Top 100 Felt Sad Quotes

#1. The erasure itself became the action. It seemed to suggest a moment in terms of how sad or pessimistic you can feel in a political environment or a historical situation. But it felt like a really hopeful gesture in the painting.

Julie Mehretu

Felt Sad Quotes #4728
#2. I've always felt sad for people who don't read fiction; they only get to live one life.

Jack Tyler

Felt Sad Quotes #10359
#3. Caroline smiled and waved and blew kisses to both of them as she exited the building. But once outside she felt sad and let down, like the party was over and it was time to go home. And yet she remembered her promise to God. She was going to trust that he knew what was best for her.

Melody Carlson

Felt Sad Quotes #15456
#4. I felt like crying but nothing came out. it was just a sort of sad sickness, sick sad, when you can't feel any worse. I think you know it. I think everybody knows it now and then. but I think I have known it pretty often, too often.

Charles Bukowski

Felt Sad Quotes #48104
#5. Sometimes I sit and stare out at the people walking by, wondering if they've felt as I've felt, trapped, alone, but guiltily content in the knowledge that I will never know another's thoughts, and therefore can feel special due to my unique loneliness.

Moryah DeMott

Felt Sad Quotes #51540
#6. When I was leaving I kind of felt a little bit sad, because I made some friends down in skid row.

Pras Michel

Felt Sad Quotes #57125
#7. I felt sad, happy, content.

Akhil Sharma

Felt Sad Quotes #68467
#8. It wasn't that she was sad - sadness had very little to do with it, really, considering that most of the time, she felt close to nothing at all. Feeling required nerves, connections, sensory input. The only thing she felt was numb. And tired. Yes, she very frequently felt tired.

Nenia Campbell

Felt Sad Quotes #86391
#9. When I did the film Generations, in which the character died, I felt like a guest for the first time. That made me very sad.

William Shatner

Felt Sad Quotes #92100
#10. After I consumed Frost in his entirety, my days of exploration began. I read The Diving Comedy while leafing through E. E. Cummings. I read Sidney and Milton and Shelley, piecing together my own aesthetics, my own defence of poetry. I felt alone and religious and desperately sad.

Spencer Gordon

Felt Sad Quotes #113389
#11. Which was how Britteny ended up nestled next to Mickey, under the shelter of a painter's drop cloth.
She felt no pain.
She saw no light.
She heard, but barely.
Her heart was still and silent.
Yet she did not die.

Michael Grant

Felt Sad Quotes #129858
#12. I think he Oswald felt he was a failure and for the United States and for President Kennedy and all of us. He knew he was a failure at everything he tried, frustrated, with a very sad life, but he was a Marxist.

John Sherman Cooper

Felt Sad Quotes #139517
#13. I felt sad for my "actual boss" who was too hard-pressed under his mom's weight.

Ankita Kapoor

Felt Sad Quotes #169622
#14. Truthfully she felt incredibly miserable, seeing university students and tourists bustling in and out of the place with their cell phones in hand, texting like there was no tomorrow. Living behind a screen, they'd likely text with their last breath.

Rebecca McNutt

Felt Sad Quotes #170259
#15. He watched the scene and thought of life; and (as always happened when he thought of life) he became sad. A gentle melancholy took possession of him. He felt how useless it was to struggle against fortune, this being the burden of wisdom which the ages had bequeathed him.

James Joyce

Felt Sad Quotes #173087
#16. You felt a deep sorrow, the kind of melancholy you feel when you're in a beautiful place and the sun is going down

Thrity Umrigar

Felt Sad Quotes #183270
#17. Or rather, he was sad because that morning he'd understood that he'd understood nothing, because while he still understood nothing he wasn't sad at all, but now that he'd understood that he'd understood nothing he felt sad, if you follow.

Francois Lelord

Felt Sad Quotes #198546
#18. Yet they require me to make them true, he thought. It had been a long time since Davos Seaworth felt so sad.

George R R Martin

Felt Sad Quotes #204224
#19. I had so much. I felt so sad.

Kimberly Brubaker Bradley

Felt Sad Quotes #208485
#20. Tiring because he felt prematurely the weight of carrying how stupidly fucking sad this was for the rest of his days.

Brian McGreevy

Felt Sad Quotes #242647
#21. Everything about this felt right, and I wondered what had happened to me--that I was somehow falling for this man who looked like he stepped off a catwalk, who had demons and sad eyes and kissed like an angel.

