Sad Quotes, Sayings about sadness

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I feel bad when you miss me, I feel sad when you don’t.
- Juanita

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Sadness is the result of unhappy thoughts.

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A wound heals but the scar remains.
- Proverb

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Love can sometimes be magic. But magic can sometimes just be an illusion.
- Javan

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Though I know he loves me, tonight my heart is sad; his kiss was not so wonderful as all the dreams I had.
- Sara Teasdale

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They that sow in tears shall reap in joy.
- Anonymous

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Better by far you should forget and smile than that you should remember and be sad.
- Christina G. Rossetti

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Good humor is the health of the soul, sadness its poison.
- Lord Chesterfield

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For all sad words of tongue and pen, the saddest are these, It might have been.
- Anonymous

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Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it.
- Anonymous

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Never frown even when you’re sad ’cause you never know when someone’s falling in love with your smile.
- Anonymous

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A man’s sorrow runs uphill; true it is difficult for him to bear, but it is also difficult for him to keep.
- Djuna Barnes

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A man should always consider how much he has more than he wants, and how much more unhappy he might be than he really is.
- Joseph Addison

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Melancholy is sadness that has taken on lightness.
- Italo Calvino

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

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An ounce of cheerfulness is worth a pound of sadness to serve God with.
- Thomas Fuller

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Smile, even if it’s a sad smile, because sadder than a sad smile is the sadness of not knowing how to smile.
- Anonymous

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Anger is just a cowardly extension of sadness. It’s a lot easier to be angry at someone than it is to tell them you’re hurt.
- Tom Gates

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He is a hard man who is only just, and a sad one who is only wise.
- Voltaire

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Sadness flies away on the wings of time.
- Anonymous

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Reject your sense of injury and the injury itself disappears.
- Marcus Aurelius

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As I’ve gotten older, I find I am able to be nourished more by sorrow and to distinguish it from depression.
- Robert Bly

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I had rather have a fool make me merry, than experience make me sad.
- Anonymous

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The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.
- Anonymous

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A sad spectacle. If they be inhabited, what a scope for misery and folly. If they be not inhabited, what a waste of space.
- Anonymous

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