Feeling Sad Quotes

“Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit.” - Kahlil Gibran. Now, it’s hard not to agree with this great poet and philosopher, because everyone really needs love in their lives. However, what most people don’t see a need for is sadness, but then a life without sadness will make happiness seem meaningless. To truly enjoy, and live a life of happiness, an individual will have to experience the acrid sting of sadness. A man may flaunt his fists to the skies, and beg the Almighty above to explain why sadness is a part of every human’s life. But an answer to this query is for God to know, and for mortal beings to find out. Feeling sad, contrary to the general opinion, is not something that you should be afraid of or something that you should not be feeling at any given point of time. Sadness, believe it or not, helps you to build your character! Read the article below to mop up the wisdom coated on the following quotes on feeling sad.

Feeling Sad Quotations & Sayings

“My feeling is that there is nothing in life but refraining from hurting others, and comforting those who are sad”. - Olive Schreiner
“It is better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all”. - Samuel Butler
“One of the hardest things in life is watching the person you love, loving someone else”. – Anonymous
“He is a hard man who is only just, and a sad one who is only wise”. – Voltaire
“How sad to see a father with money and no joy. The man studied economics, but never studied happiness”. – Jim Rohn
“For all sad words of tongue and pen, the saddest are these, 'It might have been.'” - John Greenleaf Whittier
“How unhappy is he who cannot forgive himself”. - Publilius Syrus
“It is sad to grow old but nice to ripen”. - Brigitte Bardot
“The word "happy" would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness”. - Carl Gustav Jung
“When a father gives to his son, both laugh; when a son gives to his father, both cry”. - William Shakespeare
“Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them”. - Henry David Thoreau
“Don't fear failure so much that you refuse to try new things. The saddest summary of a life contains three descriptions: could have, might have, and should have”. - Louis E. Boone
“The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and for deeds left undone”. - Anonymous
“I cried at first, and then, it was such a beautiful day, that I forgot to be unhappy”. - Frances Noyes Hart
“I think if we all acted the way we felt, four out of eight people at a dinner table would be sitting there sobbing”. - Jim Carrey
“Don't fear failure so much that you refuse to try new things. The saddest summary of a life contains three descriptions: could have, might have, and should have”. - Louis E. Boone
“It's amazing how someone can break your heart, but you still love them with all the little pieces”. – Anonymous
“A sad thing in life is that sometimes you meet someone who means a lot to you only to find out in the end that it was never bound to be and you just have to let go”. - Anonymous
“The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it”. - W.M. Lewis
“Write your sad times in sand. Write your good times in stone”. - George Bernard Shaw

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