Megan Erickson

Felt Sad Quotes #243593
#22. I've never felt stronger than when I was packing up my room at Richard's place. [...] I've also never felt sadder. Sad but strong. You can be both. And I am.

Emery Lord

Felt Sad Quotes #245257
#23. I have a vague memory of seeing an image of a child in an iron lung and the phrase "sad little breathing machine" coming into my head. The more I thought about it, the more I felt that on certain days - the worse ones - we could all be described as sad little breathing machines.

Matthea Harvey

Felt Sad Quotes #248679
#24. After you were born, someone turned on a tap. At first it was only a drip, a black drip, and I felt it as sadness. I had felt sad before ... who hasn't ? I knew what it was like. But I didn't know that it would come like that, for no reason. I lived with it for weeks.

Jerry Pinto

Felt Sad Quotes #263740
#25. Felix had left his heart buried in the ground years ago, but he felt it crack apart.

Lauren DeStefano

Felt Sad Quotes #265965
#26. The tree I had in the garden as a child, my beech tree, I used to climb up there and spend hours. I took my homework up there, my books, I went up there if I was sad, and it just felt very good to be up there among the green leaves and the birds and the sky.

Jane Goodall

Felt Sad Quotes #268444
#27. I saw my ex-husband in the street. I was sitting on the steps of the new library.
Hello, my life, I said. We had once been married for twenty-seven years, so I felt justified.
He said, What? What life? No life of mine.

Grace Paley

Felt Sad Quotes #270416
#28. But now Americans, they felt a sense of peace and protection because they've been separated by so many thousands of miles of ocean. And you know, the fact that it's come to the U.S. like this is so sad, and yet you know, what can you do? It's here.

Patty Hearst

Felt Sad Quotes #278535
#29. I realized that whilst crying over the loss, the living did not seem adequate because they were not my loved one. The room full of strangers hurt me profusely. Even as I saw thousands of young people; I felt incomplete and more saddened because the one I wanted to see was buried.

Phindiwe Nkosi

Felt Sad Quotes #283061
#30. I felt so sad that it felt like my rib cage was collapsing in on itself.

Emery Lord

Felt Sad Quotes #289876
#31. I felt sorry for this little man with the big name as he strutted his stuff, feeding hungrily off the adoration he saw in others' eyes. For all his funniness, he seemed to me very sad.

Sue Ellen Browder

Felt Sad Quotes #309651
#32. I scratched the word HELLO in small letters ... And as names go, it's a good one, isn't it? In spite of all the damage that followed, I still think that's the perfect name for a picture drawn by a man who was trying his best not to be sad anymore - who was trying to remember how it felt to be happy.

Stephen King

Felt Sad Quotes #321466
#33. She had awoken this morning and slipped the amethyst ring off her finger. It had felt liked a blessed release, a final shadow lifted from her heart.

Sarah J. Maas

Felt Sad Quotes #343840
#34. I had such a reputation, and it was sad because I felt like it so didn't represent who I really was.

Jennifer Lopez

Felt Sad Quotes #349277
#35. The days after that, I felt so many different things, sad, angry. Guilty, but for the mostly just numb, like part of me was dead.

Alex Flinn

Felt Sad Quotes #364755
#36. What mattered was stil there. That was what they all felt, and what surprised them all. What mattered couldnt be shaken.

Jodi Lynn Anderson

Felt Sad Quotes #382200
#37. The sky was electric blue above the trees but the yard felt dark. Stephanie went to the edge of the lawn and sat her forehead on her knees. The grass and soil were still warm from the day. She wanted to cry but she couldn't. The feeling was too deep.

Jennifer Egan

Felt Sad Quotes #384870
#38. That's when I said it. That's when I whispered to her, "I'm so sorry." Because inside, I felt so happy and sad at the same time. Sad that it took me so long to get there. But happy that we got there together.

Jay Asher

Felt Sad Quotes #392338
#39. She imagined the universe as a giant sad thing
that consistently felt alienated by itself because it was too large and too sad for anyone
to possibly understand it. Jane felt bad for the universe.
Maybe the universe needed her friends more than she did.

Gabby Bess

Felt Sad Quotes #396580
#40. But how to do feelings? All very well to write "She felt sad", or describe what a sad person might do, but what of sadness itself, how was that put across so it could be felt in all its lowering immediacy? Even harder was the threat, or the confusion of feeling contradictory things.

