Top 97 Sadder Than Sayings
#1. But youth isn't happy. Youth is sadder than age.
Ellen Glasgow
#2. My beerdrunk soul is sadder than all the dead christmas trees of the world.
Charles Bukowski
#3. Grey eyes that grow sadder than sunset or rain,
Fond heart that is ever more true
Firm faith that grows firmer for watching in vain---
She'll wait by the sliprails for you.
Henry Lawson
#4. Nothing is sadder than laughter; nothing more beautiful, more magnificent, more uplifting and enriching than the terror of deep despair.
Federico Fellini
#6. I have been sadder than any man could be: for nothing in the world was made for me.
Patricia Highsmith
#7. Few things are sadder than encountering a person who knows exactly what he should do, yet cannot muster enough energy to do it. "He who desires but acts not," wrote Blake with his accustomed vigor, "Breeds pestilence.
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
#8. Cry your guts out because nothing is sadder than an adult who forgets how to be a child.
Alison Espach
#9. Of all the horrid, hideous notes of woe, Sadder than owl-songs or the midnight blast; Is that portentous phrase, I told you so.
Lord Byron
#10. Moorehead is one of those sad people who go into teaching so they can be worshipped by the only people sadder than they are - students.
Josh Lieb
#11. I knew that the tears of adults were wetter, saltier, and much, much sadder than those of a child
Thomas Burnett Swann
#12. I breathed in and out, perfume and smoke, perfume and smoke, and we lay like that for a long time, until I heard the seagulls crying, sadder than a funeral, and I knew it was almost morning.
Judy Blundell
#13. I'm not sure I can think of anything sadder than a homeless person with a homeless dog.
Chris Bohjalian
#14. What about you? Are you happiest and saddest right now that you've ever been?" "Of course I am." "Why?" "Because nothing makes me happier and nothing makes me sadder than you.
Nicole Krauss
#15. My father's face, when he said that, dissolved into a stillness, a sad expression, sadder than human feeling.
Jonathan Safran Foer
#16. My earlier poems were sadder than my poems are today, perhaps because I wrote them in confusion or when I was unhappy. But I am not a melancholy person, quite the contrary, no one enjoys laughing more than I do.
Anne Stevenson
#17. A parting is sadder than a death, Ma always said, for two people are dead to one another and yet go on living ...
Caroline Pafford Miller
#18. What can be sadder than a discouraged artist dying not from his own commonplace maladies, but from the cancer of oblivion?
Vladimir Nabokov
#19. Do you think we make sad things into songs in order to hold on to the sadness or to banish it - I think it is to banish the sadness. So then if you write a happy song, is it not sadder than a sad song because by making it you have banished your own happiness into a song?
Sarah Ruhl
#20. There's nothing sadder than a book that hasn't been cared for, a book too broken to read.
Rin Chupeco
#21. By the way, is there anything sadder than toys on a grave?
Fannie Flagg
#22. No feature of the Obama presidency has been sadder than its constant efforts to divide us, to curry favor with some Americans by castigating others.
Mitch Daniels
#23. I think there's nothing sadder than a pro athlete who plays past his prime.
Lynn Samuels
#24. I am a divorced child, of divided, uncertain background. Within this division I - supposed fruit of their love - no longer exist. It happened nearly forty years ago, yet to me, nothing is sadder than my parents' divorce.
Sylvia Kristel
#25. The story seemed to start such a long time ago. It didn't fit into my brain, even. It started when i figured out how things could get broken ( ... ) It started when knowing was sadder than all of the things themselfs.
Ava Dellaira
#26. I think weddings are sadder than funerals, because they remind you of your own wedding. You can't be reminded of your own funeral because it hasn't happened. But weddings always make me cry.
Brendan Behan
#27. It is hard to laugh at the need for beauty and romance, no matter how tasteless, even horrible, the results of that need are. But it is easy to sigh. Few things are sadder than the truly monstrous.
Nathanael West
#28. There is nothing sadder than sitting in a car and having absolutely nowhere to go.
Jonathan Tropper
#29. Only a battle lost is sadder than a battle won.
Robert Jordan
#30. There's nothing sadder than buying bananas one at a time.
Rainbow Rowell
#32. Sadder than a ticking clock, the moments without you
John Geddes
#33. Sadder than the beggar is the man who eats alone in public.
Jean Baudrillard
#34. Nothing is sadder than someone who has lost his memory, and the church which has lost its memory is in the same state of senility.
