Top 100 Most Saddest Sayings
#1. I often wonder, if those that smile the most, are the most saddest people in the world.
Anthony Liccione
#2. Some people come into your life at the right time for the most intense reasons and then some leave your life at the perfect time for the most saddest of reasons, time decides who you meet & you decide who stays.
Nikki Rowe
#3. The dragon lifted his head and regarded her with those eerie eyes. "The princess came," he said in the saddest tone she'd ever heard.
Megan Frampton
#4. I came to see that what constitutes strength is not just a muscle or will. It can also include the most desperate vulnerability, the saddest heartache, the lightest, sweetest laughter.
Brenda Shaughnessy
#5. The trend of offering individualized education plans, curricula, and lessons is going to help students tremendously. "Teaching to the middle" is one of the saddest concepts I've ever heard about.
Mike Lee
#7. A withered maple leaf has left its branch and is falling to the ground; its movements resemble those of a butterfly in flight. Isn't it strange? The saddest and deadest of things is yet so like the gayest and most vital of creatures?
Ivan Turgenev
#8. The saddest thing about ephemerals was that their little lives rarely held time enough for love.
Robert A. Heinlein
#9. The saddest thing is there won't be anyone to miss us when we're gone. No family, no friends, no one waiting at home."
"It's better that way," I said. "It'll be easier for me, knowing my death doesn't add to anyone's pain."
"If you can't give anyone pain, then you can't give them joy either.
Jennifer A. Nielsen
#10. Considered in its entirety, psychoanalysis won't do. It is an end product, moreover, like a dinosaur or a zeppelin; no better theory can ever be erected on its ruins, which will remain for ever one of the saddest and strangest of all landmarks in the history of twentieth century thought.
Peter Medawar
#11. If only ... the saddest words in the English language.
Kristan Higgins
#12. And they can't understand, what hurts more - Missing the other person, or pretending not to.
Khadija Rupa
#13. The saddest thing is that every love has an unhappy ending, and all the more unhappy in proportion to how divinely it began, with what wings it first took flight.
Charles Baudelaire
#14. Your hope is the most beautiful and the saddest in the world.
Naomi Benaron
#15. My mother, poor fish,
wanting to be happy, beaten two or three times a
week, telling me to be happy: "Henry, smile!
why don't you ever smile?"
and then she would smile, to show me how, and it was the
saddest smile I ever saw
Charles Bukowski
#16. Two of the saddest words in the English language are, 'What party?' And L.A. is the 'What party?' capital of the world.
Carrie Fisher
#17. I'm so jealous," she whispered, and he blinked. "Of what?" Her head fell back on the pillow, and she stared up at the ceiling with the saddest eyes he'd ever seen. "You're so alive, Lore. There's fire in you. A will to live, when all I want is to be done with this life.
Larissa Ione
#18. Saddest of all God's creatures in the world is the religious person who has disciplined himself to outward obedience but who has no inward love to God.
Walter Chantry
#19. The saddest thing is an old bag lady, freezing to death in the snow on Christmas Eve, and the last thing she sees is a family in a nice warm diner getting beheaded by the Taliban.
Chris Onstad
#20. What made Olive the saddest about the Gardners was that everyone wanted to be enshrined in someone's memory. It was the only way of living on after death, really: in the minds of loved ones. Memories were the only things that made aging bearable, a way of reverting to better, simpler days.
Andrea Lochen
#21. You may glory in a team triumphant, but you fall in love with a team in defeat. Losing after great striving is the story of man, who was born to sorrow, whose sweetest songs tell of saddest thought, and who, if he is a hero, does nothing in life as becomingly as leaving it.
Roger Kahn
#22. I thought he was the saddest person I had ever met, in those moments when I glimpsed him staring out the window.
Jojo Moyes
#23. The saddest revelation I've had in my life is that my parents are people. Sad, human people.
Amy Schumer
#24. The saddest day in Pixar history was when some guy said 'get Larry the Cable Guy on the phone.
Andy Kindler
#25. The thing about the human race is, It turns up against everything or everyone that it loses its faith and belief on. And the saddest thing to witness is, Most of it have lost its faith towards humanity.
Akshay Vasu
#26. May the saddest day of your future be no worse than the happiest day of your past. May your hands be forever clasped in friendship, and your hearts joined forever in love. To the bride and groom.
Tracy Brogan
#27. The end of a marriage has got to be one of the saddest events one can experience. I've heard that the pain [of divorce] is second only to an actual death in the family, and that sounds about right.
Danica McKellar
#28. You know, I think the people I feel saddest for are the ones who once knew what profoundness was, but who lost or became numb to the sensation of wonder, who felt their emotions floating away and just didn't care. I guess that's what's scariest: not caring about the loss.
Douglas Coupland
#29. I think the biggest, saddest thing that happens in our lives is that we just don't embrace the things that could make it better because they don't seem to make it better at any given moment or we can't decide how to get across the aisle to that person.
