Broken Heart
“I don’t want to break someone’s heart, but you can’t control that. A broken heart happens; that’s inevitable.”
– Lykke Li
Image: Priscilla Du Preez
Tag: sad
Broken and Whole
“There is some kind of a sweet innocence in being human- in not having to be just happy or just sad- in the nature of being able to be both broken and whole, at the same time.”
– C. Joybell 
Personality
“The largest part of what we call ‘personality’ is determined by how we’ve opted to defend ourselves against anxiety and sadness.”
– Alain de Botton
It’s There
“Every human walks around with a certain kind of sadness. They may not wear it on their sleeves, but it’s there if you look deep.”
– Taraji P. Henson
The Price We Pay
“So it’s true when all is said and done, grief is the price we pay for love.”
– E.A. Bucchianeri
Image: Gabriel
Sadder It Becomes
“The longer and more carefully we look at a funny story, the sadder it becomes.”
– Nikolai Gogol
Depression
“People who have never dealt with depression think it’s just being sad or being in a bad mood. That’s not what depression is for me; it’s falling into a state of grayness and numbness. “
– Dan Reynolds
Image: Noah Silliman
Hope
It’s okay to be sad if things don’t go the way you had hoped.
– Jessie James Decker
Secret Sorrow
“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
Image: Let me drown. – Ian Espinosa