“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. It is far better take things as they come along with patience and equanimity.”
Carl Jung

“Bad things do happen; how I respond to them defines my character and the quality of my life. I can choose to sit in perpetual sadness, immobilized by the gravity of my loss, or I can choose to rise from the pain and treasure the most precious gift I have – life itself.”
Walter Anderson

“Grief and sadness knits two hearts in closer bonds than happiness ever can; and common sufferings are far stronger than common joys.”
Alphonse de Lamartine

“I do believe that if you haven’t learnt about sadness, you cannot appreciate happiness.”
Nana Mouskouri

“I had no idea that mothering my own child would be so healing to my own sadness from my childhood.”
Susie Bright

“The walls we build around us to keep sadness out also keeps out the joy.”
Jim Rohn

“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

“Anger is just a cowardly extension of sadness. It’s a lot easier to be angry at someone than it is to tell them you’re hurt.”
Tom Gates

“Sad are only those who understand.”
Arab Proverb

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

“Good humor is the health of the soul, sadness its poison.”
Lord Chesterfield

“No society has been able to abolish human sadness, no political system can deliver us from the pain of living, from our fear of death, our thirst for the absolute. It is the human condition that directs the social condition, not vice versa.”
Eugene Ionesco

“It’s sad when someone you know becomes someone you knew.”
Henry Rollins