76 Sad Quotes For Inspiration

Sometimes, life throws challenges our way that leave us feeling down and disheartened. During these low moments, it can be comforting to find solace in the words of others who have experienced similar emotions. That's why we've curated a collection of the top 76 sad quotes for inspiration. These poignant quotes are not only a reflection of sorrow but also a testament to the resilience of the human spirit. Whether you're seeking solace, understanding, or just a gentle reminder that you're not alone, these quotes offer a beacon of hope and inspiration amid the storm.

1. “So, this is my life. And I want you to know that I am both happy and sad and I'm still trying to figure out how that could be.” - Stephen Chbosky

2. “My tears brought no sense of release or relief. Their flight felt like the lightest, coldest touch of a departing lover.” - Anne Giardini

3. “there are two types of people in the world: those who prefer to be sad among others, and those who prefer to be sad alone.” - Nicole Krauss

4. “And now he was dead, his soul fled down to the Sunless Country and his body lying cold in the cold mud, somewhere in the city's wake.” - Philip Reeve

5. “Nothing is ever certain.” - Alice Sebold

6. “Two turtle doves will show theeWhere my cold ashes lieAnd sadly murmuring tell theeHow in tears I did die” - Nikolai Gogol

7. “That old feeling is still in my leaking heart.” - William S. Burroughs

8. “What exists beneath the sea?I’d always pictured it in colors of emerald and aquamarine, where black velvet fish with sequined eyes swim among plankton.But, when my eyes adjust, I see gray stones, lost anchors, wet wood, buttons, hooks, and eyes, the salem witches who wouldn’t float, stars and stripes, missing vessels, windup toys, the souls of Romeo and Juliet, peaches, cream, pistons, screams, cages of ribs and birds, tunnels, nutcracker soldiers, satin bows, drugstore signs, Pandora box ripped open at its hinges.” - Kelly Easton

9. “They had battled and bloodied one another, they had kept secrets, broken hearts, lied, betrayed, exiled, they had walked away, said goodbye and sworn it was forever, and somehow, every time, they had mended, they had forgiven, they had survived. Some mistakes could never be fixed - some, but not all. Some people can't be driven away, no matter how hard you try. Some friendships won't break.” - Robin Wasserman

10. “Have you ever gotten so sad that it actually feels GOOD to do something you know will make you even sadder?” - Hillary Frank

11. “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

12. “The Young Man came to the Old Man seeking counsel.I broke something, Old Man.How badly is it broken?It's in a million little pieces.I'm afraid I can't help you.Why?There's nothing you can do.Why?It can't be fixed.Why?It's broken beyond repair. It's in a million little pieces.” - james frey

13. “Did you bite someone?' Jack enquired.'I laughed at people, which is much worse. My laughter has sharper teeth than any dog. It tears people apart who wish to be taken seriously, but I could not help myself. There were many complaints and finally a man in a brown suit came and looked at me. He was very important and not used to being laughed at, but I could see he had dandruff on his collar, and there was a spot of his breakfast egg on his lapel. You should have seen him - so puffed up and proud of himself. I couldn't help but laugh and that made people see him as I did, and so they laughed too. All of a sudden everyone realised that for all his status in official matters, he was a man who lived alone and was loveless.” - Isobelle Carmody

14. “That was what happened to laughter when you caged it. It became unbearably sad. It was worse than crying.” - Isobelle Carmody

15. “One by one they dissapeared Pumpkin last of all. The last May saw of himwas his sad face under his waving tuft of hair and then his long fingers,reaching out toward her for a hug that would never happen now as they turned around the bend.” - Jodi Lynn Anderson

16. “This isn’t a church social, Sweetheart. You aren’t going to be able to save me this time.” - Katherine Allred

17. “We often confuse what we wish for with what is.” - Neil Gaiman

18. “I wasn't safe. I wasn't permanent. My life was a fiction I had created, like an alien who comes to earth and tries to pass as human. The affections of my friends meant nothing to me, directed, as they were, toward a person who wasn't there. There was nobody home.” - Robert Goolrick

19. “Some things a heart won't listen to, I'm still holding out for you” - SHeDAISY

