Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened. Dr.

. Seuss tags: attributed-no-source, cry, crying, experience, happiness, joy, life, optimism, sadness, smile, smiling 107,589 people liked it like Mahatma Gandhi When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love have always won. There have been tyrants and murderers, and for a time, they can seem invincible, but in the end, they always fall. Think of it--always. Mahatma Gandhi tags: despair, evil, goodness, inspirational, love, sadness, truth, victory 7,843 people liked it like Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 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 tags: coldness, depression, happiness, life, sad, sadness, sorrow 5,412 people liked it like Jonathan Safran Foer You cannot protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from happiness. Jonathan Safran Foer tags: happiness, sadness 4,177 people liked it like Edna St. Vincent Millay 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 tags: longing, love, missing, sadness 2,527 people liked it like Haruki Murakami Why do people have to be this lonely? What's the point of it all? Millions of people in this world, all of them yearning, looking to others to satisfy them, yet isolating themselves. Why? Was the earth put here just to nourish human loneliness?

 Haruki Murakami, Sputnik Sweetheart tags: isolation, loneliness, sadness 2,516 people liked it like John Green What you must understand about me is that Im a deeply unhappy person. John Green, Looking for Alaska tags: sadness, unhappiness 2,287 people liked it like Ned Vizzini I didn't want to wake up. I was having a much better time asleep. And that's really sad. It was almost like a reverse nightmare, like when you wake up from a nightmare you're so relieved. I woke up into a nightmare. Ned Vizzini, It's Kind of a Funny Story tags: depression, sadness, suicide 2,127 people liked it like Lauren Conrad Don't cry over someone who wouldn't cry over you. Lauren Conrad tags: crying, heartache, love, sadness, tears 1,824 people liked it like Markus Zusak Imagine smiling after a slap in the face. Then think of doing it twenty-four hours a day. Markus Zusak, The Book Thief tags: pain, sadness, stoicism 1,738 people liked it like Jonathan Safran Foer Why do beautiful songs make you sad?' 'Because they aren't true.' 'Never?' 'Nothing is beautiful and true. Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close tags: beauty, music, sadness 1,604 people liked it like Jonathan Safran Foer

He awoke each morning with the desire to do right, to be a good and meaningful person, to be, as simple as it sounded and as impossible as it actually was, happy. And during the course of each day his heart would descend from his chest into his stomach. By early afternoon he was overcome by the feeling that nothing was right, or nothing was right for him, and by the desire to be alone. By evening he was fulfilled: alone in the magnitude of his grief, alone in his aimless guilt, alone even in his loneliness. I am not sad, he would repeat to himself over and over, I am not sad. As if he might one day convince himself. Or fool himself. Or convince others--the only thing worse than being sad is for others to know that you are sad. I am not sad. I am not sad. Because his life had unlimited potential for happiness, insofar as it was an empty white room. He would fall asleep with his heart at the foot of his bed, like some domesticated animal that was no part of him at all. And each morning he would wake with it again in the cupboard of his rib cage, having become a little heavier, a little weaker, but still pumping. And by the midafternoon he was again overcome with the desire to be somewhere else, someone else, someone else somewhere else. I am not sad. Jonathan Safran Foer, Everything Is Illuminated tags: sadness 1,597 people liked it like Nicole Krauss 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, The History of Love tags: comfort, sad, sadness 1,581 people liked it like Erma Bombeck When God Created Mothers"

When the Good Lord was creating mothers, He was into His sixth day of "overtime" when the angel appeared and said. "You're doing a lot of fiddling around on this one."

And God said, "Have you read the specs on this order?" She has to be completely washable, but not plastic. Have 180 moveable parts...all replaceable. Run on black coffee and leftovers. Have a lap that disappears when she stands up. A kiss that can cure anything from a broken leg to a disappointed love affair. And six pairs of hands."

The angel shook her head slowly and said. "Six pairs of hands.... no way."

It's not the hands that are causing me problems," God remarked, "it's the three pairs of eyes that mothers have to have."

That's on the standard model?" asked the angel. God nodded.

One pair that sees through closed doors when she asks, 'What are you kids doing in there?' when she already knows. Another here in the back of her head that sees what she shouldn't but what she has to know, and of course the ones here in front that can look at a child when he goofs up and say. 'I understand and I love you' without so much as uttering a word."

God," said the angel touching his sleeve gently, "Get some rest tomorrow...."

I can't," said God, "I'm so close to creating something so close to myself. Already I have one who heals herself when she is sick...can feed a family of six on one pound of hamburger...and can get a nine year old to stand under a shower."

The angel circled the model of a mother very slowly. "It's too soft," she sighed.

But tough!" said God excitedly. "You can imagine what this mother can do or endure."

Can it think?"

Not only can it think, but it can reason and compromise," said the Creator.

Finally, the angel bent over and ran her finger across the cheek.

There's a leak," she pronounced. "I told You that You were trying to put too much into this model."

It's not a leak," said the Lord, "It's a tear."

What's it for?"

It's for joy, sadness, disappointment, pain, loneliness, and pride."

You are a genius, " said the angel.

