Top 96 Saddened Quotes
#1. The poor and minorities are disproportionately both crime's perpetrators and its victims. People are saddened when this happens but not surprised.
S.J. Rozan
#2. I have also been saddened, though hardly surprised, by the weakness of the EU's reaction to the criminal attack on the Danish embassy in Syria, which seems to have been permitted, if not actively encouraged, by the Syrian regime.
Timothy Garton Ash
#3. I am saddened by how people treat one another and how we are so shut off from one another and how we judge one another, when the truth is, we are all one connected thing. We are all from the same exact molecules.
Ellen DeGeneres
#4. I'm sure they're saddened by me, and I get frustrated with them. But I love them, and at the end of the day if they need me or if they need anything, I'm there for them. Family.
Brad Pitt
#5. Both were diverted by life's young fumblings,
both saddened by the wisdom of time
Vladimir Nabokov
#6. Dear Miss Pomeroy, I am saddened by the things I do not know. There are hundreds--thousands--of books in the world and I will never be able to read all of them.
I am old.
Walter
Barbara Wersba
#7. As past presidents of the Liberal Party, we deeply regret and are greatly saddened by the precipitate action by some party officers and members at the Manila Hotel.
Florencio Abad
#8. I am moved by the spirit of Angolans and the work UNICEF is doing, but I am saddened by the hardships I have seen, and the fact that a little flexing of financial muscle from rich countries could do so much.
Alyssa Milano
#9. Saddened that I, a smart, semi-funny, nutty, loyal, good woman, could feel so negative about myself under all the smiling and humor, I felt the sting of tears in my eyes. The way I felt about my appearance was bad. Really freakin' bad.
Samantha Young
#10. In the country one sees only nature's fair works, and one's soul is not saddened by the cruel struggle for mere existence that goes on in the crowded city.
Helen Keller
#11. More than all those people who starved by famine, it was the thought of my mother not remembering what she looked like as a little girl that saddened me.
Viet Thanh Nguyen
#12. I am saddened when I hear these words -this is not the person I knew - because those words objectify the person suffering from Alzheimer's. When you objectify a person you also dehumanize them. Once dehumanized the person becomes a villain.
Bob DeMarco
#13. Deeply saddened by the news of the terrorist attacks in central London, the Holy Father offers his fervent prayers for the victims and for all those who mourn.
Pope Benedict XVI
#14. I am deeply saddened to hear the news of Dan's passing. He was a dear friend for many years. Dan & his music will live on in the great songs he shared with us all. My sincere condolences go out to Catherine and the entire Peek family. May he rest in peace ...
Gerry Beckley
#15. To love the truth is to refuse to let oneself be saddened by it.
Andre Gide
#16. To have known how to change the past into a few saddened smiles-is this not to master the future?
Maurice Maeterlinck
#17. I can fully understand [that] artists want to be able to pay their bills. As a fan of art, and art as a way to shift dialogue and address cultural issues, there's a part of me that's really, really saddened by that and can't really relate to it.
Bruce Pavitt
#18. Your characters are always your children. And while you are writing, you're keeping them safe. Now they're ready to go into the world and it's sad. I'm happy with the way the novel came out but all the characters' ending really saddened me.
Yiyun Li
#19. My mother had fought to hold on to her belief that she lived in a good country. She was shocked and saddened to realize how corrupt and pitiless North Korea had become. Now she was even more convinced that she couldn't let her daughters grow up in such a place. We had to get out as soon as possible.
Yeonmi Park
#20. It saddened him, of course, that his sex life and his home life should have to be two distinct realms, but he was old enough now to know that within every relationship was something unfulfilled and disappointing, something that had to be sought elsewhere.
Hanya Yanagihara
#21. One cannot be deeply responsive to the world without being saddened very often.
Erich Fromm
#22. I'm saddened to see that some have been misled into believing that Mr. Disney was something other than a kind, caring man.
Annette Funicello
#23. I'm saddened to see that everyone's pitched out the baby with the bath, in that we say that it can't be one or the other, it could be both. I mean, just because we listen to classical music doesn't mean that we can't listen to jazz.