20. “It's all right, Tessa, you can go. We love you. You can go now.''Why are you saying that?''She might need permission to die, Cal.''I don't want her to. She doesn't have my permission.” - Jenny Downham

21. “I'll tell you something, Harpy," he said, his voice almost a whisper now. "It never even occurred to me that we wouldn't make it. And it never occurred to you that we would. You were just waiting for us to go down in flames. I thought we could get through anything.” - Kristan Higgins

22. “She smirks."Are you attempting to stop me, little one?""Excuse me? Did you just call me 'little one'? What are you? Like, four feet tall?" I ask.” - Carrie Jones

23. “I sleep through the next day. Each time I go to the bathroom, I try not to look in the mirror. Once, I catch my reflection: it looks like I’ve been punched in both eyes.I can’t talk about the day that follows that.” - Nina LaCour

24. “Rejection, though--it could make the loss of someone you weren't even that crazy about feel gut wrenching and world ending.” - Deb Caletti

25. “He's an artist in London. We don't see him much."Tom gave him one of his quick, considering glances and asked, "Doesn't he live with you?""No," said Indigo, finally saying out loud what he had known now for a long, long time. "Not really. Not anymore.” - Hilary McKay

26. “My mind is the only sanctuary that has not been stolen from me. Men have tried to breach it before, but I've learned to defend it vigorously, for I am only safe with my innermost thoughts.” - Christopher Paolini

27. “I need you to be happy. I need one of us to be happy.” - Holly Black

28. “The moment she was cursed, I lost her. Once it wears off- soon- she will be embarrassed to remember things that she said, things she did, things like this. No matter how solid she feels in my arms, she is made of smoke.” - Holly Black

29. “The earth's orbit didn't slow down. The world didn't stop falling. Slowly, very, very slowly, Michael started to sink to his knees.” - B.R. Collins

30. “Because you let our love just fall apartYou no longer have my heart” - Boyz II Men

31. “The pattern's laid out on the bedWith dozens of colors of threadBut you've got the needleI guess that's the point in the end” - Amanda Palmer

32. “We are traveling down a path with no happy ending, and it's too late to turn around.” - Mandy Hubbard

33. “How unjust then to meet that person you love, and be kept away from them only because ones bed is made of hay , and the other, feathers.” - Kristin Cashore

34. “If you had one day left to live, what would you do?” - Megan Miranda

35. “Oh, darling, I've been so miserable.” - Ernest Hemingway

36. “It’s just the love for her in my heart that is morphing into this madness and how can I run away from it? Sometimes I want to when I can’t bear it anymore, but where will I go?” - Faraaz Kazi

37. “I wanted to wash away our past misgivings in those tears that would run from our eyes and weave a new start by folding her in my arms.I wanted to, but I did not!” - Faraaz Kazi

38. “If not towards his case to give him glimpses of what could be a happy future, it stayed back at least to warrant her happiness, stayed back with the pain that strangely didn’t hurt anymore.” - Faraaz Kazi

39. “Maybe I am everything I knew that I would never be. I looked back at Jay and smiled.” - Holly Hood

40. “Robot. Is. Sad. Because silly bitch. Will. Not. Dance.” - Libba Bray

41. “What’s her name? Claire, what’s her name?” - Rachel Caine

42. “In the end we're all miserable. It's a human condition.” - Yvonne Prinz

43. “It's just the end of some things.And the beginning of others.” - Lisa McMann

44. “You sound so miserable.”“All novelists are.” - Changdictator

45. “I would have kept you safe,' he said.I closed my eyes, forcing the tears down my cheek to break against the dam of his fingers. 'I know.” - Meagan Spooner

46. “I’m sorry and I believe in you and I’ll always be near you, protecting you, and I will never leave you, I’ll be curled around your heart for the rest of your life.” - Jennifer Egan

47. “He knew that people were staring at him. He looked different. Even different from other Erasers. He wasn't as —seamless. He didn't look as human as the rest of them did when they weren't morphed. He kind of looked morphy all the time. He hadn't seen his plain real face in —a long time."I know who you are."Ari almost jumped —he hadn't noticed the boy slide onto the bench next to him.He frowned down at the small, open face. "What?" he growled. This was when the little boy would get scared and probably turn and run. It always happened.The boy smiled. "1 know who you are," he said, pointing at Ari happily.Ari just snarled at him.The boy wiggled with excitement. "You're Wolverine!"Ari stared at him."You look awesome, dude," said the boy. "You're totally my favorite. You're the strongest one of all of them and the coolest too. I wish 1 was like you."Ari almost gagged. No one had ever, ever said anything like that to him.” - James Patterson

