Best Being Sad Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

Source: The Book of Disquiet

“It is not the contented or the glowing who have left many of the profound testimonies of what it means to be alive. It seems that such knowledge has usually been the privileged preserve of, and the only blessing granted to, the violently miserable.”

Being Happy Being Sad Being Alive Marcel Proust How Proust Can Change Your Life

Book:How Proust Can Change Your Life

Source: How Proust Can Change Your Life

“You showed me that when something is really shit, it's ok to be sad. It's not a disease you have to cure. You can just... be sad.”

Feelings And Emotions Being Sad Allowing Yourself To Feel Sad

Book:Something Like Happy

Source: Something Like Happy

“I have learned to cry again and I think perhaps that means I am a human being again. Perhaps that at least. A piece of human being but, yes, a human being.”

Thinking Humans Mean Human Beings Pieces Sadness Cry I Have Learned Being Sad

Book:Sophie's Choice

Source: Sophie's Choice

“Non-violence is not a garment to be put on and off at will. Its seat is in the heart, and it must be an inseparable part of our being.”

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Author:Mahatma Gandhi

“Interdependence is and ought to be as much the ideal of man as self-sufficiency. Man is a social being.”

Men Self Social Environment Ought Ideals Environmental Teamwork Simple Living Interdependence Self Sufficiency Sufficiency Being Sad Social Being

Book:The Essential Gandhi: An Anthology of His Writings on His Life, Work, and Ideas

Source: The Essential Gandhi: An Anthology of His Writings on His Life, Work, and Ideas

“What's really sad is that a lot of very talented people are being forced to do things that are very embarrassing and I don't intend to be one of them.”

People Embarrassing Being Sad Really Sad

Author:Boy George

“Essentially, if our secrets are secrets because we are told to be ashamed, then we must share them. There is no shame in being sad or struggling or trying to heal. We are all desperate, depraved and sacred. We are all terrible and brillIant. I can list all the things that can make a girl want to escape her own body (re: patriarchy). But I’d rather list all the things that make me want to stay in my body, and adorn it like a home, rub oils into my skin, tell it how sorry I am for trying to leave, for trying to hurt it into submission”

Ifs Want Trying I Can Home Body Girl Hurt Secret Struggle Share Terrible Skins Shame Sacred Sorry Oil Brilliant Lists Heal Desperate Ashamed Patriarchy Submission Depraved Being Sad

Author:Warsan Shire

“I first foreswore motherhood when I was about eight years old. ... [Children] were annoying. We were loud and sneaky and broke things. As an eight-year-old, maybe I was simply mortified by the prospect of being saddled with myself.”

Years Firsts Children Eight Motherhood Broke Loud Annoying Being Sad Sneaky

Author:Lionel Shriver

“Does Being Happy simply Create More Time, in the way that Being Sad, as we all know, slows time and thickens it, like cornstarch in a sauce?).”

Knows Way Doe More Time Sauce Being Sad

Book:The Woman Upstairs

Source: The Woman Upstairs

“There's a word in Japanese for being sad in the springtime - a whole word for just being sad - about how pretty the flowers are and how soon they're going to die.”

Whole Dies Flower Just Being Springtime Being Sad

Book:The Clean House and Other Plays

Source: The Clean House and Other Plays

“Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace whose mind is stayed on Thee.”

Mind Perfect Bible Temptation Thee Trust In God Peacefulness Being Sad Peace With God Contentment And Peace Trust In The Lord Perfect Peace Contentedness Overcome Trials King James Bible Trusting Him Contentment Peace Focus On God

Author:Isaiah

“Having emotional connections to things that don't really exist, like looking at a green ball and really loving that green ball, and being sad whether it's around or not. Stuff like that. I've never done acting at this level before so it was a huge challenge for me. It was a hurdle to overcome just to survive.”

Done Stuff Challenges Levels Acting Emotional Huge Connections Overcoming Balls Green Hurdle Being Sad Emotional Connection

Author:Shia LaBeouf

“I think people feel safer being sad than they do being joyful.”

People Thinking Feels Joyful Being Sad Being Joyful

Author:Sark

“If you're immortal, you can imagine being sad or grieving if a lover leaves you. But if everyone were immortal, then that leaving isn't necessarily forever. There's always a chance that you get them back somewhere down the road - you know, in 5, 10, 20,000 years. So I think that the urgency of the moment gets sapped.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Years Moments Chance Forever Imagine Lovers Leaving Grieving Immortal Urgency Down The Road Being Sad Somewhere Down The Road

Author:Todd May

“Singing about your sadness unburdens your soul. But the blues hollers shouted about more than being sad. They were also delivering messages in musical code. If the master was coming, you might sing a hidden warning to the other field hands . . . The blues could warn you what was coming. I could see the blues was about survival.”

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Author:B. B. King

“For a human being, sadness is as powerful as terror. Sadness makes a warrior shed tears of blood.”

Humans Human Beings Powerful Blood Sadness Tears Terror Warrior Shed Being Sad Tears Of Blood

Book:Eagle's Gift

Source: Eagle's Gift

“You're the prettiest when you're happy. Don't use all your energy being sad.”

Use Energy Being Sad Prettiest

Author:Burnell Taylor

“Being part of the natural world reminds me that innocence isn't ever lost completely; we just need to maintain our goodness to regain it.”

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Author:Jewel

“Americans should know that Iranians are just as decent, human and rational as other human beings. Sadly, the mainstream media in the U.S. regularly fails to recognize and reflect this.”

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Author:Mohammad Marandi

“It's, like, you know, if you're sad, it's a way of connecting with other people. And we - a lot of times we sort of feel embarrassed by being sad, and we go off by ourselves to hide and cry by ourselves. But, really, it's a way of re-establishing relationship.”

