Sad Lyrics Quotes

#1. It was such a sweet, sad song with such sweet, sad lyrics. Old-fashioned a little, but also timeless.

Gabrielle Zevin

#2. You think you're lost but you're not lost on your own. You're not alone. I will stand by you, I will help you through when you've done all you can do.
If you can't cope, I will dry your eyes
I will fight your fight, I will hold you tight and I wont let go

Rascal Flatts

#3. The man who prays is the one who thinks that god has arranged matters all wrong, but who also thinks that he can instruct god how to put them right.

Christopher Hitchens

#4. I am a Christian and of course what I write will be from that essential viewpoint.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#5. When you're happy,you enjoy the music.But,when you're sad,you understand the lyrics.

Eljumar Alesna

#6. Because you let our love just fall apart
You no longer have my heart

Boyz II Men

#7. An old campaigner, he did not speak until we were on the sidewalk. "What's up?" "Jem's got the look-arounds," an affliction Calpurnia said all boys caught at his age.

Harper Lee

#8. I'm not really good at writing sad sappy ballads. In terms of the lyrics not matching the vibe of the music, that's kind of the way my career has gone; everyone is a little confused about it all the time.

Mac DeMarco

#9. And I became a non-person in the Boston fog, and Lufthansa put me in a limousine with other non-persons and sent us to a motel for a non-night.

Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

#10. I love the sad songs with their maudlin, self-deprecating, almost funny lyrics. As an Englishman, they make a lot of sense.

Teddy Thompson

#11. Maybe I'd see how you could be so certain that we had no chance...at all.

Jason Robert Brown

#12. The best part of my life is having my kids.

William Perry

#13. We often fail to recognize our greatest godsend simply because it comes bundled in suffering.

Jessica Dotta

#14. There has always been this narrator in me - I loved ideas, and part of the great love affair I would have with ideas consisted of talking about them.

Jason Silva

#15. [William Eggleston] sets forth what makes up our ordinary world. What is there, however strange, can be accepted without question; familiarity will be what overwhelms us.

Eudora Welty

#16. If you get into danger, either you perish or you escape.

Halldor Laxness

#17. Gilmartins voice is angelic, but her lyrical subjects are often serious and slightly sad. The conflict of the beauty of her voice and the sadness of her lyrics makes for great music!

Jeff Belanger

#18. I called to wish you an unhappy birthday because you're evil and you lie and if you should die I may feel slightly sad, but I won't cry.

Morrissey

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

Taylor Swift

#20. I find it kind of funny. I find it kind of sad. The dreams in which I'm dying are the best I've ever had.

Tears For Fears

#21. The pattern's laid out on the bed
With dozens of colors of thread
But you've got the needle
I guess that's the point in the end

Amanda Palmer

#22. A great part of life consists of contemplating what we cannot cure.

Robert Louis Stevenson

#23. I don't like silk underwear. They don't do the job, you know?

Matt LeBlanc

#24. When I write, it is always the melody that comes first, and it just happens to be the case that the most beautiful tunes are sad, and the lyrics follow the mood of the melody.

Francoise Hardy

#25. We aren't born for ourselves alone. You have to take care of other people.

Kass Morgan

#26. People don't really care about lyrics anymore. It's kinda really sad, like they'll listen to something musically and has a really cool beat down or something, that's great, that's good enough; but the message is the most important thing.

Roger Miret

#27. Worst music ever sells millions. The worst music with the shittiest lyrics. The fact is that they pay radio stations to put it on the radio, then you've heard it a million times when you're driving from your shitty job to your shitty house. It's indoctrination, it's sad.

Sia Furler

#28. You can plan on a change in the weather and time, but I never planned on you changing you mind.

Taylor Swift

#29. When you are happy, you enjoy music, when you are sad, you understand lyrics

Frank Ocean

#30. To begin, this thing he calls "homoeomeria" - take bones: you see, they're made of little bones, 835 wee, tiny ones; and from wee, tiny guts, guts are created; and blood comes into being when lots of little drops of blood foregather.

Titus Lucretius Carus

#31. When I write lyrics, it's only when I'm angry or hurt or sad. So lyrically it's never really easy going. And the music is always really intense.

Henry Rollins

#32. I always hated...all sad songs. I thought they made happy people miserable. Now I think I understand them better. Bards write them because they can't hold them back. Sadness has got to flow out or it gets stuck and turns bitter.

Jonathan Renshaw

#33. The great source of pleasure is variety.

Samuel Johnson

#34. Funny how a beautiful song could tell such a sad story

Sarah Dessen