70 Thought-Provoking Sad Life Quotes that are Filled with Wisdom

Last Updated on February 26, 2024

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Many things can make people feel sad. If you’ve had a rough day for example, even the tiniest instances can quickly upset you, like evening traffic or a spilled drink on the floor.

Sometimes, the emotion won’t even set in immediately. This usually happens over big events like the loss of a loved one or moving to a new place. When you least expect it, you’ll be surprised that tears are already falling on your cheeks.

People can also feel miserable over things like movies, a family video, or the bad luck of a friend.

Difference Between Sadness and Depression

Everybody feels sad from time to time. But when the emotion doesn’t go away, or you notice other things have changed about you, then perhaps it could be something more.

Sadness and depression are not interchangeable. The latter definitely requires medical attention. While sadness can vary in intensity and duration, it goes away.

Depression on the other hand, is a serious medical condition that can affect how an individual thinks and acts. It is more than simply feeling a bout of sadness – it can make you lose sleep, appetite, and energy. You may find yourself unable to take pleasure in the activities you normally enjoy. Other symptoms include inability to concentrate, agitation, feelings of guilt and/or worthlessness, and suicidal thoughts.

Depression can only be diagnosed by a professional. If you feel that you may be experiencing prolonged sadness or any of the symptoms mentioned, please reach out to a trusted friend or loved one, and seek medical attention.

Don’t avoid feeling sad. Manage it in your own way and remember that all things pass eventually. To help ease the pain a little, read these wise quotes about sadness and life.

Sad Life Quotes and Sayings

1. People always leave. don’t get too attached. – XXXTENTACION

2. Everything dies, from the smallest blade of grass to the biggest galaxy. – Stephen R. Donaldson

3. You meet everyone twice in this life, when they come and when they go. – C.C Aurel

4. If two people are meant to be together, they will eventually find their way back into each other’s arms… no matter what. – Anonymous

5. You will never find the right person if you never let go of the wrong one. – Elizabeth Hollomon

6. I don’t like depending on people because people leave all the time. Because at the end of the day all you have is yourself and that has to be enough. – Anonymous

7. I try not to miss you, I try to let you go, but in the end, you’re always on my mind. – Anonymous

8. Keep smiling… and one day life will get tired of upsetting you. – Nitya Prakash

9. When someone lies to you, it’s because they don’t respect you enough, to be honest, and they think you are too stupid to know the difference. – Anonymous

10. It sucks, doesn’t it? Feeling like you’re not good enough. – Anonymous

11. Be strong now because things will get better. It might be stormy now, but it can’t rain forever. – Anonymous

12. It hurts when you have someone in your heart but you can’t have them in your arms. – Anonymous

13. Don’t tell me I’ve changed, when in reality, I just stopped dealing with you. – Carson Kolhoff

14. You fall in love with the most unexpected person at the most unexpected time. – Anonymous

15. Stop trying to change someone who doesn’t want to change. Stop giving chances to someone who abuses your forgiveness. Stop walking back to the place where your heart ran from. Stop trusting their words and ignoring their actions. Stop breaking your own heart. – Trent Shelton

16. Forget all the reasons why it won’t work, and believe the one reason why it will. – Ziad K. Abdelnour

17. You can’t go back and change the beginning but you can start where you are and change the ending. – C.S. Lewis

18. So sick of pretending that everything is alright because it’s not. – Anonymous

19. Memories have to be our most painful blessing. – Kanye West

20. Fight for what’s worth fighting for. – Anonymous

21. Nobody knows about the little meltdowns I have when I’m alone. They only know about the smiles and laughs I show them. – Anonymous

22. You still make me smile, even if you’re the reason why I’m sad. – Zakiya And Majid

23. You’ll never know how strong you are, until being strong is the only choice you have. – Bob Marley

24. You say you care but you leave me alone to cry. – Anonymous

25. What brings us to tears, will lead us to grace. Our pain is never wasted. – Bob Goff

26. The worst feeling is when you feel like you’re annoying the only person you wanna talk to. – Anonymous

27. Sorrows cannot all be explained away in a life truly lived, grief and loss accumulate like possessions. – Stefan Kanfer

28. There are two types of people in the world: those who prefer to be sad among others, and those who prefer to be sad alone. – Nicole Krauss

