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Sad Quotes About Life

Sadness is always a close companion in life. Given next is a compilation of some quotes, which may seem cynical or realistic, depending on your point of view.
Omkar Phatak
Happiness and sadness are the two threads from which, the fabric of life is woven. Every moment of happiness comes from attachment of some kind and, therefore, has the roots of future sadness in it. Sadness and pain are perpetual companions for some of us.
Pain toughens some of us, breaks some, and teach us humility, while making us abundantly conscious of our mortal status. The ability to feel pain is what makes us human.

Some Sad Quotes
Being unwanted, unloved, uncared for, forgotten by everybody, I think that is a much greater hunger, a much greater poverty than the person who has nothing to eat.
- Mother Teresa

If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.
- Mother Teresa
The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.
- Harriet Beecher Stowe

For of all sad words of tongue or pen, The saddest are these: "It might have been!"
- John Greenleaf Whittier

Life isn't fair. It's just fairer than death, that's all.
 - William Goldman
Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.
- Elbert Hubbard

Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.
- Kahlil Gibran

Don't fear failure so much that you refuse to try new things. The saddest summary of a life contains three descriptions: could have, might have, and should have.
- Louis E. Boone
This pain is part of being human ... the fact that you can feel pain like this is your greatest strength.
- Dumbledore (From 'Harry Potter')
Home is behind
The world ahead
And there are many paths to tread
Through shadow
To the edge of night
Until the stars are all alight

Mist and shadow
Cloud and shade
All shall fade
All shall fade
- Pippin's song (From 'Lord Of the Rings' by J.R.R. Tolkien)
Nature is smarter than people think. Little by little we lose our friends, we lose everything. We keep losin' and losin' till we say you know, 'Oh what the hell am I livin' around here for? I got not reason to go on.
- Mickey (From the Movie 'Rocky V')
To dare to live alone is the rarest courage; since there are many who had rather meet their bitterest enemy in the field, than their own hearts in their closet.
- Charles Caleb Colton

Hearts will never be practical until they are made unbreakable.
- Wizard of Oz (The Novel)

A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.
- Arthur Schopenhauer
A man's delight in looking forward to and hoping for some particular satisfaction is a part of the pleasure flowing out of it, enjoyed in advance. But this is afterward deducted, for the more we look forward to anything the less we enjoy it when it comes.
- Arthur Schopenhauer
The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.
 - W.M.Lewis

In the sphere of thought, absurdity and perversity remain the masters of the world, and their dominion is suspended only for brief periods.
 - Arthur Schopenhauer
Money is human happiness in the abstract; he, then, who is no longer capable of enjoying human happiness in the concrete devotes himself utterly to money.
- Arthur Schopenhauer

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