Most Saddening Quotes

#1. Perhaps he finds beauty saddening
I do myself sometimes. Once when I was quite little I asked father why this was and he explained that it was due to our knowledge of beauty's evanescence, which reminds us that we ourselves shall die.

Dodie Smith I Capture The Castle

#2. One of my greatest pleasures in writing has come from the thought that perhaps my work might annoy someone of comfortably pretentious position. Then comes the saddening realization that such people rarely read.

John Kenneth Galbraith

#3. A picture neither saddening nor gladdening I fear; neither beautiful nor ugly.

Jean Cocteau

#4. I am a sensitive person, so it is actually saddening to learn that these poverty-stricken families are most of the time mistreated or looked down upon. Help the poor, like how you would want to be helped if you were in their position.

Hillary Clinton

#5. Increasing church membership is not the ultimate goal of Christians

Sunday Adelaja

#6. And too much informayshun can drive a man mad. Too much informayshun becomes just Noise. And it never, never stops.

Patrick Ness

#7. It is invariably saddening to look through new eyes at things upon which you have expended your own powers of adjustment.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#8. It is astounding to find that the belly of every black and evil thing is as white as snow. And it is saddening to discover how the concealed parts of angels are leporous.

John Steinbeck

#9. A life is similar to a book. Some chapters are boring,a few emotional, a handful memorable,others saddening,one or two thoughtful and many full of smiles.

Elizabeth Adeniyi

#10. Philippine President Joseph Estrada said he was saddened by the conviction. It's very unfortunate and what happened is saddening, ... If he really is innocent, then the day will come that his name will be cleared.

Joseph Estrada

#11. All I hope for is one moment of rational thought and a shot at action before I'm lost to a great saddening madness, pithed at the hands of my own stumbling biology.

[Johnny Truant]

Mark Z. Danielewski

#12. Cormorant fishing:
How stirring,
How saddening

Basho Matsuo

#13. I am a dolt of a man, easily made happy or even stupidly happy almost without cause and left alone I am mostly content.

Charles Bukowski

#14. And at once he sacrificed everything to it, if it can be said we ever sacrifice anything save what we know we can never attain, or what some secret wisdom tells us it would be uncomfortable or saddening to possess.

Thornton Wilder

#15. Communism...muat of necessity be a saddening process for anyone who has ever tasted the intellectual pleasures of the world we live in.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#16. When we speak of ancient times, Rud Elalle, we find in our words things far nearer to hand, and all those emotions we imagined new, blazing with our youth, we find to be ancient beyond imagining.

Steven Erikson

#17. Paint here no draped despairs, no saddening clouds Where the soul rests, proclaims eternity. But let the wrong cry out as raw as wounds This Time forgets and never heals, far less transcends.

Stephen Spender

#18. He lived decades ago,
she lives at the moment.
A very saddening reality for her.

S G

#19. There's no respect for older people at all today, and that's saddening. Look at the way crime against older people has risen! You know, there's no calling people 'Mr' or 'Mrs' now, they just call you, and it's all 'fuck off' and the likes of.

Stephen Richards

#20. The single most frustrating and saddening aspect of human life is its shocking brevity.

Sean DeLauder

#21. I know of nothing uglier or more saddening than a machine-flailed hedge. It speaks of the disdain of nature and craft that still dominates our agriculture.

Roger Deakin

#22. To happy folkAll heaviest words no more of meaning bearThan far-off bells saddening the Summer air.

William Morris

#23. The tears stream down my cheeks from my unblinking eyes. What makes me weep so? There is nothing saddening here. Perhaps it is liquefied brain.

Samuel Beckett

#24. It is one of the most saddening things in life that, try as we may, we can never be certain of making people happy, whereas we can almost always be certain of making them unhappy.

Thomas Huxley

#25. Moral discipline is the consistent exercise of agency to choose the right because it is right, even when it is hard.

D. Todd Christofferson