3,622 Quotes About Sadness

For how imperiously, how coolly, in disregard of all one’s feelings, does the hard, cold, uninteresting course of daily realities move on! Still we must eat, and drink, and sleep, and wake again, - still bargain, buy, sell, ask and answer questions, - pursue, in short, a thousand shadows, though all interest in them be over; the cold, mechanical habit of living remaining, after all vital interest in it has fled.

If someone's a racist, punch them in the mouth so they will be sadder, and therefore less likely to stereotype. (Even if Fargas's theory is flawed, on the upside, at least you've punched a racist in the mouth.)

I’m not going to tell you to wear a mask to hide your sadness just because my own mask is on the edge of shattering.

Lately, I’ve been in a constant state of sadness....I can’t tell if it's me or the world who is hurting.

The non-disclosure of emotional pain can be deeply traumatic. It leads to depression. In such situations of vulnerability, you must choose to speak to a person you trust. Someone who could care for you and heal you.

I just need to know something about him that will make me believe that there's even a sliver of a chance that his particles have a longing to go in a certain direction and only need a nudge.

I'm a magnet to hearts looking for healingAnd yet I might never be their right place,Because dusk and darkness needs light to be healed,And I am just a perennial night hoping to cease.

You'll find when you are sad, there'll come a point when you are so sad you don't even know you are sad anymore. It's quite nice.

Reminiscences of old, dried-over pains were no consolation in the face of this. They had the effect of cold beads of water on a hot iron - they danced and fizzled up while the room stank from their steam.