Top 100 Sad She Quotes
#1. If this is a sad story, don't tell it to me tonight.'It is not sad,' she said. 'Only some things happen and are there for always even though you forget why or when.
Jean Rhys
#2. A tendency to speculation, though it may keep woman quiet, as it does man, yet makes her sad. She discerns, it may be, such a hopeless task before her.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
#3. For a few seconds, I thought I might actually cry. That was so unlike me, I wasn't sure how to respond. Bronwyn Alessia St. Vincent Clare didn't get sad. She got mad. Or better, she got even.
Jennifer Lynn Barnes
#4. What will life be like without her? I am dreadfully sad she is leaving. What if she just disappears; gets tired of all this trouble at home? What if she leaves me too? How heavy is a dresser when you're the only one pushing it against the door? I feel truly on my own.
Mira Bartok
#5. Libby wasn't a big talker - Michelle and Debby seemed to hog all her words. She made pronouncements: I like ponies. I hate spaghetti. I hate you. Like her mother, she had no poker face. No poker mood. It was all right there. When she wasn't angry or sad, she just didn't say much.
Gillian Flynn
#6. She is a story with no ending, happy or sad. She can never belong to anything mortal enough to want her. Most
Peter S. Beagle
#7. How sad," she whispered to herself. He heard it. "What?" She shook her head, meeting his gaze, the only thing familiar about him. "He's gone." "Who?" "My friend.
Sarah MacLean
#8. Are you sad?" she asked him. Sincerely. "Do you need to go home and listen to all your mixed tapes and think about this chapter of your life closing?
Rainbow Rowell
#9. Only one is a wanderer.
And when she was sad, she'd go into the streets to be with people.
Ralph Angel
#10. When I'm sad, she comes to me with a thousand smiles.
Jimi Hendrix
#11. the remnants of her Georgia drawl always sounded a bit sad. She made him think of an aging Scarlett O'Hara torn from Tara's halls but clinging to her pride and, with the help of a beauty parlor, her flaming hair.
Richard Laymon
#12. Is she sad? she asked.
No, honey. She's lived-in.
Marisha Pessl
#13. Don't be sad." She says it so warmly, it makes the air change color. "It came right through the wall last night.
Jandy Nelson
#14. When she is happy, she can't stop talking, when she is sad she doesn't say a word.
Ann Brashares
#15. It's so awful and sad," she once admitted to Tom Goodenough, "to belong to a race that no sane person believes in.
Mary Norton
#16. Don't you ever get sad?' she asked.
"Sad? No, but what's the point of sadness. It's not like is makes you feel better or changes anything."
'No one chooses to be sad, Dylan.'
"Yeah, but you can choose not to be.
Jessica Bucher
#17. That was how it always was with Colleen: No matter how sad she felt, there was always this little bit of hope - like a speck of glitter caught in your eyelash - that never went away, no matter what.
Lauren Tarshis
#18. Don't look so sad," she said. Her eyes were full of tears.
"I can't help it," he said. "I am sad."
"I'm sorry I've made you so unhappy."
"Don't be sorry for that. Be sorry that you made me so happy. That's what hurts, woman. That you made me so happy.
Ken Follett
#19. I laid it all out for him: Eliza believes in me, she moves me, and she's moved BY me. She makes me happy, she makes me sad, she makes me try harder, she makes me laugh, and she makes me feel like I can fly. Isn't that the goddamn definition of Love?
Tiffanie DeBartolo
#20. The Ethan of her dreams had disappeared. He was just another person who was sad. She was kind of glad, actually. Dreams disappeared when you woke up. The real thing was better anyway.
Elizabeth Woods
#21. I don't think all writers are sad, she said. I think it's the other way around- all sad people write.
Lang Leav
#22. I could ask him if he think "a lot" means the same as "too many" ... I could tell him that he shouldn't call a girl a slut because someday she might be somebody's mother ... maybe she's a slut because she's lonely, she's sad, she's hoping someone or something will make the lonely and sad go away.
Diana Joseph
#23. She looks sad. She looks angry. She looks different from everyone else I know - she cannot put on that happy face others wear when they know they are being watched. She doesn't put on a face for me, which makes me trust her somehow.
Matthew Quick
#24. I would find tiny flowers left by somebody else, and I would know Honour had been to London. I only felt a bit sad she hadn't let me know and met up with me.
She didn't mention anything when I went to Kent at the weekends either.
It was what it was.
