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 WildeDon'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 SteinbeckTears are words that need to be written.
Paulo CoelhoThe walls we build around us to keep sadness out also keeps out the joy.
Jim RohnSome of us think holding on makes us strong but sometimes it is letting go.
Herman HesseThe 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 ShakespeareThe best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.
Mark TwainThere 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 GibranThe sadness will last forever.
Vincent Van GoghGrief can take care of itself, but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with.
Mark TwainThe 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 EckhartMan is subject to innumerable pains and sorrows by the very condition of humanity, and yet as if nature had not sown evils enough in life, we are continually adding grief to grief and aggravating the common calamity by our cruel treatment of one another.
Joseph AddisonGood 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.
BuddhaIt is the working man who is the happy man. It is the idle man who is the miserable man.
Benjamin FranklinI will indulge my sorrows and give way to all the pangs and fury of despair.
Joseph AddisonWe met Dr. Hall in such deep mourning that either his mother, his wife, or himself must be dead.
Jane AustenWe choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.
Kahlil GibranComing generations will learn equality from poverty and love from woes.
Kahlil GibranWhen it looked like the sun wasn't going to shine any more, there's a rainbow in the clouds.
Maya AngelouSadness is but a wall between two gardens.
Kahlil GibranWhy is it that we rejoice at a birth and grieve at a funeral? It is because we are not the person involved.
Mark TwainJoy's recollection is no longer joy, while sorrow's memory is sorrow still.
Lord ByronMake the most of your regrets, never smother your sorrow, but tend and cherish it till it comes to have a separate and integral interest. To regret deeply is to live afresh.
Henry David ThoreauIt is a very sad thing that nowadays there is so little useless information.
Oscar WildeYou cannot prevent the birds of sadness from passing over your head, but you can prevent them from making nests in your hair.
ConfuciusInflamed by greed, incensed by hate, confused by delusion, overcome by them, obsessed by mind, a man chooses for his own affliction for others' affliction for the affliction of both, and experiences pain and grief.
BuddhaWhen you are joyous, look deep into your heart and you shall find it is only that which has given you sorrow, that is giving you joy. When you are sorrowful, look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.
Kahlil GibranJust as hope rings through laughter it can also shine through tears.
Maya AngelouThere is nothing so pitiful as a young cynic, because he has gone from knowing nothing to believing nothing.
Maya AngelouLife is suffering.
BuddhaWe should feel sorrow but not sink under its oppression.
ConfuciusThere is nothing like employment, active indispensable employment, for relieving sorrow.
Jane AustenThe secret source of humor is not joy, but sorrow, there is no humor in Heaven.
Mark TwainHe that raises a large family does indeed, while he lives to observe them, stand a broader mark for sorrow, but then he stands a broader mark for pleasure too.
Benjamin FranklinI seldom think about my limitations, and they never make me sad. Perhaps there is just a touch of yearning at times, but it is vague like a breeze among flowers.
Helen KellerIn this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for, as for me I rejoice that I am not a Republican.
H. L. MenckenTears come from the heart and not from the brain.
Leonardo da VinciThe flower fades and dies; but he who wears the flower has not to mourn for it for ever.
Rabindranath TagoreThe deeper sorrow carves into your being, the more joy you can contain.
Kahlil GibranDespair is the result of each earnest attempt to go through life with virtue, justice and understanding, and to fulfill their requirements. Children live on one side of despair, the awakened on the other side.
Herman HesseI do want more. I am not content with being happy. I was not made for it. It is not my destiny. My destiny is the opposite.
Herman HesseMisfortune shows those who are not really friends.
AristotleI have wasted my hours.
Leonardo da VinciWhat is the noble truth of suffering? Birth is suffering, ageing is suffering, and sorrow and lamentation, pain, grief and despair are suffering.
BuddhaIf a man take no thought about what is distant he will find sorrow near at hand.
ConfuciusOf these years nought remains in memory, but the sad feeling that we have advanced and only grown older.
Max MullerNo one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path.
BuddhaAn onion can make people cry but there's never been a vegetable that can make people laugh.
Will RogersMom hates dad, Dad hates mom, it all makes you feel so sad.
Kurt CobainAn ounce of cheerfulness is worth a pound of sadness to serve God with.
Thomas FullerI hold the world but as the world Gratiano, A stage where every man must play a part, And mine is a sad one.
William ShakespeareIf you have tears prepare to shed them now.
William ShakespeareIt is so friendly so simply friendly and though inevitable not a sadness and though occurring not a shock.
Gertrude SteinI wasted time and now doth time waste me.
William ShakespeareA tragedy is the imitation of an action that is serious and also as having magnitude complete in itself . . . with incidents arousing pity and terror with which to accomplish its purgation of these emotions.
AristotleThey gave themselves up wholly to their sorrow, seeking increase of wretchedness in every reflection that could afford it and resolved against ever admitting consolation in future.
Jane AustenWe're taught to be ashamed of confusion anger fear and sadness and to me they're of equal value to happiness excitement and inspiration.
Alanis MorissetteNine men in ten are would be suicides.
Benjamin FranklinThe ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances.
AristotleCome away O human child: To the waters and the wild with a fairy hand in hand, For the world's more full of weeping than you can understand.
William Butler YeatsBut whoever gives birth to useless children, what would you say of him, except that he has bred sorrows for himself and furnishes laughter for his enemies.
Sophocles