Ian McEwan

Felt Sad Quotes #418843
#41. He had always thought of solitary diners as sad. But now that he was the solitary diner, he felt rather superior. On account of the book, mostly. Learning something while everyone else was wasting time. Like working at night.

Mark Haddon

Felt Sad Quotes #424328
#42. Long ago you may have given up control of your brain and set it on autopilot either because it just felt like too much work. And it is work! But for me, this work was well worth it for the prospect of not waking up sad every day.

Chris Hardwick

Felt Sad Quotes #433742
#43. Allie watched them and felt a pang of fleeting despair for the sad times of the world. Things had stretched apart There was no glue at the center of things anymore. She had never seen the ocean, never would.

Stephen King

Felt Sad Quotes #473018
#44. Our family has gone through a very difficult time. My husband and I have taken the brunt of it. I've never known what it truly felt like to be so sad and desperate inside.

Tracey Gold

Felt Sad Quotes #494343
#45. The nights he would pick up someone always made him sad. It's hard, too, because Patrick began every night really excited. He always said he felt free. And tonight was his destiny. And things like that. But by the end of that night, he just looked sad.

Stephen Chbosky

Felt Sad Quotes #511515
#46. I didn't feel sad or happy. I didn't feel proud or ashamed. I only felt that in spite of all the things I'd done wrong, in getting myself here, I'd done right.

Cheryl Strayed

Felt Sad Quotes #512927
#47. One of the sad commentaries on the way women are viewed in our society is that we have to fit one category. I have never felt that I had to be in one category.

Faye Wattleton

Felt Sad Quotes #518277
#48. Because we had known the good times, I think my brother and I felt the loss more acutely. My father's waning presence, his chronic absence, his disappearance. Now he was just a memory.

Bryan Cranston

Felt Sad Quotes #520757
#49. From all my dreams where you felt everlasting
to all my clothes your words used to wear,
to the old end, to the new beginning,
you have lost me everywhere.

Khadija Rupa

Felt Sad Quotes #523540
#50. And then I started thinking about my brother. Every time I felt sad, I thought about him.

Anonymous

Felt Sad Quotes #531482
#51. He felt the sad relief of a man who realizes that there is one love at least that no longer hurts him.

Graham Greene

Felt Sad Quotes #539010
#52. When [our secrets] are sad and hurtful secrets, like my father's death, we can in a way honor the hurt by letting ourselves feel it as we never let ourselves feel it before, and then, having felt it, by laying it aside; we can start to take care of ourselves the way we take care of people we love.

Frederick Buechner

Felt Sad Quotes #541294
#53. How have you always felt?" he wondered.
"Loved." Her eyes opened and met his. "Wanted, happy, excited. A little sad."
He felt himself stiffen. "Why sad?"
"Because it always feels like one lifetime with you just isn't enough.

Airicka Phoenix

Felt Sad Quotes #571971
#54. I felt ignorant, self-deprived, incredibly isolated, deeply and profoundly lonely and missing people, absolutely starved for affection, physically weary from alcohol, very depressed about my physical appearance, my weak muscles. Hurt and angry and sad

Augusten Burroughs

Felt Sad Quotes #583563
#55. It almost felt like too much, just by the sad weight of its being so little.

Bob Shacochis

Felt Sad Quotes #585311
#56. He caught my hands as they pulled through my hair, and pulled my body against his, and I felt all the holes in me. My sobs echoed through them like caverns, and I never would have thought empty could be made of such weight.
I couldn't breathe around it.

Cora Carmack

Felt Sad Quotes #599970
#57. There were points in my life where I felt oddly irresistible to women. I'm not in that state now and that makes me sad.

Jack Nicholson

Felt Sad Quotes #601566
#58. Jolly felt salty tears on her lips, and for the first time in her life it occurred to her that sorrow tasted exactly like the sea.

Kai Meyer

Felt Sad Quotes #612728
#59. I didn't know his middle name or his favorite color, but I knew how his thoughts felt caressing my mind. The bright tang of his adrenaline coursing under my skin. The force of his heart, strong and rhythmic and a bit sad, pumping within my own chest.

Vicki Pettersson

Felt Sad Quotes #615330
#60. I looked round the place. The moment of parting had come. I felt sad. The whole thing reminded me of one of those melodramas where they drive chappies out of the old homestead into the snow.
'Good-bye, Jeeves,' I said.
'Good-bye, sir.'
And I staggered out.

