50 Inspirational Quotes About Sadness to Comfort and Uplift Your Soul

"You cannot protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from happiness."

- Jonathan Safran Foer

"Don't be ashamed to weep; 'tis right to grieve. Tears are only water, and flowers, trees, and fruit cannot grow without water. But there must be sunlight also. A wounded heart will heal in time, and when it does, the memory and love of our lost ones is sealed inside to comfort us."

- Brian Jacques

"There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power. They speak more eloquently than ten thousand tongues. They are the messengers of overwhelming grief, of deep contrition, and of unspeakable love."

- Washington Irving

"There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when we have not yet known what it is to have suffered and be healed, to have despaired and have recovered hope."

- George Eliot

"It takes strength to face our sadness and to grieve and to let our grief and our anger flow in tears when they need to. It takes strength to talk about our feelings and to reach out for help and comfort when we need it."

- Fred Rogers

"It's alright to cry, crying gets the sad out of you."

- Rosey Grier

"I do believe that if you haven't learnt about sadness, you cannot appreciate happiness."

- Nana Mouskouri

"Every storm runs out of rain."

- Maya Angelou

"AS LONG AS THERE IS LOVE, THERE WILL BE GRIEF. The grief of time passing, of life moving on half-finished, of empty spaces that were once bursting with the laughter and energy of people we loved. As long as there is love there will be grief because grief is love's natural continuation. It shows up in the aisles of stores we once frequented, in the half-finished bottle of wine we pour out, in the whiff of cologne we get two years after they've been gone. Grief is a giant neon sign, protruding through everything, pointing everywhere, broadcasting loudly, "Love was here." In the finer print, quietly, "Love still is""

- Heidi Priebe

"What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"The darkest hour has only sixty minutes."

- Morris Mandel

"Stars can’t shine without darkness."

- D.H. Sidebottom

"Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional."

- M. Kathleen Casey

"Rock bottom became the solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life."

- J.K. Rowling

"sometimes you gotta have a little sadness, so you know when the good times come."

- Bob Ross

"The word 'happy' would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness."

- Carl Jung

"Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed of an equal or greater benefit."

- Napoleon Hill

"Even the darkest night will end, and the sun will rise."

- Les Miserables

"You don’t drown by falling in the water; you drown by staying there."

- Ed Cole

"To fall in love is awfully simple, but to fall out of love is simply awful."

- Bess Myerson

"If you gave someone your heart and they died, did they take it with them? Did you spend the rest of forever with a hole inside you that couldn't be filled?"

- Jodi Picoult

"The worst feeling isn't being lonely, it's being forgotten by someone you'd never forget."

- Helen Hywater

"Stab the body and it heals, but injure the heart and the wound lasts a lifetime."

- Mineko Iwasaki

"Tears are words the mouth can't say nor can the heart bear."

- Joshua Wisenbaker

"Of all the words of mice and men, the saddest are, 'It might have been.'"

- Kurt Vonnegut

"We must understand that sadness is an ocean, and sometimes we drown, while other days we are forced to swim."

- R.M. Drake

"I always like walking in the rain, so no one can see me crying."

- Charlie Chaplin

"One thing you can't hide is when you're crippled inside."

- John Lennon

"Being a successful person is not necessarily defined by what you have achieved, but by what you have overcome."

- Fannie Flagg

"There are years that ask questions and years that answer."

- Zora Neale Hurston

"The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities."

- Sophocles

"I keep thinking about this river somewhere, with the water moving really fast. And these two people in the water, trying to hold onto each other, holding on as hard as they can, but in the end it’s just too much. The current’s too strong. They’ve got to let go, drift apart. That’s how it is with us."

- Kazuo Ishiguro

"And thus the heart will break, yet brokenly live on."

- Lord Byron

"It’s the heart, afraid of breaking That never learns to dance."

- Bette Midler

"Grief knits two hearts in closer bonds than happiness ever can; and common sufferings are far stronger links than common joys."

- Alphonse de Lamartine

"Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell."

- Joan Crawford

"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

"The problem with heartbreak is that nobody can help you when you’re heartbroken. Nobody and nothing."

- Alexa Chung

"When the sun has set, no candle can replace it."

- George R. R. Martin

"Sadly enough, the most painful goodbyes are the ones that are left unsaid and never explained."

