SAD QUOTES

• We look before and after, And pine for what is not Our sincerest laughter With some pain is fraught Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.
  ~ Percy Bysshe Shelley ~
• He is a hard man who is only just and a sad one who is only wise.
  ~ Voltaire ~
• Do not assume that she who seeks to comfort you now, lives untroubled among the simple and quiet words that sometimes do you good. Her life may also have much sadness and difficulty, that remains far beyond yours. Were it otherwise, she would never have been able to find these words.
  ~ Rainer Maria Rilke ~
• I learned about life; It is sadness. I learned about happiness; It is madness. I learned about pain; It is reality... And then I learned about love; It is futility.
  ~ Khayelihle Bongiswa Gamedze ~
• A man existence is punishment enough, he can feel lonely, sad and mad sometimes but what makes one a real man is what he stands to be now for the future.
  ~ Felix Menda ~
• Every sadness there is a happiness.
  ~ Evy Lorix ~
• The thirst for adventure is the vent which Destiny offers a war, a crusade, a gold mine, a new country, speak to the imagination and offer swing and play to the confined powers.
  ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ~
• The saddest thing of word or pen, To know the things that might have been.
  ~ John Greenleaf Whittier ~
• The ideal life is in our blood and never will be still. Sad will be the day for any man when he becomes contented with the thoughts he is thinking and the deeds he is doing -- where there is not forever beating at the doors of his soul some great desire to do something larger, which he knows that he was meant and made to do.
  ~ Phillips Brooks ~
• The god of the cannibals will be a cannibal, of the crusaders a crusader, and of the merchants a merchant.
  ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ~
• Talk happiness. The world is sad enough without your woe. No path is wholly rough.
  ~ Ella Wheeler Wilcox ~
• Surely your gladness need not be the less for the thought that you will one day see a brighter dawn than this - when lovelier sights will meet your eyes than any waving trees or rippling waters - when angel-hands shall undraw your curtains, and sweeter tones than ever loving Mother breathed shall wake you to a new and glorious day - and when all the sadness, and the sin, that darkened life on this little earth, shall be forgotten like the dreams of a night that is past!
  ~ Lewis Carroll ~
• Our sweetest songs are those that tell the saddest thoughts.
  ~ Percy Bysshe Shelley ~
• Of all sad words of tongue and pen the saddest are these, what might have been.
  ~ John Greenleaf Whittier ~
• Laugh, and the world laughs with you; Weep, and you weep alone. For the sad old earth must borrow its mirth, But has trouble enough of its own.
  ~ Ella Wheeler Wilcox ~
• Laugh and the world laughs with you Weep, and you weep alone For the sad old earth must borrow its mirth, But has trouble enough of its own.
  ~ Ella Wheeler Wilcox ~
• It is a very sad thing that nowadays there is so little useless information.
  ~ Oscar Wilde ~
• In this sad world of ours, sorrow comes to all... Perfect relief is not possible, except with time. You cannot now realize that you will ever feel better... And yet this is a mistake. You are sure to be happy again.
  ~ Abraham Lincoln ~
• I pack my trunk, embrace my friends, embark on the sea, and at last wake up in Naples, and there beside me is the Stern Fact, the Sad Self, unrelenting, identical, that I fled from.
  ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ~
• I had rather have a fool make me merry, than experience make me sad.
  ~ William Shakespeare ~
• Heaven always bears some proportion to earth. The god of the cannibal will be a cannibal, of the crusades a crusader, and of the merchants a merchant.
  ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ~
• Half of the secular unrest and dismal, profane sadness of modern society comes from the vain ideas that every man is bound to be a critic for life.
  ~ Henry Van Dyke ~
• For of all sad words of tongue or pen, the saddest are these, "It might have been!"
  ~ John Greenleaf Whittier ~
• Better by far you should forget and smile than you should remember and be sad.
  ~ Christina Rossetti ~
• An ambassador is an honest man sent abroad to lie for his country.
  ~ Sir Henry Wotton ~
• Don't be sad for we will surely live again. We will live again as memories in the hearts of men.
  ~ Lil Destar ~
• Sad to say, for too many, the best thing about life, is that, sooner or later, it ends.
