The Saddest Thing Quotes

#1. The saddest thing about falling in love is that sooner or later something will go wrong.

Unknown

#2. The saddest thing in the world is to see a man die wearing the forlorn expression of someone who has failed to fulfill his dreams.

Felix J. Palma

#3. ( ... ) and then I realized there was no one else to call, which was the saddest thing. The only person I really wanted to talk to about Augustus Water's death was Augustus Water.

John Green

#4. you are snakeskin
and i keep shedding you somehow
my mind is forgetting
every exquisite detail
of your face
the letting go has
become the forgetting
which is the most
pleasant and the saddest thing
to have happened

Rupi Kaur

#5. The saddest thing in the world was that human beings, for all their ardent striving and desire, could never achieve physical, emotional, or intellectual perfection. The species was doomed to imperfection; it thrashed forever in despair or denial of that fact.

Dean Koontz

#6. Perhaps the saddest thing to admit is that those who rejected the Cross have to carry it, while those who welcomed it are so often engaged in crucifying others.

Nikolai Berdyaev

#7. The saddest thing was actually getting fed up with one another. It's like growing up in a family. When you get to a certain age, you want to go off and get your own girl and your own car, split up a bit.

George Harrison

#8. There were a lot of areas we didn't cover that I'm hoping to cover if we do some specials. One is to see more of Patsy's home and her home life, which is just the saddest thing.

Jennifer Saunders

#9. The saddest thing in life is to marry a woman who looks like a cook
and isn't.

Evan Esar

#10. My father always said, 'The saddest thing in life is wasted talent.'

Chazz Palminteri

#11. It would be the saddest thing to me, princess. To walk separately from you, when the ground will let us go as we always did. Beatrice

Kazuo Ishiguro

#12. Did you ever see a one eyed woman cry? You know the saddest thing about the woman, the tears don't come out just one eye.

Gary B.B. Coleman

#13. The saddest thing about myself is that I never read a book. I never got the habit.

Anthony Newley

#14. The saddest thing one meets is a nominal Christian.

Amy Carmichael

#15. The saddest thing that can happen to a person is to find out their memories are lies.

Juan Gabriel Vasquez

#16. The saddest thing is there won't be anyone to miss us when we're gone. No family, no friends, no one waiting at home."
"It's better that way," I said. "It'll be easier for me, knowing my death doesn't add to anyone's pain."
"If you can't give anyone pain, then you can't give them joy either.

Jennifer A. Nielsen

#17. The saddest thing a girl can do is dumb herself down for a guy.

Emma Watson

#18. Have you ever seen a genius out there looking for a job? it's the saddest thing in the world. no one will hire him. there is only one place where he is always welcome- at the bottom.

Henry Miller

#19. And for a second she weakens, and the way she used to look at him flashes across her face, and then it's gone, replaced by near hate. It's the saddest thing he's ever seen. It's a tragedy.

Luke Smitherd

#20. Talented people are written off once they hit their 50s and 60s, and the saddest thing is, we just get better as we get older.

Kim Cattrall

#21. The saddest thing I can imagine is to get used to luxury.

Charlie Chaplin

#22. The saddest thing about old age is our idea of it.

Marty Rubin

#23. The saddest thing in life is to die without living.

Debasish Mridha

#24. The saddest thing about selling out is just how cheaply most of us do it for.

James Bernard Frost

#25. I made a series of wrong decisions about moderately recent books, and I've sold the rights to studios for ridiculous amounts of money and the films have never been made. That's the saddest thing of all, because they're locked up and no one else can make them.

John Le Carre

#26. The saddest thing about love, Joe, is that not only the love cannot last forever, but even the heartbreak is soon forgotten.

William Faulkner

#27. 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

#28. The saddest thing of word or pen, To know the things that might have been.

John Greenleaf Whittier

#29. The saddest thing about betrayal is that it never comes from your enemies.

Anonymous

#30. The saddest thing is that this is often all we understand about ourselves: that so often, we live our neighbor's life, instead of our own.

Robin S. Sharma

#31. No-one, and nothing, could make me very happy. I was tough, which is probably the saddest thing you can say about a man.

Gregory David Roberts

#32. The saddest thing about ephemerals was that their little lives rarely held time enough for love.

Robert A. Heinlein

#33. The saddest thing is that every love has an unhappy ending, and all the more unhappy in proportion to how divinely it began, with what wings it first took flight.

Charles Baudelaire

#34. The saddest thing is an old bag lady, freezing to death in the snow on Christmas Eve, and the last thing she sees is a family in a nice warm diner getting beheaded by the Taliban.

Chris Onstad

#35. The thing about the human race is, It turns up against everything or everyone that it loses its faith and belief on. And the saddest thing to witness is, Most of it have lost its faith towards humanity.

Akshay Vasu

#36. While she cut the mushrooms, she cried more than she had at the grave, the most so far, because she found the saddest thing of all to be the simple truth of her capacity to move on.

Aimee Bender

#37. The saddest thing about death, whether it's our own or someone we care for, is when the world doesn't stop when we do.

Darnell Lamont Walker

#38. Sheffield had decided, centuries back, that the saddest thing about ephemerals was that their little lives rarely held time enough for love.) "Oh,

Robert A. Heinlein

#39. The saddest thing about our tendency to compare ourselves with one another is that it makes us compete with each other.

