The 35+ Best and Thought Provoking Dealing with Sadness Quotes

Dealing with Sadness Quotes – Sadness is an emotion we cannot avoid in life. We all have our moments where we can’t help but feel sad. During those moments, there are different ways to deal with negative emotions. For some, pushing through sad moments and moving forward is the best option, while for others, there is a process to dealing with being sad. There are times when being sad can be a difficult moment to go through. You’re not alone if you have these moments and these lovely Dealing with Sadness Quotes show just that:

• “Some days are just bad days, that’s all. You have to experience sadness to know happiness, and I remind myself that not every day is going to be a good day, that’s just the way it is!”
  – Dita Von Teese
  
• “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
  
• “Embrace the depth of your depression and know that it is there for a good reason.”
  – Frank N. Stein
  
• “Experiencing sadness and anger can make you feel more creative, and by being creative you can get beyond your pain or negativity.”
  – Yoko Ono
  
• “Heaven knows we need never be ashamed of our tears, for they are rain upon the blinding dust of earth, overlying our hard hearts. I was better after I had cried, than before – more sorry, more aware of my own ingratitude, more gentle.”
  – Charles Dickens
  
• “We must understand that sadness is an ocean, and sometimes we drown, while other days we are forced to swim.”
  – R.M. Drake
  
• “Never be afraid of tears. Tear-filled eyes are capable of seeing truth. Tear-filled eyes are capable of seeing the beauty of life.”
  – Osho
  
• “What brings us to tears, will lead us to grace. Our pain is never wasted.”
  – Bob Goff
  
• “First, accept sadness. Realize that without losing, winning isn’t so great.”
  – Alyssa Milano
  
• “Learning is a gift. Even when pain is your teacher.”
  – Maya Watson

Alternative Dealing with Sadness Quotes

• “You either get bitter, or you get better. You either take what’s been dealt to you and allow it to make you better, or you allow it to tear you down.”
  – Iona Mink
  
• “Sometimes when things are falling apart they may actually be falling into place.”
  – Shirley U. Care
  
• “Sometimes it takes an overwhelming breakdown to have an undeniable breakthrough.”
  – Don Keigh
  
• “An arrow can only be shot by pulling it backward. So when life is dragging you back with difficulties, it means that it’s going to launch you into something great.”
  – Imma Hog
  
• “Whatever you do, never run back to what broke you.”
  – Herbie Hind
  
• “Crying is all right in its way while it lasts. But you have to stop sooner or later, and then you still have to decide what to do.”
  – C.S. Lewis
  
• “Pain doesn’t just show up in our lives for no reason. It’s a sign that something in our lives needs to change.”
  – Heywood U. Cuddleme
  
• “We must embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey.”
  – Kenji Miyazawa
  
• “There are two medicines for all ills: time and silence.”
  – Alexander Dumas
  
• “Tears are words that need to be written.”
  – Paulo Coelho
  
• “It doesn’t hurt to feel sad from time to time.”
  – Willie Nelson
  
• “When you feel sad, it’s okay. It’s not the end of the world.”
  – Mac Miller

Additional Lines About Sadness

• “Sadness gives depth. Happiness gives height. Sadness gives roots. Happiness gives branches. Happiness is like a tree going into the sky, and sadness is like the roots going down into the womb of the earth. Both are needed, and the higher a tree goes, the deeper it goes, simultaneously. The bigger the tree, the bigger will be its roots. In fact, it is always in proportion. That’s its balance.”
  – Osho
  
• “Sadness flies away on the wings of time.”
  – Jean de La Fontaine
  
• “Your greatest highs come from overcoming your greatest lows.”
  – Matshona Dhliwayo
  
• “There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when we have not yet known what it is to have suffered and be healed, to have despaired and have recovered hope.”
  – George Eliot, Middlemarch
  
• “There are two types of people in the world: Those who prefer to be sad among others, and those who prefer to be sad alone.”
  – Nicole Krauss, ‘The History of Love’
  
• “Sad things happen. They do. But we don’t need to live sad forever.”
  – Mattie Stepanek
  
• “Every life has a measure of sorrow, and sometimes this is what awakens us.”
  – Steven Tyler
  
• “Sadness is also a kind of defense.”
  – Ivo Andrich
  
• “I do believe that if you haven’t learnt about sadness, you cannot appreciate happiness.”
  – Nana Mouskouri
  
• “Sorrow is one of the vibrations that prove the fact of living.”
  – Antoine de Saint-Exupery
  
• “Boredom, anger, sadness, or fear are not ‘yours,’ not personal. They are conditions of the human mind. They come and go. Nothing that comes and goes is you.”
  – Eckhart Tolle
  
• ” You cannot protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from happiness.”
  – Jonathan Safran Foer

• “Every human walks around with a certain kind of sadness. They may not wear it on their sleeves, but it’s there if you look deep.”
  – Taraji P. Henson
  
• “We never taste a perfect joy; our happiest successes are mixed with sadness.”
  – Pierre Corneille
  
• “Be strong now because things will get better. It might be stormy now, but it can’t rain forever”

Find more quotes for dealing with emotions with our “Quotes About Being Happy and Sad at the Same Time” and “Feel the Fear and Do it Anyway Quotes.”