An ounce of cheerfulness is worth a pound of sadness to serve God with.

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.

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.

A man who is master of himself can end a sorrow as easily as he can invent a pleasure.

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

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.

Anger, tears and sadness are only for those who have given up.

Sometimes sadness is appropriate. Not something to run from, not something to numb…just something to feel.

Emotions are our spontaneous response to life. We have these emotions, but if the emotion is a negative emotion, then I have a choice to say, “I am feeling sad tonight because this happened, but I am not going to let my sadness keep me from engaging my wife in conversation. ”

Solitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strong.

When feeling sad, dream on! When feeling happy, dream on! You shall survive by means of your dreams!

Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better take things as they come along with patience and equanimity.

It’s ok to not be ok, but it’s not ok to stay that way.

Depression isn’t just being a bit sad. It’s feeling nothing. It’s not wanting to be alive anymore.

Distance never seperates two hearts that really care, for our memories span the miles and in seconds we are there. But whenever I start feeling sad cuz I miss you I remind myself how lucky I am to have someone so special to miss.

Seeing him again after so long awakened something inside me. I was surprised to find myself feeling sad rather than joyful, as I would have imagined.

Beauty and sadness always go together. Nature thought beauty too rich to go forth Upon the earth without a meet alloy.

Write your Sad times in Sand,
Write your Good times in Stone.

If it doesn’t work out there will never be any doubt that the pleasure was worth all the pain.

When I’m feeling sad, or lonely, and I don’t know what I’m doing and I don’t know where I’m going, I imagine the Cool Awesome Future Version of Myself just telling my present self, “It’s okay. You just gotta grab that giraffe by the ears and ride it on out.”

There is the melancholy of Europe. There is the romantic malaise. Feeling sad is almost a form of deepness.

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.

Don’t be sad by what you see
It’s true life has it’s miseries
But one thing’s always worked for me
Worry ends when faith begins.

Absolute silence leads to sadness. It is the image of death.

Theres nothing more depressing than having everything and still feeling sad. We must learn to water our spiritual garden.

I still catch myself feeling sad about things that don’t matter anymore.

The saddest summary of a life contains three descriptions: could have, might have, and should have.

The largest part of what we call ‘personality‘ is determined by how we’ve opted to defend ourselves against anxiety and sadness”.

Some people turn sad awfully young. No special reason, it seems, but they seem almost to be born that way. They bruise easier, tire faster, cry quicker, remember longer and, as I say, get sadder younger than anyone else in the world. I know, for I’m one of them.

I think the saddest people always try their hardest to make people happy
because they know what it’s like to feel absolutely worthless
and they don’t want anyone else to feel like that.

I think if we all acted the way we felt, four out of eight people at a dinner table would be sitting there sobbing.

What a sad story, I thought for so long. Not that I now think it was happy. But I think it is true, and thus the question of whether it is sad or happy has no meaning whatever.

How can you lose something you never had, I tell myself when I’m feeling sad.

You could ask for hugs if you were feeling sad or you’d hurt yourself, but when it happened spontaneously it made you feel warm inside.

When a father gives to his son, both laugh; when a son gives to his father, both cry.

With any kind of mean girl, or anyone who bullies anyone, there’s always a reason for it. There is that sadness in them or insecurity that makes them feel like they need to act out or hurt other people.

Maybe this is the point: to embrace the core sadness of life without toppling headlong into it, or assuming it will define your days.

It would be easy to become a victim of our circumstances and continue feeling sad, scared or angry; or instead, we could choose to deal with injustice humanely and break the chains of negative thoughts and energies, and not let ourselves sink into it.

I want that. I want that awful intense and serious unhappiness, cos then I might feel better, and then I might be happy.

My problem was that I felt ashamed of feeling sad or angry. Now, I don’t hide my vulnerability in my lyrics. There’s no way I was going to get raped and not get something out of it. I learned about power and hope and forgiveness. I like who I am now and I wouldn’t be who I am if that hadn’t happened.

Tell the truth through whichever veil comes to hand – but tell it. Resign yourself to the lifelong sadness that comes from never В­being satisfied.

When the dog bites, when the bee stings, when I’m feeling sad, I simply remember my favorite things and then I don’t feel so bad.

The older I get, the more I see there are these crevices in life where things fall in and you just can’t reach them to pull them back out. So you can sit next to them and weep or you can get up and move forward. You have to stop worrying about who’s not here and start worrying about who is.

To all the broken-hearted and anyone feeling sad, may your hearts heal and may you feel happy in your lives.Flutter as the butterflies do.

Feeling sad about anything is holding onto it. Say, ‘This is something I have to let go of,’ and immediately you will feel better.