“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“Don't cry over someone who wouldn't cry over you.”
— Lauren Conrad“Why do beautiful songs make you sad?' 'Because they aren't true.' 'Never?' 'Nothing is beautiful and true.”
— Jonathan Safran Foer“So it’s true, when all is said and done, grief is the price we pay for love.”
— E.A. Bucchianeri“They say when you are missing someone that they are probably feeling the same, but I don't think it's possible for you to miss me as much as I'm missing you right now”
— Edna St. Vincent Millay“Tonight I can write the saddest linesI loved her, and sometimes she loved me too.”
— Pablo Neruda“She had loved him for such a long time, she thought. How was it that she did now know him at all?”
— Cassandra Clare“I wore your promise on my finger for one yearI'll wear your name on my heart til I dieBecause you were my boy, you were my only boy forever.”
— Coco J. Ginger“I had someone once who made every day mean something.And now…. I am lost….And nothing means anything anymore.”
— Ranata Suzuki“I raised you so high that every other man on earth is now doomed to live in your shadow.”
— Ranata Suzuki“There is some kind of a sweet innocence in being human- in not having to be just happy or just sad- in the nature of being able to be both broken and whole, at the same time.”
— C. JoyBell C.“Man cries, his tears dry up and run out. So he becomes a devil, reduced to a monster.”
— Kouta Hirano“I am afraid because I can so clearly foresee my own life rotting away of itself, like a leaf that rots without falling, while I pursue my round of existence from day to day.”
— Osamu Dazai“Don't dwell on things. Don't stay in one place too long. It was the only way to stay ahead of sadness.”
— Rick Riordan“It isn’t a sadness, but a joy, that we don’t do the same things for the length of our lives.”
— Gabrielle Zevin“The trick. . .is to find the balance between the bright colors of humor and the serious issues of identity, self-loathing, and the possibility for intimacy and love when it seems no longer possible or, sadder yet, no longer necessary.”
— Wendy Wasserstein“Ô, Wanderess, WanderessWhen did you feel your most euphoric kiss? Was I the source of your greatest bliss?”
— Roman Payne“The monsters were neverunder my bed.Because the monsterswere inside my head.I fear no monsters,for no monsters I see.Because all this timethe monster has been me.”
— Nikita Gill“Tell the truth through whichever veil comes to hand – but tell it. Resign yourself to the lifelong sadness that comes from never being satisfied.”
— Zadie Smith“May be its mine bad-luck Or yours not to get me But I still have hope Of being yours”
— Hasil Paudyal“Having a good life doesn’t mean nothing bad happens. It means using sadness and setback as mechanisms for spiritual growth. That’s the highest form of farming.”
— Jarod Kintz“He looked at me like I was the stars when all I’d ever felt like was the dark nothingness between them.”
— Ranata Suzuki“Life is like butter - when things cool down it can be reshaped”
— Alan Sheinwald“Though it’s reasons to burn may vary... you are always the fuel of my fire.”
— Ranata Suzuki“Sometimes there’s no cure for the crazy.” Dale sighed, stroking my hair. “I think we all just have to keep loving through it. Maybe that’s the cure.”
— Emme Rollins“It occurred to her that all the bad parts of life, the sad parts, the frightening ones, were meant to be offset by moments and memories like this. She had to be present in it, right here, right now.”
— Martina Boone“Ho! Ho! Ho! To the bottle I goTo heal my heart and drown my woeRain may fall, and wind may blowAnd many miles be still to goBut under a tall tree will I lieAnd let the clouds go sailing by”
— J.R.R. Tolkien“I'm pretty lost in becoming all this frost. Bitter, like Winter. Strung-out like a string of pearls.”
— Ashly LorenzanaEven 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.
— Carl JungA broken heart bleeds tears.
— Anthony LiccioneSadness isn't sadness. It's happiness in a black jacket.
— Paul McCartneyPeople who pretend to be happy always make you feel sadder.
— Ai YazawaIs this what sadness is all about? Is it what comes over us when beautiful memories shatter in hindsight because the remembered happiness fed not just on actual circumstances but on a promise that was not kept?
— Bernhard SchlinkThere’s a kind of sadness that comes with growing up, with letting go of the stories you believed in as a child.
— Lev GrossmanIt’s not that I want to be happy. I just want to stop being sad.
— Banana YoshimotoThe sadness that you feel in your heart is not forever. It passes, like a cloud.
— Banana Yoshimoto