- Jonathan Harnisch

"Tears shed for another person are not a sign of weakness. They are a sign of a pure heart."

- José N. Harris

"There are moments when I wish I could roll back the clock and take all the sadness away, but I have the feeling that if I did, the joy would be gone as well."

- Nicholas Sparks

"One must not let oneself be overwhelmed by sadness."

- Jackie Kennedy

"I have learned now that while those who speak about one's miseries usually hurt, those who keep silence hurt more."

- C.S. Lewis

"The excursion is the same when you go looking for your sorrow as when you go looking for your joy."

- Eudora Welty

"I’m not crying because of you; you’re not worth it. I’m crying because my delusion of who you were was shattered by the truth of who you are."

- Steve Maraboli

"Our dead are never dead to us until we have forgotten them."

- George Eliot

"It's sad when someone you know becomes someone you knew."

- Henry Rollins

"You know, a heart can be broken, but it keeps on beating, just the same."

- Fannie Flagg

"It's amazing how someone can break your heart, and you can still love them with all the little pieces."

- Ella Harper

"When all is said and done, grief is the price we pay for love."

- E.A. Bucchianeri

"Some stories don’t have happy endings. Even love stories. Maybe especially love stories."

- Kristin Hannah

"There is a distinct, awful pain that comes with loving someone more than they love you."

- Steve Maraboli

"To have been loved so deeply, even though the person who loved us is gone, will give us some protection forever."

- J.K. Rowling

"Our greatest joy and our greatest pain come in our relationships with others."

- Stephen R. Covey

"Love is so short, forgetting is so long."

- Pablo Neruda

"Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall."

- Confucius

"Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up."

- Thomas Edison

"What is grief if not love persevering."

- WandaVision

"Don't grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form."

- Rumi

"Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding."

- Kahlil Gibran

"Nothing is more sad than the death of an illusion."

- Arthur Koestler

"Oh, I am very weary, Though tears no longer flow; My eyes are tired of weeping, My heart is sick of woe."

- Anne Bronte

"Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us sorry but wise."

- H. G. Wells

"Participate joyfully in the sorrows of the world. We cannot cure the world of sorrows, but we can choose to live in joy."

- Joseph Campbell

"It doesn't hurt to feel sad from time to time."

- Willie Nelson

"First, accept sadness. Realize that without losing, winning isn't so great."

- Alyssa Milano

"Sad things happen. They do. But we don't need to live sad forever."

- Mattie Stepanek

"For I have learned to look on nature, not as in the hour of thoughtless youth, but hearing oftentimes the still, sad music of humanity."

- William Wordsworth

"Dying is only one thing to be sad over... Living unhappily is something else."

- Morrie Schwartz

"I really believe that all of us have a lot of darkness in our souls. Anger, rage, fear, sadness. I don't think that's only reserved for people who have horrible upbringings. I think it really exists and is part of the human condition. I think in the course of your life you figure out ways to deal with that."

- Kevin Bacon

"It is better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all."

- Alfred, Lord Tennyson

"If my world were to cave in tomorrow, I would look back on all the pleasures, excitements and worthwhilenesses I have been lucky enough to have had. Not the sadness, not my miscarriages or my father leaving home, but the joy of everything else. It will have been enough."

- Audrey Hepburn

"Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not."

- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

"Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair."

- William Cowper

"The soul would have no rainbow if the eyes had no tears."

- John Vance Cheney

"Above all things let us never forget that mankind constitutes one great brotherhood; all born to encounter suffering and sorrow, and therefore bound to sympathize with each other."

- Albert Pike

"The tragedy of life is in what dies inside a man while he lives - the death of genuine feeling, the death of inspired response, the awareness that makes it possible to feel the pain or the glory of other men in yourself."

- Norman Cousins

"We're taught to be ashamed of confusion, anger, fear and sadness, and to me they're of equal value to happiness, excitement and inspiration."

- Alanis Morissette

"Can I see another's woe, and not be in sorrow too? Can I see another's grief, and not seek for kind relief?"

- William Blake

"Ester asked why people are sad. "That’s simple," says the old man. "They are the prisoners of their personal history. Everyone believes that the main aim in life is to follow a plan. They never ask if that plan is theirs or if it was created by another person. They accumulate experiences, memories, things, other people's ideas, and it is more than they can possibly cope with. And that is why they forget their dreams."

