Sadder Than You Quotes

#1. 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

#2. 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

#3. 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

#4. 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

#5. Only one thing's sadder than remembering you were once free, and that's forgetting you were once free.

Leonard Peltier

#6. I was still waiting for him to 'get' that. the longer I waited, the angrier I got. But most of all, the sadder I got.

Nicole Williams

#7. Poor gosling. It hurts to be lost. And worse to be home with no kind of homecoming ... I'll be lucky if I can do as well as you when all this's done, just a bit out of breath, a bit bruised and scratched, a bit wiser and sadder for it all.

Shannon Hale

#8. Checked out the mirror to see if I looked older, or sadder, or wiser. I didn't; I just looked tired.

Nora Ephron

#9. Well the country songs themselves are three-chord stories, ballads which are mostly sad. If you are already feeling sorry for yourself when you listen to them they will take you to an even sadder place.

Willie Nelson

#10. The days grow shorter, the nights grow longer,
The headstones thicken along the way;
And life grows sadder, but love grows stronger
For those who walk with us day by day.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

#11. Nothing is sadder than a child burdened by reality, after all. Those stories were our family fairy tales.

Veronica Montes

#12. I could hear everything, together with the hum of my hotel neon. I never felt sadder in my life. LA is the loneliest and most brutal of American cities; New York gets godawful cold in the winter but there's a feeling of wacky comradeship somewhere in some streets. LA is a jungle.

Jack Kerouac

#13. 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

#14. Nothing is sadder than having worldly standards without worldly means.

Van Wyck Brooks

#15. 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

#16. Every day, a little sadder, a little madder. Will someone get me a ladder?

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#17. Why were you happier when you were a kid? Because you didn't know anything. The more you know, the sadder you get.

Stephen Colbert

#18. There is no sadder sight in the world than to see a beautiful theory killed by a brutal fact.

Thomas Huxley

#19. If you let your anger rule you, your fate will be sadder than mine

Rick Riordan

#20. There is one thing sadder than to see one's children die; it is to see them leading an evil life.

Victor Hugo

#21. Altogether, a pleasant place, marred by activities of unpleasant people whose qualities, perhaps, are sad reflections of sadder environments.

Walter Greenwood

#22. Few sights in science are sadder than astronomers standing in the rain.

Dennis Overbye

#23. It never was any better, it never will be any better. It will only be richer or poorer, sadder but not wiser, until the very last day.

Walter M. Miller Jr.

#24. It were a real increase of human happiness, could all young men from the age of nineteen be covered under barrels, or rendered otherwise invisible; and there left to follow their lawful studies and callings, till they emerged, sadder and wiser, at the age of twenty-five.

Thomas Carlyle

#25. Is there anything sadder than the scrawniest little piece of uneaten chicken at a dinner party?"
"Hmm," said Jules. "Yes. The Holocaust.

Meg Wolitzer

#26. 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

#27. 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

#28. No sadder sound salutes you than the clear, Wild laughter of the loon.

Celia Thaxter

#29. 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

#30. 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

#31. 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

#32. 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

#33. Sadder than a ticking clock, the moments without you

John Geddes

#34. 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

#35. Others letting you down is ice cream and cookies compared with the rejection of your own soul. I don't know what is sadder, expecting myself to fail or being too scared to dream of success.

Alessandra Torre

#36. 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

#37. 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

#38. 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

#39. One should never see a drinking establishment well lit, he thought, it just makes it look even sadder.

Graham McNeill

#40. 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

#41. 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

#42. It was a day of winter east wind, and I had now for some time entered into that dreary fellowship with the winds and their changes, so little known, so incomprehensible by the healthy. The north and east owned a terrific influence, making all pain more poignant, all sorrow sadder.

Charlotte Bronte

#43. There are few sights sadder than a ruined book.

Lemony Snicket

#44. Melancholy is a sensual pleasure that is deliberately provoked. How many people shut themselves away to make themselves sadder, or to weep beside a stream, or choose a sentimental book! We are constantly building and unbuilding ourselves.

Gustave Flaubert

#45. 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

#46. It's sad to think that we've gotten to this that we actually have to think about how to go about finding a man. But what's even sadder is that some men make you feel guilty for looking.

Terry McMillan

#47. The wind had a voice as it came over the waves, and it was sadder than the end.

Stephen Crane

#48. But I did become sadder, and sadness gets boring after a while, for the sad person and for everyone around them.

Paula Hawkins

#49. The only thing sadder than hateful people's willingness to drag us down to their level, is our willingness to oblige.

Steve Maraboli

#50. 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

#51. 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

#52. 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

#53. 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

#54. There's nothing sadder than getting to the end of your life and saying, 'I didn't do it right'.

Lily Tomlin

#55. 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

#56. Nothing is sadder than an old whore.

Richard Bowes

#57. Some people can't have babies. It's sad but it's true. Their bodies aren't built for it. Some of those people also can't adopt babies. Just as sad, maybe sadder, and just as true. Their lifestyles aren't built for it. But most people want families. Most people need families.

Aaron Starmer

#58. I wondered which was sadder, leaving someone to cry after you were gone, or not having anyone who would miss you in the first place

William Ritter

#59. I love to sing big rock and roll songs; I love to sing country-pop stuff, and then I love to sing soft, sadder beautiful songs.

Elle King

#60. If I make a song where I'm happy, I sound completely mad - I think my voice is better-suited for sadder songs.

Jessie Ware

#61. My day had already had a good dose of bitterness, and I preferred to keep it from getting any sadder.

Maria Duenas

#62. 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

#63. She had entered her room as just an impossibly lovely girl. The woman who emerged was a trifle thinner, a great deal wiser, an ocean sadder. This one understood the nature of pain, and beneath the glory of her features, there was character, and a sure knowledge of suffering. She

William Goldman

#64. I know nothing sadder than a hunchback in love or an ugly woman full of romantic ideals.

Emile Zola

#65. It is sad not to love, but it is much sadder not to be able to love.

Miguel De Unamuno

#66. There's nothing sadder than cyberspace . . . but I've already said this.

Ruth Ozeki