46 Quotes About Saddness

Sorrow is an opportunity to appreciate happiness.

I barely know how to be with someone when I’m whole. How the hell am I supposed to be with you when I’m so fucking broken?

There are two things that may happen to a person: the first is that you become so soft that no one and nothing can break you, and the second is that you become so hard that nothing and no one can break you. Either way you go, the path will be very painful. But herein is the great sadness of it all: that anyone must try to become something that cannot be broken (whether the soft or the hard). Why must we be born into a world where we must spend our lives struggling to become unbreakable?

I often wonder, if those that smile the most, are the most saddest people in the world.

You can cross the shore without getting wet, but you can't get through life without tears.

It is only when I am in communion with sorrow that I understand it.

Happiness is an illusion

The point is, Ilsa Hermann had decided to make suffering her triumph. When it refused to let go of her, she succumbed to it. She embraced it.

God cannot remove the burdens of your heart, but he will prompt you where to go, what to say and what to do, in order to free yourself from your chains.