FEELING DOWN QUOTES AND SAYINGS

QUOTES ABOUT FEELING DOWN

Let these Quotes about Feeling Down help you to appreciate the depth of your sadness, and
then to cheer up. Happiness is a choice. Happiness is also generally a benefit of being active in
doing work that benefits others.

Regrets are the tears of good deeds left undone

- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A moment without joy is an eternity of sadness.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth
until the hour of separation.
- Khalil Gibran

Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you'll ever regret.
- Laurence J. Peter
It is far better to be alone,
than to be in bad company.
- George Washington
Most men lead lives of quiet desperation
and go to the grave with the song still in them.
- Henry David Thoreau
I never considered a difference of opinion
in politics, in religion, in philosophy,
as cause for withdrawing from a friend.
- Thomas Jefferson

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When It's Darkest, Men See the Stars.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson
What's done is done.
- William Shakespeare
Life is as easy or as hard as you think it is.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
"Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair!"
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare,
The lone and level sands stretch far away.
- Percy Bysshe Shelley
Our lives begin to end the day we become silent
about things that matter.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom.
- Rabindranath Tagore
In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies,
but the silence of our friends.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

In time we hate that which we often fear.

- William Shakespeare
Though lovers be lost love shall not.
- Dylan Thomas
Self-pity is our worst enemy
and if we yield to it,
we can never do anything wise in this world.
- Helen Keller
Joy's smile is much closer to tears than laughter.
- Victor Hugo
Stupidity is also a gift of God,
but one mustn't misuse it.
- Pope John Paul II
The soul would have no rainbow,
Had the eyes no tears.
- John Vance Cheney
I take rejection as someone blowing a bugle in my ear
to wake me up and get going, rather than retreat.
- Sylvester Stallone
True Love burns the brightest,
But the brightest flames leave the deepest scars.
- Anonymous
Time is an untamed beast
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Those you trust the most can steal the most.
- Lawrence Lief
The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.
- Henry David Thoreau
A pessimist is never disappointed.
- Jack Cleary
The most terrible poverty is loneliness
and the feeling of being unloved.
- Mother Teresa
Time is a monster that cannot be reasoned with.
It responds like a snail to our impatience,
then it races like a gazelle when you can't catch a breath.
- the movie Simon Birch
Regrets are the tears of choices not made
and of good deeds left undone.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
The very ink with which all history
is written is merely fluid prejudice.
- Mark Twain

Suspicion and jealousy are the death knell of any relationship.

- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Moving on is simple, it's what you leave behind
that makes it so difficult.
- Anonymous
Hunger makes a thief of any man.
- Pearl S. Buck
An unclean person is universally a slothful one.
- Henry David Thoreau
There's no tragedy in life like the death of a child.
Things never get back to the way they were.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity.
- Robert A. Heinlein
Never trust a man who speaks well of everybody
- John Churton Collins
When life offers you a dream so far
beyond any of your expectations,
it's not reasonable to grieve when it comes to an end.
- Bella, from Twilight saga by Stephenie Meyer
This too, shall pass.
- Bible
Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted
is the most terrible poverty.
- Mother Teresa
The philosophy of the school room in one generation
will be the philosophy of government in the next.
- Abraham Lincoln
When you're drowning, you don't say,
"I would be incredibly pleased if someone
would have the foresight to notice
me drowning and come and help me,"
you just scream.
- John Lennon
A big part of letting go is recognizing
when it is time to stay in a situation
and when it is time to move on.
- Darren L. Johnson
Touch me in the morning
Then just walk away
We don't have tomorrow
But we had yesterday
- Ron Miller/Michael Masser
Take your life in your own hands, and what happens?
A terrible thing: no one to blame.
- Erica Jong

Deep in my heart I'm concealing things

that I'm longing to say.
Scared to confess what I'm feeling frightened you'll slip away.
- the movie Evita
There are no good-byes.
Wherever we are, you'll always be in my heart.
- Anonymous
It takes a long while for a naturally trustful person
to reconcile himself to the idea that
after all God will not help him
- H. L. Mencken
There is no such thing as a lovers' oath.
- Plato
When you are sorrowful, look again in your heart,
and you shall see that in truth
you are weeping for that which has been your delight.
- Khalil Gibran
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
Every parting gives a foretaste of death,
every reunion a hint of the resurrection.
- Arthur Schopenhauer
Stress is always waiting
just outside your door
like a vicious wild-dog.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The squirrel that you kill in jest, dies in earnest.
- Henry David Thoreau
I won't miss you.
I will miss who I thought you were.
- Anonymous
He that is jealous is not in love.
- Saint Augustine
Jealousy is the result of one's lack
of self-confidence, self-worth, and self-acceptance.
- Sasha Azevedo
The only cure for grief is action.
- G. H. Lewes
I seldom think about my limitations,
and they never make me sad.
Perhaps there is just a touch of yearning at times;
but it is vague, like a breeze among flowers.
- Helen Keller
Times like these, dark times,
they do funny things to people.

