100 Feeling Down Quotes for When You Are Having a Bad Day

Life can be full of happiness and joy, but it also has its share of sad moments. Life isn’t always fair, and sometimes you must cry to smile again. Which is why we’ve tracked down some of the best feeling down quotes for when you are having a bad day to fit your mood.

Everyone goes through tough times so when it comes to quotes, sad ones are sometimes the ones you need.

Quotes for When You are Feeling Down

“Sad hurts but it’s a healthy feeling. It is a necessary thing to feel.” — J.K. Rowling

“You still make me smile, even if you’re the reason why I’m sad.” — Zakiya And Majid

“It’s sad to know I’m done. But looking back, I’ve got a lot of great memories.” — Bonnie Blair

“When you’re happy you enjoy the music, but when you’re sad you understand the lyrics.” — Frank Ocean

“Life can be sad, life can be happy. Whatever is in your life; does not have to hold you at bay, happy or sad.” — Dora Chappell

“When you feel like you’ve had it up to here, and you’re mad enough to scream, but you’re sad enough to tear, that’s rock bottom.” — Eminem

“Life is sad, life is a bust, all you can do is do what you must.” — Bob Dylan

“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

“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

“Usually when people are sad, they don’t do anything. They just cry over their condition. But when they get angry, they bring about a change.” — Malcolm X

“When you do something noble and beautiful and nobody noticed, do not be sad. For the sun every morning is a beautiful spectacle and yet most of the audience still sleeps.” — John Lennon

“The good times of today, are the sad thoughts of tomorrow.” — Bob Marley

Short Sad Quotes About Life

“Trying to avoid sadness is trying to avoid life.” — Maxime Lagacé

“You are not alone. Everyone is fighting a battle you know nothing about.” — Priyanshu Singh

“The funniest people are the saddest ones.” — Confucius

“Life is too short to be angry or sad for long.” — Alphonso Davies

“You’re sad because you’re afraid of reality.” — Maxime Lagacé

“Proud people breed sad sorrows for themselves.” — Emily Brontë

“The sad truth is that opportunity doesn’t knock twice.” — Gloria Estefan

“Sadness is but a wall between two gardens.” — Khalil Gibran

“Sadness flies away on the wings of time.” — Jean de La Fontaine

“You only pass through this life once, you don’t come back for an encore.” – Elvis Presley

“One thing you can’t hide – is when you’re crippled inside.” — John Lennon

“Tears come from the heart and not from the brain.” — Leonardo da Vinci

“The walls we build around us to keep sadness out also keeps out the joy.” — Jim Rohn

“Remember it’s totally normal to have a not-so-great day. It happens to everyone.” — Vanessa Allen

If you like these, you might also want to check out our other lists of Short Meaningful Quotes, Funny Sayings, Get Well Soon Messages, Overcoming Obstacles Quotes and When Life Gives You Lemons Quotes.

Feeling Down Quotes

“Behind every sweet smile, there is a bitter sadness that no one can ever see and feel.” — Tupac Shakur

“You cannot protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from happiness.” — Jonathan Safran Foer

“Rejecting the moment creates friction. Friction creates confusion. Confusion creates sadness.” — Maxime Lagacé

“The good life is not one immune to sadness but one in which suffering contributes to our development.” — Alain de Botton

“Your sadness is a gift. Don’t reject it. Don’t rush it. Live it fully and use it as fuel to change and grow.” — Maxime Lagacé

“Sadness usually results from one of the following causes either when a man does not succeed, or is ashamed of his success.” — Seneca

“We must understand that sadness is an ocean, and sometimes we drown, while other days we are forced to swim.” — R.M. Drake

“So much sadness exists in the world that we are all under obligation to contribute as much joy as lies within our powers.” — John Sutherland Bonnell

“It’s good to leave each day behind, like flowing water, free of sadness. Yesterday is gone and its tale told. Today new seeds are growing.” — Rumi