Don Bluth
#24. And those whom once my song had cheered and gladdened,
If still they live, rove through the world now saddened.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#25. Life is but a sleep disturbed by dreaming, prompted by the will; the saddened soul with sadness hides it's secrets, and the gay, with thrill.
Khalil Gibran
#26. I was shocked and saddened to learn of the passing of my sister, Joan Fontaine, and my niece, Deborah, and I appreciate the many kind expressions of sympathy that we have received.
Olivia De Havilland
#27. A library is the only single place you can go to learn something new, be comforted, terrified, thrilled, saddened, overjoyed, or excited all in one day. And for free.
Amy Neftzger
#28. I think we have become obsessed with beauty and personally I'm really saddened by the way women mutilate their faces today in search of that.
Halle Berry
#29. We are seeing a changed Mumbai, but having showcased Dharavi in 'Slum Dog Millionaire' brought shame and disgrace to our city. Whenever the firangs visit Mumbai, they must visit Dharavi; it has become a sightseeing spot. However, I feel saddened about it.
Rohit Shetty
#30. I am deeply saddened by the tragic loss of my dear friend Ronni Chasen. I have had the honor of working with her for over 15 years. She was one of a kind. I loved her. I miss her.
Diane Warren
#31. One day, we will look back and wonder how on earth we used to believe that depression was a lifestyle choice, only to be debated and taken seriously when an A List film star took his life, and the world filled with people saying how shocked and saddened they were.
Alastair Campbell
#32. 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
#33. ... a cynic who was still saddened whenever his jaundiced view of mankind was confirmed ...
Sharon Kay Penman
#34. Successful avengers, who are good men at heart, will always be saddened.
Tracey Forbes
#35. When the mind imagines its own lack of power, it is saddened by it.
Aleksandar Hemon
#36. See that you are not suddenly saddened by the adversities of this world, for you do not know the good they bring, being ordained in the judgments of God for the everlasting joy of the elect.
John Of The Cross
#37. You are saddened by love's importance in the emir's life?"
He paused. "I am frustrated by its importance in all our lives.
Renee Ahdieh
#38. I am deeply saddened by the suffering of the Iraqi people.
Moshe Katsav
#39. Like everyone, I'm saddened and horrified by this. All I'll say is that I'm personally trying to pay more attention to the victims than to their murderer. I certainly will not be mentioning the murderer. I don't think he warrants our attention-particularly since he so clearly wanted it.
John Green
#40. While all the pomp and circumstance of war animated others, it only saddened me; and all of past reflection, all of future dread, made the whole grandeur of the martial scene, and all the delusive seduction of martial music, fill my eyes frequently with tears ...
Fanny Burney
#41. We needn't be saddened with the impossible weight of managing the entire biosphere, but we must meet the challenge of living in balance with the sacred elements.
David Suzuki
#42. PSH - I am genuinely shocked, saddened and speechless. A truly wonderful man, with a magical touch. My hero. Thoughts are with his family
Sam Claflin
#43. I am deeply saddened to hear that the man who murdered my brother, Michael Ensley, has been charged with murder again. I grieve for every family who has been victimized by this heinous individual. My prayers and love go out to the family of Demetra Doyle Heard during this trying time.
Niecy Nash
#44. When questioned whether the Blessed will not be saddened by seeing their nearest and dearest tortured answers, "Not in the least."
Martin Luther
#45. I felt shocked and then saddened. life does this to you sometimes - leads you up a path and then drops you in the shit, to mix a metaphor.
William Boyd
#46. Before, I was always the kid that was in the background. It was hard for me to get casted in even one program, and when people thought that I was a guest on a show for the first time when I had been on before, it saddened me. Suddenly getting the spotlight? That's! Not! True!
IU
#47. Jared glared. Some people, Kami knew, had bedroom eyes. She was saddened to have to admit that Jared had filthy alleyway eyes.
Sarah Rees Brennan
#48. I am deeply saddened by the death of my dear friend, Dudley Moore.