They can tear them apart.

- the movie Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (2009)
When we lose one we love,
our bitterest tears are called forth
by the memory of hours when we loved not enough.
- Maurice Maeterlinck
Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.
- Socrates
Those whom we can love, we can hate;
to others we are indifferent.
- Henry David Thoreau
Participate joyfully in the sorrows of the world.
We cannot cure the world of sorrows,
but we can choose to live in joy.
- Joseph Campbell
But what a cruel thing is war
to separate and destroy families and friends.
- Robert E. Lee
It takes time to persuade men to do even
what is for their own good.
- Thomas Jefferson
We are always getting ready to live but never living.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Cry for the souls of the angry,
for they sleep the troubled sleep of the damned.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Time is carnivorous.
Urgency rips the peaceful flesh from our bones.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Alas for those that never sing,
But die with all their music in them!
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
When someone you love dies,
you don't lose them all at once.
You lose them in pieces over time
- the movie Simon Birch

SAD QUOTES ABOUT LIFE - SAD QUOTES ABOUT LOVE

Let these Sad Quotes about life and love help you to get in touch with your sadness, and then
find a way to let go and move on.

For all sad words of tongue and pen,

The saddest are these, "It might have been".
- John Greenleaf Whittier
Write your Sad times in Sand,
Write your Good times in Stone.
- George Bernard Shaw
Regrets are the tears of good deeds left undone
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
There can be no deep disappointment where there is not deep love.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
We are all so much together,
but we are all dying of loneliness.
- Albert Schweitzer
I won't miss you.
I will miss who I thought you were.
- Anonymous
If misery loves company, misery has company enough.
- Henry David Thoreau
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity.
- Robert A. Heinlein

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By all means marry.

If you get a good wife, you'll be happy.
If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher
and that is a good thing for any man.
- Socrates
Abandon hope.
- Pema Chodron
The one who loves the least, controls the relationship.
- Robert Anthony
Never trust a man who speaks well of everybody
- John Churton Collins
For me every ruler is alien that defies public opinion.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Mama always said life was like a box of chocolates.
You never know what you're gonna get.
- the movie Forrest Gump
It is far better to be alone,
than to be in bad company.
- George Washington
Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you'll ever regret.
- Laurence J. Peter
People do not like to think.
If one thinks, one must reach conclusions.
Conclusions are not always pleasant.
- Helen Keller
We are born princes, and the civilizing process makes us frogs.
- Publilius Syrus
One never notices what has been done;
one can only see what remains to be done.
- Marie Curie
It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
- Albert Einstein
Men occasionally stumble over the truth,
but most of them pick themselves up
and hurry off as if nothing had happened.
- Winston Churchill
We are stripped bare by the curse of plenty.
- Winston Churchill

Those who play with the devil's toys

will be brought by degrees to wield his sword.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
Man plans, God laughs
- Yiddish Proverb
It takes a long while for a naturally trustful person
to reconcile himself to the idea that
after all God will not help him
- H. L. Mencken
The world is a mirror for anger,
which returns to its source as burning torment.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Sometimes, indeed, there is such a discrepancy
between the genius and his human qualities
that one has to ask oneself whether
a little less talent might not have been better.
- Carl Jung
Is That All There Is?
- Peggy Lee
Man knows so much and does so little.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
There are three rules for dating:
1) Don't;
2) If you must, just be careful;
3) Forget the rules, your hormones will win anyway.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.
- Henry David Thoreau
Human salvation lies in the hands
of the creatively maladjusted.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live,
it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.
- Oscar Wilde
All discarded lovers should be given a second chance,
but with somebody else.
- Mae West
A wise girl kisses but doesn't love,
listens but doesn't believe,
and leaves before she is left.
- Marilyn Monroe
When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of,
he always declares that it's his duty.
- George Bernard Shaw
When you have to kill a man,
it costs nothing to be polite.
- Winston Churchill

Stupid is as stupid does.

- the movie Forrest Gump (1994)
The road to perdition has ever been
accompanied by lip service to an ideal.
- Albert Einstein
The moral arc of the universe
bends at the elbow of justice.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
The very ink with which all history
is written is merely fluid prejudice.
- Mark Twain
Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully
as when they do it from religious conviction.
- Blaise Pascal
Modern cynics and skeptics... see no harm in paying those
to whom they entrust the minds of their children
a smaller wage than is paid to those to whom
they entrust the care of their plumbing.
- John F. Kennedy
A competent and self-confident person is
incapable of jealousy in anything.
Jealousy is invariably a symptom of neurotic insecurity.
- Robert A. Heinlein
It is sad but unfortunately true that
man learns nothing from history.
- Carl Jung
History will have to record that the greatest tragedy
of this period of social transition
was not the strident clamor of the bad people,
but the appalling silence of the good people.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Mind Chatter...
"I'm too fat; I'm too thin; and my hair is a fright;
And I'm never enough; and my world is not right;
I'm not smart; I'm not cute; I'm not strong; I'm a bust
I earn scorn; I earn hate; I'm no good; I disgust."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Sometimes it happens that a man's circle
of horizon becomes smaller and smaller,
and as the radius approaches zero
it concentrates on one point.
And then that becomes his point of view.
- David Hilbert
I'm having a bad day. I am not size six.
My legs are not skinny as sticks,
and dammit, someone's got to pay.
I'm afraid that I can't satisfy myself
and that my happiness depends on someone else.
I feel weak, so you're gonna take the fall.

You're so shallow.
- Jewel
To love is to suffer. To avoid suffering one must not love.
But then one suffers from not loving.
Therefore, to love is to suffer; not to love is to suffer;
to suffer is to suffer. To be happy is to love.
To be happy, then, is to suffer, but suffering makes one unhappy.
Therefore, to be unhappy, one must love
or love to suffer or suffer from too much happiness.
I hope you're getting this down.
- the movie Love and Death
I have a very pessimistic view of life.
You should know this about me if we're gonna go out.
You know, I - I feel that life is is divided up into the horrible and the miserable.
Those are the two categories, you know.
The - the horrible would be like, um,
I don't know, terminal cases, you know,
and blind people, crippled. I don't know how they get through life.
It's amazing to me. You know, and the miserable is everyone else.
That's - that's - so - so - when you go through life you should be thankful that you're miserable
because you're very lucky to be miserable.
- the Woody Allen movie Annie Hall
A relationship, I think, is like a shark.
You know? It has to constantly move forward or it dies.
And I think what we got on our hands is a dead shark.
- the Woody Allen movie Annie Hall (1977)
Morality is the theory that every human act
must be either right or wrong,
and that 99 % of them are wrong.
- H. L. Mencken
It is much more painful to have lost
something you thought you had,
than never to have had it at all.
If feels as if our trust was dashed.
We are disappointed and we are angry;
but not quite sure at who to direct our anger.
Someone, perhaps "the system," perhaps God,
should have done better.
Most of all we are angry at ourselves even though we did our best and we are afraid.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I'm awash in self-contempt!
- the Woody Allen movie Celebrity
It's an indication of how cynical our society has become
that any kind of love story with a sad theme
is automatically ridiculed as sentimental junk.
- Winona Ryder

Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom.

- Rabindranath Tagore
What's done is done.
- William Shakespeare
If you love something, set it free;
if it comes backs it's yours,
if it doesn't, it never was.
- Richard Bach
Our lives begin to end the day we become silent
about things that matter.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
The darkest night is often the bridge to the brightest tomorrow.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life is as easy or as hard as you think it is.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Love means not ever having to say you're sorry.
- Erich Segal
The way I see it, if you want the rainbow,
you gotta put up with the rain.
- Dolly Parton
I leave no trace of wings in the air,
but I am glad I have had my flight.
- Rabindranath Tagore
When It's Darkest, Men See the Stars.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
For all sad words of tongue and pen,
The saddest are these, "It might have been.
- John Greenleaf Whittier
Distance cannot matter - ours is a friendship of the heart.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
If I feel depressed I will sing.
If I feel sad I will laugh.
If I feel ill I will double my labor.
If I feel fear I will plunge ahead.
If I feel inferior I will wear new garments.
If I feel uncertain I will raise my voice.
If I feel poverty I will think of wealth to come.
If I feel incompetent I will think of past success.
If I feel insignificant I will remember my goals.
Today I will be the master of my emotions.
- Og Mandino
Do you feel stuck?
Whether in a project, a job, a relationship,
or some other situation,
there is a time for perseverance,
and a time for letting go and moving on.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

I never considered a difference of opinion

in politics, in religion, in philosophy,
as cause for withdrawing from a friend.
- Thomas Jefferson
The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.
- Gilbert (G. K.) Chesterton
Life may not be the party we hoped for,
but while we are here we might as well dance.
- Anonymous

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

Sad Love Quotes

For all sad words of tongue and pen,
The saddest are these, "It might have been".
- John Greenleaf Whittier
It is better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.
- Alfred Lord Tennyson
Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love.
- George Eliot

You know you love someone when you know you want them to be happy,
even if their happiness means that you are not a part of it.
- Anonymous
Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop.
- Anonymous
When I see your smile, and I know it's not for me, that's when I'll miss you.
- Anonymous
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Maybe I could have loved you better.

Maybe you should have loved me more.
Maybe our hearts were just next in line.
Maybe everything breaks sometime.
- Jewel
Parting is such sweet sorrow.
- William Shakespeare
Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does.
Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.
- James A. Baldwin
Every goodbye is the birth of a memory.
- Dutch Proverb
Some people come into our lives and quickly go.
Some people stay for awhile, and move our souls to dance.
They awaken us to a new understanding, leave footprints on our hearts,
and we are never, ever the same.
- Flavia Weedn
Moving on is simple,
it's what you leave behind that makes it so difficult.
- Anonymous

Don't cry because it's over,

smile because it happened.
- Anonymous
The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.
- Gilbert K. Chesterton
When we lose one we love,
our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough.
- Maurice Maeterlinck

Sad Quotes about Love

It is never good dwelling on good-byes ...
it is not the being together that it prolongs, it is the parting.
- Elizabeth Bibesco
A person isn't who they are during the last conversation you had with them they're who they've been throughout your whole relationship.
- Rainer Maria Rilke
Every parting gives a foretaste of death,
every reunion a hint of the resurrection.
- Arthur Schopenhauer
A divorce is like an amputation:
you survive it, but there's less of you.
- Margaret Atwood
Forgiveness does not change the past,
but it does enlarge the future.
- Paul Boese
Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty.
- Mother Teresa
When you break up, your whole identity is shattered.
It's like death.
- Dennis Quaid

Sad Love Quotes and Sayings

Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones,
as the wind blows out the candle and blows up the bonfire.
- Francois de la Rouchefoucauld
If you love something, set it free;
if it comes backs it's yours,
if it doesn't, it never was.
- Richard Bach

Breaking up is a natural evolution

when you try to figure out what you want in life.
If you're with an individual who isn't moving in the same direction
and at the same rate that you are, it ain't going to work.
- Usher Raymond
A good-bye is never painful unless you're never going to say hello again.
- Anonymous
Falling out of love is very enlightening.
For a short while you see the world with new eyes.
- Iris Murdoch
Love is a fire.
But whether it is going to warm your hearth
or burn down your house, you can never tell.
- Joan Crawford
There's a trick to the Graceful Exit
It begins with the vision to recognize when a job,
a life stage, a relationship is over - and to let go.
It means leaving what's over without denying its value.
- Ellen Goodman

Sad Love Quotes that Make You Cry

If I hadn't met you, I wouldn't like you.
If I didn't like you, I wouldn't love you.
If I didn't love you, I wouldn't miss you.
But I did, I do, and I will.
- Anonymous
I've learned that you should always leave loved ones with loving words.
It may be the last time you see them.
- Anonymous
Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.
- J. R. R. Tolkien
Never say goodbye when you still want to try,
never give up when you still feel you can't take it.
Never say you don't love the person anymore when you can't let go.
- Anonymous
Saying goodbye doesn't mean anything.
It's the time we spent together that matters, not how we left it.
- Trey Parker
A man never knows how to say goodbye;
a woman never knows when to say it.
- Helen Rowland

Don't be dismayed by good-byes.

A farewell is necessary before you can meet again.
- Richard Bach

Short Sad Love Quotes

Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened.
- Anonymous
Take away love and our earth is a tomb.
- Robert Browning
Every relationship is just so tenuous and precarious.
- Larry David
The one who loves the least, controls the relationship.
- Robert Anthony
To fall in love is awfully simple,
but to fall out of love is simply awful.
- Bess Myerson

Sad Love Sayings

Parting is such sweet sorrow.
- William Shakespeare
Every goodbye is the birth of a memory.
- Dutch Proverb

Sad Love Quotes for Him

True love is like ghosts,
which everyone talks about and few have seen.
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone.
Only through our love and friendship can we
create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone.
- Orson Welles

Sad Love Quotes for Girls

When I see your smile, and I know it's not for me,
that's when I'll miss you.
- Anonymous
True Love burns the brightest,
But the brightest flames leave the deepest scars.
- Anonymous

There is no such thing as a lovers' oath.

- Plato

Sad Sayings about Love

I won't miss you. I will miss who I thought you were.
- Anonymous
It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company.
- George Washington
Love is like war: easy to begin but very hard to stop.
- H. L. Mencken

Very Sad Love Quotes

The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference.
- Elie Wiesel
In a separation it is the one who is not really in love who says the more tender things.
- Marcel Proust
Being divorced is like being hit by a Mack truck.
If you live through it, you start looking very carefully to the right and to the left.
- Jean Kerr
Love is never lost.
If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.
- Washington Irving