“This genuine heart of sadness can teach us great compassion. It can humble us when we’re arrogant and soften us when we are unkind.” — Pema Chödrön

“Boredom, anger, sadness, or fear are not ‘yours,’ not personal. They are conditions of the human mind. They come and go. Nothing that comes and goes is you.” — Eckhart Tolle

“Happiness is one pole, sadness is another. Blissfulness is one pole, misery is another. Life consists of both, and life is richer because of both. A life only of blissfulness will have extension, but will not have depth. A life of only sadness will have depth, but will not have extension.” — Osho

“The word ‘happy’ would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.” — Carl Jung

“We never taste happiness in perfection, our most fortunate successes are mixed with sadness.” — Pierre Corneille

“Every day life adds a new page in my life…but the sad part is…every page is Blank…” — Bharat Singh

“The saddest realization I’ve had in my life is that my parents are people. Sad, human people. I aged a decade in that moment.” — Amy Schumer

“Loneliness is not sad part , best part of my life is, my death will not cause pain for anyone.” — Mohammed Zaki Ansari

“I don’t have to kill myself, living my life is just the same.” — Aaron Scheerer

“That is my work, to transform your life from a sad affair into a celebration.” — Rajneesh

“My feeling is that there is nothing in life but refraining from hurting others, and comforting those who are sad.” — Olive Schreiner

“Have you ever been so sad that it physically hurt inside?” — Crystal Ball

“So, this is my life. And I want you to know that I am both happy and sad and I’m still trying to figure out how that could be.” — Stephen Chbosky

“It is sad and wrong to be so dependent for the life of my life on any human being as I am on you; but I cannot by any force of logic cure myself at this date, when it has become second nature.” — Jane Welsh Carlyle

“It is not a lonely feeling, but just as I am always sad to close the cover on a book, I feel I have finished with this part of my life and will have to begin a new book.” — Nancy E. Turner

“The sad events that occur in my life are the sad events that happen to everybody, with losing friends and family, but that is a natural occurrence, as natural as being born.” — Sergio Aragones

“I’ve accomplished everything I wanted out of life, like way beyond my wildest dreams. Anything from here on is just icing. Seriously, if you find out that I died tomorrow, I’m fine. Don’t be sad for me, because I’m not sad. I died with a smile on my face.” — Ryan Dunn

“Things change. And friends leave. Life doesn’t stop for anybody.” — Stephen Chbosky, “The Perks of Being a Wallflower

“Every life has a measure of sorrow, and sometimes this is what awakens us.” — Steven Tyler

“There is no worse sorrow than remembering happiness in the day of sorrow.” — Alfred De Musset

“I always like walking in the rain, so no one can see me crying.” — Charlie Chaplin

“Truth is everybody is going to hurt you: you just gotta find the ones worth suffering for.” — Bob Marley

“Nobody really cares if you’re miserable, so you might as well be happy.” — Cynthia Nelms

“There is no greater sorrow than to recall in misery the time when we were happy.” — Dante

“Nobody deserves your tears, but whoever deserves them will not make you cry.” — Gabriel Garcia Marquez

“Two possibilities exist: either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying.” — Arthur C. Clarke

“I can choose to sit in perpetual sadness, immobilized by the gravity of my loss, or I can choose to rise from the pain and treasure the most precious gift I have – life itself.” — Walter Anderson

“A feeling of sadness and longing, That is not akin to pain, And resembles sorrow only As the mist resembles the rain.” — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“Sad things happen. They do. But we don’t need to live sad forever.” – Mattie Stepanek

“It is sad not to love, but it is much sadder not to be able to love.” — Miguel de Unamuno

“Never make a decision when you are upset, sad, jealous or in love.” — Mario Teguh

“Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.” — Charlie Brown

“It’s sad when someone you know becomes someone you knew.” — Henry Rollins

“It’s amazing how someone can break your heart and you can still love them with all the little pieces.” — Ella Harper