  ~ Wilhelmina Marie ~
• The first series I wrote, 'L.A. Candy,' was always meant to be a three-book series, so when I started out it was all outlined that way and by the time I was done with the third book, I had become so involved and the process and the stories, I was a little bit sad to be done.
  ~ Lauren Conrad ~
• Of course it's true: the public want to see young people - young people are the people who go to the cinema. It's a sad fact of life, but you've got to accept it and not whine about it.
  ~ Joan Collins ~
• I was very sad to hear of the death of Ronnie Barker, who was such a warm, friendly and encouraging presence to have when I started in television. He was also a great comic actor to learn from.
  ~ John Cleese ~
• I was very sad to hear of the death of Ronnie Barker, who was such a warm, friendly and encouraging presence to have when I started in television. He was also a great comic actor to learn from.
  ~ John Cleese ~
• I always think of the live show first, where the song is gonna go in the show. That's why they aren't sad songs. When I play, I want to make people happy, not sad. It's such a pleasure for me to do what I do, and I want other people to feel some form of that pleasure, too.
  ~ Jason Mraz ~
• If the world were a logical place, men would ride side saddle.
  ~ Rita Mae Brown ~
• It is sad not to love, but it is much sadder not to be able to love.
  ~ Miguel De Unamuno ~
• It is sad not to love, but it is much sadder not to be able to love.
  ~ Miguel De Unamuno ~
• We never taste a perfect joy our happiest successes are mixed with sadness.
  ~ Pierre Corneille ~
• We never taste happiness in perfection, our most fortunate successes are mixed with sadness.
  ~ Pierre Corneille ~
• Women get the attention when we get into the men's arena, and that's sad.
  ~ Billie Jean King ~
• 51st State was one that I loved doing because the character was so out there, and in a way I was sad to leave the character behind. I'm afraid I could never be that cool in real life!
  ~ Emily Mortimer ~
• 51st State was one that I loved doing because the character was so out there, and in a way I was sad to leave the character behind. I'm afraid I could never be that cool in real life!
  ~ Emily Mortimer ~
• For me, singing sad songs often has a way of healing a situation. It gets the hurt out in the open into the light, out of the darkness.
  ~ Reba Mcentire ~
• For me, singing sad songs often has a way of healing a situation. It gets the hurt out in the open into the light, out of the darkness.
  ~ Reba Mcentire ~
• I love jazz music and sad music. I'm a sentimental guy. I'm a romantic guy.
  ~ Fred Durst ~
• I love jazz music and sad music. I'm a sentimental guy. I'm a romantic guy.
  ~ Fred Durst ~
• I love jazz music and sad music. I'm a sentimental guy. I'm a romantic guy.
  ~ Fred Durst ~
• The sad and horrible conclusion is that no one cared that Jews were being murdered... This is the Jewish lesson of the Holocaust and this is the lesson which Auschwitz taught us.
  ~ Ariel Sharon ~
• Every war results from the struggle for markets and spheres of influence, and every war is sold to the public by professional liars and totally sincere religious maniacs, as a Holy Crusade to save God and Goodness from Satan and Evil.
  ~ Robert Anton Wilson ~
• Every war results from the struggle for markets and spheres of influence, and every war is sold to the public by professional liars and totally sincere religious maniacs, as a Holy Crusade to save God and Goodness from Satan and Evil.
  ~ Robert Anton Wilson ~
• Nobody wants to hear R&B. It's sad. If you want to be on the radio you got to stay young.
  ~ Jamie Foxx ~
• As a writer, or as a filmmaker, you have to present yourself, and part of what yourself is is what you're interested in, or what you think is funny, or what you think is sad, or what you think is horrible.
  ~ Charlie Kaufman ~
• As a writer, or as a filmmaker, you have to present yourself, and part of what yourself is is what you're interested in, or what you think is funny, or what you think is sad, or what you think is horrible.
  ~ Charlie Kaufman ~
• They say such nice things about people at their funerals that it makes me sad that I'm going to miss mine by just a few days.
  ~ Garrison Keillor ~
• In their heyday, the Pet Shop Boys were the Interpol of the Eighties, dressing up to sing really weird pop songs about lust and loneliness in the big city. They're low-pro now, not retro-worshipped in the manner of Depeche Mode, New Order, or The Cure, but you can hear the reason why - these guys are too sad.