29. Life is sad, life is a bust, all you can do is do what you must. – Bob Dylan

30. I always like walking in the rain, so no one can see me crying. – Charlie Chaplin

31. The walls we build around us to keep sadness out also keeps out the joy. – Jim Rohn

32. I guess that’s what saying good-bye is always like–like jumping off an edge. The worst part is making the choice to do it. Once you’re in the air, there’s nothing you can do but let go. – Lauren Oliver

33. It’s sad to know I’m done. But looking back, I’ve got a lot of great memories. – Bonnie Blair

34. Sweet is the memory of distant friends! Like the mellow rays of the departing sun, it falls tenderly, yet sadly, on the heart. – Washington Irving

35. Sadness usually results from one of the following causes either when a man does not succeed, or is ashamed of his success. – Seneca

36. There is no worse sorrow than remembering happiness in the day of sorrow. – Alfred De Musset

37. Behind every sweet smile, there is a bitter sadness that no one can ever see and feel. – Tupac Shakur

38. So much sadness exists in the world that we are all under obligation to contribute as much joy as lies within our powers. – John Sutherland Bonnell

39. I have a thousand reasons to die and many millions of tears to cry. – Draconian

40. It’s sad when someone you know becomes someone you knew. – Henry Rollins

41. Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair. – William Cowper

42. Nobody really cares if you’re miserable, so you might as well be happy. – Cynthia Nelms

43. To fall in love is awfully simple, but to fall out of love is simply awful. – Bess Myerson

44. My feeling is that there is nothing in life but refraining from hurting others, and comforting those who are sad. – Olive Schreiner

45. Sorrow is one of the vibrations that prove the fact of living. – Antoine de Saint-Exupery

46. The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it. – William Mather Lewis

47. It’s easy to cry when you realize that everyone you love will reject you or die. – Chuck Palahniuk

48. A feeling of sadness and longing, That is not akin to pain, and resembles sorrow only as the mist resembles the rain. – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

49. The sad truth is that opportunity doesn’t knock twice. – Gloria Estefan

50. As the light begins to intensify, so does my misery, and I wonder how it is possible to hurt so much when nothing is wrong. – Tabitha Suzuma

51. We must understand that sadness is an ocean, and sometimes we drown, while other days we are forced to swim. – R.M. Drake

52. A million words would not bring you back, I know because I tried, neither would a million tears, I know because I cried. – Anonymous

53. When you’re happy you enjoy the music, but when you’re sad you understand the lyrics. – Frank Ocean

54. All man’s miseries stem from his inability to sit quietly in a room and do nothing. – Blaise Pascal

55. Breathing is hard. When you cry so much, it makes you realize that breathing is hard. – David Levithan

56. Sometimes it takes sadness to know happiness, noise to appreciate silence and absence to value presence. – Anonymous

57. Sometimes you laugh because you’ve got no more room for crying. – Terry Pratchett

58. Tears are words the mouth can’t say nor can the heart bear. – Joshua Wisenbaker

59. To have felt too much is to end in feeling nothing. – Dorothy Thompson

60. I learned how to be happy because I know what unhappiness felt like. – Lilly Singh

61. People keep telling me that life goes on, but to me that’s the saddest part. – Anonymous

62. Perhaps, somewhere, some day, at a less miserable time, we may see each other again. – Vladimir Nabokov

63. Sometimes you’ve got to be able to listen to yourself and be okay with no one else understanding. – Anonymous

64. People cry, not because they’re weak. It’s because they’ve been strong for too long. – Johnny Depp

65. One thing you can’t hide — is when you’re crippled inside. – John Lennon

66. Blaming other people for things that are going wrong guarantees your continued misery. – Justin Kan

67. Heavy hearts, like heavy clouds in the sky, are best relieved by the letting of a little water. – Christopher Morley

68. Tears are words the heart can’t express. – Gerard Way

69. When you feel like you’ve had it up to here, and you’re mad enough to scream, but you’re sad enough to tear, that’s rock bottom. – Eminem

70. I used to think the worst thing in life was to end up all alone, it’s not. The worst thing in life is to end up with people who make you feel alone. – Robin Williams

71. This moment will just be another story someday. – Stephen Chbosky

72. You don’t need water to feel like you’re drowning, do you? – Jodi Picoult

73. You’re going to make it. It’ll be hard but you’re going to make it. – Anonymous

74. Don’t get lost in your pain, know that one day your pain will become your cure. – Rumi

75. Trust is like an eraser, it gets smaller and smaller after every mistake. – Anonymous

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