Somberly, God said, "I didn't put it there. Erma Bombeck, When God Created Mothers tags: children, family, humor, love, mothers, mothers-day, sadness 1,325 people liked it like Jonathan Safran Foer She was a genius of sadness, immersing herself in it, separating its numerous strands, appreciating its subtle nuances. She was a prism through which sadness could be divided into its infinite spectrum. Jonathan Safran Foer, Everything Is Illuminated tags: grief, mourning, sadness, sorrow, suffering 1,307 people liked it like Paulo Coelho Tears are words that need to be written. Paulo Coelho tags: inspirational, sadness, writing 1,199 people liked it like J.R.R. Tolkien Ho! Ho! Ho! To the bottle I go To heal my heart and drown my woe Rain may fall, and wind may blow And many miles be still to go

But under a tall tree will I lie And let the clouds go sailing by J.R.R. Tolkien tags: drinking, liquor, poetry, sadness 1,126 people liked it like Clive Barker any fool can be happy. It takes a man with real heart to make beauty out of the stuff that makes us weep. Clive Barker, Days of Magic, Nights of War tags: art, inspirational, love, redemption, sadness 1,092 people liked it like Brian Jacques Don't be ashamed to weep; 'tis right to grieve. Tears are only water, and flowers, trees, and fruit cannot grow without water. But there must be sunlight also. A wounded heart will heal in time, and when it does, the memory and love of our lost ones is sealed inside to comfort us. Brian Jacques, Taggerung tags: crying, emotion, emotions, flowers, fruit, growing, nature, sadness, sunlight, tears, trees, water 1,047 people liked it like Augusten Burroughs I'm lonely. And I'm lonely in some horribly deep way and for a flash of an instant, I can see just how lonely, and how deep this feeling runs. And it scares the shit out of me to be this lonely because it seems catastrophic. Augusten Burroughs, Dry tags: loneliness, lonely, sad, sadness, sorrow 1,033 people liked it like Barbara Kingsolver There is no point treating a depressed person as though she were just feeling sad, saying, 'There now, hang on, you'll get over it.' Sadness is more or less like a head cold- with patience, it passes. Depression is like cancer. Barbara Kingsolver, The Bean Trees tags: depression, sadness 1,018 people liked it like Paulo Coelho

Ester asked why people are sad. "Thats simple," says the old man. "They are the prisoners of their personal history. Everyone believes that the main aim in life is to follow a plan. They never ask if that plan is theirs or if it was created by another person. They accumulate experiences, memories, things, other people's ideas, and it is more than they can possibly cope with. And that is why they forget their dreams. Paulo Coelho, The Zahir tags: dreams, future, happiness, life, plans, sadness 883 people liked it like William Shakespeare Sigh no more, ladies, sigh no more, Men were deceivers ever,One foot in sea and one on shore, To one thing constant never. William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing tags: forgiveness, happy, ladies, men, sadness, understanding 833 people liked it like Friedrich Nietzsche What, if some day or night a demon were to steal after you into your loneliest loneliness and say to you: 'This life as you now live it and have lived it, you will have to live once more and innumerable times more' ... Would you not throw yourself down and gnash your teeth and curse the demon who spoke thus? Or have you once experienced a tremendous moment when you would have answered him: 'You are a god and never have I heard anything more divine. Friedrich Nietzsche, The Gay Science: with a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs tags: demons, happiness, judgement, kronofobi, life, reincarnation, sadness 815 people liked it like Jeffrey Eugenides Emotions, in my experience, aren't covered by single words. I don't believe in "sadness," "joy," or "regret." Maybe the best proof that the language is patriarchal is that it oversimplifies feeling. I'd like to have at my disposal complicated hybrid emotions, Germanic train-car constructions like, say, "the happiness that attends disaster." Or: "the disappointment of sleeping with one's fantasy." I'd like to show how "intimations of mortality brought on by aging family members" connects with "the hatred of mirrors that begins in middle age." I'd like to have a word for "the sadness inspired by failing restaurants" as well as for "the excitement of getting a room with a minibar." I've never had the right words to describe my life, and now that I've entered my story, I need them more than ever.

 Jeffrey Eugenides, Middlesex tags: capture, disappointment, emotions, english, excitement, fail, hatred, language, sadness 801 people liked it like Maggie Stiefvater I said uselessly, "Sam, don't go."

Sam cupped my face in his hands and looked me in the eyes. His eyes were yellow, sad, wolf, mine.

"These stay the same. Remember that when you look at me. Remember it's me. Please. Maggie Stiefvater, Shiver tags: identity, parting, sadness, separation, wolf 759 people liked it like Salvador Plascencia I dont know what they are called, the spaces between seconds but I think of you always in those intervals. Salvador Plascencia, The People of Paper tags: longing, love, sadness 741 people liked it like Oscar Wilde Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul. Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray tags: art, humanity, sadness 733 people liked it like Virginia Woolf Nothing thicker than a knife's blade separates happiness from melancholy. Virginia Woolf, Orlando tags: sadness 680 people liked it like Jarod Kintz If our destiny stems from our name, then I weep for the flower named Wilt.

 Jarod Kintz, It Occurred to Me tags: destiny, flower, flowers, humor, sadness, wilt 463 people liked it