Feeling Miserable? Read These Sad Quotes About Life

When the heart is burdened with grief, nothing looks bright. It is not easy to shake off the gloom. The more you try to run away from it, the more it chases you. So let us learn to face our sadness. Here are some sad quotes about life. Use them as an antidote for your depression. Flush the negativity out of your heart. Believe that life is awesome, and you have the chance to make the most of it.

There's something addictive about sadness.

It is like a drug that makes you crave sadness. At the same time, you want to get away from it. The self-pity, the self-deprecation, and the selfishness keeps one wallowing in grief. It is a cocoon that keeps you aloof from the world of joy.

It's time to break away from this downward spiralling thoughts. Self-pity helps no one, not even you. If you want to move on, think positive. 

• Michael J. Fox
  I can get sad, I can get frustrated, I can get scared, but I never get depressed -- because there's joy in my life.

   

• John Greenleaf Whittier
  For all sad words of tongue and pen, The saddest are these, 'It might have been'.

   

• Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  Nobody deserves your tears, but whoever deserves them will not make you cry.

   

• Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
  Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad.

   

• Chuck Palahniuk
  It's easy to cry when you realize that everyone you love will reject you or die.

   

• Bob Marley
  Open your eyes, look within. Are you satisfied with the life you're living?

   

• Thomas Carlyle
  The tragedy of life is not so much what men suffer, but rather what they miss.

   

• Carl Jung
  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.

   

• William Osler
  Courage and cheerfulness will not only carry you over the rough places in life, but will enable you to bring comfort and help to the weak-hearted and will console you in the sad hours.

   

• Gloria Steinem
  Dying seems less sad than having lived too little.

   

• Jean de La Fontaine
  Sadness flies away on the wings of time.

   

• Helen Keller
  Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it.

   

• Rupert Brooke
  I thought when love for you died, I should die. It's dead. Alone, most strangely, I live on.

   

• J. K. Rowling
  Numbing the pain for a while will make it worse when you finally feel it.

   

• Jean Giraudoux
  Sadness flies on the wings of the morning and out of the heart of darkness comes the light.