Liza Minnelli
#49. She (historian Barbara Tuchman) draws on skepticism, not cynicism, leaving the reader not so much outraged by human ability as amused and saddened by human folly.
Robert K. Massie
#50. Chicago's buoy was a couple of hundred yards astern of Arizona, and I was saddened to look at her.
Jack Adams
#51. [I am] saddened, saddened, that this president [Bush] failed so miserably at diplomacy that we're now forced to go to war. Saddened that we have to give up one life because this president couldn't create the kind of diplomatic effort that was so critical for our country.
Tom Daschle
#52. His words saddened them greatly, though they couldn't say why.
Roberto Bolano
#53. I am saddened by the modern system of advertising. Whatever evidence it offers of enterprise, ingenuity, impudence, and resource in certain individuals, it proves to my mind the wide prevalence of that form of mental degradation which is called gullibility. [An anarchist]
Joseph Conrad
#54. YOU HAVE the right to my help. I am your creator. Your problems are my problems. Ask me for help. I give it to you gladly. I am saddened when you try to live alone. My desire for you is union and fulfillment. I am your answered prayer. I am always what you seek.
Julia Cameron
#55. It saddened me that sometimes shopping was far more perilous than dealing with zombies and vampires.
Anton Strout
#56. I am so saddened by the loss of our dear friend, Bonnie Franklin. She was just full of light and love. Bonnie will be very much missed by all the people she touched with her love.
Mackenzie Phillips
#57. I thought Nixon was getting ganged up on, but when I heard the tapes, I was shocked and terribly saddened.
Walter Annenberg
#58. I'm not really saddened that [Pussy Riot] ended up in jail, though there is nothing good in that. What saddens me is that they took things to such a level, here, from my point of view, that they degraded the dignity of women.
Vladimir Putin
#59. We are saddened to hear of the untimely death of Christian Audigier. It is a sad end to a brilliant marketer; his incredible energy and vision brought my artwork to global attention.
Don Ed Hardy
#60. I am personally saddened and stunned by the tragic events that took place in Red Lake.
Collin C. Peterson
#61. Sometimes we are saddened by the weight of our sins. May we not be discouraged. Christ has come to lift this burden and give us peace.
Pope Francis
#62. I am so saddened and grossed out by young women who look like creepy, old aliens because of their new Barbie noses and lips. Is that a smile or a grimace?
Olivia Wilde
#63. I realized that whilst crying over the loss, the living did not seem adequate because they were not my loved one. The room full of strangers hurt me profusely. Even as I saw thousands of young people; I felt incomplete and more saddened because the one I wanted to see was buried.
Phindiwe Nkosi
#64. The worst defect in the world would be to consider yourself free from faults. Being too greatly saddened by one's faults can come from having one's pride humiliated.
Rose Philippine Duchesne
#65. Do not allow your heart to take pleasure with the praises of people, nor be saddened by their condemnation.
Al-Ghazali
#67. We are deeply saddened to hear about the passing of Jonathan Hardy. The clever wit and joy he brought to his performance of Rygel was a true gift to the world of Farscape. My sincerest condolences go out to Jonathan's family and to his many fans around the world.
Brian Henson
#68. If you're saddened by another's sorrow, then sorrow will never come to you. If you are happy at another's joy then joy will never leave you.
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
#69. Tears are every heartfelt feeling,every reminiscence,and every prayer falling down from the walls of heaven raining down upon us all.The tears that are saddened make the rivers rage and joyful tears make the flowers grow.The rain though never stops flowing.
Grace Lawson
#70. Being angry, resentful, or saddened by rejection can suck the sweetness out of acceptance.
Charles F. Glassman
#71. The memory of you saddened my joys, but consoled my sorrows.
Henri Barbusse
#72. So I am deeply saddened and shocked over the current legislation that is now in place against the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community here in Russia. In my opinion, it is inhumane and it is isolating.
Elton John
#73. That was just my own personal program: I didn't want to get too high over the good moments because I didn't want to be saddened and depressed when things didn't go as I had planned.
Julius Erving
#74. Mandy tidied the weeds and pulled out some of the summer flowers. It saddened her to do so. She was parting with beloved friends.
