105 Sad Quotes To Help You Find Strength During Difficulties


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Sadness can be a powerful emotion. But did you know it can also be a source of beauty and strength? We humans might be different in many ways from each other. However, experiencing sadness is one thing we have in common and need to navigate together.

We have prepared over 100 sad quotes to help you navigate sadness in life and emerge out stronger and better than before. Always remember “Sadness is a storm that clears the air.” Your life will get back on track in no time.

Sad Life Quotes

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. -Carl Jung

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.

Carl Jung

It is saddening to think that nature speaks, yet humanity remains deaf to its voice.

Victor Hugo

Life is not sad. It has its sad moments.

Romain Rolland

On the wings of time, sadness flies.

Jean de La Fontaine

Life is a journey from one despair to another.

Victor Hugo

You never know your true strength until you face your greatest weakness.

Having a soft heart in such a hard world only brings me pain and suffering.

Not all storms come to disrupt your life, some come to clear your path.

We live in a fake world and that's why it becomes difficult to understand who you really are.

There are some stories that no matter how much you want to put an end to them, they end up in ellipses.

Life can hurt much more than death.

Sometimes we have to act like everything is okay so that one day it will be.

It's hard to face life with optimism, but we should never stop trying.

Sometimes a moment of peace amidst so much chaos seems like an eternity.

Never let the sorrows of the past and the uncertainties of the future spoil the joys of the present.

Never let the sorrows of the past and the uncertainties of the future spoil the joys of the present.

Sad Quotes for Status

These are difficult times for dreamers.

Amelie Poulain

Tears come from the heart, not from the mind.

Tears come from the heart, not from the mind.

The worst kind of sadness is the one we can't explain.

The most painful tear is not the one that falls from the face, but the one that floods the heart and overflows into the soul.

The combination of disappointment and sadness is the cruelest of all feelings.

I cry when it rains so no one can hear my pain. 😩

You gave me wings to fly, but then you took away my whole sky.

Tired of trying, tired of crying. On the outside I smile, but on the inside I'm dying. 😞

My God, give me shelter for these days of solitude. 🙏

All we can do is cry because everything that used to make me smile is gone.

I find myself once again where I started: alone and with nothing.😞

Being disappointed with life is only worse than being disappointed with you.

It hurts a lot… but it's okay. I'm used to this feeling.

How do you say goodbye to the person who gives your life meaning?💔

My disappointment has a name, a birthdate, and an address.

Every day is a new disappointment. I don't know why I still try to trust certain people.

It keeps getting harder to keep my pain hidden.

I need a break from the loneliness that consumes me daily.

I cry not because I am weak, but because I have tried to be strong for too long.

I cry not because I am weak, but because I have tried to be strong for too long.

It's difficult to express the sadness I feel, but I know that if I don't let it out, happiness will be unable to come in.

Pretending to smile is much easier than explaining why I'm sad.

Crying is the way our hearts can find some peace.

May this sadness go away soon so that I can smile again.

I have faith that my soul will endure all this sadness that consumes me today. 🙏

Disappointed with life? Yes. Surprised? Not at all.

Like a lighter without gas, it‘s hard to ignite a flame inside me.

Like a lighter without gas, it's hard to ignite a flame inside me.

It's too many disappointments for just one heart. 💔

I know I will overcome this sadness, for I carry the love of God in my heart. 🙏

I'm tired of so much disappointment, so much annoyance, so much disillusionment. 😩

Sad Quotes about Love

Grief is the price we pay for love.

Queen Elizabeth II

The pain of parting is nothing to the joy of meeting again.

Charles Dickens

It is better to be sad with love than happy without it.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

One can endure sadness alone, but to enjoy happiness, two are needed.

Elbert Hubbard

Wanting someone who doesn‘t love you is like trying to fly with a broken wing.

Wanting someone who doesn't love you is like trying to fly with a broken wing.

It hurts deeply to keep a light on for someone who will never return.

It's sad when someone you know becomes someone you used to know.

Your love only brought me tears.

I have everything within me, except for you.