Henry Chadwick
#35. Is anything sadder than a trainThat leaves when it's supposed to,That has only one voice,Only one route?There's nothing sadder.Except perhaps a cart horse,Shut between two shaftsAnd unable even to look sideways.
Primo Levi
#36. Tell me, is the rose naked or is that her only dress? Why do trees conceal the splendor of their roots? Who hears the regrets of the thieving automobile? Is there anything in the world sadder than a train standing in the rain?
Pablo Neruda
#38. Is there anything sadder than the foods of the 1950s? Canned, frozen, packaged concoctions, served up by the plateful, three meals per day, in an era in which the supermarket was king, the farmer's market was, well, for farmers, and the word 'locavore' sounded vaguely like a mythical beast.
Jeffrey Kluger
#39. The wind had a voice as it came over the waves, and it was sadder than the end.
Stephen Crane
#40. The only thing sadder than hateful people's willingness to drag us down to their level, is our willingness to oblige.
Steve Maraboli
#41. There is nothing more entertaining then leaving someone speechless. Yet, there is nothing sadder than realizing that person was incapable of retaining half of what you said, and will repeat the story all wrong to someone else.
Shannon L. Alder
#42. The world he saw was sadder than the one he hoped to find. But it wasn't near as lonesome as the one he left behind.
Kris Kristofferson
#43. There's nothing sadder than getting to the end of your life and saying, 'I didn't do it right'.
Lily Tomlin
#45. I know nothing sadder than a hunchback in love or an ugly woman full of romantic ideals.
Emile Zola
#46. There's nothing sadder than cyberspace . . . but I've already said this.
Ruth Ozeki
#47. Sadder than destitution, sadder than a beggar is the man who eats alone in public. Nothing more contradicts the laws of man or beast, for animals always do each other the honor of sharing or disputing each other's food.
Jean Baudrillard
#48. Every time I see documentaries or infomercials about little kids with cancer, I just freak out. It affects me on the highest emotional level ... Anytime I think about it, it makes me sadder than anything I can think of.
Kurt Cobain
#49. Nothing is sadder than a child burdened by reality, after all. Those stories were our family fairy tales.
Veronica Montes
#50. Nothing is sadder than having worldly standards without worldly means.
Van Wyck Brooks
#51. There is nothing sadder than the cheerful letters of the dead, expressing hopes that were never fulfilled, ambitions that were never achieved, dreams cut off before they could come to fruition.
Barbara Mertz
#52. Can anything be sadder than work left unfinished? Yes, work never begun.
Christina Rossetti
#53. The old happiness is unreturning. Boy's griefs are not so grievous as youth's yearning. Boys have no sadness sadder than our hope.
Wilfred Owen
#54. If you want to feel the truest spirit of Christmas, go out and find someone sadder than you, lonelier than you, poorer than you ... and give what you can in a smile, in time, in compassion. The best Christmases always require the gift of self.
Toni Sorenson
#55. There is nothing tougher than a tough Mexican, just as there is nothing gentler than a gentle Mexican, nothing more honest than an honest Mexican, and above all nothing sadder than a sad Mexican.
Raymond Chandler
#56. There's some sad things known to man, but ain't too much sadder than, the tears of a clown when noones around.
Smokey Robinson
#58. The only thing sadder than unrequited love is being in a relationship where there is unrequited love.
Shannon L. Alder
#59. Is there anything sadder than the scrawniest little piece of uneaten chicken at a dinner party?"
"Hmm," said Jules. "Yes. The Holocaust.
Meg Wolitzer
#60. Few sights in science are sadder than astronomers standing in the rain.
Dennis Overbye
#61. There is one thing sadder than to see one's children die; it is to see them leading an evil life.
Victor Hugo
#62. If you let your anger rule you, your fate will be sadder than mine
Rick Riordan
#63. Only one thing's sadder than remembering you were once free, and that's forgetting you were once free.
Leonard Peltier
#64. She is sadder and sadder, and for a man there is no balm more soothing than the sadness he has caused a woman.
Milan Kundera
#65. No sadder sound salutes you than the clear, Wild laughter of the loon.
Celia Thaxter
#66. Nothing gives a sadder sense of decay than this loss or suspension of the power to deal with unaccustomed things, and to keep up with the swiftness of the passing moment. [Speaking of self-posed isolation in old age.]
Nathaniel Hawthorne
#67. There is nothing sadder in this world than the waste of human potential. The purpose of evolution is to raise us out of the mud, not have us grovelling in it
Andrew Schneider
#68. I wept more in Korea than in all the past several years put together. These experiences changed my life. I could never be quite the same again ... I felt sadder, older. I felt as though I had gone in a boy and come out a man.
