Sad Quotes

"Last night, your lost memory came to my heart, like spring arriving quietly in a wilderness."

Faiz Ahmed Faiz

"Long before, I recognise the sound of those footsteps; O life, we know you from afar."

Firaq Gorakhpuri

"Let me not beg for the stilling of my pain, but for the heart to conquer it."

"I am a cloud of sorrow, filled with tears."

Mahadevi Varma

"After great pain, a formal feeling comes."

Emily Dickinson

"From childhood's hour I have not been As others were."

Edgar Allan Poe

"I have been one acquainted with the night."

Robert Frost

"Well, son, I'll tell you: Life for me ain't been no crystal stair."

Langston Hughes

"You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them."

"When sorrows come, they come not single spies, But in battalions."

"The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven."

John Milton

"We suffer more often in imagination than in reality."

Seneca

"Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace."

Victor Hugo

"The darker the night, the brighter the stars; the deeper the grief, the closer is God!"

"Any idiot can face a crisis – it's day-to-day living that wears you out."

Anton Chekhov

"Let everything happen to you: beauty and terror. Just keep going. No feeling is final."

Rainer Maria Rilke

"What is to give light must endure burning."

Viktor Frankl

"Where there's hope, there's life. It fills us with fresh courage and makes us strong again."

Anne Frank

"Do not judge me by my successes, judge me by how many times I fell down and got back up again."

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

Washington Irving

"The changes we dread most may contain our salvation."

Barbara Kingsolver

"Nothing ever goes away until it has taught us what we need to know."

Pema Chödrön

"No mud, no lotus."

Thich Nhat Hanh

"These pains you feel are messengers. Listen to them."

"'Hope' is the thing with feathers – That perches in the soul – And sings the tune without the words – And never stops – at all."

Emily Dickinson