Top 100 Quotes About Saddest
#1. I can't sing. As a singist I am not a success. I am saddest when I sing. So are those who hear me. They are sadder even than I am.
Artemas Ward
#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 fruit of empty hopes is more bitter than the saddest truth.
Angel Wagenstein
#4. The saddest thing in the world is to see a man die wearing the forlorn expression of someone who has failed to fulfill his dreams.
Felix J. Palma
#5. ( ... ) and then I realized there was no one else to call, which was the saddest thing. The only person I really wanted to talk to about Augustus Water's death was Augustus Water.
John Green
#6. you are snakeskin
and i keep shedding you somehow
my mind is forgetting
every exquisite detail
of your face
the letting go has
become the forgetting
which is the most
pleasant and the saddest thing
to have happened
Rupi Kaur
#7. The saddest thing in the world was that human beings, for all their ardent striving and desire, could never achieve physical, emotional, or intellectual perfection. The species was doomed to imperfection; it thrashed forever in despair or denial of that fact.
Dean Koontz
#8. The saddest line you scraped in your diary was not that you cried but those moments when we both shared smile.
Santosh Kalwar
#9. I think the saddest people always try their hardest to make people happy because they know what it's like to feel absolutely worthless and they don't want anyone else to feel like that.
Robin Williams
#10. The girls with prettiest smiles seem to tell saddest stories
Demi Lovato
#11. If only.
You got to admit, standing alone those words are pretty awful, but married together like that, they must be two of the saddest in the English language.
Lesley Kagen
#12. The saddest part of the human race is we're obsessed with this idea of 'us and them,' which is really a no-win situation, whether it's racial, cultural, religious or political.
Dave Matthews
#13. Sam?" Rachel asked. "Do you know you have the saddest sad face ever?
Maggie Stiefvater
#14. Tonight I can write the saddest lines
I loved her, and sometimes she loved me too.
Pablo Neruda
#15. I just want you as you are. Broken. Misunderstood. Jerk. I want the real version, the dark version, the one who made me the saddest I've ever been in my life, but also the happiest." Now was
L.J. Shen
#16. Perhaps the saddest thing to admit is that those who rejected the Cross have to carry it, while those who welcomed it are so often engaged in crucifying others.
Nikolai Berdyaev
#17. But I will say that most comedians are the saddest people I know. That is the biggest paradox to me.
Jean Reno
#18. Our greatest warriors,' Terayama-san said, 'believe that they are already dead. They live as if their lives are over, and so fighting holds no terror for them.'
A Suda-san looked gravely at him. 'That, Terayama-san, is one of the saddest things I have ever heard.
Zoe Marriott
#19. We look before and after,
And pine for what is not;
Our sincerest laughter
With some pain is fraught;
Our sweetest songs are those that tell
Of saddest thought.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
#20. May your happiest days of the past be your saddest days of your future.
Laurence J. Peter
#21. I think you're the saddest person I've ever met. It's like you're drowning in it.
Elizabeth Scott
#22. One of the saddest things in the world is to see a cynical young person.
Maya Angelou
#23. The saddest fact in the world was that you could meet a person who changed your life forever, and they weren't the one you ended up
Brittainy C. Cherry
#24. It really is ironic that the saddest I'd ever been was when I had 'achieved' all the things I had wanted. I was so disgustingly thin, but I was so unhappy.
Lindsey Stirling
#26. It's the most extraordinary and saddest thing, the amount of talent out there not being seen.
Gedde Watanabe
#27. I think one of the saddest things that's happening to literature is that it's getting over-simplified by this diet of simple political ideas.
Arundhati Roy
#28. The cafeteria in the Chicago's Children's Memorial Hospital basement was the saddest place in the world - and forever it shall be - with its grim neon lights and gray tabletops and the diffuse foreboding of those who stepped away from suffering children to have a grilled cheese sandwich.
Aleksandar Hemon
#29. Even if their guilt actually does produce a good action, it will be the saddest good action you'll ever see, and it will be of no use to them because their goal is not to obey, but to feel less guilty, thus nothing about their souls will be reshaped.
Geoffrey Wood
#31. And i temporary and he was the saddest word of all there is nothing else in the world its not despair until time its not even time until it was
William Faulkner
#32. The saddest thing was actually getting fed up with one another. It's like growing up in a family. When you get to a certain age, you want to go off and get your own girl and your own car, split up a bit.
George Harrison
#33. The saddest day of your life is when you decide to sell out, and nobody wants to buy.
Norman Spinrad
#34. I have been one acquainted with the night.
I have walked out in rain - and back in rain.
I have outwalked the furthest city light.
I have looked down the saddest city lane.
