10 Helpful Reminders for When You're Feeling Lonely and Blue
To feel alone and melancholy is not a bad thing. When this happens, it’s important to let yourself embrace these emotions. These reminders show that there is no shame in feeling this way:
“The word ‘happiness’ would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.”
– Carl Jung
“We never taste happiness in perfection, our most fortunate successes are mixed with sadness.”
– Pierre Corneille
“Boredom, anger, sadness, or fear are not ‘yours,’ not personal. They are conditions of the human mind. They come and go. Nothing that comes and goes is you.”
– Eckhart Tolle
“Sadness flies away on the wings of time.”
– Jean de La Fontaine
“Remember: the time you feel lonely is the time you most need to be by yourself. Life’s cruelest irony.”
– Douglas Coupland
“Solitude is fine but you need someone to tell that solitude is fine.”
– Honoré de Balzac
“Don’t cry because it’s over, smile because it happened.”
– Dr. Seuss
“Tears are words that need to be written.”
– Paulo Coelho
“Don’t cry over someone who wouldn’t cry over you.”
– Lauren Conrad
“I do not believe anyone can be perfectly well, who has a brain and a heart”
– Henry Wadsworth Longfellow