People Ifs Knows Way Feels Cry Like You Embarrassed Connecting Being Sad Establishing Relationships

Author:Pete Docter

“Being mad is activating. Being sad can lead to hopelessness. I'm not hopeless. I'm very hopeful.”

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Author:Jayni Chase

“We deem those happy who from the experience of life have learnt to bear its ills without being overcome by them.”

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Author:Carl Jung

“The best thing for being sad, is to learn something. That's the only thing that never fails ... Learning is the only thing for you. Look what a lot of things there are to learn.”

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Author:T. H. White

“I've had a lot of people online say they're going to kill me at my shows. A lot of people say they're going to punch me in the face - never happened. It's just people being sad because their life sucks.”

People Shows Faces Happened Online Kill Me Being Sad Life Sucks

Author:Vince Staples

“Being divorced is like being hit by a Mack truck. If you live through it, you start looking very carefully to the right and to the left.”

Source: Mary, Mary

“Being sad and going out on terrible dates and having horrible breakups and then having a shitty job and then quitting the shitty job and then wondering if you shouldn't have quit the shitty job and then getting a new shitty job that you get fired off of after six weeks, it's all so good for your writing.”

Ifs Writing Jobs Wonder Week Terrible Six Quitting Horrible Breakup Going Out Being Sad

Author:Annie Baker

“Face the facts of being what you are, for that is what changes what you are.”

Facts Faces Change Expression Thrive Self Expression Being Sad Change Is Good

Author:Soren Kierkegaard

“One of the reasons why I fought for my roles is that I think there are so many things about them that are just human, but people like to label them as weird or bad or wrong because they're scared of them. I don't consider them bad - they're girls. They're going to make mistakes, but the films show the repercussions and show that they're going to learn. A lot of people are made to feel bad for being sad, so on top of already being unhappy, you're gonna hate yourself for it.”

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Author:Evan Rachel Wood

“Our society is run by insane people for insane objectives. I think we're being run by maniacs for maniacal ends and I think I'm liable to be put away as insane for expressing that. That's what's insane about it.”

“Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can. As a peacemaker the lawyer has superior opportunity of being a good man. There will still be business enough.”

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Author:Abraham Lincoln

“What may seem depressing or even tragic to one person may seem like an absolute scream to another person, especially if he has had between four and seven beers.”

Ifs May Persons Seems Literature Four Absolutes Seven Beer Tragic Scream Depressing Being Sad Feeling Sad

Book:Dave Barry's Greatest Hits

Source: Dave Barry's Greatest Hits

“For the very first time the young are seeing history being made before it is censored by their elders.”

Firsts Made Young History Seeing Media First Time Elders Being Sad Censored

Author:Margaret Mead

“Each contact with a human being is so rare, so precious, one should preserve it.”

Thinking Should Humans Humanity Human Beings Contact Preserves Being Sad

Author:Anais Nin

“The life of inner peace, being harmonious and without stress, is the easiest type of existence.”

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Book:The Power of Positive Thinking

Source: The Power of Positive Thinking

“The simplification of life is one of the steps to inner peace. A persistent simplification will create an inner and outer well-being that places harmony in one's life.”

Life Inspirational Wells Life Is Steps Harmony Simplicity Inner Peace Well Being Persistent Simplification Being Sad

Book:Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words

Source: Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words

“If I get the forty additional years statisticians say are likely coming to me, I could fit in at least one, maybe two new lifetimes. Sad that only one of those lifetimes can include being the mother of young children.”

Ifs Years Children Two Young Mother Literature Fit Lifetime Forty Young Children Being Sad Statistician

Book:Living Out Loud

Source: Living Out Loud

“Better by far you should forget and smile than that you should remember and be sad.”

“Humanitarianism consists in never sacrificing a human being to a purpose.”

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Author:Albert Schweitzer

“Impart as much as you can of your spiritual being to those who are on the road with you, and accept as something precious what comes back to you from them.”

Spiritual Spirituality Accepting Impart Cute Friendship Spiritual Beings Being Sad

Book:A Treasury of Albert Schweitzer

Source: A Treasury of Albert Schweitzer

“Being unwanted, unloved, uncared for, forgotten by everybody, I think that is a much greater hunger, a much greater poverty than the person who has nothing to eat.”

“The biggest disease today is not leprosy or tuberculosis, but rather the feeling of being unwanted.”

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Author:Mother Teresa

“Even modern English people are imperious, superior, ridden by class. All of the hypocrisy and the difficulties that are endemic in being British also make it an incredibly fertile place culturally. A brilliant place to live. Sad but true.”

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Author:Pete Townshend

“For all sad words of tongue and pen, The saddest are these, 'It might have been'.”

“So many gods, so many creeds, so many paths that wind and wind while just the art of being kind is all the sad world needs.”

“I'm SO glad I spent 10 years being sad and lonely.”

Years Lonely Glad Being Sad Sad And Lonely

Author:Caitlin Moran

“That is all I want in life: for this pain to seem purposeful.”

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Book:Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America

Source: Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America

“Wholeness is not achieved by cutting off a portion of one’s being, but by integration of the contraries.”

Inspirational Cutting Contrary Portions Wholeness Integration Being Lonely Being Sad Cutting Off

Author:Carl Jung

“because wherever I sat—on the deck of a ship or at a street café in Paris or Bangkok—I would be sitting under the same glass bell jar, stewing in my own sour air.”

Would Be My Own Air Streets Depression Sitting Glasses Ships Paris Sat Bells Jars Sour Deck Being Sad Bell Jar Bangkok

Book:the bell jar

Source: the bell jar

“They say when you are missing someone that they are probably feeling the same, but I don't think it's possible for you to miss me as much as I'm missing you right now”

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