Quotes on “sadness”

You cannot protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from happiness.

So it’s true, when all is said and done, grief is the price we pay for love.

But when I do feel all the strength go out of me, and I fall to my knees beside the table and I think I cry, then, or at least I want to, and everything inside me screams for just one more kiss, one more word, one more glance, one more.

Tears shed for another person are not a sign of weakness. They are a sign of a pure heart.

When you do something noble and beautiful and nobody noticed, do not be sad. For the sun every morning is a beautiful spectacle and yet most of the audience still sleeps.

The trick. . .is to find the balance between the bright colors of humor and the serious issues of identity, self-loathing, and the possibility for intimacy and love when it seems no longer possible or, sadder yet, no longer necessary.

I wish the night would end,I wish the day'd begin,I wish it would rain or snow,or the wind would blow,or the grass would grow,I wish I had yesterday,I wish there were games to play...

It’s how I fill the time when nothing’s happening. Thinking too much, flirting with melancholy.

Sometimes I wish life was written pencil so we could erase it and write it all over again.

That this girl would know exactly how to shatter me.

My first feeling was that there was no way to continue. Writing isn't like math;in math, two plus two always equals four no matter what your mood is like. With writing, the way you feel changes everything.

There you go...let it all slide out. Unhappiness can't stick in a person's soul when it's slick with tears.

Sometimes you weren't supposed to share pain. Sometimes it was best just to deal with it alone.

I don’t know what they are called, the spaces between seconds– but I think of you always in those intervals.

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.

Tears are words that need to be written.

Tonight I can write the saddest linesI loved her, and sometimes she loved me too.

The longer and more carefully we look at a funny story, the sadder it becomes.