48. “Walking away from my desert companions feels like cutting off a limb. How does one say good-bye to an arm? One doesn't, I suppose. One pretends it isn't happening.” - Rae Carson

49. “If shame had a face I think itwould kind of look like mineIf it had a home would it be my eyesWould you believe me if I said I'm tired of thisWell here we go now one more timeI tried to climb your stepsI tried to chase you downI tried to see how low I could get it down to the groundI tried to earn my wayI tried to tame this mindYou better believe that I tried to beat this[CHORUS]So when will this end it goes on and onOver and over and over againKeep spinning around I know that it won't stopTill I step down from this for goodI never thought I'd end up hereNever thought I'd be standing where I amI guess I kinda thought it would be easier than thisI guess I was wrong now one more timeI tried to climb your stepsI tried to chase you downI tried to see how long I could get it down to the groundI tried to earn my wayI tried to tame this mindYou better believe that I tried yo beat this[REPEAT CHORUS]Sick cycle carouselThis is a sick sycle, yeahSick cycle carouselThis is a sick cycle, yeah[REPEAT CHORUS TWICE]Sick cycle carouselSick cycle carouselSick cycle carousel...” - Lifehouse

50. “Maybe if the empty space inside her was filled with love there'd be no room for sad and dark things.” - Glenda Millard

51. “You really need stitches," she tells me."Or you're going to have a scar." I try not to laugh. Stitches aren't going to help. They fix skin, cuts, wounds, heal stuff on the outside. Everything broken with me is on the inside. "I can handle scars, especially one's on the outside.” - Jessica Sorensen

52. “PERMALINK · 169465 · 15 HOURS AGO"She tried to feel sad, or guilty, or even to be angry about the way things had happened, but there frankly wasn’t much room in either her head or her heart for wishing or moping.” - Megan Hart

53. “. . . you don’t need a happy ending to move onto a happy beginning.” - Krystal McLean

54. “I won't let that night ruin you forever." But it did, it broke me into a million pieces and blew them away in the wind, like crumbled leaves.” - Jessica Sorensen

55. “I was girly and friendly and my family life was happy but many days I felt like I was on the inside what Chase was on the outside. I always believed I was a happy person with a sad soul. I felt like I had had tragedy in my life when I hadn’t. Somehow, without having experienced what he had, his scars resonated with me.” - Kimberly Novosel

56. “Tell her I'm sorry I sold the diamond, eh?" Sammy said. "I broke my promise. When she disappeared in Alaska... ah, so long ago, I finally used that diamond, moved to Texas as I always dreamed. I started my machine shop. Started my family! It was a good life, but Haze; was right. The diamond came with a curse. I never saw her again." "Oh, Sammy," Hazel said. "No, a curse didn't keep me away. I wanted to come back. I died!" The old man didn't seem to hear. He smiled down at the baby, and kissed him on the head. "I give you my blessing, Leo. First male great-grandchild! I have a feeling you are special, like Hazel was. You are more than a regular baby, eh? You will carry on for me. You will see her someday. Tell her hello for me.” - Rick Riordan

57. “I'm supposed to a man who never blows his composureA boy trapped in a war, forced to be a soliderThe weight of the world just put on top of my shouldersBut if there's one thing I know for sureIt's that my mind has had its exposureAnd my emotional turmoil has finally had its closure” - Tommy Tran

58. “I get so sad that sad gets to be.So scared that all my feelings they up and leave me. I got so city girl on you. I go so crazy I don't know what to do.” - Tegan Quin

59. “I love walking in the rain because no one can see me crying” - Rowan Atkinson

60. “I just didn't want to be a loser anymore...-Mitsuko Souma” - Koushun Takami

61. “There is a silence so great that I can hear the ice crystals cracking and falling from eyelashes of girls who will never blink again.” - Lauren DeStefano