“When you think you’re first falling in love, just then you realize you’re falling out of love.” — David Grayson

“Our greatest joy and our greatest pain come in our relationships with others.” — Stephen R. Covey

“I wonder if I could take back every ‘I love you’ ever said to you, would I do it?” ― Faraaz Kazi

“You make me feel like a firefly. Trapped in a belljar; starved for love.” ― Ayushee Ghoshal

“Some people are going to leave, but that’s not the end of your story. That’s the end of their part in your story.” ― Faraaz Kazi

“You can close your eyes to things you don’t want to see, but you can’t close your heart to things you don’t want to feel.” — Johnny Depp

“Since I can’t be with you right now I will have to be content just dreaming about when we will be together again.” — Susan Polis Schutz

“You can’t close your heart to things you don’t want to feel.” – Johnny Depp

“You can never control who you fall in love with, even when you’re in the most sad, confused time of your life. You don’t fall in love with people because they’re fun. It just happens.” — Kirsten Dunst

“The worst feeling isn’t being lonely, it’s being forgotten by someone you’d never forget.” — Helen Hywater

“Who do you turn to when the only person in the world that can stop you from crying, is exactly the one making you cry?” — Anita Room

“Broken relationships are a source of heavy heartbreak that seem to affect every family.” — Jerry B. Jenkins

Being Sad Quotes

“I miss the comfort in being sad.” — Frances Farmer

“Melancholy is the happiness of being sad.” ― Victor Hugo

“Fashion is that thing that saved me from being sad.” — Lady Gaga

“You need to try to master the ability to feel sad without actually being sad.” — Laurie Anderson

“Being sad with the right people is better than being happy with the wrong ones.” — Philippos Syrigos

“What do you know about being sad?’ ‘I know you don’t need a reason.” — Aryn Kyle

“I’m so glad I spent 10 years being sad and lonely.” — Caitlin Moran

“It is ridiculous that I have so many shoes I don’t wear. I worry that they’re sitting there, being sad.” — Graham Coxon

“A photograph doesn’t gain weight or lose weight, or change from being happy to being sad. It’s frozen. You can use it, then recycle it.” — Chuck Close

“Does being happy simply create more time, in the way that being sad, as we all know, slows time and thickens it, like cornstarch in a sauce?” — Claire Messud

“I’ve never thought of my characters as being sad. On the contrary, they are full of life. They didnt choose tragedy. Tragedy chose them.” — Juliette Binoche

“Tears are what make us one with the clouds.” – Anthony T. Hincks

“All of our unhappiness comes from our inability to be alone.” — Jean de la Bruyere

“I have the choice of being constantly active and happy or introspectively passive and sad.” — Sylvia Plath

“There was something horribly depressing, she felt, about watching the weather report. That life could be planned like the perfect summer picnic drained it of spontaneity.” ― Galt Niederhoffer

“To evade insanity and depression, we unconsciously limit the number of people toward whom we are sincerely sympathetic.” ― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“I don’t like novels that end happily. They depress me so much.” ― Oscar Wilde

“The abrupt reality of his situation was a depressing thought.” ― Jason Medina

“People aren’t born sad; we make them that way.” ― Nikita Gill

“There is no sense of wrapping your mind in the barbwires of depressing or negative thought.” ― Steven Redhead

“Even the whole universe won’t fill your emptiness.” ― Shiz Live

“A sad soul can kill quicker than a germ.” — John Steinbeck

“From the moment we are born, we begin to die.” ― Janne Teller

“Maybe I’d always been broken and dark inside.” ― Sarah J. Maas

“Tears are words the mouth can’t say nor can the heart bear.” — Joshua Wisenbaker

“No one seems to notice when you’re down, unless you are bleeding, but sometimes the worst wounds, are the ones you can’t see.” ― Faith Marie

Inspirational Quotes for When You Feel Down

“Nothing sadder than seeing a person settle for so much lower than their potential.” — Ed Latimore

