Ironic Sad Quotes

#1. Till morning dawned I was tossed on a buoyant but unquiet sea, where billows of trouble rolled under surges of joy.

Charlotte Bronte

#2. I will not talk of my own happiness,' said he, 'great as it is, for I think only of yours. Compared with you, who has the right to be happy?

Jane Austen

#3. The reason so few people are successful is no one has yet found a way for someone to sit down and slide uphill.

W. Clement Stone

#4. Dream big!
But not so big that it becomes a mess, and you may never reach reality.

Hasil Paudyal

#5. He held the door open for me and I walked past him, leaving my conscience on the porch. It curled up next to my principles.

Janice Hardy

#6. When I said there was only one Judy Dench, I was, of course, referring to myself.

Carl Barat

#7. A clear stream, a long horizon, a forest wilderness and open sky - these are man's most ancient possessions. In a modern society, they are his most priceless.

Lyndon B. Johnson

#8. I always found it so ironic, how the people from the past would do anything to see what happened everywhere else in the world that they lost so much of their own life watching this little screen.

Silje Jensen

#9. You know something is wrong when the government declares opening someone else's mail is a felony but your internet activity is fair game for data collecting.

E.A. Bucchianeri

#10. Maggie Smith has a unique sense of comedy, based on a somewhat ironic view of real life, making it both funnier and more sad. But perhaps her greatest ability, or at least the one that most intrigues me, is how she can convey deep and powerful emotion without a trace of sentimentality.

Julian Fellowes

#11. Mind delineates experience, and through the filter of mind, experience becomes something else; it becomes knowledge in tantra.

Frederick Lenz

#12. I do not believe writers should read reviews of their own books, and I do not. If one is not careful one is soon writing to please reviewers and not their audience or themselves.

Louis L'Amour

#13. It's a sad day when you count a man lucky for only losing a left hand and part of his ass.

Dean M. Cole

#14. Today, we have got more excuses from the government.

Tony Abbott

#15. From all aspects of human perception, you truly are your brain.

Abhijit Naskar

#16. You have to carry the fire.

Cormac McCarthy

#17. It is much easier to put existing resources to better use, than to develop resources where they do not exist.

George Soros

#18. The biggest challenge for a man is to attain the wisdom of 80 years of age in youth!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#19. I think coldness is chic among writers, and particularly ironic coldness. What is absolutely not allowable is sadness. People will do anything rather than to acknowledge that they are sad.

Mary Gordon

#20. I wanted to tell him that you can meet someone and they can change your life forever, even if you have only known him for a short while, that when you leave, you're a different person than before you met him ... and I undertstand that because of meeting Deni.

Heidi R. Kling

#21. If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
And treat those two impostors just the same.

Rudyard Kipling

#22. Further to this, Ove has the cat's resentful stares to contend with. Something in its eyes reminds him of the way Sonja used to look at him.

Fredrik Backman