Sad Lines Quotes

#1. [When I die], I will decidedly not be regretting missed opportunities for a good time. My regrets will be more along the lines of a sad list of people hurt, people let down, assets wasted and advantages squandered.

Anthony Bourdain

#2. The lines of her face, turned up to the sky, would have broken your heart.

Tana French

#3. It's a good story,' he said. He even grinned at me. 'I'll tell you.'
'Please,' I said.
And then he did.

Hanya Yanagihara

#4. All the birds who were never born, all the songs that were never sung and so can only exist in the imagination.
And this one is Teddy's.

Kate Atkinson

#5. I really enjoyed hanging out with some of the teachers. This one chemistry teacher, she liked hanging out. I liked making explosives. We would stay after school and blow things up.

Maya Lin

#6. Lines are for people who are sad and pathetic. Let's just fuck.

Suzanne Wright

#7. You're an expert at sorry and keeping the lines blurry

Taylor Swift

#8. You read between the wrong lines.

Christina Strigas

#9. The fresh complexion of former days was gone. A mortal pallor covered those features, which he had known so charming and so gentle, and sorrow had furrowed them into pitiless lines and traced dark and unspeakably sad shadows under her eyes.

Gaston Leroux

#10. It is sad because you would like to believe that everyone is unique and then they disappoint you every time by being exactly the same, asking for the same things, reciting the exact same lines as though they have been handed a script.

David Sedaris

#11. Retired soldiers are the worst sufferers when they engage in financial operations. I have found that their credulity far exceeds that of widows--and that is saying a good deal.

Agatha Christie

#12. I know so many people who actually just watch television on their computers now and don't even really watch their TV anymore.

Busy Philipps

#13. He knew these last lines by heart and mouthed them now in the darkness. My reason for life. Not living, but life. That was the touch. And she was his reason for life, and why he must survive.

Ian McEwan

#14. My beauty secret is to try to keep my heart as open and happy as I can, because it really makes the sad lines on my face look better.

Lea Thompson

#15. Here we are, alone again. It's all so slow, so heavy, so sad. . . I'll be old soon. Then at last it will be over. So many people have come into my room. They've talked. They haven't said much. They've gone away. They've grown old, wretched, sluggish, each in some corner of the world.

Louis-Ferdinand Celine

#16. This is America ... where every adult shall have the full and inalienable right to eat her young

Dennis Lehane

#17. I admire my mother for being a single mum. It's ridiculously hard.

Holliday Grainger