Top 100 Sad Quotes
#1. The history of ethics is a sad tale of wonderful ideals that nobody can live up to.
Yuval Noah Harari
#2. 'm really proud of 'Sad, Sad World' because it manages to state a very complex paradox of an emotion that I experienced when I had children, which is this great happiness and this great intensity, but with that intensity comes a deeper understanding of the world.
Jamie Cullum
#3. Sauvage, sad, silent,
as timid as the sylvan doe,
in her own family
she seemed a strangeling.
Alexander Pushkin
#4. Hearing often-times the still, sad music of humanity, nor harsh nor grating, though of ample power to chasten and subdue.
William Wordsworth
#5. Isn't that sad? It's like the whole world has to walk around with name tags on so we can all feel more comfortable? I guess things are less scary if you know what to call them.
Julie Murphy
#6. It's a very independent male creature that lives alone, and a lot of independent females who live alone. It's all very sad but it's much easier for both sexes to do it this way nowadays.
Bette Davis
#7. Tell them who she was? That she made me laugh when I was sad? That she loved her dogs?
C.D. Reiss
#8. 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
#9. The room seemed to have grown darker, as if all the sad light of the cloudy evening had taken refuge on her forehead.
Joseph Conrad
#10. If it is a glance about me, I will die. We are amused by the sad chubby girl who is clearly enchanted by our hipster beauty.
Becky Albertalli
#11. It is not the end of joy that makes old age so sad, but the end of hope.
Jean Paul
#12. Do not trap yourself into an owl's hooting sound
where sad nights linger through the blackness of a hound
Munia Khan
#13. Jesus changes our history from a random series of sad incidents and accidents into a constant opportunity for a change of heart.
Henri J.M. Nouwen
#14. I'm not a sad person, upset the whole time, but I seem to be quite emotional.
Freddie Highmore
#15. One can't stay sad very long in such an interesting world.
L.M. Montgomery
#16. The sad thing is, people don't want to believe that the person they're in love with is out of his mind, drinking and using, so if you give them even half an excuse, they're going to want to believe it.
Anthony Kiedis
#17. It's a sad day when Myrnin is the safe choice, she thought. Apparently, he thought so, too, because he gave her a long, troubled look before pressing his thumb to a glass plate inside the room and opening the door.
Rachel Caine
#18. And now I have to stop. Because every time I remember this, I have to cry a little by myself. I don't know why something that made me so happy then feels so sad now. Maybe that is the way it is with the best memories.
Amy Tan
#19. Our windows were dark. The entrance was empty. I walked close to the left wall when I entered, but it was empty: just the stairs curving up into shadows echoes of feet in the sad generations like light dust upon the shadows, my feet waking them like dust, lightly to settle again. I
William Faulkner
#20. All things that have been in this world, all things that are or will be in it, have to vanish: we have our sad farewell to give them.
Thomas Carlyle
#21. If you look at suicides, most of them are connected to depression. And the mental health system just fails them. It's so sad. We know what to do. We just don't do it.
Rosalynn Carter
#22. 'EastEnders' has been wonderful to me and it's no secret that it changed my life all of those years ago. I'll be so sad to leave Peggy behind; she's such a wonderful character to play. I have had the pleasure of working with a marvelous cast and crew and have made many lasting good friends.
Barbara Windsor
#23. The thing that I hate is that Nicholas Kristof style of writing where it's like, "I saw the poor, they made me so sad. What can I do about sadness? I am so brave." It's just like, shut up, man, shut up.
Molly Crabapple
#24. Most people like the sad songs. Some of the oldest songs known to man are sad. Listening to a voice singing something sad is a really great way to help you to feel sad when you need to.
Patty Griffin
#25. Life would not be the same ever again. I would laugh again like a happy man would, seemingly with few worries in the world, yes, for memories fade, even of a deed like the one I had committed. However, the knowledge was there, sad and lingering, and I knew I had lost something.