Billy Graham
#69. I can't sing. As a singist I am not a success. I am saddest when I sing. So are those who hear me. They are sadder even than I am.
Artemas Ward
#70. Sadly, sadly, the sun rose; it rose upon no sadder sight than the man of good abilities and good emotions, incapable of their directed exercise, incapable of his own help and his own happiness, sensible of the blight on him, and resigning himself to let it eat him away.
Charles Dickens
#71. I have always said,
on the birth of dreams,
That they must form wings and spread.
For there is no sadder sight it seems,
Than that of dreams that are dead.
Trygvie Jensen
Trygvie Jensen
#72. I'm sorry for the anguished hearts that break with passion's strain, But I'm sorrier for the poor starved souls that never knew love's pain, Who hunger on through barren years not tasting joys they crave, For sadder far is such a lot than weeping o'er a grave.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
#73. Some people turn sad awfully young. No special reason, it seems, but they seem almost to be born that way. They bruise easier, tire faster, cry quicker, remember longer and, as I say, get sadder younger than anyone else in the world. I know, for I'm one of them.
Ray Bradbury
#74. There is no sadder sight than a young pessimist, except an old optimist.
Mark Twain
#75. There's nothing sadder to me than associations held together by nothing but the glue of postage stamps. If you can't see or hear or touch a man, it's best to let him go.
John Steinbeck
#76. Looking back on months and years of intimacy, to feel that your friend, while you still remember the moving words you exchanged, is yet growing distant and living in a world apart - all this is sadder far than partings brought by death.
Yoshida Kenko
#77. The heavens, with their everlasting faithfulness, look down on no sadder contradiction than the sluggard and the slattern in their prayers.
James Martineau
#78. No sadder proof can be given by a man of his own littleness than disbelief in great men.
Thomas Carlyle
#79. It is sadder to find the past again and find it inadequate to the present than it is to have it elude you and remain forever a harmonious conception of memory.
F Scott Fitzgerald
#80. There is no sadder sight in the world than to see a beautiful theory killed by a brutal fact.
Thomas Huxley
#81. The sun that brief December day Rose cheerless over hills of gray, And, darkly circled, gave at noon A sadder light than waning moon.
John Greenleaf Whittier
#82. People think it's terribly sad to spend Christmas alone, but it's no sadder, really, than spending any other day alone, is it?
Paula Hawkins
#83. Dear heart, we embrace the song and the story and all our gifts because the world has such great need, and because the world exceedingly rejoices, and because there is no sadder thing than to leave this world having never really shown up.
Carrie Newcomer
#84. And there's nothing sadder, nothing harder in the world than watching the person you love fall apart right before your eyes - and you can't say or do anything to change it.
Jay McLean
#85. We insignificant people with our daily words and acts are preparing the lives of many Dorotheas, some of which may present a far sadder sacrifice than that of the Dorothea whose story we know.
George Eliot
#86. I've never felt stronger than when I was packing up my room at Richard's place. [...] I've also never felt sadder. Sad but strong. You can be both. And I am.
Emery Lord
#87. He punches the steering wheel. And then he breaks. The boy I love breaks. And there's nothing sadder, nothing harder in the world than watching the person you love fall apart right before your eyes - and you can't say or do anything
Jay McLean
#88. Human comedy is more profound than tragedy. In tragedy we die and it is very sad. In comedy we avoid death, and it is even sadder.
Jennifer Stone
#89. There are few things sadder in this life than watching someone walk away after they've left you. Watching the distance between your bodies expand until there's nothing but empty space and silence.
Laura Zigman
#90. A sadder but wiser man is a thousand times more agreeable to meet than the feller that never makes a mistake.
Kin Hubbard
#91. There is no sadder tale in the annals of architecture than the virtual disappearance of the defining architectural form of the Modern Movement - publicly sponsored housing.
Martin Filler
#92. It was still early, and though the sun's lower limb was just free of the hill, his rays, ungenial and peering, addressed the eye rather than the touch as yet. There was not a human soul near. Sad October and her sadder self seemed the only two existences haunting that lane.
Thomas Hardy
#95. There's nothing sadder in this world than to awake Christmas morning and not be a child.
Erma Bombeck
#96. Defeating one ant had taken all my energy. (I don't think I have ever written a sadder sentence than that.)
Rick Riordan
#97. There is no sadder symbol of the crippling poverty in which millions of peasants were forced to live than the image of a peasant and his son struggling to drag a plough through the mud.
Orlando Figes
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