Classic Sad Quotes

#1. I think you impressed him with the sheer force of your stupidity.

Holly Black

#2. And if you don't live, you have nothing to write about.

Maynard James Keenan

#3. Some of the best things I have ever thought of I have thought of during bad sermons.

Wendell Berry

#4. I understood, then, where his madness had come from: He, too, had experienced the loss of the good and the victory of the evil.

Douglas Clegg

#5. So pathetic," he said, with a grunt. "So sad. Such a cliche. You can be so fond of cinema, of world literature, the classics, but then, when you find yourself playing out a classic scene, you don't feel ennobled, linked to that greatness. You feel...pathetic.

David Cronenberg

#6. It's sad that women characters have lost so much ground in popular movies. Didn't 'Thelma and Louise' prove that women want to see women doing things on film? Thelma and Louise were in a classic car; they were being chased by cops; they shot up a truck - and women loved it.

Robin Quivers

#7. How strange and how lovely it is to be anything at all.

John Green

#8. I often have an argument with people. I say name me a classic song that's not sad in some kind of way. And even if you can, you'll have to search pretty far.

Danger Mouse

#9. Telling what you feel, trying to talk about what's important to you, does not make you weaker.

Aimee Mann

#10. She said once that time is nothing to me but a series of bookmarks that I use to jump back and forth through the text of my life, returning again and again to the events that mark me in the eyes of my more astute colleagues, as bearing all the characteristics of the classic melancholic.

Dennis Lehane