Helen Keller: Sadness

       Helen Keller, (1880-1968) was an American author, political activist, and lecturer. A shining beam of hope, an extraordinary human being and a significant historical asset. Blind and deaf since infancy, Helen Keller became symbol of courage and of the indomitable human spirit. She went from an undisciplined child with severe challenges to one of the true heroes of the world. Her life as a girl and as a woman became a triumph over crushing adversity and shattering affliction. The first deaf-blind ever to graduate from college and become a successful writer. In darkness, she could discover a new world through the eyes, ears and hands of others. Helen Keller spent a life in helping others. Here are some of the many insightful quotes that prove how great and determined she was.

Hellen Kelller Quotes

Believe, when you are most unhappy, there is something for you to do in the world. So long as you can sweeten another's pain, life is not in vain.

Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.

I seldom think about my limitations, and they never make me sad. Perhaps there is just a touch of yearning at times; but it is vague, like a breeze among flowers. 

We could never learn to be brave and patient if there were only joy in the world.

Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it.

Sadness

Sadness is always the legacy of the past, regrets are pains of the memory. (Anonymous)

Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional. (Anonymous)

Tears are words the heart can't express. (Anonymous)

All good things must come to an end, but all bad things can continue forever. (Anonymous)

We ignore the ones who adore us, and adore the ones who ignore us. (Anonymous)

We gather strength from sadness and from pain each time we die we learn to live again. (Anonymous)

Never be sad for what is over, just be glad that it was once yours. (Anonymous)

A sad thing in life is that sometimes you meet someone who means a lot to you only to find out in the end that it was never bound to be and you just have to let go. (Anonymous)

The saddest thing in the world, is loving someone who used to love you. (Anonymous)

The greatest pain that comes from love, is loving someone you can never have. (Anonymous)

The essential sadness is to go through life without loving. But it would be almost equally sad to leave this world without ever telling those you loved that you love them. (Anonymous)

Sadness

Remember that everyone you meet is afraid of something, loves something, and has lost something. (Proverb)

If you see a friend without a smile, give him one of yours. (Proverb)

Silence is medication for sorrow. (Arab Proverb)

Sorrow is like a precious treasure, shown only to friends. (African Proverb)

However long the night, the dawn will break. (African Proverb) 

You cannot prevent the birds of sadness from passing over your head, but you can prevent their making a nest in your hair. (Chinese Proverb)

Our sorrows and wounds are healed only when we touch them with compassion. (Buddha)

If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other. (Mother Teresa)

Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty. (Mother Teresa)

People should never sit alone for too long when they're crying. (Dalai Lama)

Sadness

Melancholy is the pleasure of being sad. (Victor Hugo)

Melancholy is sadness that has taken on lightness. (Italo Calvino)

Melancholy and sadness are the start of doubt.. doubt is the beginning of despair, despair is the cruel beginning of the differing degrees of wickedness. (Isidore Ducasse Lautreamont)

Nothing thicker than a knife's blade separates happiness from melancholy. (Virginia Woolf)

The melancholy days are come, the saddest of the year, of wailing winds, and naked woods and meadows brown and sear. (William C Bryant)

When sorrows come, they come not single spies, but in battalions. (William Shakespeare)

What's done is done. (William Shakespeare)

We plan our joys and sorrows long before we experience them. (Kahlil Gibran)

When you are sorrowful, look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight. (Kahlil Gibran)

The tears that you spill, the sorrowful, are sweeter than the laughter of snobs and the guffaws of scoffers. (Kahlil Gibran)

Sadness

Sorrow is easy to express and so hard to tell. (Joni Mitchell)

Dying seems less sad than having lived too little. (Gloria Steinem)

Nobody deserves your tears, but whoever deserves them will not make you cry. (Gabriel Garcia Marquez)

Better by far you should forget and smile than that you should remember and be sad. (Christina Georgina Rossetti)