P.G. Wodehouse

Felt Sad Quotes #627755
#61. How sad that I felt more of a connection to a fictional character than to a guy in real life.

Allison Van Diepen

Felt Sad Quotes #632085
#62. I felt very sad and a tiny bit happy at the exact same time, kind

R.J. Palacio

Felt Sad Quotes #641642
#63. He longed to become Real, to know what it felt like; and yet the idea of growing shabby and losing his eyes and whiskers was rather sad. He wished that he could become it without these

Margery Williams

Felt Sad Quotes #644593
#64. Dust balls lined the steps. A half-eaten sandwich sat atop the landing where someone had felt too sad to finish it.

Jeffrey Eugenides

Felt Sad Quotes #649682
#65. My tears brought no sense of release or relief. Their flight felt like the lightest, coldest touch of a departing lover.

Anne Giardini

Felt Sad Quotes #653517
#66. This sad, extreme example is more common than you might think. I have known daughters who felt tremendous relief when their narcissistic mothers passed away. They feel delivered out from under a huge burden, but guilty about admitting it.

Karyl McBride

Felt Sad Quotes #659190
#67. I have felt terribly from the beginning when I saw the problems and recognized that they would be ongoing. We were hired to put back the contours of the greens as closely as possible to George Thomas's designs and were real proud of what we did. It's a sad situation now.

Ben Crenshaw

Felt Sad Quotes #714194
#68. She felt happy these days, yet there was always an undercurrent of sadness just below the surface

Diane Chamberlain

Felt Sad Quotes #719683
#69. I was sad to leave Europe in 1890, after my student days in Germany ... But then, once back in New York, I experienced an intense longing for Europe, for its vital tradition of music, theatre, art, craftsmanship ... I felt bewildered and lonely. How was I to use myself?

Alfred Stieglitz

Felt Sad Quotes #727589
#70. A sad sight to behold! Little boys of twelve years, prematurely old, sucking cigars! I felt that if I were their mothers I should whip them and send them to bed. Such children should be dealt with as

John R. Stilgoe

Felt Sad Quotes #727906
#71. And then I say to myself that we should believe in that which we felt when we were strong and happy rather than in that which we feel when we are sick and sad. Do you not think, Judith, that one is more truly oneself in times of joy than in times of sorrow?

Elizabeth Goudge

Felt Sad Quotes #738509
#72. I felt sad because everyday I had to wake up early to practice before going to school. After school I had to go back to tennis again, and then after tennis I had homework. I didn't have time to play.

Li Na

Felt Sad Quotes #762886
#73. You know, the sad thing of post-9/11, which was of course horrific, was that the city in which I felt completely at home for two decades, suddenly people like us - brown people - were looked at as the 'Others.'

Mira Nair

Felt Sad Quotes #784661
#74. I had no cause to be happy. I felt sad with a good reason, and it wouldn't be right to mess with that feeling. I thought I ought to just stay sad for a while.

Natalie Standiford

Felt Sad Quotes #815604
#75. And, like a fool, she kissed him back. Kissed him a way that would leave no doubt about the way she felt about him. Kissed him because she knew the chances were slim she'd have very many kisses like that in her lifetime.
Which is a sad thing when you're only seventeen.

Cinda Williams Chima

Felt Sad Quotes #829337
#76. I was never interested in what everybody else was interested in. I was very interiorized. I always felt kind of sad.

Tim Burton

Felt Sad Quotes #844981
#77. The inside jokes weren't jokes anymore. They had become stories. Nobody brought up the bad names or the bad times. And nobody felt sad as long as we could postpone tomorrow with more nostalgia.

Stephen Chbosky

Felt Sad Quotes #855709
#78. Everything anyone has ever felt
is a variation of 'sad' or 'happy' or 'angry'
everyone feels the same things over and over again

Mira Gonzalez

Felt Sad Quotes #871192
#79. It was going to be a long, dark night but not quite as dark as it was in the abyss of his heart where there was nothing but hollowness, yet it felt heavy, almost as if someone still resided there.

Faraaz Kazi

Felt Sad Quotes #904789
#80. When I got famous, all of a sudden guys wouldn't look at me. Period. So I felt a little sad, a little frustrated. Like, What's going on here? I've never been prettier in my life and I'm so cool and successful.

Meghan Trainor

Felt Sad Quotes #916137
#81. Edmund felt despair eating away at his victory. "Why is the world like this?" He shivered. "Why does it feel so cold, so hard?"
A smile flickered on John's face, one that was neither happy nor sad. "What would be the worth of goodness, in a world that always rewarded it?