Ruth Ahmed
#25. Your eyes are still sad," she tells me. "But your whole face lights up when you look at him.
Amy Engel
#26. I couldn't reach her. I was never able to reach her. Maybe she moved at a pace too fast. Maybe she was too sad. She held herself stiff, a lacquered lady. I think because I couldn't feel her, I couldn't feel myself.
Lauren Slater
#27. Sometimes she makes you very sad....she touches something in you, and you've begun to touch back. - Bob Ballard
Charles Pellegrino
#28. Always quick with the wit. It's your defense, isn't it? Little girl doesn't want the world to know how sad she is, how damaged. Your words, your attitude, all a big misdirection. A magician's trick.
Chuck Wendig
#29. [Grace talking to Billy.] "It's like people who want to feel only happy but not sad," she said. "It never works. You either feel things or you don't. You don't get to pick and choose. At least, I don't think so.
Catherine Ryan Hyde
#30. 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
#31. I couldn't even picture Mavis's face anymore. It was sad. She was being erased. I wanted to put my finger on her forehead, but there was nothing there.
James Tate
#32. when she was younger, hannah liked to feel sad, so long as it was artifical sad' that was what she called it when the sadness was about something that wasn't real
Elizabeth Noble
#33. Sad words are just another beauty. A sad story means, this storyteller is alive. The next thing you know something fine will happen to her, something marvelous, and then she will turn around and smile.
Chris Cleave
#34. And would she herself have married Darcy had he been a penniless curate or a struggling attorney? ... Elizabeth knew that she was not formed for the sad contrivances of poverty.
P.D. James
#35. Do you speak Gaelic Noah? she suddenly asked.
His heart clenched. It actually hurt, as though spikes of steel had been dug into it.
should I?
Maybe not ...
Lora Leigh
#36. Which was how Britteny ended up nestled next to Mickey, under the shelter of a painter's drop cloth.
She felt no pain.
She saw no light.
She heard, but barely.
Her heart was still and silent.
Yet she did not die.
Michael Grant
#37. It turns out that there's something even harder than not being able to be with the person you love when you're happy: not being able to comfort her when she's sad.
Jodi Picoult
#38. There had been a time in Godfrey's life when, had she stood before him in all her splendor, he would have turned from her, because of her history, with a sad disgust. Was he less pure now? He was more pure, for he was humbler.
George MacDonald
#39. She tells everyone she's an introvert." Cordelia sniffed. "It's a sad, psychological malady. Comes from reading way too much Kafka.
Ellen Hart
#40. You really need stitches," she tells me."Or you're going to have a scar." I try not to laugh. Stitches aren't going to help. They fix skin, cuts, wounds, heal stuff on the outside. Everything broken with me is on the inside. "I can handle scars, especially one's on the outside.
Jessica Sorensen
#41. I used to sit near Marilyn Monroe in the Actor's Studio. She'd get dressed up because that was her identity. Sad. Those cameras wouldn't leave her alone. She didn't know where to hide.
Doris Roberts
#42. What are you most afraid or sad about?" she asked me one night as we were lying in bed.
"Leaving you," I told her.
Paul Kalanithi
#43. Hey. (She took his chin in her hand so that she could move his head back and forth while she examined him.) You're hurting in there. That would make akri very sad. He doesn't like for his Dark-Hunters to hurt and the Simi don't like it when akri is sad. Why are you hurt? (Simi)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#44. We can't be sad for her," she murmured. "Only for ourselves at having to say good-bye.
Dorothy Love
#45. Mark nodded even though she couldn't see. He'd suddenly lost any desire to talk, and his plans for a perfect day washed away with the stream. The memories. They never let him go, not even for a half hour. They always had to rush back in, bringing all the horror.
James Dashner
#46. I was satisfied that I had done my best. She was insane.
John Fante
#47. I've got some bad news for you, Larry. The sad truth is, I'd rather pull out my fingernails one by one than sleep with you." She slipped out of the low-slung car. "Your breath stinks, Lar, and let's just face it - you're a creep." She slammed the door with such force he winced visibly.
Christine Feehan
#48. She knew far too much about him. She knew everything. Like how the royal ladies-in-waiting swapped bawdy jokes about the sad size of the duke's scepter.
Lauren Kate
#49. A sad smile crossed her face, and I knew right then what she was trying to tell me. Her eyes never left mine as she finally said the words that numbed my soul.
I'm dying, Landon.
Nicholas Sparks
#50. She had awoken this morning and slipped the amethyst ring off her finger. It had felt liked a blessed release, a final shadow lifted from her heart.
