35 Quotes On Overcoming Sadness

In the tapestry of human emotions, sadness is a thread that we all encounter at various points in our lives. It can feel overwhelming and isolating, yet it also serves as a poignant reminder of our capacity to feel deeply. As you navigate through the ebb and flow of these feelings, sometimes a few words of wisdom can illuminate the path toward healing and hope. Our collection of 35 quotes on overcoming sadness seeks to inspire and comfort, offering insight from a diverse range of voices. Whether you're seeking solace or motivation to push through a difficult moment, these quotes can serve as a gentle companion on your journey to emotional resilience.

1. “When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love have always won. There have been tyrants and murderers, and for a time, they can seem invincible, but in the end, they always fall. Think of it--always.” - Mahatma Gandhi

2. “I sat in the gradually chilling room, thinking of my whole past the way a drowning man is supposed to, and it seemed part of the present, part of the gray cold and the beggar woman without a face and the moulting birds frozen to their own filth in the Orangerie. I know now I was in the throes of some small glandular crisis, a sublimated bilious attack, a flick from the whip of melancholia, but then it was terrifying...nameless....” - M.F.K. Fisher

3. “Oh, sometimes I think it is of no use to make friends. They only go out of your life after awhile and leave a hurt that is worse than the emptiness before they came.” - L.M. Montgomery

4. “Like blood out of a wound, a keening wail rose from the bottom of my heart and ripped through the graveyard. I lowered my face to Hadassah's shoulder and went quietly and thoroughly to pieces.” - Angela Elwell Hunt

5. “It weren’t too loo long before I seen something in me, had changed. A bitter seed was planted inside of me. And I just didn’t feel so, accepting, anymore.” - Kathryn Stockett

6. “We look before and after,And pine for what is not;Our sincerest laughterWith some pain is fraught;Our sweetest songs are those that tell Of saddest thought.” - Percy Bysshe Shelley

7. “If he does go, the change will be doleful. Suppose he should be absent spring, summer, and autumn: how joyless sunshine and fine days will seem!” - Charlotte Brontë

8. “Waktu itu semua sudah tidak ada yang bisa kuingat. Karena waktu itu kata-kata sudah seakan tidak berarti lagi. Yang ada di memoriku hanyalahwarna pekat. Kucari warna-waran lain , tidak pernah ada. Bahkan putih pun sudah seperti jelaga.” - Lan Fang

9. “The sadness will last forever.” - Vincent Van Gogh

10. “People who shout joy from the rooftops are often the saddest of all.” - Milan Kundera

11. “Lie still, lie still, my breaking heart; My silent heart, lie still and break: Life, and the world, and mine own self, are changed For a dream's sake.” - Christina Rossetti

12. “Come here, let me share a bit of wisdom with you.Have you given much thought to our mortal condition?Probably not. Why would you? Well, listen.All mortals owe a debt to death.There's no one alivewho can say if he will be tomorrow.Our fate moves invisibly! A mystery.No one can teach it, no one can grasp it.Accept this! Cheer up! Have a drink!But don't forget Aphrodite--that's one sweet goddess.You can let the rest go. Am I making sense?I think so. How about a drink.Put on a garland. I'm surethe happy splash of wine will cure your mood.We're all mortal you know. Think mortal.Because my theory is, there's no such thing as life,it's just catastrophe.” - Anne Carson

13. “I was moving in a narrow range between busy distractedness and a pervasive sadness whose granules seemed to enter each cell, weighing it down... I ghosted between islands of anxiety... a fatigue that dulled my zest, decanted it. Sorrow felt like a marble coat I couldn’t shed.” - Diane Ackerman

14. “if you love someone so much and they love you as the same dont let go of them fite for them showem how you true feel no lies no bs but if they are not worth it then leave and find your happiness” - Mike Radcliff Jr

15. “Back then, he'd have to leave at the end of August for the start of school, so the week before Labor Day became it's own tiny season of gloom, like a hundred Sunday nights crowded together.” - Charles Frazier

16. “It was the time of year, the time of day, for a small insistent sadness to pass into the texture of things. Dusk, silence, iron chill. Something lonely in the bone.” - Don DeLillo

17. “Tears are words the mouth can't say nor can the heart bear.” - Joshua Wisenbaker

18. “It was only when the salt water of my tears ran into my cuts and made them stingthat I discovered I was crying.” - Marian Keyes

19. “I believe that in a way, sadness is happiness for there can be no wrong without right, no light without dark, no success without failure, no relief without pain, no love without hatred and no Snow White without the evil queen.” - Lisa Cander

20. “It was the face of a human being who’d been constructed exclusively of wounds. Not time or history or ambition, nothing but wounds. The face of a person who could probably kill someone without feeling anything whatsoever.” - Ryu Murakami

21. “The sky cries for those filled with sadness” - Sonya Watson

22. “Behind these eyesthere is a girl trapped withinher pain – a girl feeling all the emotionsof anger and sadness.She’s fighting for a way out.” (In her eyes, p. 39)” - Chimnese Davids

23. “She has failed. She wishes she didn't mind. Something, she thinks, is wrong with her.” - Michael Cunningham

24. “Mostly I have felt myself becoming a servant of sadness. I am still looking for the beauty in that.” - Maggie Nelson

25. “No truth can cure the sadness we feel from losing a loved one. No truth, no sincerity, no strength, no kindness, can cure that sorrow. All we can do is see that sadness through to the end andlearn something from it, but what we learn will be no help in facing the next sadness that comes to us without warning.” - Haruki Murakami

26. “How do you file a restraining order against sadness?” - Alex Adams

27. “I hate the sound of the world outside. Because everybody here can't wait to come and say goodbye...” - Dulara Perera

28. “A lesson for all of us is that for every loss, there is victory, for every sadness, there is joy, and when you think you’ve lost everything, there is hope.” - Geraldine Solon

29. “Rainy, gloomy, drab, sunless day.  There are times when hope seems entirely clouded over, when looking for the blessings in your circumstances feels like trying to catch a ray of sunshine from six feet under.” - Richelle E. Goodrich

30. “Dear, sweet, beautiful girl,” - Tehereh Mafi

31. “Joe closed his hand over the watch and it was still warm from his father's pocket, ticking against his palm like a heart.” - Dennis Lehane

32. “Sometimes I think if we didn’t have these problems the whole world would stop spinning on her axis, we’d all stop spinning on our axises, axes, or whatever you want to call them, and then we’d have to settle into the nasty business of finding a way to be happy.” - Daniel Clausen

33. “Because my life is empty window of nothingness punctuated by meaningless details of totally mundane non-events.” - M. Beth Bloom

34. “A radio was playing quietly. Nobody was listening. It was there to drown out the silence.” - Rachel Abbott

35. “Sadness pulses out of us as we walk. I almost expect the trees to lower their branches when we pass, the stars to hand down some light. I breathe in the horsy scent of eucalyptus, the thick sugary pine, aware of each breath I take, how each one keeps me in the world a few seconds longer. I taste the sweetness of the summer air on my tongue and want to just gulp and gulp and gulp it into my body--this living, breathing, heart-beating body of mine.” - Jandy Nelson