Adam Duritz
#30. Being a mother must be the saddest yet the most hopeful thing in the world, falling into a love that, once started, would never end.
Yiyun Li
#31. Have you ever noticed, the saddest person has the most beautiful smile
Kid Cudi
#32. The three saddest things are the ill wanting to be well, the poor wanting to be rich, and the constant traveler saying 'anywhere but here'.
E. E. Cummings
#33. perhaps the saddest of all
are those who live waiting
for someone they're not
sure exists
Rupi Kaur
#34. The literature of menopause is the saddest, the most awful, and the most medical of all genres. You're sleepless, you're anxious, you're fat, you're depressed - and the advice is always the same: take more walks, eat some kale, and drink lots of water. It didn't help.
Sandra Tsing Loh
#35. The saddest country I went to was Romania, years ago, during Ceausescu's rule.
Christopher Lee
#36. I actually started off majoring in computer science, but I knew right away I wasn't going to stay with it. It was because I had this one professor who was the loneliest, saddest man I've ever known. He was a programmer, and I knew that I didn't want to do whatever he did.
J. Cole
#38. Age does not bring wisdom, Ben, but it does give perspective ... and the saddest sight of all is to see, far behind you, temptations you've resisted.
Robert A. Heinlein
#39. The loneliest person is the kindest, the saddest person smiles brightest because they don't want others to feel the same pain
Anonymous
#40. Of all tales 'tis the saddest
and more sad, Because it makes us smile.
Lord Byron
#41. The saddest day has gleams of light, The darkest wave hath bright foam beneath it. There twinkles o'er the cloudiest night, Some solitary star to cheer it.
Sarah Winnemucca
#42. No tyrant, however evil, has yet lacked ready hands to execute his most abominable will. To read how eagerly men have rushed to serve the despot is the bitterest, the saddest matter of history; it is the saddest sight in our own day.
Richard Jefferies
#43. That was one of the saddest things about people
their most important thoughts and feelings often went unspoken and barely understood.
Alexandra Adornetto
#44. I think the saddest moment in my life just happened two months ago. My old nightclub partner passed away, Phil Erickson down in Atlanta. He - I owe him everything. He put me in the business and taught me about everything I know.
Dick Van Dyke
#45. The saddest failures in life are those that come from not putting forth the power and will to succeed.
Edwin Percy Whipple
#46. Sadness is just happiness turned on its ass - it's all showbiz!
Guy Maddin
#47. The saddest part of a broken heart
Isn't the ending so much as the start
The tragedy starts from the very first spark
Losing your mind for the sake of your heart
Raymond E. Feist
#48. It's twilight. It's the safest time of day for us. The easiest time. But also the saddest, in a way ... the end of another day, the return of the night. Darkness is so predictable, don't you think?
Stephenie Meyer
#49. I don't want anyone else to understand it, because you only understand it when you have been welcomed into a club only the saddest people can enter. The cost of admission is the death of your loved one at the hands of someone else.
Dave Cullen
#50. While she cut the mushrooms, she cried more than she had at the grave, the most so far, because she found the saddest thing of all to be the simple truth of her capacity to move on.
Aimee Bender
#51. Writing this, I'm reminded that until I was quite old I too adhered to the romantic cult of madness. I got over it, thank God. Experience has taught me that this particular form of romanticism is pure stupidity, and that madness is the saddest, most dismal thing on earth.
Emmanuel Carrere
#52. What did the poet say? That the saddest words of tongue or pen were what might have been?
Charles Todd
#53. The idea of regretting not doing this seemed insane to me. Sitting in the corner at a bar at age 60, saying: 'I could've been Bond. Buy me a drink.' That's the saddest place I could be. At least now at 60 I can say: 'I was Bond. Now buy me a drink.'
Daniel Craig
#54. You've the saddest song of any man I've ever known. The
Robin Hobb
#55. The saddest thing about death, whether it's our own or someone we care for, is when the world doesn't stop when we do.
Darnell Lamont Walker
#56. A place that measures change in terms of centuries is the saddest place to live in as far us you are a live.
Auliq Ice
#57. How do you find peace? Many say ... the most cheerful people are the saddest people inside their souls!
Timothy Pina
#58. If they don't talk now, the scar will only harden over time, it will calcify, and then they'll be like strangers who never loved each other, which is the saddest thought of all.
Jenny Han
#59. I'm the happiest the saddest guy in the world can be.
Vincent Gallo
#60. You know the saddest part? Josh and I will never be friends like we were before. Not after all this. That part's just over now. He was my best friend." I
Jenny Han
#61. People cannot stand the saddest truth I know about the very nature of reading and writing imaginative literature, which is that poetry does not teach us how to talk to other people: it teaches us how to talk to ourselves.
Harold Bloom
#62. The saddest face I ever saw on Martin Luther King was at the funeral of the four little girls slain in Birmingham, Alabama.
