Your sadness is a gift. Don’t reject it. Don’t rush it. Live it fully and use it as fuel to change and grow.
Maxime Lagacé
Mostly it is loss which teaches us about the worth of things.
Arthur Schopenhauer
Accept – then act. Whatever the present moment contains, accept it as if you had chosen it. Always work with it, not against it. Make it your friend and ally, not your enemy. This will miraculously transform your whole life.
Eckhart Tolle
At the heart of every frustration lies a basic structure: the collision of a wish with an unyielding reality.
Alain de Botton
Nothing changes if nothing changes.
Mel Robbins
Misery comes the moment you become clinging, attached. The moment you put conditions on life.
Osho
In every parting there is an image of death.
George Eliot
But now the joy is gone and the sadness is back, the sadness feels like something deserved, the price of some not-quite-forgotten betrayal.
Stephen King
Ninety-nine percent of your problems are created by you because you take life seriously.
Osho
It is easier to be miserable because the whole crowd is miserable. It feels more comfortable to be with the crowd than to be alone.
Osho
Suffering is a gift; in its hidden mercy.
Rumi
“Be grateful to everyone” means that all situations teach you, and often it’s the tough ones that teach you best.
Pema Chödrön
It’s sad when someone you know becomes someone you knew.
Henry Rollins
The cure for anything is salt water – sweat, tears, or the sea.
Isak Dinesen
If you’re feeling sad, remember soon you’ll forget and move on with life. Your grief is transitory. If you’re going to let go anyway, why not do so immediately? If you don’t cling to your grief you won’t suffer. Life is a river, flow with it. Don’t hold onto anything. Let go.
The Ancient Sage
There is not enough darkness in all the world to put out the light of even one small candle.
Robert Alden
The good life is not one immune to sadness but one in which suffering contributes to our development.
Alain de Botton
Experiencing sadness and anger can make you feel more creative, and by being creative, you can get beyond your pain or negativity.
Yoko Ono
The human condition is a good one in that no one is unhappy except by his own fault.
Seneca
That is my work, to transform your life from a sad affair into a celebration.
Osho
I learned how to be happy because I know what unhappiness felt like.
Lilly Singh
A long life makes acquaintance with a thousand ills.
Publius Syrus
In the valley of sorrow, spread your wings.
Susan Sontag
Those who do not weep, do not see.
Victor Hugo
Sometimes you laugh because you’ve got no more room for crying.
Terry Pratchett
People cry, not because they’re weak. It’s because they’ve been strong for too long.
Johnny Depp
Many people are alive but don’t touch the miracle of being alive.
Thich Nhat Hanh
Proud people breed sad sorrows for themselves.
Emily Brontë
When you’re happy you enjoy the music, but when you’re sad you understand the lyrics.
Frank Ocean
The opposite of love is indifference.
Shane Parrish
Blaming other people for things that are going wrong guarantees your continued misery.
Justin Kan
Feeling lost, crazy and desperate belongs to a good life as much as optimism, certainty and reason.
Alain de Botton
Sometimes it takes sadness to know happiness, noise to appreciate silence and absence to value presence.
Anonymous
How to be unhappy: stay inside all day, move as little as possible, spend more than you earn, take yourself (and life) too seriously, look for reasons why things won’t work, always consume, never contribute, resent the lucky and successful, never say hello first, be unreliable.
James Clear
Don’t grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form.
Rumi
It was a fine cry – loud and long – but it had no bottom and it had no top, just circles and circles of sorrow.
Toni Morrison
What brings us to tears, will lead us to grace. Our pain is never wasted.
Bob Goff
The perfected future never arrives. Life is full of seemingly endless trouble, and then life ends. Find peace in the imperfect present.
The Stoic Emperor
Never be afraid of tears. Tear-filled eyes are capable of seeing truth. Tear-filled eyes are capable of seeing the beauty of life.
Osho
Tears are words the heart can’t express.
Gerard Way
Tears come from the heart and not from the brain.
Leonardo da Vinci
Never say goodbye, because saying goodbye means going away, and going away means forgetting.
Peter Pan
The sadness will last forever.
Vincent van Gogh
Turn your wounds into wisdom.
Oprah Winfrey