“The more you consume, the sadder you get. The sadder you get, the more you consume. Create instead.” — Maxime Lagacé

“You’re sad because you’re wasting your potential. You know it, your family knows it, everyone knows it. Do something useful.” — Carlos Del Valle

“Don’t grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form.” — Rumi

“To have felt too much is to end in feeling nothing.” — Dorothy Thompson

“The scars we sustain, the weaknesses we attain, are temporary.” — Mo Gawdat

“Experiencing sadness and anger can make you feel more creative, and by being creative, you can get beyond your pain or negativity.” — Yoko Ono

“It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses, we must plant more roses.” — George Eliot

“It is sadder to find the past again and find it inadequate to the present than it is to have it elude you and remain forever a harmonious conception of memory.” — F. Scott Fitzgerald

“Make the most of your regrets; never smother your sorrow, but tend and cherish it till it comes to have a separate and integral interest. To regret deeply is to live afresh.” — Henry David Thoreau

“When you make any decision in life: You can choose what feels good. You can choose what makes you look good. You can choose to do what is good or right.” — David J.Lieberman

“Life will put you through many battles and competitions that you will have to indulge in. If you do not have the right self esteem, you will end up losing the battle before you have begun.” — Stephanie Beyer

“Some days are just bad days, that’s all. You have to experience sadness to know happiness, and I remind myself that not every day is going to be a good day, that’s just the way it is!” — Dita Von Teese

“The pain never really goes away; you just elevate and get used to it by growing stronger.” — Ritu Ghatourey

“Life goes on… with or without you.” — Faraaz Kazi

“Only strong people can find happiness from the sadness surrounding them.” — Sahaj Oberoi

“To each of us some rain must fall because life is not always cast in a play that has the script you expect or want.” — Catherine Pulsifer

“We all have to strive to improve our life and quit blaming others because we aren’t getting what we want.” — Deanna Jewel

“Happiness would not be fully appreciated without an experience of its opposite, sadness.” — Richard Daly

“Women think that they can make sad things go away by knowing the reason that they happened.” — Johanna Skibsrud

“I’m strong because I know my weaknesses. I’m wise because I’ve been foolish. I laugh because I’ve known sadness.” — Ziad K. Abdelnour

“Almost all sadness comes from thinking about the past, and all worry from thinking about the future – present-mindedness is your only safe haven.” — Bryant McGill

“I want to show you that you are not alone, and that we are all in it together. Depression, anxiety, panic and deep sadness is an illness just like any other.” — Frankie Bridge

“There are moments when I wish I could roll back the clock and take all the sadness away, but I have the feeling that if I did, the joy would be gone as well.” — Nicholas Spark

“Sorrow on another’s face often looks like coldness, bitterness, resentment, unfriendliness, apathy, disdain, or disinterest when it is in truth purely sadness.” — Richelle E. Goodrich

“There are beautiful things in the world and there are sad things and when they come together they make a star. The light is far away and the strangest part is that the light is inside you.” — Victor Lodato

Sad Sayings About Life

“People keep telling me that life goes on, but to me that’s the saddest part.”

“Sometimes it’s numbness, not sadness.”

“Sleep just isn’t sleep anymore, it’s an escape.”

“It’s hard to answer the question “What’s wrong?” when nothing’s right.”

“I am sad all the time and the sadness is so heavy that I can’t get away from it.”

“The worst kind of sad is not being able to explain why.”

“Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.”

“It’s a bit like walking down a long, dark corridor, never knowing when the light will go on.”

“Every thought is a battle. Every breath is a war, and I don’t think I’m winning anymore.”

“Imagine smiling after a slap in the face. Then think of doing it twenty-four hours a day.”

“My life is just one constant battle between wanting to be alone, but not wanting to be lonely.”

“A million words would not bring you back, I know because I tried, neither would a million tears, I know because I cried.”

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