Saddening Quotes

#1. One of my greatest pleasures in writing has come from the thought that perhaps my work might annoy someone of comfortably pretentious position. Then comes the saddening realization that such people rarely read.

John Kenneth Galbraith

#2. It is one of the most saddening things in life that, try as we may, we can never be certain of making people happy, whereas we can almost always be certain of making them unhappy.

Thomas Huxley

#3. The tears stream down my cheeks from my unblinking eyes. What makes me weep so? There is nothing saddening here. Perhaps it is liquefied brain.

Samuel Beckett

#4. To happy folkAll heaviest words no more of meaning bearThan far-off bells saddening the Summer air.

William Morris

#5. I know of nothing uglier or more saddening than a machine-flailed hedge. It speaks of the disdain of nature and craft that still dominates our agriculture.

Roger Deakin

#6. The single most frustrating and saddening aspect of human life is its shocking brevity.

Sean DeLauder

#7. There's no respect for older people at all today, and that's saddening. Look at the way crime against older people has risen! You know, there's no calling people 'Mr' or 'Mrs' now, they just call you, and it's all 'fuck off' and the likes of.

Stephen Richards

#8. He lived decades ago,
she lives at the moment.
A very saddening reality for her.

S G

#9. Paint here no draped despairs, no saddening clouds Where the soul rests, proclaims eternity. But let the wrong cry out as raw as wounds This Time forgets and never heals, far less transcends.

Stephen Spender

#10. Communism...muat of necessity be a saddening process for anyone who has ever tasted the intellectual pleasures of the world we live in.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#11. Cormorant fishing:
How stirring,
How saddening

Basho Matsuo

#12. All I hope for is one moment of rational thought and a shot at action before I'm lost to a great saddening madness, pithed at the hands of my own stumbling biology.

[Johnny Truant]

Mark Z. Danielewski

#13. 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

#14. A life is similar to a book. Some chapters are boring,a few emotional, a handful memorable,others saddening,one or two thoughtful and many full of smiles.

Elizabeth Adeniyi

#15. It is astounding to find that the belly of every black and evil thing is as white as snow. And it is saddening to discover how the concealed parts of angels are leporous.

John Steinbeck

#16. It is invariably saddening to look through new eyes at things upon which you have expended your own powers of adjustment.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#17. I am a sensitive person, so it is actually saddening to learn that these poverty-stricken families are most of the time mistreated or looked down upon. Help the poor, like how you would want to be helped if you were in their position.

Hillary Clinton

#18. A picture neither saddening nor gladdening I fear; neither beautiful nor ugly.

Jean Cocteau

#19. Perhaps he finds beauty saddening
I do myself sometimes. Once when I was quite little I asked father why this was and he explained that it was due to our knowledge of beauty's evanescence, which reminds us that we ourselves shall die.

Dodie Smith I Capture The Castle

#20. And at once he sacrificed everything to it, if it can be said we ever sacrifice anything save what we know we can never attain, or what some secret wisdom tells us it would be uncomfortable or saddening to possess.

Thornton Wilder

#21. Some people chase money. Some people chase fame. Some chase greatness - and that's what I'm trying to do.

J. J. Watt

#22. If you have white walls, human beings look better in a room than if you have red walls.

Minoru Yamasaki

#23. Kmart appreciates and supports exclusive brands.

Thalia

#24. It seemed scarcely a moment since she had made it back home,

Michael Dobbs

#25. The idea of going around to somebody else's flat or house and sitting around in a comfy room and having a really good hi-fi system and listening to a whole album all the way through, then chatting for a few minutes, then maybe putting another album on ... does that happen today?

David Gilmour

#26. The days on which one has been the most inquisitive are among the days on which one has been happiest.

Robert Lynd

#27. You have thoughts, but you are not your thoughts - and they definitely don't have to run the show. You

Baron Baptiste

#28. I found real fulfillment through my children and through adopting special needs kids.

Mia Farrow

#29. There ain't a man in the world cares about a woman's past until he's thinking of her in his future.

Dru Pagliassotti

#30. From now on the architects would take over as the high preists of this bourgeois city.

Colm Toibin

#31. In the history of America, we've never had an energy plan. We don't even realize the resources we have available to us.

T. Boone Pickens