Everything's complicated, even those things that seem flat in their bleakness or sadness. (Nick Hornby)

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)

We ask God to forgive us for our evil thoughts and evil temper, but rarely, if ever ask Him to forgive us for our sadness. (R. W. Dale)

Grief can't be shared. Everyone carries it alone, his own burden, his own way. (Anne Morrow Lindbergh)

How sad to see a father with money and no joy. The man studied economics, but never studied happiness. (Jim Rohn)

The cure for sorrow is to learn something. (Barbara Sher)

Sadness

When the body is sad, the heart languishes. (Albert Camus)

Absolute silence leads to sadness. It is the image of death. (Jean Jacques Rousseau)

If you deliberately plan on being less than you are capable of being, then I warn you that you'll be unhappy for the rest of your life. (Abraham Maslow)

One cannot be deeply responsive to the world without being saddened very often. (Erich Fromm)

Sadness is also a kind of defence. (Ivo Andric)

Sadness is almost never anything but a form of fatigue. (Andre Gide)

There can be no rainbow without a cloud and a storm. (John Heyl Vincent)

You have to have a darkness for the dawn to come. (Harrison Ford)

Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened. (Dr. Seuss)

Smile, even if it's a sad smile, because sadder than a sad smile is the sadness of not knowing how to smile. (Tom Gates)

Sadness

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)

Grief alone can teach us what is man. (Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton)

Sadness flies away on the wings of time. (Jean de La Fontaine)

I love my past, I love my present. I am not ashamed of what I have had, and I am not sad because I no longer have it. (Sidonie Gabrielle Colette)

Sadness does not inhere in things, it does not reach us from the world and through mere contemplation of the world. It is a product of our own thought. We create it out of whole cloth. (Emile Durkheim)

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

We look before and after, and pine for what is not. Our sincerest laughter with some pain is fraught: our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought. (Percy Bysshe Shelley)

Sad people dislike the happy, and the happy the sad; the quick thinking the sedate, and the careless the busy and industrious. (Horace)

All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story or tell a story about them. (Isak Dinesen)

Unhappiness is not knowing what we want and killing ourselves to get it. (Don Herold)

Sadness

We enjoy warmth because we have been cold. We appreciate light because we have been in darkness. By the same token, we can experience joy because we have known sadness. (David Weatherford)

We never taste a perfect joy; our happiest successes are mixed with sadness. (Pierre Corneille)

You cannot protect yourself from sadness, without protecting yourself from happiness. (Jonathan Safran Foer)

Drama is theater, life, an escape from life, happiness, and sadness all rolled into one. (Rebekah Adams)

Any moment of great happiness will also be a great moment of sadness. (Osho)

Write your sad times in sand, write your good times in stone. (George Bernard Shaw)

The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil. (Hannah Arendt)

Nobody really cares if you're miserable, so you might as well be happy. (Cynthia Nelms)

Sadness may be part of life but there is no need to let it dominate your entire life. (Byron Pulsifer)

Anger, tears and sadness are only for those who have given up. (Kattie Gill)

Carl Gustav Jung: Sadness

       Carl Gustav Jung (1875-1961) was a great Swiss psychiatrist and an influential thinker and the founder of Analytical Psychology. His work has influenced psychology, religion and literature. Jung believed that we prevent ourselves from becoming autonomous, fulfilled and ultimately happy by our refusal to open ourselves to experiences that are new and unfamiliar, and thus potentially threatening to our sense of self. Jung claimed that people generally pursue a life that is safe, uncomplicated, and familiar – predictable and unchanging.

Carl G. Jung Quotes

Man needs difficulties, they are necessary for health.

There is no coming to consciousness without pain.

It is sad but unfortunately true that man learns nothing from history.

I could not say I believe. I know! I have had the experience of being gripped by something that is stronger than myself, something that people call God.

Good. There are many nights as days, and the one is just as long as the other in the year's course. Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better take things as they come along with patience and equanimity.