"Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not."
"You cannot protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from happiness."
"Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart."
"For all sad words of tongue and pen, the saddest are these, ‘It might have been."
"The word ‘happy’ would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness."
"Tears come from the heart and not from the brain."
"Melancholy is the happiness of being sad."
"Sadness is also a kind of defence."
"Every life has a measure of sorrow, and sometimes this is what awakens us."
"Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought."
"The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities."
"Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us sorry but wise."
"I do believe that if you haven't learnt about sadness, you cannot appreciate happiness."
"The sad truth is that opportunity doesn't knock twice."
"Sadness flies away on the wings of time."
"In this world, full often, our joys are only the tender shadows which our sorrows cast."
"Nobody understands another's sorrow, and nobody another's joy."
"We never taste a perfect joy; our happiest successes are mixed with sadness."
"Words are less needful to sorrow than to joy."
"One must not let oneself be overwhelmed by sadness."
"The walls we build around us to keep sadness out also keeps out the joy."
"Tears are the summer showers to the soul."
"In deep sadness there is no place for sentimentality."
"Sadness is but a wall between two gardens."
"Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding."
"The deeper that sorrow carves into your being, the more joy you can contain."
"When you are sorrowful look again in your heart."
"Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls."
"There is no sadder sight than a young pessimist."
"Can I see another's woe, and not be in sorrow too?"
"We look before and after, and pine for what is not."
"Our sincerest laughter with some pain is fraught."
"There is no sorrow like a sorrow that does not speak."
"The best thing for being sad is to learn something."
"It doesn't hurt to feel sad from time to time."
"To have felt too much is to end in feeling nothing."
"Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow, it only saps today of its joy."
"Let us remember that sorrow alone is the creator of great things."
"Participate joyfully in the sorrows of the world."
"There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow."
"The tragedy of life is in what dies inside a man while he lives."
"The reason for the sadness of this modern age is that it looks for the truth in everything and finds it."
"Everything's complicated, even those things that seem flat in their bleakness or sadness."
"There is no happiness in life, only periods of sadness."
"Nobody understands another's sorrow, and nobody another's joy."
"We never taste happiness in perfection, our most fortunate successes are mixed with sadness."
"The old know what they want; the young are sad and bewildered."
"He who is not just is severe, he who is not wise is sad."
"Tears are nature's lotion for the eyes."
"Crying is cleansing. There's a reason for tears, happiness or sadness."
"The excursion is the same when you go looking for your sorrow as when you go looking for your joy."
"I've cried, and you'd think I'd be better for it, but the sadness just sleeps."
"They say it's better to bury your sadness in a graveyard or garden that waits for the spring."
"I can see the humorous side of things and enjoy the fun when it comes."
"Every human walks around with a certain kind of sadness."
"Sad will be the day for any man when he becomes contented with the thoughts he is thinking."
"A tragedy need not have blood and death; it's enough that it all be filled with that majestic sadness."
"The saddest thing in life is wasted talent."
"The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom."
"The saddest thing I can imagine is to get used to luxury."
"A cynical young person is almost the saddest sight to see."
"Don't fear failure so much that you refuse to try new things."
"Two of the saddest words in the English language are, ‘What party?"
"I don't want to finish my life not being alive."
"For I have learned to look on nature, not as in the hour of thoughtless youth."
"Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought."
"The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities."
"It is one of the most saddening things in life that we can never be certain of making people happy."
"I love my past, I love my present. I am not ashamed of what I have had."
"Sadness is also a kind of defence."
"In sorrow we must go, but not in despair."
"I will not say: do not weep; for not all tears are an evil."
"It is such a mysterious place, the land of tears."
"No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear."
"The pain I feel now is the happiness I had before."
"We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars."
"Where there is sorrow, there is holy ground."
"The world breaks everyone and afterward many are strong at the broken places."
"Write hard and clear about what hurts."
"The best way out is always through."
"Nothing gold can stay."
"The cure for anything is salt water: sweat, tears or the sea."
"Heaven knows we need never be ashamed of our tears."
"Crying is sometimes the only way your eyes speak when your mouth can't explain."
"What we once enjoyed and deeply loved we can never lose."
"Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it."
"We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world."
"Sometimes even to live is an act of courage."
"The strongest of all warriors are these two—Time and Patience."
"All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way."
"It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages."
"The heart dies a slow death, shedding each hope like leaves."
"Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional."
"Why do people have to be this lonely? What's the point of it all?"
"Love is so short, forgetting is so long."
"Tonight I can write the saddest lines."
"So, this is my life. And I want you to know that I am both happy and sad."
"The reason it hurts so much to separate is because our souls are connected."
"I have learned now that while those who speak about one's miseries usually hurt, those who keep silence hurt more."
"Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad."