35 reflections on sadness to better understand this feeling

How can I blame the wind for the mess, if I left the window open?

Beware of sadness. She is an addiction.

Gustave Flaubert

Deep down, I’m alone. There are truths that I didn’t even tell God. And not even myself. I’m a closed secret. The phone doesn’t ring. It hurts. But it is God who spares me.

Clarice Lispector

What we carry inside our chest no one knows. Sometimes we hold a smile on our face as we feel the whole world collapsing inside us.

Sadness is a broken tile in the house of our life, but hope is a blanket that protects us.

Father Fabio de Melo

We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.

Oscar Wilde

There comes a time when you can’t vent to anyone and you start to understand that your problems are yours, and only you understand your pain.

One of these days, I’ll take a little time and catch up on all the tears I haven’t had time to cry.

Carlos Drummond deAndrade

Suffering always accompanies a high intelligence and a deep heart. Truly great men experience great sadness, stricken with sudden melancholy.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

One day we get tired of being present in the sadness of people who don’t invite us to their joys.

Don’t let your fears take the place of your dreams.

Walt Disney

I will smile even sad. I will get up after falling. I’ve always been like this, happy, persistent and above all strong.

Some storms come just to test the strength of our roots.

It is the storms that teach us to navigate.

If you don’t heal from what hurt you, you will always bleed on the people who didn’t cut you.

I squared my shoulders and faced the world as if it didn’t hurt… But it hurts, it’s scary!

You can forgive yourself today, forgive someone who hurt you or just try tomorrow, because doing it now is still a lot. Don’t cover yourself. Look at yourself as you would like someone to look at you.

Your wound will pass, your pain will pass. But you will never be the same again. You will be a thousand times stronger!

I’m not made of glass, but I break easily. Nobody notices the shards, because all the shards are scattered inside.

The problem with silence is that it talks a lot.

It’s in difficult times that we discover the strength we have – and believe me, it’s huge.

Darkness is part of life, for without it there would be no light.

Remember to turn on your inner light, even on the darkest days.

Everything collapses at some point, the sky, life, ourselves. But everything also returns to its place of peace.

To deny sadness is to live it even more intensely. So accept what hurts you. Only then is healing possible.

Don’t let sadness consume you, don’t let sadness define you. Yeah, she’s part of life, but she doesn’t say who you are.

It’s in the hours we need it most that we see who’s really on our side. And it’s great to be able to clean up who should and who shouldn’t stay.

There are few people who are present in difficult times and these are the ones we should take with us for life.

Everything is fine. I learned to deal with it all on my own. Always was like this and always will be. It means I have strength.

Don’t be fooled: I may be smiling, but behind it is an immense melancholy.

Don’t cover so much! Everyone is fighting a personal battle that no one knows about.

Never compare. The achievement of others is not your failure. After all, everyone has bad days, but few talk about them.

Never compare your pain, because only you understand it and know where it hurts.

Take a deep breath. Everything is fine. It’s okay to feel this way. Trust, it will pass.

God reaches out to His most afflicted children, for it is from Him that the most genuine love in the world comes.