62. “She’s a commodity in a sea of broken girls.” - Lauren DeStefano

63. “I’m alone, stumbling through the city in the dark, trying not to let the night freeze my blood.” - Isaac Marion

64. “She wasn't a cruel Bird. But her heart ached so badly for these sad, broken birds that, just as the Puppeteer had planned, she had begun to hate them. She hated them for making her feel so wretched, when she should be happiest. That happens sometimes.” - Katherine Catmull

65. “I am heartbroken, but I have been heartbroken before, and this might be the best for which I can hope.” - Lemony Snicket

66. “Is that all?" she whispered.Gansey closed his eyes. "That's all there is.” - Maggie Stiefvater

67. “Now I understand why women want to have children - it's simply the urge to create happiness for yourself, somehow to fill the oppressive, unbearable emptiness in your soul.” - Nina Lugovskaya

68. “I love you!" he shouted, his eyes glowing laser green."I love you, okay? I'm not some hopeless retard you pull along behind you because you feel sorry for him! I love you and I'm going to prove it!” - Lili St. Crow

69. “She walked among the stars,The princess of the heavens,Looking for the one who caught her crystal tearsThat spilled out from liquid ice blue eyes-Rolling down pale cheeks-Then sealed up tenderly...In pearl alabaster jars...” - Kallista Pendragon

70. “Pain is pain...Just because one person's problem is less traumatic than another's doesn't mean they're required to hurt less.” - J.A. Redmerski The Edge of Never

71. “People are too various to be treated so lightly. I am too various to be trusted.” - James Baldwin

72. “Did you ever think about boys?' I say, staring up into the dark. 'There wasn't room,' she whispers, and her voice is unbelievably sad. 'At first, after Connor, I was just waiting. I was going to get a new boyfriend soon- as soon as I was prettier or better, more perfect. But after a while there was no room for anything else. If I though about kissing or sex, I just started feeling ugly, too awful for anything good.” - Brenna Yovanoff

73. “icen que a lo largo de nuestra vida tenemos dos grandes amores; uno con el que te casas o vives para siempre, puede que el padre o la madre de tus hijos, esa persona con la que consigues la compenetración máxima para estar el resto de tu vida junto a ella.Y dicen que hay un segundo gran amor, una persona que perderás siempre. Alguien con quien naciste conectado, tan conectado que las fuerzas de la química escapan a la razón y te impedirá, siempre, alcanzar un final feliz. Hasta que cierto día dejarás de intentarlo. Te rendirás y buscarás a esa otra persona que acabarás encontrando.Pero te aseguro que no pasarás una sola noche sin necesitar otro beso suyo, o tan siquiera discutir una vez más. Todos sabéis de qué estoy hablando, porque mientras estabais leyendo esto os ha venido su nombre a la cabeza.Te librarás de él o de ella, dejarás de sufrir, conseguirás encontrar la paz (le sustituirás por la calma), pero te aseguro que no pasará un día en que desees que estuviera aquí para perturbarte…Porque, a veces, se desprende más energía discutiendo con alguien a quien amas que haciendo el amor con alguien a quien aprecias.” - Paulo Coelho

74. “YOU DEMAND SALVATION EVEN AS YOU STEAL FROM THE COLLECTION PLATE.YOU SEND FOOD TO THE REFUGEES, AND THEN YOU DON'T ALLOW THE DELIVERY TRUCKS THROUGH THE WARZONES. THE FOOD WILL SPOIL , THE SUPPLIES WILL BE SOLD BY THE VICTORS . THE CIVILIANS WILL STARVE AND SICKEN AND EVENTUALLY DIE. IT IS THE WAY OF THINGS. THEY WILL ALL DIE, WHETHER FROM THE BRUTAL SAVAGERY THAT IS UNIQUE TO MAN OR FROM THE ABUNDANCE OF DISEASE OR FROM THE SCARCITY OF SUSTENANCE.” - Jackie Morse Kessler

75. “Sometimes the sound of silence is the most deafening sound of all.” - K.L. Toth

76. “If God gave Dad Alzheimer’s, He’s got to understand when Dad forgets what church he belongs to.” - Joanne Fluke