If you desire healing, let yourself fall ill.
Jalaluddin RumiWhen 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.
John LennonNothing can cure the soul but the senses just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul.
Oscar WildeI can write the saddest poem of all tonight. I loved her, and sometimes she loved me too.
Pablo NerudaDon't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened.
Dr. SeussThe fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.
Mark TwainIt is strange to be known so universally and yet to be so lonely.
Albert EinsteinTime heals griefs and quarrels for we change and are no longer the same persons. Neither the offender nor the offended are any more themselves.
Blaise PascalWhy since I am myself subject to birth, ageing, disease, death, sorrows and defilement, do I seek after what is also subject to these things? Suppose, being myself subject these things, seeking danger in them, I were to seek the unborn unageing, undiseased, deathless, sorrowless, undefiled, supreme surcease of bondage, the extinction of all these troubles.
BuddhaThere are moments when I wish I could roll back the clock and take all the sadness away, but I have the feeling that if I did, the joy would be gone as well.
Nicholas SparksI am in that temper that if I were under water I would scarcely kick to come to the top.
John KeatsDon't worry about losing. If it is right, it happens - the main thing is not to hurry. Nothing good gets away.
John SteinbeckI have so much in me, and the feeling for her absorbs it all; I have so much, and without her it all comes to nothing.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheEvery 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 LongfellowThe walls we build around us to keep sadness out also keeps out the joy.
Jim RohnEver has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.
Kahlil GibranThe word "happiness" would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.
Carl JungThe only sadnesses that are dangerous and unhealthy are the ones that we carry around in public in order to drown them out with the noise.
Rainer Maria RilkeEveryone can master a grief but he that has it.
William ShakespeareDays of absence, sad and dreary, Clothed in sorrow’s dark array, – Days of absence, I am weary; She I love is far away.
Jean-Jacques RousseauLove never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish it's source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds, it dies of weariness of witherings of tarnishings.
Anais NinThere is no disguise which can hide love for long where it exists, or simulate it where it does not.
Francois de La RochefoucauldThe best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.
Mark TwainPart of me aches at the thought of her being so close yet so untouchable.
Nicholas SparksI do not believe anyone can be perfectly well, who has a brain and a heart.
Henry Wadsworth LongfellowWhat you must understand about me is that I’m a deeply unhappy person.
John GreenWhen 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 GandhiThere is no sadder sight than a young pessimist.
Mark TwainOne day you will ask me which is more important? My life or yours? I will say mine and you will walk away not knowing that you are my life.
Kahlil GibranNothing thicker than a knife's blade separates happiness from melancholy.
Virginia WoolfThe miserable have no other medicine, but only hope.
William ShakespeareThe day which we fear as our last is but the birthday of eternity.
Lucius Annaeus SenecaGive sorrow words; the grief that does not speak knits up the o-er wrought heart and bids it break.
William ShakespeareThe sadness will last forever.
Vincent Van GoghMisery acquaints a man with strange bedfellows.
William ShakespeareGrief can take care of itself, but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with.
Mark TwainEverything human is pathetic. The secret source of humor itself is not joy, but sorrow. There is no humor in heaven.
Mark TwainWhen a father gives to his son, both laugh; when a son gives to his father both cry.
William ShakespeareThe sadness of the women's movement is that they don't allow the necessity of love. See, I don't personally trust any revolution where love is not allowed.
Maya AngelouTruly, it is in darkness that one finds the light, so when we are in sorrow then this light is nearest of all to us.
Meister EckhartThe friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing... not healing, not curing... that is a friend who cares.
Henri NouwenGood men abandon lusting after things, they take no pleasure in sensual speech, when touched by happiness or sorrow, the wise show no elation or dejection.
BuddhaBut oh, how bitter a thing it is to look into happiness through another man's eyes.
William ShakespeareGood night, good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow that I shall say good night till it be morrow.
William ShakespeareIt is the working man who is the happy man. It is the idle man who is the miserable man.
Benjamin FranklinWe choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.
Kahlil GibranComing generations will learn equality from poverty and love from woes.
Kahlil GibranI love my past, I love my present. I am not ashamed of what I have had, and I am not sad because I no longer have it.
Sidonie Gabrielle Colette