9 Quotes To Read When You’re Sad

6. 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

7. When you’ve suffered a great deal in life, each additional pain is both unbearable and trifling.
― Yann Martel, Life of Pi

8. Tears, idle tears, I know not what they mean, Tears from the depths of some divine despair. Rise in the heart, and gather to the eyes, In looking on the happy autumn fields,
And thinking of the days that are no more.
― Alfred Tennyson

9. Sadness gives depth. Happiness gives height. Sadness gives roots. Happiness gives branches. Happiness is like a tree going into the sky, and sadness is like the roots going down into the womb of the earth. Both are needed, and the higher a tree goes, the deeper it goes, simultaneously. The bigger the tree, the bigger will be its roots. In fact, it is always in proportion. That’s its balance.
― Osho

These quotes will let you know that a kindred soul exists somewhere, that it is okay to be sad and that sadness isn’t permanent.