  ~ Rob Sheffield ~
• In their heyday, the Pet Shop Boys were the Interpol of the Eighties, dressing up to sing really weird pop songs about lust and loneliness in the big city. They're low-pro now, not retro-worshipped in the manner of Depeche Mode, New Order, or The Cure, but you can hear the reason why - these guys are too sad.
  ~ Rob Sheffield ~
• I think often sadness is a great place to get songs from.
  ~ Sarah Mclachlan ~
• Don't Make Assumptions. Find the courage to ask questions and to express what you really want. Communicate with others as clearly as you can to avoid misunderstandings, sadness and drama. With just this one agreement, you can completely transform your life.
  ~ Miguel Angel Ruiz ~
• Don't Make Assumptions. Find the courage to ask questions and to express what you really want. Communicate with others as clearly as you can to avoid misunderstandings, sadness and drama. With just this one agreement, you can completely transform your life.
  ~ Miguel Angel Ruiz ~
• You know, the sad thing of post-9/11, which was of course horrific, was that the city in which I felt completely at home for two decades, suddenly people like us - brown people - were looked at as the 'Others.'
  ~ Mira Nair ~
• You know, the sad thing of post-9/11, which was of course horrific, was that the city in which I felt completely at home for two decades, suddenly people like us - brown people - were looked at as the 'Others.'
  ~ Mira Nair ~
• I am an optimist, unrepentant and militant. After all, in order not to be a fool an optimist must know how sad a place the world can be. It is only the pessimist who finds this out anew every day.
  ~ Peter Ustinov ~
• There are sadistic scientists who hurry to hunt down errors instead of establishing the truth.
  ~ Marie Curie ~
• The question I love to get asked is: 'What's the hardest part of your job?' And literally, the answer is probably real sad, but it's to just to be me. Like, it's really hard, because I think people, you know, have a set idea of what a pop star should be.
  ~ Kelly Clarkson ~
• I hope to die in the saddle seat.
  ~ Albert Ellis ~
• I felt a tremendous sadness for men who can't deal with a woman of their own age.
  ~ Michael Caine ~
• I felt a tremendous sadness for men who can't deal with a woman of their own age.
  ~ Michael Caine ~
• I think as an American society, when we're paying too many taxes or dealing with war, we don't want to see sad things at the movies.
  ~ Zoe Saldana ~
• I think as an American society, when we're paying too many taxes or dealing with war, we don't want to see sad things at the movies.
  ~ Zoe Saldana ~
• I think as an American society, when we're paying too many taxes or dealing with war, we don't want to see sad things at the movies.
  ~ Zoe Saldana ~
• I think as an American society, when we're paying too many taxes or dealing with war, we don't want to see sad things at the movies.
  ~ Zoe Saldana ~
• First of all, Saddam did not win the war, even though he says he did, I mean, you know, that's a joke and everybody in the world knows it.
  ~ Norman Schwarzkopf ~
• As far as Saddam Hussein being a great military strategist, he is neither a strategist, nor is he schooled in the operational arts, nor is he a tactician, nor is he a general, nor is he a soldier. Other than that, he's a great military man, I want you to know that.
  ~ Norman Schwarzkopf ~
• I happen to be interested in watching a face age. I like faces of women aging so it makes me personally quite sad. That's a beautiful gift from God. If people don't want to see that anymore then I won't be in anymore movies.
  ~ Debra Winger ~
• I happen to be interested in watching a face age. I like faces of women aging so it makes me personally quite sad. That's a beautiful gift from God. If people don't want to see that anymore then I won't be in anymore movies.
  ~ Debra Winger ~
• I happen to be interested in watching a face age. I like faces of women aging so it makes me personally quite sad. That's a beautiful gift from God. If people don't want to see that anymore then I won't be in anymore movies.
  ~ Debra Winger ~
• The monarchy is foremost a business, and it's important to them that the British public continue to finance the excessive luxurious lifestyles of the now quite enormous, wasteful and useless 'royal' family. I find it very sad.
  ~ Steven Patrick Morrissey ~
• The monarchy is foremost a business, and it's important to them that the British public continue to finance the excessive luxurious lifestyles of the now quite enormous, wasteful and useless 'royal' family. I find it very sad.
