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For all sad words of tongue and pen,
by John Greenleaf Whittier
For all sad words of tongue and pen,
The saddest are these, "It might have been.
- John Greenleaf Whittier
Related topics: Positive Sad Feeling-Down Wisdom Romantic Love
Sad Quotes and Sayings
Write your Sad times in Sand,
Write your Good times in Stone.
- George Bernard Shaw 
Life is as easy or as hard as you think it is.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Love means not ever having to say you're sorry.
- Erich Segal
Worry often gives a small thing a big shadow.
- Swedish Proverb
Success is failure recycled.
Life is death reborn.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The way I see it, if you want the rainbow,
you gotta put up with the rain.
- Dolly Parton
Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom.
- Rabindranath Tagore
When It's Darkest, Men See the Stars.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Our lives begin to end the day we become silent
about things that matter.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
What's done is done.
- William Shakespeare
The darkest night is often the bridge to the brightest tomorrow.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I leave no trace of wings in the air,
but I am glad I have had my flight.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Distance cannot matter - ours is a friendship of the heart.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
If I feel depressed I will sing.
If I feel sad I will laugh.
If I feel ill I will double my labor.
If I feel fear I will plunge ahead.
If I feel inferior I will wear new garments.
If I feel uncertain I will raise my voice.
If I feel poverty I will think of wealth to come.
If I feel incompetent I will think of past success.
If I feel insignificant I will remember my goals.
Today I will be the master of my emotions.
- Og Mandino
When you reach the end of your rope,
tie a knot and hang on.
- Anonymous Saying
(Sometimes attributed to Franklin D. Roosevelt,
Eleanor Roosevelt, or Thomas Jefferson)
Men occasionally stumble over the truth,
but most of them pick themselves up
and hurry off as if nothing had happened.
- Winston Churchill
Letting go doesn't mean giving up...
it means moving on.
- Anonymous
Misunderstanding arising from ignorance breeds fear,
and fear remains the greatest enemy of peace.
- Lester B. Pearson
Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth
until the hour of separation.
- Khalil Gibran
It is darkest just before the dawn.
- Proverb
Time cures all things.
- Proverb
Man plans, God laughs
- Yiddish Proverb
Love: if you have to ask,
it's not the real thing.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Regrets are the tears of good deeds left undone
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Good Endings precede Good Beginnings.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Today is your day to laugh at life,
laugh at what's funny - laugh at what's sad,
laugh loud - laugh often,
laugh at me - laugh at you - laugh at life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A man is not old until his regrets take the place of his dreams.
- Yiddish Proverb
Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
- James Joyce
Conventional people are roused to fury
by departure from convention,
largely because they regard such departure
as a criticism of themselves.
- Bertrand Russell
Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones,
as the wind blows out the candle and blows up the bonfire.
- Francois de la Rochefoucauld
Those who own much have much to fear.
- Rabindranath Tagore
O! beware, my lord, of jealousy;
It is the green-eyed monster which
doth mock the meat it feeds on.
- William Shakespeare
If you love something, set it free;
if it comes backs it's yours,
if it doesn't, it never was.
- Richard Bach
Your pain is the breaking of the shell
that encloses your understanding.
- Khalil Gibran
At the bottom of enmity between strangers lies indifference.
- Soren Kierkegaard
Love is never lost. If not reciprocated,
it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.
- Washington Irving
Language... has created the word "loneliness"
to express the pain of being alone.
And it has created the word "solitude"
to express the glory of being alone.
- Paul Tillich
The hunger for love is
much more difficult to remove
than the hunger for bread.
- Mother Teresa
There can be no deep disappointment where there is not deep love.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
It isn't the mountain ahead that wears you out;
it's the grain of sand in your shoe.
- Robert W. Service
Those who cannot remember the past
are condemned to repeat it.
- George Santayana
Speak when you are angry -
and you will make the best speech you'll ever regret.
- Laurence J. Peter
The regrets and resentments etched in a heart
remain until they are cleansed away with love.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Love is like the truth,
sometimes it prevails,
sometimes it hurts.
- Victor M. Garcia Jr.
The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.
- Gilbert (G. K.) Chesterton
A mask tells us more than a face.
- Oscar Wilde
We may have found a cure for most evils;
but we have found no remedy for the worst of them all,
the apathy of human beings.
- Helen Keller
Action is the antidote to dispair.
- Joan Baez
Good humor is the health of the soul,
sadness is its poison.
- Lord Chesterfield
A moment without joy is an eternity of sadness.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Most men lead lives of quiet desperation
and go to the grave with the song still in them.
- Henry David Thoreau
I never considered a difference of opinion
in politics, in religion, in philosophy,
as cause for withdrawing from a friend.
- Thomas Jefferson
A man's good name is his best monument
- from an old churchyard at Lockerbie, Scotland
It is far better to be alone,
than to be in bad company.
- George Washington
Sadness is a choice - sadness does not exist.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Mistakes are, after all, the foundations of truth,
and if a man does not know what a thing is,
it is at least an increase in knowledge
if he knows what it is not.
- Carl Jung
You can learn how to let go of the past.
Whether you have experienced a break up
with someone you cared for deeply,
whether death has taken a loved one,
whether you have had a feud with a friend or family member,
whether you have lost a job.
Move on and let go.
Life can be joyful and rewarding again.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If you cry because the sun has gone out of your life,
your tears will prevent you from seeing the stars.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Resenting someone is a way of never leaving that person.
- Kare Anderson
One never notices what has been done;
one can only see what remains to be done.
- Marie Curie
My Mama always said you've got to put the past behind you
before you can move on.
- the movie Forrest Gump
We're never so vulnerable than when we trust someone -
but paradoxically, if we cannot trust,
neither can we find love or joy.
- Walter Anderson
Those who are free of resentful thoughts surely find peace.
- The Buddha
Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow,
it only saps today of its joy.
- Leo Buscaglia
Anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow...
but only empties today of its strength.
- C. H. Spurgeon
When you feel worried and depressed,
consciously form a smile on your face and act upbeat
until the happy feeling becomes genuine.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Collective fear stimulates herd instinct,
and tends to produce ferocity toward
those who are not regarded as members of the herd.
- Bertrand Russell
Life may not be the party we hoped for,
but while we are here we might as well dance.
- Anonymous
"Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair!"
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare,
The lone and level sands stretch far away.
- Percy Bysshe Shelley
There is nothing more depressing,
than having everything,
and still feeling sad.
- Janet Jackson
Life is truly known only to those who suffer,
lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat.
- Anais Nin
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