Being Sad Quotes

• Life is without meaning. You bring the meaning to it. The meaning of life is whatever you ascribe it to be. Being alive is the meaning.

  Joseph Campbell

  Inspirational, Life, Encouraging

  Joseph Campbell (2011). “A Joseph Campbell Companion: Reflections on the Art of Living”, p.8, Joseph Campbell Foundation

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

  Mother Teresa

  Butterfly, Being In Love, Helping Others

  Quoted in the Observer, 3 Oct 1971.

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• 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

  God, Art, Kindness

  'The World's Need'

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

  Christina Rossetti

  Happiness, Smile, Sad

  "Remember" l. 13 (1862)

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• People cry, not because they're weak. It's because they've been strong for too long.

  Johnny Depp

  Inspirational, Sad, Depressing

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• The talent for being happy is appreciating and liking what you have, instead of what you don't have.

  Woody Allen

  Happiness, Happy, Appreciate

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

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Happiness, Life Lesson, Stress

  Norman Vincent Peale “The Power of Positive Thinking”, Om Books International

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• 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.

  Jean Kerr

  Inspirational, Life, Marriage

  Jean Kerr (1965). “Mary, Mary”, p.19, Dramatists Play Service Inc

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

  Elizabeth Wurtzel

  Depression, Pain, Want

  Elizabeth Wurtzel (2014). “Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America”, p.55, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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  And ever has it been known that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.

  Khalil Gibran

  Love, Relationship, Smile

  Khalil Gibran (2014). “The Prophet - Der Prophet”, p.18, Lulu.com

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• 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

  Life, Happiness, Sad

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• 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.

  Mother Teresa

  Sad, Sympathy, Thinking

  Speech by the President of India, Shrimati Pratibha Devisingh Patil, at the Birth Centenary Celebrations of Mother Teresa, pib.nic.in. August 30, 2010.

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• 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

  Edna St. Vincent Millay

  Love, Sad, I Miss You

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• Melancholy is the pleasure of being sad.

  Victor Hugo

  Sad, Melancholy, Pleasure

  Victor Hugo (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Victor Hugo (Illustrated)”, p.5393, Delphi Classics

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  The only thing worse than being blind is having sight but no vision.

  Helen Keller

  Inspirational, Women, Sight

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

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Change, Expression, Faces

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• 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.

  Anna Quindlen

  Mother, Children, Years

  Anna Quindlen (2010). “Living Out Loud”, p.60, Ballantine Books

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• 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.

  Pete Townshend

  Class, People, Hypocrisy

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• Ive never thought of my characters as being sad. On the contrary, they are full of life. They didnt choose tragedy. Tragedy chose them.

  Juliette Binoche

  Character, Tragedy, Contrary

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• Someone once accused me of being like Eliot Ness. I sad no sir, I'm not E.N., but I can promise you that I'm not Al Capone!

  Robert Stack

  Promise, Als, Capone

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• The sad events that occur in my life are the sad events that happen to everybody, with losing friends and family, but that is a natural occurrence, as natural as being born.

  Sergio Aragones

  Losing Friends, Family And Friends, Events

  Q&A with Sergio Aragonés, sergioaragones.com.

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• 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.

  Boy George

  People, Really Sad, Embarrassing

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• 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.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Peace, Heart, Violence

  1926 War or Peace,'Young India'.

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

  Dante Alighieri

  Inspirational, Happiness, Sad

  Dante Alighieri, Stanley Lombardo (2009). “Inferno”, p.26, Hackett Publishing

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

  Isaiah

  Bible, Trusting Him, Perfect

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