I have passed by the watchman on his beat
And dropped my eyes, unwilling to explain.
Robert Frost
#35. As a mother you are only as happy as your saddest child
Beth Moore
#36. This is my saddest story: In grade school, they would have us open our Valentine's cards and read them out loud. I always sent cards to myself because nobody else did.
William Shatner
#37. The saddest things we fail at are fun things we never get to do, so in your busy day be sure to plan fun things too.
Wes Fesler
#38. Perhaps the saddest irony of depression is that suicide happens when the patient gets a little better and can again function sufficiently.
Dick Cavett
#39. I always thought the saddest feeling in life is when you're dancing in a really joyful way and then you hit your head on something.
Lena Dunham
#40. The saddest realization I've had in my life is that my parents are people. Sad, human people. I aged a decade in that moment.
Amy Schumer
#41. I spend the rest of the afternoon trying to explain to Zoe one of the very saddest notions in love and life: sometimes the timing is wrong
and sometimes you realize the heart of the matter way to late in the game.
Emily Giffin
#42. There were a lot of areas we didn't cover that I'm hoping to cover if we do some specials. One is to see more of Patsy's home and her home life, which is just the saddest thing.
Jennifer Saunders
#43. The saddest truth is realising you have fallen madly in love with what can never be.
Michael Faudet
#44. The saddest kind of sad is the sad that tries not to be sad. You know, when sad tries to bite its lip and not cry, and smile and say, "No I'm happy for you"? Thats when it's really sad ...
John Mayer
#45. To be known for one's saddest story is not the road to notoriety anyone would willingly choose.
Michael Dorris
#46. Memory is a rare ghost-raiser. Like a haunted house, its walls are ever echoing to unseen feet. Through the broken casements we watch the flitting shadows of the dead, and the saddest shadows of them all are the shadows of our own dead selves.
Jerome K. Jerome
#48. The saddest feeling is knowing you deserve freedom and still feeling caged.
Janelle Gray
#49. Oh the saddest of sights in a world of sin Is the little lost pup with his tail tucked in.
Arthur Guiterman
#50. The saddest of all failures is that of a soul, with its capabilities and possibilities, failing of life everlasting, and entering upon that night of death upon which morning never dawns.
Herrick Johnson
#51. One of the saddest sentences I know is "I wish I had asked my mother about that." Or my father. Or my grandmother. Or my grandfather. As every parent knows, our children are not as fascinated by our fascinating lives as we are.
William Zinsser
#52. The saddest human experience is to view alone the scenes one has viewed through other eyes - to walk solitary where one has walked in company - to have its particular barbed shaft aimed at one from every stick and stone that mark familiar ways.
Katherine Cecil Thurston
#53. The saddest thing in life is to marry a woman who looks like a cook
and isn't.
Evan Esar
#54. That beautiful day passed just as the saddest ones do, since the most radiant of days has a tomorrow.
Therese De Lisieux
#55. I think the saddest day of my life was when I realized I could beat my Dad at most things, and Bart experienced that at the age of four.
Homer
#56. Saddest of all are the women who were brought up to believe that self-sacrifice is the highest female virtue. They made the sacrifice, often willingly, and they are still waiting for the blessing.
Jeanette
#57. The education of the intellect is a great business; but an unconsecd intellect is the saddest sight on which the sun looks down.
Edwin Chadwick
#58. The melancholy days are come, the saddest of the year, Of wailing winds, and naked woods and meadows brown and sear.
William C. Bryant
#59. What about you? Are you happiest and saddest right now that you've ever been?" "Of course I am." "Why?" "Because nothing makes me happier and nothing makes me sadder than you.
Nicole Krauss
#60. Of all the words of mice and men, the saddest are, It might have been.
Kurt Vonnegut
#61. One of the saddest things about publishing is how quickly it ages what it touches. The frenzy involved in getting books on shelves, and in putting the word out that they're there, moves at a speed that is not the speed of writing, let alone of reading.
Walter Kirn
#62. I pity people who can't find laughter or at least some bit of amusement in the little doings of the day. I believe I could find something ridiculous even in the saddest moment, if necessary. It has nothing to do with being superficial. It's a matter of joy in life.
Sophie Scholl
#63. Donald Trump, an oft-bankrupt make-believe mogul clown with a television show where he pretends to fire America's saddest former celebrities, is one of the Republican Party's most prominent national figures because he is on TV and people have heard of him.
Alex Pareene
#64. Paris was sad. One of the saddest towns: weary of its now-mechanical sensuality, weary of the tension of money, money, money, weary even of resentment and conceit, just weary to death, and still not sufficiently Americanized or Londonized to hide the weariness under a mechanical jig-jig-jig!