Alaric Longward
#26. There's something about comedy, funny things, that people want to pass them along. Serious things and personal things are much more privately enjoyed. That's why there are not a lot of sad viral videos.
Jonathan Coulton
#27. If you summon your courage to challenge something, you'll never be left with regret. How sad it is to spend your life wishing, "If only I'd had a little more courage." Whatever the outcome may be, the important thing is to step forward on the path that you believe is right.
Daisaku Ikeda
#28. There is perhaps no more rewarding romance heroine than she who is not expected to find love. The archetype comes in many disguises - the wallflower, the spinster, the governess, the single mom - but always with one sad claim: Love is not in her cards.
Sarah MacLean
#29. I left parts of myself everywhere,
The way absent-minded people leave
Gloves and umbrellas
Whose colors are sad from dispensing so much bad luck
Charles Simic
#30. Isn't this exactly what I wanted? Why do I feel so sad then, like I had suddenly just lost everything?
S.C. Stephens
#31. Suppose we took a thousand negatives ...
combining the elegances, the squalor, the curiosities, the monuments, the sad faces, the triumphant faces, the power, the irony, the strength, the decay, the past, the present, the future of a city - that would be my favorite picture.
Berenice Abbott
#32. I'm sad
I'm tired
I'm lonely
But it's okay because I'm "breathing
Just Me
#33. It is sad when two people turn from the paths they're traveling, and their paths go on to cross without them.
Robert Breault
#34. Some comedians you work with, they only turn on when the camera turn on, and they're like sad-faced clowns when the camera's off. And then, they come alive when the camera come on. And you be like, "Oh, damn. You're not a depressed ball of depression, but you are actually funny."
Ice Cube
#35. In our lifetime, wouldn't it be sad if we spent more time washing dishes or swatting flies or mowing the yard or watching television than praying for world missions?
Dave Davidson
#36. No Tyson, the guy in the story did not attract the attention of a moose. Tyson is sad now.
Rick Riordan
#37. No, my dear, how should I be sad? I, who have been rich and happy, have become even richer and happier now. My son has been given to me.
Hermann Hesse
#38. Whenever I get that sad, depressed feeling, I go out and kill a policeman.
P.G. Wodehouse
#39. Yes, memories do haunt. Memories of a happy past, in the expectation of a bleak future, in a sad present. - Anita
Nilesh Sakpal
#40. ...that the basic transaction of life itself was a sad, endless amalgam of public endurance and private indulgence.
Stefan Merrill Block
#41. Always remember to forget the things that made you sad, but never forget to remember the things that made you glad.
Victor Borge
#42. It's sad when our daddies die. Makes us one less person inside.
Pamela Ribon
#43. ...it's sad day when you forget your purpose in life.
Karen Hawkins
#44. But I don't feel sad about it. Because Mother is dead. And because Mr. Shears isn't around anymore. So I would be feeling sad about something that isn't real and doesn't exist. And that would be stupid.
Mark Haddon
#45. Yet but three come one more.
Two of both kinds make up four.
Ere she comes curst and sad.
Cupid is a knavish lad.
Thus to make poor females mad.
William Shakespeare
#46. One day,' you said, 'I watched the sunset forty-three times!'
And a little later you added:
'You know, when one is that sad, one can get to love the sunset.'
'Were you that sad, then, on the day of the forty-three sunset?'
But the prince made no answer.
Antoine De Saint-Exupery
#47. Some of us do so much to make others happy. Sad thing is, some of us dont even know someone that would do the same for us.
Wiz Khalifa
#48. Coffee shops are everywhere, especially in Los Angeles, chock full of sad sacks desperate to make sure their screenplays make it into the right hands ... or any hands, for that matter. The one thing that makes a coffee shop truly great, though, is charm.
Nate Corddry
#49. Perhaps we will end up one of those sad childless couples who spend all their time sleeping late, buying luxury goods, traveling the world, and enjoying each other's company. That would be terrible.
Michael Ian Black
#50. Every rose has its thorn. Just like every night has its dawn. Just like every cowboy sings a sad, sad song. Every rose has it's thorn.
