Saddest Quotes and Sayings
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For all sad words of tongue and pen,
The saddest are these, "It might have been.
- John Greenleaf Whittier

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Sad Quotes and Sayings

Write your Sad times in Sand,
Write your Good times in Stone.
- George Bernard Shaw

Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom.
- Rabindranath Tagore

Love means not ever having to say you're sorry.
- Erich Segal

The way I see it, if you want the rainbow,
you gotta put up with the rain.
- Dolly Parton

When It's Darkest, Men See the Stars.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Success is failure recycled.
Life is death reborn.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

What's done is done.
- William Shakespeare

Worry often gives a small thing a big shadow.
- Swedish Proverb

Life is as easy or as hard as you think it is.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Our lives begin to end the day we become silent
about things that matter.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

I leave no trace of wings in the air,
but I am glad I have had my flight.
- Rabindranath Tagore

The darkest night is often the bridge to the brightest tomorrow.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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

Good humor is the health of the soul,
sadness is its poison.
- Lord Chesterfield

Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth
until the hour of separation.
- Khalil Gibran

Those who cannot remember the past
are condemned to repeat it.
- George Santayana

Love is like the truth,
sometimes it prevails,
sometimes it hurts.
- Victor M. Garcia Jr.

If you love something, set it free;
if it comes backs it's yours,
if it doesn't, it never was.
- Richard Bach

Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
- James Joyce

A mask tells us more than a face.
- Oscar Wilde

Misunderstanding arising from ignorance breeds fear,
and fear remains the greatest enemy of peace.
- Lester B. Pearson

The regrets and resentments etched in a heart
remain until they are cleansed away with love.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Love is never lost. If not reciprocated,
it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.
- Washington Irving

It is far better to be alone,
than to be in bad company.
- George Washington

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

Those who own much have much to fear.
- Rabindranath Tagore

At the bottom of enmity between strangers lies indifference.
- Soren Kierkegaard

Action is the antidote to dispair.
- Joan Baez

O! beware, my lord, of jealousy;
It is the green-eyed monster which
doth mock the meat it feeds on.
- William Shakespeare

A man is not old until his regrets take the place of his dreams.
- Yiddish Proverb

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

There can be no deep disappointment where there is not deep love.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

Good Endings precede Good Beginnings.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

It is darkest just before the dawn.
- Proverb

Conventional people are roused to fury
by departure from convention,
largely because they regard such departure
as a criticism of themselves.
- Bertrand Russell

Speak when you are angry -
and you will make the best speech you'll ever regret.
- Laurence J. Peter

Sadness is a choice - sadness does not exist.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Letting go doesn't mean giving up...
it means moving on.
- Anonymous

It isn't the mountain ahead that wears you out;
it's the grain of sand in your shoe.
- Robert W. Service

The hunger for love is
much more difficult to remove
than the hunger for bread.
- Mother Teresa

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)

The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.
- Gilbert (G. K.) Chesterton

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

Regrets are the tears of good deeds left undone
- 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

Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones,
as the wind blows out the candle and blows up the bonfire.
- Francois de la Rochefoucauld

A man's good name is his best monument
- from an old churchyard at Lockerbie, Scotland

Time cures all things.
- Proverb

Love: if you have to ask,
it's not the real thing.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Your pain is the breaking of the shell
that encloses your understanding.
- Khalil Gibran

Most men lead lives of quiet desperation
and go to the grave with the song still in them.
- Henry David Thoreau

A moment without joy is an eternity of sadness.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

I never considered a difference of opinion
in politics, in religion, in philosophy,
as cause for withdrawing from a friend.
- 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

Man plans, God laughs
- Yiddish Proverb

Regret is an appalling waste of time.
- Katherine Mansfield

Remember, happiness is just a teardrop away.
- the movie Shrek 2

Collective fear stimulates herd instinct,
and tends to produce ferocity toward
those who are not regarded as members of the herd.
- Bertrand Russell

Life is truly known only to those who suffer,
lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat.
- Anais Nin

When a father gives to his son, both laugh;
when a son gives to his father, both cry.
- William Shakespeare

The Principal Causes of Our Suffering
are Our Expectations and Our Assumptions.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Life is a Crazy-Quilt of Suffering and Joy.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

It is sad to grow old but nice to ripen.
- Brigitte Bardot

Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow,
it only saps today of its joy.
- Leo Buscaglia

Life doesn't play favorites.
- Anonymous

Humans do have an amazing capacity
for believing what they choose,
and excluding that which is painful.
- Spock (character in Star Trek television series)

We are injured and hurt emotionally,
not so much by other people
or what they say and don't say,
but by our own attitude and our own response.
- Maxwell Maltz

Sadness is nothing more than the absence of joy
in the same way that darkness
is nothing more than the absence of light.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Do you feel stuck?
Whether in a project, a job, a relationship,
or some other situation,
there is a time for perseverance,
and a time for letting go and moving on.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

One never notices what has been done;
one can only see what remains to be done.
- Marie Curie

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