We help each other—even unconsciously, each in our own effort, we lighten the effort of others—sorrow comes in great waves . . . but it rolls over us, and though it may almost smother us it leaves us on the spot and we know that if it is strong we are stronger, in as much as it passes and we remain.

Better by far that you should forget and smile / Than that you should remember and be sad.

By Christina Rossetti

Life, Memory, Sad, Wise

To be honest, what I feel really bad about is that I don’t feel worse. That is the intellectual’s problem in a nutshell.

By Michael Frayn

Intellectuals, Sad, Thinking, Thought

The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.

By Henry David Thoreau

Death, Despair, Life, Sad

Not a day passes over the earth but men and women of no note do great deeds, speak great words, and suffer noble sorrows.

By Charles Reade

Empowering, Grief, Mourning, Positive, Powerful

Sometimes being surrounded by a lot of people is the loneliest place to be.

By Anonymous

Depression, Loneliness, Sad

A deep distress hath humanized my soul.

By William Wordsworth

Broken heart, Depression, Hurt, Sad, Spiritual