Poison
#51. Watergate is a sad and tragic incident in our history. They were wrong, dead wrong, those men at Watergate. Men abused power, but the system still works. Men abused money, but the system still works. Men lied and perjured themselves, but the system still .
John Wayne
#52. Hope is sometimes fleeting, but always precious. Sad to say, when the battle began, most of my companions had no hope at all.
T.A. Barron
#53. I love sad songs. They say so much. I love country music but even the happy songs sound really sad.
Beth Ditto
#54. Do you have any idea how boring you became, Rachel? How ugly? Too sad to get out of bed in the morning, too tired to take a shower or wash your fucking hair? Jesus. It's no wonder I lost patience, is it? It's no wonder I had to look for ways to amuse myself. You've no one to blame but yourself.
Paula Hawkins
#55. But if we can't summon the empathy to imagine what our dead would have asked of us, or the selflessness to give it, then we must accept the desperately sad verdict that each generation's hopes will die with it, and no cumulative progress is possible for the human will.
Barbara Kingsolver
#56. Many years ago in a period commonly know as Next Friday Afternoon, there lived a King who was very Gloomy on Tuesday mornings because he was so Sad thinking about how Unhappy he had been on Monday and how completely Mournful he would be on Wednesday ...
Walt Kelly
#57. Smiling has always been easier than explaining why you're sad
Unknown
#58. Sometimes we get sad about things and we don't like to tell other people that we are sad about them. We like to keep it a secret. Or sometimes, we are sad but we really don't know why we are sad, so we say we aren't sad but we really are.
Mark Haddon
#59. There are in this world ample reasons to be sad and disheartened, discouraged and fearful. But there are as many reasons not to be.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#60. Life is always sad. That's what makes suicide so tempting because life is all that we really have and haven't. Death makes us equals, too, because the foul and the good all die. The past, the present, and the future-what escape is there from these? None-and yet sometimes we are life's happy victims.
F. Sionil Jose
#61. I enjoy being recognized. I'll be very sad if people stop recognizing me. I'll be very sad if I'm not interviewed, because that's a very amazing process.
Anupam Kher
#62. Come near; I would, before my time to go,
Sing of old Eire and the ancient ways:
Red Rose, proud Rose, sad Rose of all my days.
William Butler Yeats
#63. Straightway like a bell
Came low and clear
The slow, sad murmur of the distant seas
James Kenneth Stephen
#64. What a sad pair we are," she said. "Surely we can manage a conversation on a topic other than our respective terrible evenings.
Julia Quinn
#65. I could tell you that when you have trouble making up your mind about something, tell yourself you'll settle it by flipping a coin. But don't go by how the coin flips; go by your emotional reaction to the coin flip. Are you happy or sad it came up heads or tails?
David Brooks
#66. Shocking, sad, revealing, and deeply researched, this true account of the life and crimes of serial killer Aileen Wuornos will fascinate true-crime fans.
John E. Douglas
#67. Save for thee and thy lessons, man in society would everywhere sink into a sad compound of the fiend and the wild beast; and this fallen world would be as certainly a moral as a natural wilderness.
Hugh Miller
#68. The song is languid and speaks of love and loneliness and loss. Why does love seem to go with the sad things?
Lisa Ann Sandell
#69. For every minute you are sad, you are losing a whole 60 seconds of happiness.
Chen Chen
#70. We just hide from the people we love. Sad, isn't it?
C.C. Hunter
#71. Scars are souvenirs you never lose, the past is never far, did you lose yourself somewhere out there, did you get to be a star, and don't it make you sad to know that life is more than who you are?
John Rzeznik
#72. He was fucking sad. That's it. That's the point. He knows life is never going to get any different for him. That there's no fixing him. It's always going to be the same monotonous depressing bullshit. Boring, sad, boring, sad. He just wants it to be over.
Jasmine Warga
#73. It's always funny watching something so beautiful not know how beautiful it really is. It's sad even.
