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Our culture has a strange relationship with sadness.

Despite it being one of the most fundamental emotions that we experience, it’s something that is often not discussed, and certainly never encouraged.

Thernumber of cliches that inform the way we view sadness, such as “big girls don’t cry” and “cheer up” – these ideas often run on autopilot in the background.

Emotions, however, are never so simple, they often require that we take a closer look in order to know what we’re dealing with and how we can best handle them.

Here are 29 quotes about sadness to help you cry it out

The way sadness works is one of the strange riddles of the world. If you are stricken with a great sadness, you may feel as if you have been set aflame, not only because of the enormous pain but also because your sadness may spread over your life, like smoke from an enormous fire.

Lemony Snicket

Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Sadness flies away on the wings of time.

Jean de La Fontaine

Sadness is but a wall between two gardens.

Kahlil Gibran


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