Feelings of sadness are normal. It’s part of being human. But when feelings of sadness become overwhelming, it’s important to take action.
If you’re feeling depressed, anxious, or just plain blue, there are plenty of ways to feel better. You might try talking to a friend, taking a walk, listening to music, meditating, exercising, or doing something fun.
Here are some feeling-down quotes for dealing with sadness.
This is my favorite one:
“You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. In fact, it may even be necessary to lose. But don’t ever lose sight of one very important thing: No matter what happens, no matter how long it takes, you must never surrender. Never give up!” Maya Angelou
“Laugh, and the world laughs with you. Weep, and you weep alone. For the sad old earth must borrow its mirth, But has trouble enough of its own.” Ella Wheeler Wilcox
“You can go to the doctor a million times if you’re feeling down, and get nowhere, but if you go for a run it makes you feel really good.” Gail Porter
“Whenever you leave behind failure that means you’re doing better. If you think everything you’ve done has been great, you’re probably dumb.” Louis CK.
“You have it within you to rise above whatever is bringing you down.” Karen Salmansohn
“When someone you love dies, you don’t lose them all at once. You lose them in pieces over time.” Simon Birch
“Well, when I’m sad, I like to read a really sad story because then I don’t feel so sad myself.” Blanche Hanalis
“I knew it would happen / Everyone will leave me / I will remain alone / I knew it, I know it”. Ehsan Sehgal
“Life’s under no obligation to give us what we expect.” Margaret Mitchell
“ A man who is master of himself can end a sorrow as easily as he can invent a pleasure.” Oscar Wilde
“ You not supposed to feel down over whatever happens to you. I mean, you’re supposed to use whatever happens to you as some type of upper, not a downer. ” Bob Marley
“Tonight I can write the saddest lines.” Pablo Neruda
“Tears come from the heart and not from the brain.” Leonardo da Vinci
“Even when you are feeling down, you have to live your life positively, that way, happy days and happy feelings will come to you someday.” Kim Hyun-Joong
“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do.” Mark Twain
“As the light begins to intensify, so does my misery, and I wonder how it is possible to hurt so much when nothing is wrong.” Tabitha Suzuma
“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
“Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.” Norman Cousins
“Write your sad times in sand, write your good times in stone.” George Bernard Shaw
“Sometimes, all you can do is lie in bed, and hope to fall asleep before you fall apart.” William C. Hannan
“You feel as if everybody has been given an instruction manual on how to be likable, but you didn’t get it. And they are all sold out now. And if you are what you eat, then you must have surely spent the last few years of your life eating dog food and cat shit. Because when you look in the mirror, it is all that you see.” Heather O’Neill
“Life isn’t about waiting for the storm to pass; it’s about learning to dance in the rain.” Vivian Greene
“Most of my life I’ve had long periods of feeling down and lost. That’s why every five years or so I’ve smashed my life to pieces and started again.” Siobhan Fahey
“Even when you are feeling down, you have to live your life positively, that way, happy days and happy feelings will come to you someday.” Kim Hyun-Joong
“Breathing is hard. When you cry so much, it makes you realize that breathing is hard.” David Levithan
“Be selective with your battles. Sometimes peace is better than being right.” Karen Salmansohn
“You were merely wishing for the end of pain, the monster said. Your own pain. An end to how it isolated you. It is the most human wish of all.” Patrick Ness
“You are more powerful than your circumstances. They don’t define you. You do.” Jon Gordon
“I think I’m afraid to be happy because whenever I get too happy, something bad always happens.” Charles Schulz
“Things change. And friends leave. Life doesn’t stop for anybody.” Stephen Chbosky
“Sometimes you’ve got to be able to listen to yourself and be okay with no one else understanding.” Christopher Barzak
“It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses, we must plant more roses.” George Eliot
“One in five people gets depression at some point in their life. Though obviously more than that will suffer from mental illness.” Matt Haig
“You cannot protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from happiness.” Jonathan Safran Foer
“A person who displays a negative character generates a negative atmosphere.” Jean Watson
“Sometimes sitting and doing nothing is the best something you can do.” Karen Salmansohn
“Twice as many women as men will suffer a serious bout of depression in their lives.” Matt Haig
“Heavy hearts, like heavy clouds in the sky, are best relieved by the letting of a little water.” Christopher Morley
“Tears shed for another person are not a sign of weakness. They are a sign of a pure heart.” Jose N. Harris
“They say when you are missing someone that they are probably feeling the same, but I don’t think it’s possible for you to miss me as much as I’m missing you right now.” Edna St. Vincent Millay
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“Ninety-nine percent of your problems are created by you because you take life seriously.” Osho
“It feels like every other part of my body is broken too.” Missy Altijd
“All you have to do is to pay attention; lessons always arrive when you are ready, and if you can read the signs, you will learn everything you need to know in order to take the next step.” Paulo Coelho
“I try to make myself do things for other people when I’m feeling down. Like, you can call your local hospital and help out in the pediatric unit.” Abigail Breslin
“Anxiety is the partner of depression. It accompanies half the cases of depression. Sometimes it triggers depression.” Matt Haig
“ Any fool can be happy. It takes a man with a real heart to make beauty out of the stuff that makes us weep. ” Clive Barke
“Owning your story is the bravest thing you’ll ever do.” Brené Brown
“Every experience, no matter how bad it seems, holds within it a blessing of some kind. The goal is to find it.” Buddha
“It’s sad when someone you know becomes someone you knew.” Henry Rollins
“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
“Night is beautiful when you are happy–comforting when you are in grief–terrible when you are lonely and unhappy.” L.M. Montgomery
“Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.” Khalil Gibran
“Regrets are the tears of choices “I woke up this morning / Feeling lonely / You were gone, and my cellphone too” Nicolas Pablo Munoz
“When someone you love dies, you don’t lose them all at once. You lose them in pieces over time.” Simon Birch
“Embrace your grief and your sadness felt towards those that have passed and remember them with love.” Aaron Soltys
“So it’s true when all is said and done, grief is the price we pay for love.” E.A. Bucchianeri
“We are each of us angels with only one wing, and we can only fly by embracing one another.” Luciano De Crescenzo
“It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses, we must plant more roses.” George Eliot
“It is my fate; it is my prize / To living alone / To smile alone / To cry alone / To dry my tears alone” Ehsan Sehgal
More original feeling down quotes that will help you to be strong and move forward
“Be patient where you sit in the dark. The dawn is coming.” Rumi
“Most people are stronger than they know. They just forget to believe in it sometimes. ” Keith Scott
“I would rather have a fool to make me merry than experience to make me sad.” Kenneth Branagh
“Embrace your grief and your sadness felt towards those that have passed and remember them with love.” Aaron Soltys
“Whenever you leave behind failure that means you’re doing better. If you think everything you’ve done has been great, you’re probably dumb.” Louis CK
“When the finish line seems too far away, remember how you felt when you were back at the starting line. Regain that motivation to recharge your momentum.” Toni Sorenson
“ Imagine smiling after a slap in the face. Then think of doing it twenty-four hours a day. ” Markus Zusak
“Depression / even when all the cuckoos of this Universe / boisterously chirped around me / for hours immemorial.” Nikhil Parekh
“Breathing is hard. When you cry so much, it makes you realize that breathing is hard.” David Levithan
“A lesson for all of us is that for every loss, there is victory, for every sadness, there is joy, and when you think you’ve lost everything, there is hope.” Geraldine Solon
