A Top 40+ List of Sad But Inspirational Quotes About Life

Sad But Inspirational Quotes About Life – Sadness is something that’s a part of life. We all have had our moments of being sad over someone or something. When talking about the sad moments of life, it can fall under a negative light. However, there can be something beautiful in those sad times if you know where to look. This is not always the case for everyone, but it can be something to consider. Especially when there are several lines that discuss how sad moments in life can be a source of strength, change, and more. These are just a few notable Sad But Inspirational Quotes About Life to provide a different perspective:

• “Life is sad, life is a bust, all you can do is do what you must.”
  – Bob Dylan
  
• “Life can be sad, life can be happy. Whatever is in your life; does not have to hold you at bay, happy or sad.”
  – Dora Chappell
  
• “Every life has a measure of sorrow, and sometimes this is what awakens us.”
  – Steven Tyler
  
• “The good life is not one immune to sadness but one in which suffering contributes to our development.”
  – Alain de Botton
  
• “Trying to avoid sadness is trying to avoid life.”
  – Maxime Lagacé
  
• “Life goes on… with or without you.”
  – Faraaz Kazi
  
• “Make 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 Thoreau
  
• “You only pass through this life once, you don’t come back for an encore.”
  – Elvis Presley
  
• “Life will put you through many battles and competitions that you will have to indulge in. If you do not have the right self esteem, you will end up losing the battle before you have begun.”
  – Stephanie Beyer
  
• “The more you consume, the sadder you get. The sadder you get, the more you consume. Create instead.”
  – Maxime Lagacé
  
• “Maybe we all have darkness inside of us and some of us are better at dealing with it than others.”
  – Jasmine Warga, ‘My Heart and Other Black Holes’
  
• “People keep telling me that life goes on, but to me that’s the saddest part.”
  
• “When you’ve suffered a great deal in life, each additional pain is both unbearable and trifling.”
  – Yann Martel, ‘Life of Pi’
  
• “The excursion is the same when you go looking for your sorrow as when you go looking for your joy.”
  – Eudora Welty
  
• “Sadness is silent, it is yours. It is coming because you are alone. It is giving you a chance to go deeper into your aloneness. Rather than jumping from one shallow happiness to another shallow happiness and wasting your life, it is better to use sadness as a means for meditation. Witness it. It is a friend! It opens the door of your eternal aloneness.”
  – Osho

More Sad But Inspirational Quotes About Life

• “The way sadness works is one of the strange riddles of the world. If you are stricken with a great sadness, you may feel as if you have been set aflame, not only because of the enormous pain but also because your sadness may spread over your life, like smoke from an enormous fire.”
  – Lemony Snicket
  
• “Things change. And friends leave. Life doesn’t stop for anybody.”
  – Stephen Chbosky, ‘The Perks of Being a Wallflower‘
  
• “Life’s under no obligation to give us what we expect. We take what we get and are thankful it’s no worse than it is.”
  – Margaret Mitchell, ‘Gone with the Wind’
  
• “Life is too ironic to fully understand. It takes sadness to know what happiness is. Noise to appreciate silence and absence to value presence.”
  – Abhysheq Shukla, ‘KARMA’
  
• “Sorrow is one of the vibrations that prove the fact of living.”
  – Antoine de Saint-Exupery
  
• “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
  
• “Sorrows cannot all be explained away in a life truly lived, grief and loss accumulate like possessions.”
  – Stefan Kanfer
  
• “Nobody really cares if you’re miserable, so you might as well be happy.”
  – Cynthia Nelms
  
• “Sometimes it takes sadness to know happiness, noise to appreciate silence and absence to value presence.”
  
• “Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.”
  – Truman Capote
  
• “The pain never really goes away; you just elevate and get used to it by growing stronger.”
  – Ritu Ghatourey
  
• “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
  
• “Only strong people can find happiness from the sadness surrounding them.”
  – Sahaj Obero
  
• “The worst feeling isn’t being lonely, it’s being forgotten by someone you’d never forget.”
  – Helen Hywater
  
• “Melancholy is the happiness of being sad.”
  – Victor Hugo

Other Inspirational Quotes About Sadness

• “Sad things happen. They do. But we don’t need to live sad forever.”
  – Mattie Stepanek
  
• “Your sadness is a gift. Don’t reject it. Don’t rush it. Live it fully and use it as fuel to change and grow.”
  – Maxime Lagacé
  
• “There are beautiful things in the world and there are sad things and when they come together they make a star. The light is far away and the strangest part is that the light is inside you.”
  – Victor Lodato
  
• “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
  
• “This genuine heart of sadness can teach us great compassion. It can humble us when we’re arrogant and soften us when we are unkind.”
  – Pema Chödrön
  
• “Happiness is one pole, sadness is another. Blissfulness is one pole, misery is another. Life consists of both, and life is richer because of both. A life only of blissfulness will have extension, but will not have depth. A life of only sadness will have depth, but will not have extension.”
  – Osho
  
• “We never taste happiness in perfection, our most fortunate successes are mixed with sadness.”
  – Pierre Corneille
  
• “Sometimes we get sad about things and we don’t like to tell other people that we are sad about them. We like to keep it a secret. Or sometimes, we are sad but we really don’t know why we are sad, so we say we aren’t sad but we really are.”
  – Mark Haddon
  
• “Sometimes you got to hurt something to help something. Sometimes you have to plow under one thing in order for something else to grow.”
  – Ernest J. Gaines
  
• “One thing you can’t hide is when you’re crippled inside.”
  – John Lennon
  
• “The good times of today, are the sad thoughts of tomorrow.”
  – Bob Marley

Find more quotes on sadness and life with our “Quotes About Being Happy and Sad at the Same Time” and “Dealing with Sadness Quotes.”