D.H. Lawrence
#65. One of the saddest things about dying is that it's the only event in my life I won't be able to write about.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
#67. Don't forget: one of the saddest things in life is wasted talent.
Thomas S. Monson
#68. Life seems terrible and disappointing, so you need to find something you need to make you stick around. Music that makes me happiest is the saddest music, with the most emotional feel.
Josh Klinghoffer
#69. Keep reminding yourself that literature is one of the saddest roads that leads to everything.
Andre Breton
#70. The saddest part about being human is not paying attention. Presence is the gift of life.
Stephen Levine
#71. If only. Those must be the two saddest words in the world.
Mercedes Lackey
#72. the letting go has
become the forgetting
which is the most
pleasant and saddest thing
to have happened
Rupi Kaur
#73. It was the truest, purest, saddest thing she had ever heard spoken. It was like hearing gospel for the first time, how it shocked you, how it made you afraid because you thought no one could see inside you.
Sarah Addison Allen
#74. My father always said, 'The saddest thing in life is wasted talent.'
Chazz Palminteri
#75. It would be the saddest thing to me, princess. To walk separately from you, when the ground will let us go as we always did. Beatrice
Kazuo Ishiguro
#76. The saddest task for the ironist is having to tell the listener that it's a joke, because of course it is never a joke.
Paul Theroux
#77. Even on the saddest night
in times of servitude
there is always someone who resists
there is always someone who says no.
Manuel Alegre
#78. She liked to hear people tell stories. The saddest ones were the best. She wondered if that meant anything at all.
Marilynne Robinson
#80. Did you ever see a one eyed woman cry? You know the saddest thing about the woman, the tears don't come out just one eye.
Gary B.B. Coleman
#81. Somehow, that fact - that sometimes things do just happen - seemed like it might be the scariest and saddest truth of all.
Ali Benjamin
#82. I watched her on the stand in that unfamiliar suit and thought of the soft hairs at the back of her neck, warm and smelling of the sun, and it seemed an impossible thing to me, it seemed the vastest and saddest miracle of my life: I touched her hair, once.
Tana French
#83. What was the lifespan of these improbable loves? An hour. A week. A few months at best. The end was a natural thing, like the seasons, like getting older, fruit turning. That was the saddest part - there was no one to blame and no way to reverse
Miranda July
#84. I saw the horrible way that people could treat each other. That may be the saddest thing of all. I saw greed and anger and murder and a total lack of concern for human life. It was a wicked side of the human soul that I saw ... and it saddened me to know that such a dark place existed.
D.J. MacHale
#85. The human soul finds its saddest imprisonment when it is helpless in the presence of cruelty, when it cannot right a wrong. It finds its highest freedom when it can secure justice to others.
Jenkin Lloyd Jones
#86. I noticed that in a corner, across from where they ate with such innocent relish, sitting forlorn and abandoned, was the ghost of their son. He had lost both of his arms, one side of his face was squashed, and both his eyes had burst. He had bluish wings. He was the saddest ghost in the house.
Ben Okri
#87. The saddest moment as Prime Minister is writing letters to families who have lost loved ones in Afghanistan or those who we have tried to help in hostage situations but it hasn't worked out.
David Cameron
#88. There are no happy endings.
Endings are the saddest part,
So just give me a happy middle
And a very happy start.
Shel Silverstein
#89. What, then, of the liberated slaves and Indians? The saddest part of the story and perhaps the most revealing is that no one bothered to say. None of the accounts either of Drake's voyage or of the Roanoke colony mentions what became of them.
Edmund S. Morgan
#90. Strange as it may seem, the most ludicrous lines I ever wrote have been written in the saddest mood.
William Cowper
#91. I made a series of wrong decisions about moderately recent books, and I've sold the rights to studios for ridiculous amounts of money and the films have never been made. That's the saddest thing of all, because they're locked up and no one else can make them.
John Le Carre
#93. An artist's saddest secrets are those that have to do with his artistry.
Willa Cather
#94. The saddest thing about selling out is just how cheaply most of us do it for.
James Bernard Frost
#96. She falters, then gather up the weeds of her thoughts and offers me the saddest, truest bouquet.
Jodi Picoult
#97. The saddest part of life will never be about you, but about someone else's death. The
Dinah McCall
#98. The saddest thing about love, Joe, is that not only the love cannot last forever, but even the heartbreak is soon forgotten.
William Faulkner
#99. D'Artagnan, be it remembered, was only twenty years old, and at that age sleep has its imprescriptible rights which it imperiously insists upon, even with the saddest hearts.
Alexandre Dumas
#100. The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.
Isaac Asimov
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