Sad Quotes

"The heart was made to be broken."

"Hearts will never be practical until they are made unbreakable."

L. Frank Baum

"Some people think that it's holding on that makes one strong; sometimes it's letting go."

Sylvia Robinson

"There is no greater sorrow than to recall happiness in times of misery."

Dante Alighieri

"For of all sad words of tongue or pen, The saddest are these: 'It might have been!'"

John Greenleaf Whittier

"The most terrible poverty is loneliness and the feeling of being unloved."

Mother Teresa

"Loneliness is the poverty of self; solitude is the richness of self."

May Sarton

"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

"Melancholy is the happiness of being sad."

Victor Hugo

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

Kenji Miyazawa

"Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it."

"There are wounds that never show on the body that are deeper and more hurtful than anything that bleeds."

Laurell K. Hamilton

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

John Vance Cheney

"Tears are the summer showers to the soul."

Alfred Austin

"Sometimes, only one person is missing, and the whole world seems depopulated."

Alphonse de Lamartine

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

Anne Roiphe

"Grief is like the ocean; it comes on waves ebbing and flowing. Sometimes the water is calm, and sometimes it is overwhelming. All we can do is learn to swim."

Vicki Harrison

"Grief, I've learned, is really just love. It's all the love you want to give, but cannot."

Jamie Anderson

"It's a heart after all, not stone or brick; why shouldn't it fill with pain?"

Mirza Ghalib

"The tears of the earth keep her smiles in bloom."

"If you shed tears when you miss the sun, you also miss the stars."

"In sorrow everyone remembers God; in joy no one does. If one remembered in joy, why would sorrow ever come?"

Kabir

"The wound is the place where the Light enters you."

"Let your tears come. Let them water your soul."

Eileen Mayhew

"No winter lasts forever; no spring skips its turn."

Hal Borland