- Paulo Coelho

"There is some kind of a sweet innocence in being human- in not having to be just happy or just sad- in the nature of being able to be both broken and whole, at the same time."

- Ned Vizzini

"I'm lonely. And I'm lonely in some horribly deep way and for a flash of an instant, I can see just how lonely, and how deep this feeling runs. And it scares the shit out of me to be this lonely because it seems catastrophic."

- Barbara Kingsolver

"The deeper that sorrow carves into your being, the more joy you can contain."

- Kahlil Gibran

"There is no greater sorrow than to recall, in misery, the time when we were happy."

- Dante Alighieri

"Loneliness is a sign you are in desperate need of yourself."

- Rupi Kaur

"Words are tears that have been written down. Tears are words that need to be shed. Without them, joy loses all its brilliance and sadness has no end."

- Paulo Coelho

"There are moments when I wish I could roll back the clock and take all the sadness away, but I have a feeling that if I did, the joy would be gone as well. So I take the memories as they come, accepting them all, letting them guide me whenever I can."

- Nicholas Sparks

"Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad."

- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

"For all sad words of tongue and pen, The saddest are these, ‘It might have been.’"

- John Greenleaf Whittier

"It’s sad, something coming to an end. It cracks you open, in a way — cracks you open to feeling. When you try to avoid the pain, it creates greater pain."

- Jennifer Aniston

"Heavy hearts, like heavy clouds in the sky, are best relieved by the letting of a little water."

- Christopher Morley

"A wound that goes unacknowledged and unwept is a wound that cannot heal."

- John Eldredge

"Crying is cleansing. There’s a reason for tears, happiness or sadness."

- Dionne Warwick

"Those who do not weep, do not see."

- Victor Hugo

"It’s so devastating to come to terms with speaking of someone in past tense when you used to see them as your present and your future."

- Taylor Swift

"We all yearn for what we have lost. But sometimes, we forget what we have."

- Mitch Albom

"Any fool can be happy. It takes a man with real heart to make beauty out of the stuff that makes us weep."

- Clive Barker

"Sorrow looks back. Worry looks around. Faith looks up."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"There’s a sorrow and pain in everyone’s life, but every now and then there’s a ray of light that melts the loneliness in your heart and brings comfort like hot soup and a soft bed."

- Hubert Selby Jr.

"When you are standing in that forest of sorrow, you cannot imagine that you could ever find your way to a better place."

- Elizabeth Gilbert

"Heaven knows we need never be ashamed of our tears, for they are rain upon the blinding dust of earth, overlying our hard hearts."

- Charles Dickens

"Being in the depths of sadness is just as important an experience as being exuberantly happy."

- Marlene Dietrich

"I can’t remember anything without a sadness so deep that it hardly becomes known to me, so deep that its tears leave me a spectator of my own stupidity."

- John Lennon

"Sorrow makes us all children again — destroys all differences of intellect. The wisest know nothing."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"For a second I feel a rush of sadness: for the horizons that vanish behind us, for the people we leave behind, the tiny-doll selves that get stored away and ultimately buried."

- Lauren Oliver

"From sorrow to sorrow love crosses its islands and establishes roots that are watered by weeping."

- Pablo Neruda

"Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and oftentimes we call a man cold, when he is only sad."

- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

"The lessons we learn in sadness and from loss are those that abide."

- Theodore T. Munger

"This genuine heart of sadness can teach us great compassion. It can humble us when we’re arrogant and soften us when we are unkind."

- Pema Chödrön

"In this world, full often, our joys are only the tender shadows which our sorrows cast."

- Henry Ward Beecher

"Hope is like the sun, which, as we journey toward it, casts the shadow of our burden behind us."

- Samuel Smiles

"So it’s true, when all is said and done, grief is the price we pay for love."

- E.A. Bucchianeri

"She was a genius of sadness, immersing herself in it, separating its numerous strands, appreciating its subtle nuances. She was a prism through which sadness could be divided into its infinite spectrum."

- Jonathan Safran Foer

"Sadness flies away on the wings of time."

- Jean de La Fontaine

"Out of difficulties grow miracles."

- Jean de La Bruyère

"It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light."

- Aristotle

"It's always darkest before the dawn."