Sarah J. Maas
#51. What was he doing with her? How on earth could he love her? But he did. Or, at least, she made him feel sick, sad, and distracted. Perhaps there was another way of describing that unique and useless combination of feelings, but "love" would have to do for now.
Nick Hornby
#52. The sad thing was that Pauline did not really care for clothes and makeup. She merely wanted other women to cast favorable glances her way.
Toni Morrison
#53. Why do you want to die?'
I shivered. For a second I couldn't breathe.
'You knew ... ?'
She gave a sad smile.
'I'm your mother.
Mitch Albom
#54. Here in this old palace, untouched by the winds of change, here maybe some magic happens, for a little while. But the day must come when she will walk the road across the lake, and on that day, in the sad, heartless world on the other shore, you know it cannot last she is a slave.
John Speed
#55. But how to do feelings? All very well to write "She felt sad", or describe what a sad person might do, but what of sadness itself, how was that put across so it could be felt in all its lowering immediacy? Even harder was the threat, or the confusion of feeling contradictory things.
Ian McEwan
#56. perhaps like me she's vainly hoping
and some news awaits,
but the moist earth already holds him
in her strong embrace...
Nikola Vaptsarov
#57. When she doesn't want to think about something sad or hurtful, she does what she instructed her own children and those she taught to do: Close your eyes and go somewhere safe and good. Picture something good.
Jill McCorkle
#58. She was just a sad girl who liked to write songs. And I was nothing more than a simple guy who was lucky enough to have made her fall in love with him.
Aly Martinez
#59. They say the blues is sad, but when B.B. sings 'I got a sweet little angel, I love the way she spreads her wings,' that don't sound too sad to me!
Buddy Guy
#60. Ana was the original sad girl. She held the unofficial title long before her death. We all became sad girls after that. At her funeral, everyone wore black because it was customary and because it was the color that best defined Ana.
Lang Leav
#61. She's sad a lot. She's sad in the way Laura wears glasses and Max has freckles and Beth is retarded. There's no reason, it's just the way it is.
Rachel Simon
#62. She's got this dreamy look going - her everything's-right-with-the-world-why-isn't-it-right-with-you-Tally? face. It's such a carryover from high school that I almost laugh.
Katherine Owen
#63. It was November
the month of crimson sunsets, parting birds, deep, sad hymns of the sea, passionate wind-songs in the pines. Anne roamed through the pineland alleys in the park and, as she said, let that great sweeping wind blow the fogs out of her soul.
L.M. Montgomery
#64. The room went dark and, after a moment, Grace whispered that she loved me, sounding a little sad. I wrapped my arms tightly around her shoulders, sorry that loving me was such a complicated thing.
Maggie Stiefvater
#65. I am pretty weird - as weird as in my videos. The only difference is Lilly is not a performer, and Superwoman is. So Superwoman is very fearless. You'll never see her nervous. You'll never see her sad. But Lilly is a human. She is the person behind Superwoman, who gets sad and tired sometimes.
Lilly Singh
#66. The sad and solemn night hath yet her multitude of cheerful fires;
The glorious host of light walk the dark hemisphere till she retires;
All through her silent watches, gliding slow,
Her constellations come, and climb the heavens, and go.
William C. Bryant
#67. - the rusalka was kneeling beside Plain Kate on the deck. She was made of fog and shadow until Kate caught her eye, and then, all at once, she became human. She was young, mischievously sad, a fox in a story. Kate fell in love with her. And then she was gone.
Erin Bow
#69. I'm terribly sad about Farrah's passing. She was incredibly brave, and God will be welcoming her with open arms.
Cheryl Ladd
#70. Yeah, sure. That's what you think." She sounds a little sad when she says it. A boy hasn't looked Mitzi in the eyes for years. Their eyes stayed glued to her chest. "I'll be her boyfriend noticed you or something like that. But if that's what happened, you're done.
Meg Medina
#71. I wanted to die, then. I wanted to destroy the body I was trapped in, become what she was, no matter what it took. No matter how much mutilation or pain. But he looked away, at me. He pulled my face down and pressed my lips against his like he was almost trying to suffocate us both.
Francesca Lia Block
#72. You need a man," she said. "A rebound cock to fuck the sad right out of you.
C.D. Reiss
#73. And, like a fool, she kissed him back. Kissed him a way that would leave no doubt about the way she felt about him. Kissed him because she knew the chances were slim she'd have very many kisses like that in her lifetime.
