Sad Quotes

These 32 quotes on sad come straight from the QuotePlace collection — lines by poets, philosophers, leaders and artists across the centuries. Open any card to read the quote on its own page and meet the author behind it.

Don't grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form. — Rumi
Don't grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form.
Rumi
All the powers in the universe are already ours. It is we who have put our hands before our eyes and cry that it is dark. — Swami Vivekananda
All the powers in the universe are already ours. It is we who have put our hands before our eyes and cry that it is dark.
Swami Vivekananda
In the cicada's cry no sign can foretell how soon it must die. — Matsuo Bashō
In the cicada's cry no sign can foretell how soon it must die.
Matsuo Bashō
I will not say: do not weep; for not all tears are an evil. — J.R.R. Tolkien
I will not say: do not weep; for not all tears are an evil.
J.R.R. Tolkien
Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief. — Cicero
Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.
Cicero
Tears and fears and feeling proud, to say 'I love you' right out loud. — Joni Mitchell
Tears and fears and feeling proud, to say 'I love you' right out loud.
Joni Mitchell
The rose and the thorn, and sorrow and gladness are linked together. — Saadi Shirazi
The rose and the thorn, and sorrow and gladness are linked together.
Saadi Shirazi
There are other sorrows in this world besides the sorrows of love. — Faiz Ahmed Faiz
There are other sorrows in this world besides the sorrows of love.
Faiz Ahmed Faiz
This place is a dream. Only a sleeper considers it real. Then death comes like dawn, and you wake up laughing at what you thought was your grief. — Rumi
This place is a dream. Only a sleeper considers it real. Then death comes like dawn, and you wake up laughing at what you thought was your grief.
Rumi
Music can lift us out of depression or move us to tears — it is a remedy, a tonic, orange juice for the ear. — Oliver Sacks
Music can lift us out of depression or move us to tears — it is a remedy, a tonic, orange juice for the ear.
Oliver Sacks
The deeper that sorrow carves into your being, the more joy you can contain. — Kahlil Gibran
The deeper that sorrow carves into your being, the more joy you can contain.
Kahlil Gibran
If you cry because the sun has gone out of your life, your tears will prevent you from seeing the stars. — Rabindranath Tagore
If you cry because the sun has gone out of your life, your tears will prevent you from seeing the stars.
Rabindranath Tagore
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