- Thomas Fuller

"The worst type of crying wasn't the kind everyone could see--the wailing on street corners, the tearing at clothes. No, the worst kind happened when your soul wept and no matter what you did, there was no way to comfort it. A section withered and became a scar on the part of your soul that survived. For people like me and Echo, our souls contained more scar tissue than life."

- Katie McGarry

"Hearts will never be practical until they are made unbreakable."

- The Wizard of Oz

"Why do people have to be this lonely? What's the point of it all? Millions of people in this world, all of them yearning, looking to others to satisfy them, yet isolating themselves. Why? Was the earth put here just to nourish human loneliness?"

- Haruki Murakami

"Tears are words that need to be written."

- Paulo Coelho

"I didn't want to wake up. I was having a much better time asleep. And that's really sad. It was almost like a reverse nightmare, like when you wake up from a nightmare you're so relieved. I woke up into a nightmare."

- Ned Vizzini

"When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love have always won. There have been tyrants and murderers, and for a time, they can seem invincible, but in the end, they always fall. Think of it--always."

- Mahatma Gandhi

"The light has gone out of my life."

- Teddy Roosevelt

"You gotta know happy and you gotta know glad, cause you’re gonna know lonely and you’re gonna know sad"

- Mary Chapin Carpenter

"Every human walks around with a certain kind of sadness. They may not wear it on their sleeves, but it's there if you look deep."

- Taraji P. Henson

"Every life has a measure of sorrow, and sometimes this is what awakens us."

- Steven Tyler

"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

"Some people feel like they don’t deserve love. They walk away quietly into empty spaces, trying to close the gaps of the past."

- Jon Krakauer

"Make the most of your regrets; never smother your sorrow, but tend and cherish it till it comes to have a separate and integral interest. To regret deeply is to live afresh."

- Henry David Thoreau

"What is hardest to accept about the passage of time is that the people who once mattered the most to us wind up in parentheses."

- John Irving

"When you’re happy, you enjoy the music, but when you’re sad, you understand the lyrics."

- Frank Ocean

"Everyone dies two deaths. The first is when they put you in the ground and the second is the last time your name is spoken."

- Ernest Hemingway (paraphrase)

"Imagine smiling after a slap in the face. Then think of doing it twenty-four hours a day."

- Markus Zusak

"There is no point treating a depressed person as though she were just feeling sad, saying, 'There now, hang on, you'll get over it.' Sadness is more or less like a head cold- with patience, it passes. Depression is like cancer."

- E.A. Bucchianeri

"Nothing thicker than a knife's blade separates happiness from melancholy."

- C. JoyBell C.

"Tears are nature's lotion for the eyes. The eyes see better for being washed by them."

- Christian Nestell Bovee

"Sadness is also a kind of defence."

- Ivo Andric

"Good humor is the health of the soul, sadness is its poison."

- Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield

"We tell our triumphs to the crowds, but our own hearts are the sole confidants of our sorrows."

- Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

"I can see the humorous side of things and enjoy the fun when it comes; but look where I will, there seems to me always more sadness than joy in life."

- Jerome K. Jerome

"Nobody understands another's sorrow, and nobody another's joy."

- Franz Schubert

"The reason for the sadness of this modern age and the men who live in it is that it looks for the truth in everything and finds it."

- Edmond de Goncourt

"It is the unknown we fear when we look upon death and darkness, nothing more."

- J.K. Rowling

"Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow, it only saps today of its joy."

- Leo Buscaglia

"To live in a hallucination of being loved is more painful than rejection."

- Vinaya Panicker

"Don't ever tell anybody anything. If you do, you start missing everybody."

- J.D. Salinger

"Things change. And friends leave. And life doesn't stop for anybody."

- Stephen Chbosky

"Depression is the inability to construct a future."

- Rollo May

"Life's under no obligation to give us what we expect."

- Margaret Mitchell

"Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first."

- Mark Twain

"It's a sad man my friend who's livin' in his own skin and can't stand the company."

- Bruce Springsteen

"Long after I have give up, my heart still searches for you without my permission."

- Rudy Francisco

"The good times of today are the sad thoughts of tomorrow."

- Bob Marley

"Faking a smile is so much easier than explaining why you are sad."

- Iona Mink

"It is sadder to find the past again and find it inadequate to the present than it is to have it elude you and remain forever a harmonious conception of memory."