James A. Forbes
#63. Sheffield had decided, centuries back, that the saddest thing about ephemerals was that their little lives rarely held time enough for love.) "Oh,
Robert A. Heinlein
#64. Bert Williams was the funniest man I ever saw and the saddest man I ever knew.
W.C. Fields
#66. The saddest thing about our tendency to compare ourselves with one another is that it makes us compete with each other.
Renee Swope
#67. I think of the saddest thing I can and then add a sick dog to that. If I think of a sick dog from the beginning, I just stop there.
Sufjan Stevens
#68. The saddest thing is a retarded man who is crying and promising a broken egg that it will still be a chicken some day.
And that they'll play together in a field when it gets better.
Chris Onstad
#69. The more one needs God the more perfect he is. To need God is nothing to be ashamed of but is perfection itself. It is the saddest thing in the world if a human being goes through life without discovering that he needs God!
Soren Kierkegaard
#70. The greatest day of my life was the day I married Mrs. Ford.
Henry Ford
#71. A mother is only as happy as her saddest child.
Phil McGraw
#72. I am happy, thats just the saddest lie
Kid Cudi
#73. Robin Sharma: "One of the saddest things in life is to get to the end and look back in regret, knowing that you could have been, done, and had so much more.
Hal Elrod
#75. The saddest part about this whole thing is that while I was in there begging you to stay, I didn't fucking realize you were already gone.
Gail McHugh
#76. And he every man is the arbiter of his own virtues but let no man prescribe for another mans wellbeing and i temporary and he was the saddest word of all there is nothing else in the world of all there is nothing else in the world its not despair its not even time
William Faulkner
#77. The saddest songs are written when a person is happy.
Merle Travis
#78. Don't fear failure so much that you refuse to try new things. The saddest summary of a life contains three descriptions: could have, might have, and should have.
Louis E. Boone
#79. Life without love is like a bird without feathers. Life without love is like a butterfly without wings it's the saddest of things.
"In this life I can live without many things love is not on that list
Charles W. Warner
#80. This is the saddest place on Earth," I say.
"Take it from a rat, kid
there are lots of saddest places on Earth.
Chris Lynch
#81. The saddest thing is when a guy is paying so much attention to the world and everything going by that he can't take the time for his own mother.
Evel Knievel
#82. The happiest field in all the harvest is the field of sunflowers at their peak. Drinking the rays and dancing in the breeze. The saddest field is the same field, six weeks later. Drunk on the sun and burnt with shame, they drop their heads to hide their mane.
R.S. Barrington
#83. The saddest thing is a little girl who is told by her own mother and father that she will never be pretty.
And then they open the front door, and on the porch is a little white suitcase, with all of her things in it.
Chris Onstad
#84. You want to believe you're not the saddest person in the world.
Megan Miranda
#85. When the light has fled but the stars have not yet shown themselves. That is the gloaming, the loveliest and saddest hour of the day.
Deanna Raybourn
#86. The saddest people I've ever met in life are the ones who don't care deeply about anything at all. Passion and satisfaction go hand in hand, and without them, any happiness is only temporary, because there's nothing to make it last.
Nicholas Sparks
#87. I had plenty of time,' he said, telling himself that was one of the saddest sentences there is.
Laurence Cosse
#88. I believe that one of the saddest things in the world today is that some people don't have enough food to nourish themselves. It's the 21st century and that's really not acceptable, so if I could do something that would change that I would be really happy.
Izabel Goulart
#89. It was just like Howlin' Wolf. Once you arrive at the point that you understand it, the emotional factor is darker than some of the saddest blues stuff.
Robert Quine
#90. Maggie, I don't read." The combination of these four words create the saddest sentence I'd ever heard.
Brittainy C. Cherry
#91. Even the saddest things can become, once we have made peace with them, a source of wisdom and strength.
Frederick Buechner
#92. Everyone, Pax believed, was more than she or he appeared to be, and one of the saddest things about the human condition was that most people never realized what talents, capacities, and depth they possessed. That Pogo had taken a full measure of himself must be one reason that Bibi so loved him.
Dean Koontz
#93. Two people who were once very close can
without blame
or grand betrayal
become strangers.
perhaps this is the saddest thing in the world.
Warsan Shire
#94. The saddest object in civilization, and to my mind the greatest confession of its failure, is the man who can work, who wants work, and who is not allowed to work.
Robert Louis Stevenson
#95. A man willing to work, and unable to find work, is perhaps the saddest sight that fortune's inequality exhibits under this sun.
Thomas Carlyle
#96. [P]eople who shout joy from the rooftops are often the saddest of all ... (p.24)
Milan Kundera
#97. once said that a mother could only be as happy as her saddest child.
Anne McAneny
#98. Her cry was the saddest sound of orgasm that I had ever heard.
Haruki Murakami
#99. The saddest day in the world will be the one when she stops pretending.
Jodi Picoult
#100. I always thought it was the saddest and most devastating ending. How you could have these enormous dreams that never get met. How without knowing it you could just make yourself smaller over time. I don't want that to happen to me.
Meg Wolitzer