Renee Swope

#40. I think of the saddest thing I can and then add a sick dog to that. If I think of a sick dog from the beginning, I just stop there.

Sufjan Stevens

#41. The saddest thing is a retarded man who is crying and promising a broken egg that it will still be a chicken some day.
And that they'll play together in a field when it gets better.

Chris Onstad

#42. The more one needs God the more perfect he is. To need God is nothing to be ashamed of but is perfection itself. It is the saddest thing in the world if a human being goes through life without discovering that he needs God!

Soren Kierkegaard

#43. The saddest thing is when a guy is paying so much attention to the world and everything going by that he can't take the time for his own mother.

Evel Knievel

#44. The saddest thing is a little girl who is told by her own mother and father that she will never be pretty.
And then they open the front door, and on the porch is a little white suitcase, with all of her things in it.

Chris Onstad

#45. Two people who were once very close can
without blame
or grand betrayal
become strangers.
perhaps this is the saddest thing in the world.

Warsan Shire

#46. The saddest thing was that I think he really did care about me. But we were too different, he said. From different worlds.

Staci Hart

#47. The saddest thing about any man is that he be ignorant, and the most exciting thing is that he knows.

Alfred The Great

#48. The saddest thing in life and the hardest to live through, is the knowledge that there is someone you love very much whom you cannot save from suffering.

Agatha Christie

#49. Life is the saddest thing there is, next to death; yet there are always new countries to see, new books to read (and, I hope, to write), a thousand little daily wonders to marvel at and rejoice in.

Edith Wharton

#50. The saddest thing in life is wasted talent and the choices you make will shape your life forever.

Chazz Palminteri

#51. The saddest thing for a girl to do is to dumb herself down for a guy.

Emma Watson

#52. An animal in pain is the saddest thing on Earth.

Sanober Khan

#53. The saddest thing that befalls a soul is when it loses faith in God and woman.

Alexander Smith

#54. The saddest thing is that when I sat down to rehearse for the Pixies, I couldn't believe that I had given up something that I loved. Now I hold the drum at night and I want to go to bed with it.

Joey Santiago

#55. A Betrayal I cannot undo what I have done; I can't un-sing a song that's sung. And the saddest thing about my regret - I can't forgive me, and you can't forget.

Lang Leav

#56. The saddest thing in life is people with sight, but without vision.

Helen Keller

#57. In great misfortunes, people want to be alone. They have a right to be. And the misfortunes that occur within one are the greatest. Surely the saddest thing in the world is falling out of love
if once one has ever fallen in.

Willa Cather

#58. My school and my tribe are so poor and sad that we have to study from the same dang books our parents studied from. That is absolutely the saddest thing in the world.

Sherman Alexie

#59. Men and boys always want to go fight. They are always looking for a reason to go to war. It is the saddest thing. They have this abiding notion that war is fun. And no history lesson will convince them differently.

Kate DiCamillo

#60. I watched her on the stand in that unfamiliar suit and thought of the soft hairs at the back of her neck, warm and smelling of the sun, and it seemed an impossible thing to me, it seemed the vastest and saddest miracle of my life: I touched her hair, once.

Tana French

#61. What was the lifespan of these improbable loves? An hour. A week. A few months at best. The end was a natural thing, like the seasons, like getting older, fruit turning. That was the saddest part - there was no one to blame and no way to reverse

Miranda July

#62. One thing was certain: Human Time was the saddest, maddest, most devastating variety of time that had ever existed. She tried her best to ignore it.

Elizabeth Gilbert

#63. It was the truest, purest, saddest thing she had ever heard spoken. It was like hearing gospel for the first time, how it shocked you, how it made you afraid because you thought no one could see inside you.

Sarah Addison Allen

#64. the letting go has
become the forgetting
which is the most
pleasant and saddest thing
to have happened

Rupi Kaur

#65. It's the most extraordinary and saddest thing, the amount of talent out there not being seen.

Gedde Watanabe

#66. Chocolate is the great love of my life." "That is either the saddest or smartest thing I've ever heard." "Smartest. Chocolate has never let me down and it's brought me a lot closer to the elusive-O than any man ever has. Tastes better, too.

Genna Rulon

#67. Sometimes this fellow's music was like little colored pieces of crystal candy, and other times it was the softest, saddest thing she had ever imagined about.

Carson McCullers

#68. Silence from God is the loudest and saddest thing I've ever heard.

Lacey Sturm

#69. Reality's its own thing. And I'm not really into reality that much. I'm into this cinematic stylized reality that can comment on reality. It's like the most beautiful parts of reality and the saddest parts, but it's none of this middle ground.

Zack Snyder

#70. The saddest part about this whole thing is that while I was in there begging you to stay, I didn't fucking realize you were already gone.

Gail McHugh

#71. Writing this, I'm reminded that until I was quite old I too adhered to the romantic cult of madness. I got over it, thank God. Experience has taught me that this particular form of romanticism is pure stupidity, and that madness is the saddest, most dismal thing on earth.

Emmanuel Carrere

#72. Being a mother must be the saddest yet the most hopeful thing in the world, falling into a love that, once started, would never end.

Yiyun Li

#73. I think the biggest, saddest thing that happens in our lives is that we just don't embrace the things that could make it better because they don't seem to make it better at any given moment or we can't decide how to get across the aisle to that person.

Adam Duritz

#74. And they can't understand, what hurts more - Missing the other person, or pretending not to.

Khadija Rupa