people seemed to get all sunshine, and some all shadow. – Louisa May Alcott
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
Our greatest joy and our greatest pain come in our relationships with others. – Stephen R. Covey
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
He who is not just is severe, he who is not wise is sad. – Voltaire
There is prodigious strength in sorrow and despair. – Charles Dickens
Make the most of your regrets; never smother your sorrow, but tend and cherish it till it comes to have a separate and integral interest. To regret deeply is to live afresh. – Henry David Thoreau
Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow, it only saps today of its joy. – Leo Buscaglia
Nothing on earth consumes a man more quickly than the passion of resentment. – Friedrich Nietzsche
It is sad not to love, but it is much sadder not to be able to love. – Miguel de Unamuno
When you are joyous, look deep into your heart and you shall find it is only that which has given you sorrow that is giving you joy. When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight. – Khalil Gibran
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
Hearts are not had as a gift, But hearts are earned. – William Butler Yeats
The good times of today, are the sad thoughts of tomorrow. – Bob Marley
The funniest people are the saddest ones. – Confucius
Perhaps I know best why it is man alone who laughs; he alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter. Friedrich Nietzsche
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
Don’t desire happiness because it creates only unhappiness and nothing else. – Osho
I’m just going through a phase right now. Everybody goes through phases and all, don’t they? – J.D. Salinger
Every heart has its own skeletons. – Leo Tolstoy
Tears are words that need to be written. ― Paulo Coelho
There is a time for departure, even when there’s no certain place to go. ― Tennessee Williams
There is no sadder sight than a young pessimist. – Mark Twain
The reason it hurts so much to separate is because our souls are connected. – Nicholas Sparks
Bad things happen and you can’t do anything about it. Timon – The Lion King
The human condition is a good one in that no one is unhappy except by his own fault. – Seneca
I always like walking in the rain, so no one can see me crying. – Charlie Chaplin
Sadness is but a wall between two gardens. – Khalil Gibran
Proud people breed sad sorrows for themselves. – Emily Brontë
Life is made of so many partings welded together. – Charles Dickens
No matter how much suffering you went through, you never wanted to let go of those memories. – Haruki Murakami
It’s no company at all, when people know nothing and say nothing. – Emily Brontë
The sadness will last forever. – Vincent van Gogh
Parting is such sweet sorrow that I shall say goodnight till it be morrow. – William Shakespeare (Romeo and Juliet)
Life seems but a quick succession of busy nothings. – Jane Austen
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
Heaven knows we need never be ashamed of our tears, for they are rain upon the blinding dust of earth, overlying our hard hearts. I was better after I had cried, than before – more sorry, more aware of my own ingratitude, more gentle. – Charles Dickens
The heart was made to be broken. – Oscar Wilde
A multitude of people and yet a solitude. – Charles Dickens
Sometimes we get sad about things and we don’t like to tell other people that we are sad about them. We like to keep it a secret. Or sometimes, we are sad but we really don’t know why we are sad, so we say we aren’t sad but we really are. – Mark Haddon
To weep is to make less the depth of grief. – William Shakespeare
It is sad but true that sometimes we need the tragedy to help us to see how human we are and how we are more alike than we are different. – Maya Angelou
Tears come from the heart and not from the brain. – Leonardo da Vinci
The sad truth is that opportunity doesn’t knock twice. – Gloria Estefan
The word ‘happy’ would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. – Carl Jung
Life is so constructed, that the event does not, cannot, will not, match the expectation. – Charlotte Brontë
Don’t get lost in your pain, know that one day your pain will become your cure. – Rumi
All man’s miseries stem from his inability to sit quietly in a room and do nothing. – Blaise Pascal
You said you’d always be there for me, but you’re not. – The Lion King
I have not broken your heart – you have broken it; and in breaking it, you have broken mine. – Emily Brontë
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
In every parting there is an image of death. – George Eliot
It is better to have loved and lost, than never to have loved at all. ― Samuel Butler
Saying nothing sometimes says the most. – Emily Dickinson
Perhaps, somewhere, some day, at a less miserable time, we may see each other again. – Vladimir Nabokov
Heavy hearts, like heavy clouds in the sky, are best relieved by the letting of a little water. – Christopher Morley
The walls we build around us to keep sadness out also keeps out the joy. – Jim Rohn
Behind every sweet smile, there is a bitter sadness that no one can ever see and feel. – Tupac
Its good to leave each day behind, like flowing water, free of sadness. Yesterday is gone and its tale told. Today new seeds are growing. – Rumi
It is some relief to weep; grief is satisfied and carried off by tears. – Ovid
I cannot eat, I cannot drink; the pleasures of youth and love are fled away: there was a good time once, but now that is gone, and life is no longer life. – Plato
Unhappy is he to whom the memories of childhood bring only fear and sadness. – H.P. Lovecraft
