Best of “sad quotes”

If you see a friend without a smile; give him one of yours.
Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Smile, even if it’s a sad smile, because sadder than a sad smile is the sadness of not knowing how to smile.
Sadness flies away on the wings of time.- Jean de La Fontaine
We gather strength from sadness and from pain Each time we die we learn to live again.
Good humor is the health of the soul, sadness its poison - Lord Chesterfield
Anger is just a cowardly extension of sadness. It’s a lot easier to be angry at someone than it is to tell them you’re hurt .
When sorrows come, they come not single spies, but in battalions. - William Shakespeare
Smile, even if it’s a sad smile, because sadder than a sad smile is the sadness of not knowing how to smile.
It is a time when one’s spirit is subdued and sad, one knows not why; when the past seems a storm-swept desolation, life a vanity and a burden, and the future but a way to death - Mark Twain
Two barrels of tears do not heal a bruise. - Chinese Proverb
Sorrows gather around great souls as storms do around mountains; but, like them, they break the storm and purify the air of the plain beneath them. Jean Paul Richter