Sad quotes and quotes about sadness (it's okay to cry)

Are you feeling sad? You’re not alone. While social media give you the impression that everybody lives perfect lives, the reality is quite different. Let’s present some sad quotes.

Life’s challenging. We all face problems and we all feel sad sometimes. And that’s okay.

One may think that sad quotes, and quotes about sadness is a bad thing. Why indulge in negative stuff? Well, it can be helpful to see our life and life situations from a new perspective.

It can make it easier to get in touch with your feelings. Sometimes accepting sadness make sadness fade away.

So get ready to open up, to express yourself. It’s okay to cry. Sometimes it’s the best medicine.

Poverty is like punishment for a crime you didn’t commit.

– Eli Khamarov

Poverty is the worst form of violence.

– Mahatma Gandhi

I never made it to the school choir because the music teacher didn’t like my voice. I was pretty sad. But he was probably right; I did have a voice a bit like a goat, but my dad told me to never give up and to keep going, and it’s paid off.

– Shakira

The sad duty of politics is to establish justice in a sinful world.

– Reinhold Niebuhr

You may not enjoy loneliness, because loneliness is sad. But solitude is something else; solitude is what you look forward to when you want to be alone, when you want to be with yourself. So, solitude is something we all need from time to time.

– Ruskin Bond

There’s no excuse to be bored. Sad, yes. Angry, yes. Depressed, yes. Crazy, yes. But there’s no excuse for boredom, ever.

– Viggo Mortensen

I’ve discovered if you have a small circle of people you know you can rely on – in good times, bad times, happy times, sad times – who aren’t going to judge you and will, sometimes, just sit and listen to you without saying anything, then I think you’re very fortunate.

– Shirley Ballas

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.

– Ella Wheeler Wilcox

I don’t like people around me sad. I like making people happy.

– Tyler, The Creator

People who have never dealt with depression think it’s just being sad or being in a bad mood. That’s not what depression is for me; it’s falling into a state of grayness and numbness.

– Dan Reynolds

The sad thing about artificial intelligence is that it lacks artifice and therefore intelligence.

– Jean Baudrillard

Nothing always stays the same. You don’t stay happy forever. You don’t stay sad forever.

– Cat Zingano

I don’t have many regrets. I regret mistakes, particularly those that damage other people, and we’ve all made some of those. But I’m not sad about change.

– John Gutfreund

I know what I look like – a weird, sad clown puppet. I’m fine with that.

– Rainn Wilson

I am convinced that material things can contribute a lot to making one’s life pleasant, but, basically, if you do not have very good friends and relatives who matter to you, life will be really empty and sad and material things cease to be important.

– David Rockefeller

Keep it simple, keep it sexy, keep it sad.

– Mitch Miller

It’s sad when you can’t make everyone happy, though. It’s impossible but, at the same time, you still hope. You think, ‘Maybe I can do it,’ but you know you can’t. But gosh, if I had to rely on giving people what they wanted, I would have had to write 40 billion different books and even then, I wouldn’t get it right.

– Stephenie Meyer

They say such nice things about people at their funerals that it makes me sad that I’m going to miss mine by just a few days.

– Garrison Keillor

Usually when people are sad, they don’t do anything. They just cry over their condition. But when they get angry, they bring about a change.

– James Russell Lowell

For me, singing sad songs often has a way of healing a situation. It gets the hurt out in the open into the light, out of the darkness.

– Reba McEntire

There is no such thing as death. In nature nothing dies. From each sad remnant of decay, some forms of life arise so shall his life be taken away before he knoweth that he hath it.

– Charles Mackay

We tell them that we believe it will be beautiful because that is our specialty, we only create joy and beauty. We have never done a sad work. Through the drawings, we hope a majority will be able to visualize it.

– Christo

There’s a rule of writing: if everything is funny, nothing is funny; if everything is sad, nothing is sad. You want that contrast.

– J. Michael Straczynski

It’s sad when girls think they don’t have anything going on except being pretty.

– Keri Russell

The value of beauty and inspiration is very much underrated, no question. But I want to be clear: I’m not trying to be anyone’s savior. I’m just trying to think about the future and not be sad.

– Elon Musk