Which is a sad thing when you're only seventeen.
Cinda Williams Chima
#74. So she moved away from the carving of the mythical stag, instantly cold as she severed contact with the delightful heat living within the stone. Part of her could have sworn that ancient, strange power was sad to see her go.
Sarah J. Maas
#75. There's not much left inside me, Max Sometimes, all she heard were echoes.
Nalini Singh
#76. The air around her was cool lately, as if she were creating a vacuum with her unhappiness.
Sarah Addison Allen
#78. I was sad that Corpse Bride was so short. I would've liked to have had her around for way longer. She doesn't actually have that many scenes.
Helena Bonham Carter
#79. Her voice was warm and husky as a clarinet, but not so sad as a clarinet: friendlier. When she laughed, it was like a clarinet blowing bubbles.
Katherine Catmull
#80. There are no good men in this game," said Mitch. But Sydney didn't care about good. She wasn't sure she believed in it. "I'm not afraid of Victor." "I know." He sounded sad when he said it.
V.E Schwab
#81. Miranda was dark, like a midnight sky. But as she fell, her eyes shone like stars themselves.
Dyls Downs
#82. Her secret fear? Maybe she didn't tried hard enough.
Rick Riordan
#83. She wasn't going to sit and wait. She was done waiting, because you could spend your whole life waiting for something to happen. Something big. You could wait and wait, and even if something big happened, even if it finally happened - it didn't change anything.
Jennifer Lynn Barnes
#84. The inextinguishable lesbian spark. You've surely heard about it? The one that was first ignited at Lesbos, because Sappho was so sad every time a young woman left the academy that she wrote her a poem. Fancy being sad because someone leaves! Perverted, that's what I call it. Don't you?
Gerd Brantenberg
#85. He's just going to buy alcohol or drugs, you know, Lauren said, which made me sad, because she didn't know that man at all, let alone whether he had a dependency problem.
Matthew Quick
#86. Is that all?" she whispered.
Gansey closed his eyes. "That's all there is.
Maggie Stiefvater
#87. FBI Girl is touching and funny, inspiring and tragic, enlightening and sad. I closed the book with tears in my eyes and admiration in my heart for the girl Maura Conlon was and the writer she became.
Beverly Donofrio
#88. It is a sad truth, but one acknowledged by any person who can bother to read the law, that the inferior legal status of a woman in Europa means she is best protected by having a powerful family or, lacking that, by finding the strongest protector and marrying him.
Kate Elliott
#89. I know she is crying. Her tears fall on the wrong side, into the bottomless well inside her.
Susan Abulhawa
#90. She found it easier to forgive than Ove did. Forgive God and the universe and everything. Ove got angry instead. Maybe because he felt someone had to be angry on her behalf, when everything that was evil seemed to assail the only person he'd ever met who didn't deserve it.
Fredrik Backman
#91. You're really doing well, it's the satisfaction you get from school, it's love," Lila said to me, and I felt that she was a little sad.
Elena Ferrante
#92. This was what real grief felt like - she had never truly felt it before. All the times she had been sad, all the times she had wept in her life, all the glooms and melancholies were merely moods, mere passing whims. Grief was a different thing altogether.
Dan Chaon
#93. If she's sad or upset or angry, she needs to be alone-she fears a man dismissing her womanly tears.
Gillian Flynn
#94. She feels a little sad. Is she sad? Helen considers an alternative: She is dehydrated.
Meg Howrey
#95. What a wonderful sadness to miss the one you have loved forever, it seems, and know that she is waiting at home.
Dan Groat
#96. She says nothing at all, but simply stares upward into the dark sky and watches, with sad eyes, the slow dance of the infinite stars.
Neil Gaiman
#97. The whole 1950s notion was find the right girl, get married, move to the suburbs and then hang out with the guys while she stayed home with the babies. I felt that was sort of sad.
Hugh Hefner
#98. She was still waiting for him to come back to her, even though he wasn't going to. She was still holding out for something that wasn't going to happen. She was good at waiting. That seemed like a sad thing to be good at.
Ann Brashares
#99. Like all feelings felt for oneself, Mrs. Ramsay thought, it made one sad. It was so inadequate, what one could give in return; and what Rose felt was quite out of proportion to anything she actually was.
Virginia Woolf
#100. She knows what it is to be sad and miserable, but those emotions are almost enjoyable. They throw moments of happiness and laughter into sharper relief.
Simon Mawer
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