  ~ Steven Patrick Morrissey ~
• The monarchy is foremost a business, and it's important to them that the British public continue to finance the excessive luxurious lifestyles of the now quite enormous, wasteful and useless 'royal' family. I find it very sad.
  ~ Steven Patrick Morrissey ~
• The monarchy is foremost a business, and it's important to them that the British public continue to finance the excessive luxurious lifestyles of the now quite enormous, wasteful and useless 'royal' family. I find it very sad.
  ~ Steven Patrick Morrissey ~
• Los Angeles can be a really sad city.
  ~ Adam Lambert ~
• As repressed sadists are supposed to become policemen or butchers so those with an irrational fear of life become publishers.
  ~ Cyril Connolly ~
• My experience, with both my parents, is that grief has a lot of down, sad things, but I was also really emotionally raw, in the first year after each of them passed. Flowers smelled more intensely, my relationships were hotter, and I was more willing to risk. I was going for it a lot more. I was 'unsober' and I wasn't playing by my rules.
  ~ Mike Mills ~
• To me, sadness and humor aren't disrelated and humor is the best tool I've had against the sadness in my life.
  ~ Mike Mills ~
• Sadness is a super important thing not to be ashamed about but to include in our lives. One of the bigger problems with sadness or depression is there's so much shame around it. If you have it you're a failure. You are felt as being very unattractive.
  ~ Mike Mills ~
• My experience, with both my parents, is that grief has a lot of down, sad things, but I was also really emotionally raw, in the first year after each of them passed. Flowers smelled more intensely, my relationships were hotter, and I was more willing to risk. I was going for it a lot more. I was 'unsober' and I wasn't playing by my rules.
  ~ Mike Mills ~
• There's great sadness and life doesn't work out like you would want, on a lot of levels, but there's no need to feel all alone. This happens to everybody, so there's no self-pity. This is the ride that humans are on, and all of it is essential for our natural part of it.
  ~ Mike Mills ~
• If we don't make earnest moves toward real solutions, then each day we move one day closer to revolution and anarchy in this country. This is the sad, and yet potentially joyous, state of America.
  ~ Louis Farrakhan ~
• My dad was a homicide cop in the gay neighborhood in the city when gay neighborhoods were desperate, depressing, sad places run by the mob. The only gay people he'd met when I came out to him were corpses.
  ~ Dan Savage ~
• My dad was a homicide cop in the gay neighborhood in the city when gay neighborhoods were desperate, depressing, sad places run by the mob. The only gay people he'd met when I came out to him were corpses.
  ~ Dan Savage ~
• Well, I do feel that I carry the responsibility of representing my country wherever I am, and this responsibility came with the success that I had in last couple of years, not just myself but the whole group of tennis players that comes from Serbia. And athletes in general are, in this moment, the biggest ambassadors that our country has.
  ~ Novak Djokovic ~
• You can't have an up without a down, a right without a left, a back without a front - or a happy without a sad.
  ~ Harlan Coben ~
• Sometimes I wonder if suicides aren't in fact sad guardians of the meaning of life.
  ~ Vaclav Havel ~
• Beauty makes idiots sad and wise men merry.
  ~ George Jean Nathan ~
• Beauty makes idiots sad and wise men merry.
  ~ George Jean Nathan ~
• Beauty makes idiots sad and wise men merry.
  ~ George Jean Nathan ~
• I've been on Prozac for 12 years and I'm off it now. I know what it feels like to be excited and sad again. I haven't felt like this in 12 years I'm like a giddy little kid.
  ~ Jonathan Davis ~
• It's sad, actually, because my anxiety keeps me from enjoying things as much as I should at this age.
  ~ Amanda Seyfried ~
• It's sad, actually, because my anxiety keeps me from enjoying things as much as I should at this age.
  ~ Amanda Seyfried ~
• You know, I think we Indians are afraid to show and celebrate our happiness, lest things change around. But I feel that it's okay to be sad and okay to show when you are happy.
  ~ Shahrukh Khan ~
• You know, I think we Indians are afraid to show and celebrate our happiness, lest things change around. But I feel that it's okay to be sad and okay to show when you are happy.
  ~ Shahrukh Khan ~
• That is sad until one recalls how many bad books the world may yet be spared because of the busyness of writers.
  ~ Gore Vidal ~