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

Your joy is your sorrow unmasked.Kahlil Gibran

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

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

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

In joy or sadness, flowers are our constant friends.Okakura Kakuzo

There are other sorrows in this world besides the sorrows of love.Faiz Ahmed Faiz
Sadness flies away on the wings of time.Jean de la Fontaine
Sadness may be part of life but there is no need to let it dominate your entire life.Byron Pulsifer
He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has.Epictetus
If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will escape one hundred days of sorrow.Chinese proverb
Before you can inspire with emotion, you must be swamped with it yourself. Before you can move their tears, your own must flow. To convince them, you…Winston Churchill
Fear not for the future, weep not for the past.Percy Shelley
We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.Kahlil Gibran
I love my past. I love my present. Im not ashamed of what Ive had, and Im not sad because I have it no longer.Colette
The really unhappy person is the one who leaves undone what they can do, and starts doing what they don't understand; no wonder they come to grief.Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
When I am dead, my dearest, sing no sad songs for me.Christina Rossetti
Better by far you should forget and smile than that you should remember and be sad.Christina Rossetti
This is only the beginning of love — why do you weep? Wait and watch what is yet to come.Mir Taqi Mir
I am a cloud filled with the water of sorrow.Mahadevi Varma
The day I am not able to fly will be a sad day for me.Ratan Tata
I have many years to get better and better, and that has to be my ambition. The day you think there is no improvement to be made is a sad one for any…Lionel Messi

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

Parting is such sweet sorrow.William Shakespeare

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

Sadness is but a wall between two gardens.Kahlil Gibran

When we are born, we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools.William Shakespeare

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