Sadness Quotations Quotes

“Your highest thoughts sometimes arise in your lowest moments.”
― Matshona Dhliwayo

“Learn from roses; even when trampled they give off perfume, not despair.”
― Matshona Dhliwayo

“When I was poor, I was rich because I was happy; when I was wealthy, I was poor because I was sad.”
― Matshona Dhliwayo

“The universe acknowledges the value of your tears; for when it rains, it is shedding its own.”
― Matshona Dhliwayo

“There is a certain type of sadness, that creates holes in the top of your heart, for the sunlight to come through and shine over the trees and the fields (the veins and the ventricles), and illuminate the part of you that sits there, in silence and in understanding... alone but at peace. It's a certain type of being dead while you are alive; but in a good way, not in a bad way. Your own cemetery where the middle of your soul rests in peace. A sadness to end all other sadness. The discovery of a pasture within your soul, where everything is okay.”
― C. JoyBell C.

“The poetry I love best
has words that glimmer
like moon gold
on dark waters,
and a hidden undertow
which pulls me into
its delicate sadness.”
― John Mark Green, Taste the Wild Wonder: Poems

“It is not enough to wipe away the tears from your heart, you have to wipe away the tears from your soul.”
― Matshona Dhliwayo

“The eyes of the sad souls become friends with shadows, not with lights!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“Is there anything good about being sad? Yes, of course there is! The sad person has amassed a tremendous amount of energy, like an arrow ready to be fired, to reach happiness! Sadness creates an overwhelming desire to be happy; and ultimately this desire initiates a powerful action towards happiness!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“Yes, looking through the eyes of literature we may talk about the beauty of sadness! But in the eyes of truth, sadness is just saddening; there is no beauty there, only a touching desperation!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“If the sky had no tears, the world would have no rainbows.”
― Matshona Dhliwayo

“To appreciate pleasure some had to experience pain; to appreciate joy some had to experience sorrow; to appreciate love some had to experience heartache; and to experience freedom some had to experience fear.”
― Matshona Dhliwayo

“Rain is just God weeping for Earth’s troubles.”
― Matshona Dhliwayo

“The universe does not shed tears when a star falls from the sky; it gives birth to another one.”
― Matshona Dhliwayo

“If God charged us for every tear He shed for us, the world would be bankrupt.”
― Matshona Dhliwayo

“Tears water the eyes when they have been dry for too long.”
― Matshona Dhliwayo

“If you cry in the rain, only the sky will see your tears.”
― Matshona Dhliwayo

“Suffering is power.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Making Britain Civilized: How to Gain Readmission to The Human Race