“My heart was in a perpetual state of sadness and the only relief I could find were in those cathartic cries.”— Fisher Amelie, amazon.com
“When something’s really bothering me, I just like to get it out. I like to completely give in to the emotion. If I pretend I’m not sad—if I try smiling through it, and pretending like everything’s fine—it makes it worse. When I give in and let it out, I feel better.”— Michelle Madow, amazon.com
“There is no point in delaying crying. Sadness is like having a vicious alligator around. You can ignore it for only so long before it begins devouring things and you have to pay attention.”— Lemony Snicket, amazon.com
“Anyone can smile on their best day. I like to meet a man who can smile on his WORST.”— Lauren Graham, amazon.com
“No matter how many times she was told that she was loved, there was no recognition that the proof was in the abandonment.”— Markus Zusak, amazon.com
“You think it is okay for you to be sad every day. But it's not okay. And you do not deserve it.”— Laura Nowlin, amazon.com
“Remember this when you feel joy, pain, or sadness. Everything passes. grows old, dies, and is reborn.”— Paulo Coelho, amazon.com
“I have always been an optimistic woman, but time has left me bitter, alone and sad.”— Paulo Coelho, amazon.com
“But smiles and tears are so alike with me, they are neither of them confined to any particular feelings: I often cry when I am happy, and smile when I am sad.”— Anne Brontë, amazon.com
“Being an unhappy person does not mean you must be a sad person. You can be interested instead of happy. You can be fascinated instead of happy.”— Augusten Burroughs, amazon.com
“You're feeling sad for no reason. Endorphines are hormones released by the brain that make you feel good. There are a few things you can do to possibly release endorphins and increase your mood, and have great sex is in many health experts top-five.”— Charli Penn, essence.com
“Next time the Big Motherfuckin’ Sad comes calling, don’t pick up the phone.”— Adam Gnade, amazon.com
“Anyone who has actually been that sad can tell you that there's nothing beautiful or literary or mysterious about depression.”— Jasmine Warga, amazon.com
“It is said that every life has its roses and thorns; there seemed, however, to have been a misadventure or mistake in Stephen’s case, whereby somebody else had become possessed of his roses, and he had become possessed of somebody else’s thorns in addition to his own.”— Charles Dickens, amazon.com
“The broken heart. You think you will die, but you just keep living, day after day after terrible day.”— Charles Dickens, amazon.com