The hardest part of losing someone you love is the realization that life goes on without them.

The worst feeling is not being lonely, but being forgotten by someone you can't forget.

When you left, my whole world came crashing down.

Love is magical, but magic is just an illusion.

Love is magical, but magic is just an illusion.

A room becomes even emptier when we wish someone were in it with us.

I don't speak much, but I hope to find someone to listen to my confessions.

No matter how sad I am, I won't give up fighting.

The worst loneliness is being with someone and still feeling lonely.

My fragile heart grew tired of waiting for you.

Sad Captions for Instagram

Sometimes I get sad for no reason, with or without a reason. Sometimes I get happy for no reason, with or without a reason. It's like that, sometimes I want to jump around, give kisses, give hugs, and other times I want to send everyone far, far away.

Clarissa Corrêa

The soul would have no rainbow had the eyes no tears.

John Vance Cheney

We must embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey.

Kenji Miyazawa

Maybe the only thing scarier than death is forgetting how to truly live.

Sometimes all we can do is fall into bed before we fall into sadness.

People keep telling me that life goes on, but for me, that's the worst part.

I know why I'm running, but I don't know what I'm searching for.

Loneliness has been a true friend, it has never left me, even when I try to push it away, it is always with me.

Nothing makes us as vulnerable as disappointment.

Head full of dreams, heart full of “what ifs.”

Wishing I could rewind and hit “play” on a happier memory.

We chase sunsets, knowing they won‘t last forever. Is that what life is too?

We chase sunsets, knowing they won't last forever. Is that what life is too?

Sometimes, the best conversations are the ones left unspoken, just felt between loved ones.

Quotes about Sadness

Sadness is but a wall between two gardens.

Khalil Gibran

Beware of sadness. It is an addiction.

Gustave Flaubert

Sadness does not change us. It reveals us.

John Green

It takes strength to face our sadness and to grieve and to let our grief and our anger flow in tears when they need to.

Fred Rogers

Sadness is as deep as a well. It floods you every day, making you want to give up on getting out of there. 🌧️

Sadness is a silent companion, teaching us to appreciate the light by understanding the darkness.

Sadness is a silent companion, teaching us to appreciate the light by understanding the darkness.

Sadness, like the rain, nurtures the seeds of tomorrow’s strength and resilience.

Deep Sad Quotes

Happiness is like a tree going into the sky, and sadness is like the roots going down into the womb of the earth.

Osho

The soul can far more easily endure the most intense pain than prolonged sadness.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Medicine creates the sick, mathematics the melancholy, and theology the sinner.

Martin Luther

Tears are words that have not yet been written. -Paulo Coelho

Tears are words that have not yet been written.

Paulo Coelho

He who has never seen sadness will never recognize joy.

Khalil Gibran

When you are happy, you enjoy the music, but when you are sad, you understand the lyrics.

Frank Ocean

Sadness is a form of the heart's defense.

Time doesn’t heal all wounds; it just teaches us how to live with the scars.

When the pain comes from within, it is even stronger.

Crying cleanses the soul, the hard part is drying the heart.

Crying cleanses the soul, the hard part is drying the heart.

“Who hurt you?” they ask me. “My own expectations,” I reply.

Behind a crooked smile, a boundless sadness can hide.

Our wounds may heal, but it will leave scars.

Sad Quotes That Make You Cry

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

Jim Rohn

Behind every beautiful thing, there's been some kind of pain."

Bob Dylan

The meaning of life is that it stops.

Franz Kafka

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.

Nicholas Sparks

The most painful state of being is remembering the future, particularly the one you'll never have.

Søren Kierkegaard

Heavy hearts, like heavy clouds in the sky, are best relieved by the letting of a little water.

Christopher Morley

Grief is in two parts. The first is loss. The second is the remaking of life.

Anne Roiphe

If we don‘t know how to forget, we will never be free from sadness.

If we don't know how to forget, we will never be free from sadness.

I wish I was good enough for someone, but it seems like that's not possible.

It could be that I'm destined to be a loner.

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