Holly Hood
#74. Sad to hear news about Michael Weiner, deepest condolences to his loved ones. His sacrifices as head of players union will not be forgotten.
Jose Bautista
#75. Maybe hope and sadness can coexist, she thought. That felt like a significant idea. Maybe Cam could hope without denying that huge part of herself that needed to be sad. She didn't have to sacrifice one for the other. Maybe all people were both hopeful and sad in every moment of their lives.
Wendy Wunder
#76. Don't be sad if Allah separated you from something or someone you love. if only we knew what His plans were for us, our hearts would melt with the warmth of His love
Noname
#77. I sat thinking how terribly sad it was that people are made in such a way that they get used to something as incredible as living. One day we suddenly take the fact that we exist for granted - and then, yes, then we don't think about it anymore until we are about to leave the world again.
Jostein Gaarder
#78. Elaine is just in pain. I think Elaine has become very, very sad woman. She is someone who is in deep need of many hours of analysis and I like to think that I'm not that type of person.
Julia Louis-Dreyfus
#79. People talk about how sad it would be to die before they've done everything they want to do or seen everything they want to see. But I think it would be worse to live life and have there be nothing left that you want to see or do.
Elizabeth Bevarly
#80. She was sad with an obscure sadness of which she had not the secret herself. There was in her whole person the stupor of a life ended but never commenced.
Victor Hugo
#81. And whether rich or poor, well or ill, happy or sad, books can be a refuge, they do not change with changing circumstance, they are the open highway to yesterday, today and tomorrow wherever you will to travel.
Gladys Taber
#82. I think a lot of times we're so told in our world that marriage is everything, and having a partner is everything. If you look at our movies and things, it's all directed around that love, and if you don't have that love, how sad you are.
Brooke Elliott
#83. Some people are saying that my music is not for Burberry, it's not for fashion. I know where they're trying to go but if you're saying my music is only for deprived and sad people, then you're not helping me and you're not helping yourself. It's meant to be for everyone.
Benjamin Clementine
#84. Humor has always been the redemptive angel in the Conroys's sad history. With this family, I shall never grow hungry from lack of material.
Pat Conroy
#85. Well, I guess I do too," Ava admitted. "I just . . . I don't think it's fair. To other people. To get sad all the time, you know?" Natasha
Lauren Myracle
#86. Well, you can't be depressed and sad 24 hours a day.
Julia Sweeney
#87. Listening a cultivated person of today that jokes and almost boasts about his scientific ignorance, is as sad as listening a scientist that boasts about not having read any poem.
Carlo Rovelli
#88. I couldn't tell him that I wasn't sad when i was with him. I couldn't tell him that he made me so happy I was afraid of it.
Jojo Moyes
#89. Until America, door to door, takes every handgun, this is what you're gonna have. It's pathetic. It really is pathetic. It's sad. We're living in the Dark Ages over there.
Sylvester Stallone
#90. Irish people will tell you that, because of their sad history of dispossession, owning a home is not just a way to avoid paying rent but a mark of freedom. In their rush to freedom, the Irish built their own prisons. And their leaders helped them to do it.
Michael Lewis
#92. It's a sad state when more people retweet than buy records.
Noel Gallagher
#93. Seriously, it's okay to be sad, but if you let sadness control your life, you'll never have one.
Anna Todd
#96. The '80s were fabulous. The '90s sucked, and the '70s were just a sad, sad time in human history. Go 1980s! There's something that's just so cute about that time. And not just yellow nail polish and 'I'm a loner.'
Jennifer Sky
#97. There is a difference between depression and sadness. I am happy to be sad.
Amanda Mosher
#98. Here is a girl who is pretty in a quiet way. I bet she's had a very sad life.
Wally Lamb
#99. By sad experience I know what sorrows She must endure, who marries into a family unwilling to receive her.
Matthew Gregory Lewis
#100. Where am I getting the brain space to store these words? I'm hoping that maybe my mind has decided to clear out some old negative thoughts and sad memories and replace them with these shiny new words.
Elizabeth Gilbert
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