- F. Scott Fitzgerald

"Who has not sat before his own heart’s curtain? It lifts: and the scenery is falling apart."

- Rainer Maria Rilke

"A sad soul can kill quicker than a germ."

- John Steinbeck

"Broken relationships are a source of heavy heartbreak that seem to affect every family."

- Jerry B. Jenkins

"Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold."

- Zelda Fitzgerald

"Sometimes you got to hurt something to help something. Sometimes you have to plow under one thing in order for something else to grow."

- Ernest J. Gaines

"You're like a song that I heard when I was a little kid but forgot I knew until I heard it again."

- Maggie Stiefvater

"You make me feel like a firefly. Trapped in a belljar; starved for love."

- Ayushee Ghoshal

"To have felt too much is to end in feeling nothing."

- Dorothy Thompson

"Death is the dropping of the flower that the fruit may swell."

- Henry Ward Beecher

"Death is a great revealer of what is in a man, and in its solemn shadow appear the naked lineaments of the soul."

- E.H. Chapin

"Grief is not as heavy as guilt, but it takes more away from you."

- Veronica Roth

"You meet everyone twice in this life, when they come and when they go."

- C.C Aurel

"There is a time for departure, even when there's no certain place to go."

- Tennessee Williams

"Tears come from the heart and not from the brain."

- Leonardo da Vinci

"Tough times never last, but tough people do."

- Robert Schuller

"The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone."

- Harriet Beecher Stowe

"I seldom think about my limitations, and they never make me sad. Perhaps there is just a touch of yearning at times; but it is vague, like a breeze among flowers."

- Helen Keller

"Every parting is a form of death, as every reunion is a type of heaven."

- Tryon Edwards

"Parting is such sweet sorrow that I shall say goodnight till it be morrow."

- William Shakespeare

"Tears are the summer showers to the soul."

- Alfred Austin

"To err is human; to forgive, divine."

- Alexander Pope

"Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes."

- Oscar Wilde

"Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body."

- Seneca

"The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself."

- Michel de Montaigne

"There is no sadder sight than a young pessimist."

- Mark Twain

"This too shall pass away."

- Ella Wheeler Wilcox

"The longer and more carefully we look at a funny story, the sadder it becomes."

- Nikolai V. Gogol

"Do not despair. Do not give up. Look for the sunlight through the clouds."

- President Gordon B. Hinckley

"The pain of parting is nothing to the joy of meeting again."

- Charles Dickens

"True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost."

- Charles Caleb Colton

"The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil."

- Hannah Arendt

"The sad truth is that opportunity doesn't knock twice."

- Gloria Estefan

"Percy, let me go" she croaked. "You can't pull me up." His face was white with effort. She could see in his eyes that he knew it was hopeless. "Never," he said. He looked up at Nico, fifteen feet above. "The other side, Nico! We'll see you there. Understand?" Nico's eyes widened. "But-" "Lead them!" Percy shouted. "Promise me!" "I-I will." Below them, the voice laughed in the darkness. Sacrifices. Beautiful sacrifices to wake the goddess. Percy tightened his grip on Annabeth's wrist. His face was gaunt, scraped and bloody, his hair dusted with cobwebs, but when he locked eyes with her, she thought he had never looked more handsome. "We're staying together," he promised. "You're not getting away from me. Never again." Only then did she understand what would happen. A one-way trip. A very hard fall. "As long as we're together," she said. She heard Nico and Hazel still screaming for help. She saw sunlight far, far above- maybe the last sunlight she would ever see. Then Percy let go of his ledge, and together, holding hands, he and Annabeth fell into the endless darkness."

- Rick Riordan

"Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things which matter least."

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"I can't eat and I can't sleep. I'm not doing well in terms of being a functional human, you know?"

- Ned Vizzini

"There is no disguise which can hide love for long where it exists, or simulate it where it does not."

- François de La Rochefoucauld

"Proud people breed sad sorrows for themselves."

- Emily Brontë

"A teardrop on earth summons the King of heaven."

- Charles R. Swindoll

"Anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrows, but only empties today of its strength."

- Charles Spurgeon

"There is no greater sorrow than to recall happiness in times of misery."

