Feeling Down Quotes and Sayings
Quotes about Feeling Down

Distance cannot matter - ours is a friendship of the heart.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom.
- Rabindranath Tagore

Our lives begin to end the day we become silent
about things that matter.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

Could we see when and where we are to meet again,
we would be more tender when we bid our friends goodbye.
- Ouida

A true friend is the one who
walks in when others walk out.
- Walter Winchell

A true friend never gets in your way
unless you happen to be going down.
- Arnold H. Glasgow

 

If you love something, set it free;
if it comes backs it's yours,
if it doesn't, it never was.
- Richard Bach

An injured friend is the bitterest of foes.
- Thomas Jefferson

Regrets are the tears of good deeds left undone
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship,
and it is far the best ending for one.
- Oscar Wilde

Love means not ever having to say you're sorry.
- Erich Segal

An insincere and evil friend is more
to be feared than a wild beast;
a wild beast may wound your body,
but an evil friend will wound your mind.
- The Buddha

No distance of place or lapse of time can lessen the friendship
of those who are thoroughly persuaded of each other's worth.
- Robert Southey

When you part from your friend, you grieve not;
For that which you love most in him may be
clearer in his absence,
as the mountain to the climber
is clearer from the plain.
- Khalil Gibran

I no doubt deserved my enemies,
but I don't believe I deserved my friends.
- Walt Whitman

When a father gives to his son, both laugh;
when a son gives to his father, both cry.
- William Shakespeare

In a bad marriage, friends are the invisible glue.
If we have enough friends, we may go on for years,
intending to leave, talking about leaving -
instead of actually getting up and leaving.
- Erica Jong

There can be no deep disappointment where there is not deep love.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

I never considered a difference of opinion
in politics, in religion, in philosophy,
as cause for withdrawing from a friend.
- Thomas Jefferson

The hunger for love is
much more difficult to remove
than the hunger for bread.
- Mother Teresa

Modern cynics and skeptics... see no harm in paying those
to whom they entrust the minds of their children
a smaller wage than is paid to those to whom
they entrust the care of their plumbing.
- John F. Kennedy

A man's good name is his best monument
- from an old churchyard at Lockerbie, Scotland

Most men lead lives of quiet desperation
and go to the grave with the song still in them.
- Henry David Thoreau

Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth
until the hour of separation.
- Khalil Gibran

Speak when you are angry -
and you will make the best speech you'll ever regret.
- Laurence J. Peter

A moment without joy is an eternity of sadness.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

The regrets and resentments etched in a heart
remain until they are cleansed away with love.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Love is never lost. If not reciprocated,
it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.
- Washington Irving

Love is like the truth,
sometimes it prevails,
sometimes it hurts.
- Victor M. Garcia Jr.

If a friend of mine gave a feast, and did not invite me to it,
I should not mind a bit.
but if a friend of mine had a sorrow
and refused to allow me to share it,
I should feel it most bitterly.
If he shut the doors of the house of mourning against me,
I would move back again and again and beg to be admitted
so that I might share in what I was entitled to share.
If he thought me unworthy, unfit to weep with him,
I should feel it as the most poignant humiliation.
- Oscar Wilde

Love: if you have to ask,
it's not the real thing.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

O! beware, my lord, of jealousy;
It is the green-eyed monster which
doth mock the meat it feeds on.
- William Shakespeare

Those who own much have much to fear.
- Rabindranath Tagore

The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.
- Gilbert (G. K.) Chesterton

Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones,
as the wind blows out the candle and blows up the bonfire.
- Francois de la Rochefoucauld

It is far better to be alone,
than to be in bad company.
- George Washington

Action is the antidote to dispair.
- Joan Baez

Humans do have an amazing capacity
for believing what they choose,
and excluding that which is painful.
- Spock (character in Star Trek television series)

The word "happiness" would lose its meaning
if it were not balanced by sadness.
- Carl Jung

Regret is an appalling waste of time.
- Katherine Mansfield

Each man is afraid of his neighbor's disapproval -
a thing which, to the general run of the human race,
is more dreaded than wolves and death.
- Mark Twain

Those who don't know how to weep with their whole heart,
don't know how to laugh either
- Golda Meir

Life is a Crazy-Quilt of Suffering and Joy.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Collective fear stimulates herd instinct,
and tends to produce ferocity toward
those who are not regarded as members of the herd.
- Bertrand Russell

Everyone is a moon, and has a dark side
which he never shows to anybody.
- Mark Twain

Before moving on, you have to clear away your cherished beliefs.
- Dick Raymond

Life is lived in the waiting.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Life is like an onion:
you peel it off one layer at a time,
and sometimes you weep.
- Carl Sandburg

Do you feel stuck?
Whether in a project, a job, a relationship,
or some other situation,
there is a time for perseverance,
and a time for letting go and moving on.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Life doesn't play favorites.
- Anonymous

Life is truly known only to those who suffer,
lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat.
- Anais Nin

"You always..." and "you never..." are code phrases for
"you don't meet my expectations,
so I am declaring you inadequate and unacceptable."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

We are injured and hurt emotionally,
not so much by other people
or what they say and don't say,
but by our own attitude and our own response.
- Maxwell Maltz

One never notices what has been done;
one can only see what remains to be done.
- Marie Curie

"Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair!"
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare,
The lone and level sands stretch far away.
- Percy Bysshe Shelley

Remember, happiness is just a teardrop away.
- the movie Shrek 2

Envy breeds hate.
- Yiddish Proverb

Resenting someone is a way of never leaving that person.
- Kare Anderson

We are born princes, and the civilizing process makes us frogs.
- Publilius Syrus

When you feel worried and depressed,
consciously form a smile on your face and act upbeat
until the happy feeling becomes genuine.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

My Mama always said you've got to put the past behind you
before you can move on.
- the movie Forrest Gump

We're never so vulnerable than when we trust someone -
but paradoxically, if we cannot trust,
neither can we find love or joy.
- Walter Anderson

Mama always said life was like a box of chocolates.
You never know what you're gonna get.
- the movie Forrest Gump

We are afraid to care too much, for fear
that the other person does not care at all.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

Times like these, dark times,
they do funny things to people.
They can tear them apart.
- the movie Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (2009)

A competent and self-confident person is
incapable of jealousy in anything.
Jealousy is invariably a symptom of neurotic insecurity.
- Robert A. Heinlein

For those of true faith, death is not a time to mourn,
but a time to celebrate returning to the Creator.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

It is strange to be known so universally
and yet to be so lonely.
- Albert Einstein

The fastest way to destroy love
is to make a goal out of it,
because people who are trying to be loved
come from a place that they're not loved.
- Werner Erhard

When you break up, your whole identity is
shattered. It's like death.
- Dennis Quaid

I've learned that you should always
leave loved ones with loving words.
It may be the last time you see them.
- Anonymous

Time is an untamed beast
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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