Matthew Jobin

Felt Sad Quotes #917451
#82. And suddenly it was all too much for him. He felt sad and misplaced, with the abrupt, overwhelming, dizzying sadness that comes over people in countries not their own, which has none of the richness of feeling that usually comes with sadness but is rather a kind of exhaustion.

Caleb Crain

Felt Sad Quotes #946797
#83. Getting a book published made me feel a little bit sad. I felt driven by the need to write a book, rather than the need to write. I needed to figure out what was important to me as a writer.

Nicole Krauss

Felt Sad Quotes #965743
#84. Now I lay down on this tree and felt a lonely sadness coming over me in waves. Slow tears ran from my eyes and trickled into my ears. I thought, 'I even cry in a humble, common way, with tears flowing into my ears.' But the humble, common tears had relieved me[ ... ]

Barbara Comyns

Felt Sad Quotes #973498
#85. That was how it always was with Colleen: No matter how sad she felt, there was always this little bit of hope - like a speck of glitter caught in your eyelash - that never went away, no matter what.

Lauren Tarshis

Felt Sad Quotes #978253
#86. If you were feeling sad right now and you recall a sad - or, a very happy memory from the past, it will be tinged with more sadness based on your current feeling. So we felt like that was actually on solid scientific ground .

Pete Docter

Felt Sad Quotes #1003172
#87. The truth was that in the end, sad felt better than rage - a lot better. But rage came easier. Sad felt like the world was ending. (150)

Monica Holloway

Felt Sad Quotes #1031822
#88. Never say you understand someone's pain if you haven't felt the same, because not only would you sound mocking but also ignorant.

Lolah Runda

Felt Sad Quotes #1044738
#89. Solyndra will be remembered in the history books as a sad hallmark of a newly installed administration that felt it was above the rules, lusting for positive headlines rather than focused on delivering results.

Fred Upton

Felt Sad Quotes #1045681
#90. My life was being planned in sentences that started with 'We' instead of 'I', yet it felt like the most natural transition in the world.

Heather Demetrios

Felt Sad Quotes #1050205
#91. Then, into the silence, over the top of everything, came a long, sad howl. For a second it felt like the sound had come from inside me. Like the world had taken everything I was feeling and turned it into a sound.

Carol Rifka Brunt

Felt Sad Quotes #1101944
#92. My belief in ghosts swings with the wind. But my belief that the cemetery felt happy and not sad - I've never changed my mind about that.

Carol Plum-Ucci

Felt Sad Quotes #1129388
#93. there was a time I was dark, sad and a recluse
I did not understand why I felt like I did.Then my life changed.
I was diagnosed and suddenly my world made sense.

Tina J. Richardson

Felt Sad Quotes #1148360
#94. At that moment not a single sad thought entered my mind; I forgot my privation and felt soothed by the sight of the harbour, which lay there lovely and peaceful in the semi-darkness.

Knut Hamsun

Felt Sad Quotes #1185756
#95. She found it easier to forgive than Ove did. Forgive God and the universe and everything. Ove got angry instead. Maybe because he felt someone had to be angry on her behalf, when everything that was evil seemed to assail the only person he'd ever met who didn't deserve it.

Fredrik Backman

Felt Sad Quotes #1213911
#96. You're really doing well, it's the satisfaction you get from school, it's love," Lila said to me, and I felt that she was a little sad.

Elena Ferrante

Felt Sad Quotes #1232146
#97. This was what real grief felt like - she had never truly felt it before. All the times she had been sad, all the times she had wept in her life, all the glooms and melancholies were merely moods, mere passing whims. Grief was a different thing altogether.

Dan Chaon

Felt Sad Quotes #1248711
#98. I've been on Prozac for 12 years and I'm off it now. I know what it feels like to be excited and sad again. I haven't felt like this in 12 years; I'm like a giddy little kid.

Jonathan Davis

Felt Sad Quotes #1252044
#99. He felt as if his heart had dried up. I needed her he thought. I needed someone like her to fill the void inside me. But I wasn't able to fill the void inside her. Until the bitter end, the emptiness inside her was hers alone.

Haruki Murakami

Felt Sad Quotes #1254262
#100. A feeling is not bottomless. once felt all the way through,a great peace greets you there

Alanis Morissette

Felt Sad Quotes #1284584

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