Top 20 Sad Quotes for People into Sadness

Happiness is a very precious thing in life which makes people live their lives without any depression or sadness. But sometimes such things happens in life which makes people fell into sadness or depression such as heartbreaks in love, deaths, separations, bad luck, feelings of disadvantage, losses, despair, helplessness or other sorrows. Sadness could be turned into happiness but it depends on what your reason for the sadness is. Sometimes it may take a long time for your sadness/depression to get back to normal or sometimes it’s just a matter of time and you are back to normal as you were in your life before. Sadness is basically one of the six basic emotions in a human life and the rest of them are happiness, anger, surprise, fear and disgust. Sadness can be look at as, for the time being lowering of mood or mood swings whereas depression can be more long-term.

Here are the top 20 sadness quotes for those who may wants to read them in sadness:

“Bad things do happen; how I respond to them defines my character and the quality of my life. I can choose to sit in perpetual sadness, immobilized by the gravity of my loss, or I can choose to rise from the pain and treasure the most precious gift I have - life itself.” Walter Anderson

“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 take things as they come along with patience and equanimity.” Carl Jung

“Good humor is the health of the soul, sadness is its poison.” Philip Stanhope

“Don't Make Assumptions. Find the courage to ask questions and to express what you really want. Communicate with others as clearly as you can to avoid misunderstandings, sadness and drama. With just this one agreement, you can completely transform your life.” Miguel Angel Ruiz

“I realised that you can go through times of extreme happiness, but if that happiness is not coming from a deeply rooted place, you will also be going through extreme lows of sadness.” Katrina Kaif

“Some days are just bad days, that's all. You have to experience sadness to know happiness, and I remind myself that not every day is going to be a good day, that's just the way it is!” Dita Von Teese

“There is a deep sadness to American poverty, greater than the sadness of any other kind. It's because America has such an ideology of success.” Will Self

“I do believe that if you haven't learnt about sadness, you cannot appreciate happiness.” Nana Mouskouri

“If my world were to cave in tomorrow, I would look back on all the pleasures, excitements and worthwhileness I have been lucky enough to have had. Not the sadness, not my miscarriages or my father leaving home, but the joy of everything else. It will have been enough.” Audrey Hepburn

“The word 'happiness' would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.” Carl Jung

“The walls we build around us to keep sadness out also keeps out the joy.” Jim Rohn

“I've cried, and you'd think I'd be better for it, but the sadness just sleeps, and it stays in my spine the rest of my life.” Conor Oberst

“Sadness flies away on the wings of time.” Jean de La Fontaine

“I felt a tremendous sadness for men who can't deal with a woman of their own age.” Michael Caine

“Sadness is but a wall between two gardens.” Khalil Gibran

“We never taste a perfect joy; our happiest successes are mixed with sadness.” Pierre Corneille

“Imagine smiling after a slap in the face. Then think of doing it twenty-four hours a day.” Markus Zusak

“Clowns wear a face that’s painted intentionally on them so they appear to be happy or sad. What kind of mask are you wearing today?” Anonymous

“Usually when people are sad, they don’t do anything. They just cry over their condition. But when they get angry, they bring about a change.” Malcolm

“Every human walks around with a certain kind of sadness. They may not wear it on their sleeves, but it's there if you look deep.” Taraji P. Henson