Julie Andrews Edwards
#75. All through the night, men looked at the sky and were saddened by the stars.
Joseph Heller
#76. Messrs. Washington and Lincoln would be appalled and saddened by what their successor, President Obama, and the modern Democratic Party are doing to the nation they dedicated their lives to keep alive.
Monica Crowley
#77. A beat as Queenie drinks the whole story out of Newt's head. She looks both intrigued and saddened. Newt continues to work, trying hard to pretend Queenie isn't reading his mind.
J.K. Rowling
#78. On behalf of Major League Baseball, I am terribly saddened by the sudden passing of Kirby Puckett. He was a Hall of Famer in every sense of the term. He was revered throughout the country and will be remembered wherever the game is played. Kirby was taken from us much too soon - and too quickly.
Bud Selig
#79. Sunday evenings had long saddened me, reminders of death, unfinished business, guilt, and loss.
Alain De Botton
#80. Nothing has saddened me so much in life as the hardness of heart of educated people.
Mahatma Gandhi
#81. I can't even think of the words of what I'm feeling. This man [Prince] was my everything, we had a family. I am beyond deeply saddened and devastated.
Madonna Ciccone
#82. We lose peace of mind when we indulge in the materialistic things. We see our reflections in these possessions and properties and attach ourselves to the point of becoming saddened by them. These possessions gradually become our identity and these identities start disturbing us with time.
Ryan Foret
#83. Christopher was wearing a suit and adorned make-up. As long as I had known him, he never wore a suit or make-up. The look of him defenseless to his appearance saddened me.
Brian Joyce
#84. I have lots of favorite shows, but not reality! I don't like reality TV so much. I'm saddened by people who don't show respect to each other and to themselves. It's horrible. Unfortunately, that's demonstrated a lot on reality television.
Barbara Mandrell
#85. I am saddened, not by Microsoft's success - I have no problem with their success. They've earned their success, for the most part. I have a problem with the fact that they just make really third-rate products.
Steve Jobs
#86. I feel strangely selfish to say that I am saddened that one of my favourite land mammals the rough Lemurs will be extinct soon. I guess with the loving weights of human endeavour it should just be expected and then we can all label yet another extinction as progress ...
Steve Merrick
#87. I am deeply saddened for the people of Ferguson who woke up to see parts of their community in ruins. No one should have to live like this; no one deserves this. We must do better, and we will.
Jay Nixon
#88. Truly saddened by the loss of one of the greatest fashion icons of all time. Oscar de la Renta will be greatly missed.
Ivanka Trump
#89. When younger writers and poets, musicians and painters are weakened by a stemming of funds, they come to me saddened, not as full of dreams and excitement and ideas. I am then weakened and diminished, and made less rich.
Maya Angelou
#90. He was too many things at once - a boy, a man, and everything in between - and the differing parts of himself seldom came into balance. She found him attractive in that way. Yet the perception saddened her: she herself wasn't too many things, but too few.
Stephen R. Donaldson
#91. I'm beginning to believe that there are angels disguised as men who pass themselves off as such and who inhabit the earth for a while to console and lift up with them toward heaven the poor, exhausted and saddened souls who were ready to perish here below.
George Sand
#92. And though he liked drawing trees he liked most of all to be with trees. He would climb them, lean against them, even talk to them. It saddened him to discover the not everyone shared his feelings towards them.
Humphrey Carpenter
#93. He looked on people, and he neither liked nor disliked them. He looked on life and was neither heartened nor saddened.
Margaret Mitchell
#94. Philippine President Joseph Estrada said he was saddened by the conviction. It's very unfortunate and what happened is saddening, ... If he really is innocent, then the day will come that his name will be cleared.
Joseph Estrada
#95. I'm often saddened and dismayed to see myself portrayed as either a Luddite or as a raving technophile. I've always thought that my job was to be as anthropologically neutral about emerging technologies as possible.
William Gibson
#96. I am deeply saddened and shocked at the loss of umpire Wally Bell.
Joe Torre