- Dante Alighieri

"What, if some day or night a demon were to steal after you into your loneliest loneliness and say to you: 'This life as you now live it and have lived it, you will have to live once more and innumerable times more' ... Would you not throw yourself down and gnash your teeth and curse the demon who spoke thus? Or have you once experienced a tremendous moment when you would have answered him: 'You are a god and never have I heard anything more divine."

- J.R.R. Tolkien

"I waste at least an hour every day lying in bed. Then I waste time pacing. I waste time thinking. I waste time being quiet and not saying anything because I'm afraid I'll stutter."

- Oscar Wilde

"Do not anticipate trouble, or worry about what may never happen. Keep in the sunlight."

- Benjamin Franklin

"In order to have great happiness you have to have great pain and unhappiness - otherwise how would you know when you're happy?"

- Leslie Caron

"If you want to fly, you have to give up the things that weigh you down."

- Toni Morrison

"Though we may not have reached the heights we anticipated yesterday, today is a brand new day to begin a new climb."

- Chinonye J. Chidolue

"When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it."

- Henry Ford

"It is not worth the bother of killing yourself, since you always kill yourself too late."

- Cioran

"In man's struggle against the world, bet on the world."

- Franz Kafka

"Your worst sin is that you've destroyed and betrayed yourself for nothing"

- Fyodor Dostoyevsky

"A crust eaten in peace is better than a banquet partaken in anxiety."

- Aesop

"He who fears he shall suffer, already suffers what he fears."

- Michel de Montaigne

"He spake well who said that graves are the footprints of angels."

- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

"You will never find time for anything. If you want time, you must make it."

- Charles Buxton

"Unable are the loved to die, for love is immortality."

- Emily Dickinson

"It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them."

- Confucius

"Red is the ultimate cure for sadness."

- Bill Blass

"Ninety-nine percent of your problems are created by you because you take life seriously."

- Osho

"Find the good. It's all around you. Find it, showcase it and you'll start believing it."

- Jesse Owens

"Life is but a momentary glimpse of the wonder of this astounding universe, and it is sad to see so many dreaming it away on spiritual fantasy."

- Carl Sagan

"Most of the trouble in life comes from misunderstanding."

- Lucy Maud Montgomery

"Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul."

- Friedrich Nietzsche

"There is no passion so contagious as that of fear."

- Michel de Montaigne

"The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living."

- Marcus Tullius Cicero

"Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom."

- Søren Kierkegaard

"Ho! Ho! Ho! To the bottle I go To heal my heart and drown my woe Rain may fall, and wind may blow And many miles be still to go But under a tall tree will I lie And let the clouds go sailing by"

- Brian Jacques

"Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once."

- Billy the Kid

"Strength grows in the moments when you think you can’t go on, but you keep going anyway."

- Ed Mylett

"Don’t let your struggle become your identity."

- Ralston Bowles

"Let your tears water the seeds of your future happiness."

"Sometimes you have to lose something good to find something better."

"Don’t be sad because it’s over, be happy because it happened."

"The only way out of the darkness is to keep moving forward."

"Sometimes, you have to go through the worst to get to the best."

"Your hardest times often lead to the greatest moments of your life. Keep going."

"When you’re going through hell, keep going."

"You were given this life because you are strong enough to live it."

"It’s okay to be sad, but it’s not okay to give up."

"After every hardship comes ease."

"The pain you feel today is the strength you feel tomorrow."

"You are allowed to cry, but never give up."

"Sometimes you have to get knocked down lower than you’ve ever been to stand back up taller than you ever were."

"No matter how long the night, the dawn will break."

"There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when we have not yet known what it is to have suffered and be healed, to have despaired and recovered hope."

"Grief is love with no place to go."

"For of all sad words of tongue or pen, the saddest are these: ‘It might have been.’"

"The course of true love never did run smooth."

"The wound is where the light enters you."

"A man may fail many times, but he isn't a failure until he begins to blame somebody else."

"Without struggle, there is no progress."

"Goodbyes are only for those who love with their eyes; because for those who love with heart and soul there is no such thing as separation."

"We part only to meet again."

"It never gets easier. You just get stronger."

"One day, not too far from now, you'll be so glad you kept going."

"Thunderstorms can last an afternoon. Hurricanes can last for hours. But rain is only temporary; you'll have sunshine again."

"No man is an island, entire of itself."

"Regret is an appalling waste of energy; you can't build on it; it’s only good for wallowing in."

"A friendship that can cease has never been real."

"I have not broken your heart—you have broken it; and in breaking it, you have broken mine."

"To weep is to make less the depth of grief."

"It is far better to be alone than to be in bad company."

"Remorse is the poison of life."

"Like a flower seed, face your darkest days with courage and acceptance. Your time to blossom is coming."

"Yes you have returnedAnd things are as they wereBut this you cannot hide, A part of you has died."

"Roses lose their petals. But they bloom again."

"You may not be able to avoid being hurt, but you can choose not to let the hurt last any longer. Take a deep breath and remember just how wonderful you are."

"Allow yourself as much time as you need to make the decisions that are healthy for you. There's no expiration date on feeling better!"

"It's not about the strength of the storm, but rather, your faith in your ability to sail."

"You can never give up on yourself, that's what the world is waiting for."

"Starve your fears; feed your dreams. This is how you make your miracles happen."

"Burn through negativity. Use it as the fuel that ignites your positivity and makes your light shine even brighter."

"Every day is a new beginning. Stay away from what might have been, and look at what can be."

"You are stronger than you think."

"The moment you smile at the challenges that life hits at you, you are halfway through solving them."

"You're never alone in your heartache. Your friends and family support you; the Universe is 100% behind you."

"The ugly parts of life make the beautiful parts much better."

"It's okay to cry, but don't forget to smile afterward."

"Fear defeats more people than any other one thing in the world."

"Nothing good can come from tying yourself to things that aren’t there anymore"

"The worst solitude is to have no real friendships."

"A lost friendship is an enemy won."

"The heart of a man is very much like the sea, it has its storms, it has its tides, and in its depths, it has its pearls too."

"The strongest men are the most alone."

"Man's feelings are always purest and most glowing in the hour of meeting and of farewell."

"The struggle alone pleases us, not the victory."

"I would always rather be happy than dignified."

"The strength of women comes from the fact that psychology cannot explain us. Men can be analyzed... but women... merely adored."

"Women are made to be loved, not understood."

"The history of all times, and of today especially, teaches that... women will be forgotten if they forget to think about themselves."

"I love mankind, he said, "but I find to my amazement that the more I love mankind as a whole, the less I love man in particular.""

"If we don't feel lonely sometimes, how would we feel when we are happy and joyous?"

"You may not be living the life you'd planned, but that doesn't make this life any less extraordinary."

"Take each moment as it comes. All we have is now, one moment at a time."

"Your heart wasn't made to betray you. Keep trusting in it."

"Worry is the interest paid by those who borrow trouble."

"Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them."

"In the roller coaster of life, learn to be grateful for the downs. Without them, we would never notice the highs."

"He found himself wondering if his life were worth the living; if it had ever been. It was a question, he suspected, that came to all men at one time or another; he wondered if it came to them with such impersonal force as it came to him. The question brought with it a sadness, but it was a general sadness which (he thought) had little to do with himself or with his particular fate: he was not even sure that the question sprang from the most immediate and obvious causes, from what his own life had become. It came, he believed, from the accretion of his years, from the density of accident and circumstance, and from what he had come to understand of them. He took a grim and ironic pleasure from the possibility that what little learning he had managed to acquire had led him to this knowledge; that in the long run all things, even the learning that let him know this, were futile and empty ; and at last diminished into a nothingness they did not alter."

"Though nothing can bring back the hour of splendor in the grass, of glory in the flower."

"There is hope...but not for us."

"When you allow yourself to rise above the storm, you'll see nothing but sunshine in your sky."

"Sometimes you have to just let go and see what happens."

"Tell yourself the positivity that you wish to hear from others."

"Push yourself to open the curtains to let the sunshine in, literally and figuratively."

"Whatever doesn't kill you makes you stronger."

"Seek out new experiences. Get out of your usual routine as a distraction from anything disrupting your happiness. You'll be so enthralled that you'll forget what was bothering you."

"You are stronger than you know. Believe in yourself and push through the challenges. The reward on the other side is worth it."

"Sometimes we need to be sad to understand happiness."

"Remember that the pain you feel today will be the strength you feel tomorrow."

"He said I wanted revenge, but if I wanted revenge I would've just broken his heart."