Best Quotes About Sad (Top 93)
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When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love has always won. There have been tyrants and murderers and for a time they seem invincible, but in the end, they always fall.. think of it, always.
Mahatma Gandhi
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Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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To love. To be loved. To never forget your own insignificance. To never get used to the unspeakable violence and the vulgar disparity of life around you. To seek joy in the saddest places. To pursue beauty to its lair. To never simplify what is complicated or complicate what is simple. To respect strength, never power. Above all, to watch. To try and understand. To never look away. And never, never to forget.
Arundhati Roy
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Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart. The really great men must, I think, have great sadness on earth.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
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You cannot protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from happiness.
Jonathan Safran Foer
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Behind every beautiful thing, there's some kind of pain.
Bob Dylan
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Why do people have to be this lonely? What's the point of it all? Millions of people in this world, all of them yearning, looking to others to satisfy them, yet isolating themselves. Why? Was the earth put here just to nourish human loneliness?
Haruki Murakami
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You expected to be sad in the fall. Part of you died each year when the leaves fell from the trees and their branches were bare against the wind and the cold, wintery light. But you knew there would always be the spring, as you knew the river would flow again after it was frozen. When the cold rains kept on and killed the spring, it was as though a young person died for no reason.
Ernest Hemingway
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Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.
Jane Austen
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Any fool can be happy. It takes a man with real heart to make beauty out of the stuff that makes us weep.
Clive Barker
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Where you used to be, there is a hole in the world, which I find myself constantly walking around in the daytime, and falling in at night. I miss you like hell.
Edna St. Vincent Millay
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She was a genius of sadness, immersing herself in it, separating its numerous strands, appreciating its subtle nuances. She was a prism through which sadness could be divided into its infinite spectrum.
Jonathan Safran Foer
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Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.
Ambrose Bierce
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She said she usually cried at least once each day not because she was sad, but because the world was so beautiful and life was so short.
Brian Andreas
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I know my heart will never be the sameBut I'm telling myself I'll be okay
Sara Evans
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There can be no deep disappointment where there is not deep love.
Martin Luther King Jr.
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Tears are words the heart can't express
Gerard Way
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Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
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When you do something noble and beautiful and nobody noticed, do not be sad. For the sun every morning is a beautiful spectacle and yet most of the audience still sleeps.
John Lennon
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Life is never fair, and perhaps it is a good thing for most of us that it is not.
Oscar Wilde
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Hating people is like burning down your own house to get rid of a rat.
Harry Emerson Fosdick
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Each of us has his own rhythm of suffering.
Roland Barthes
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Life can be wildly tragic at times, and I've had my share. But whatever happens to you, you have to keep a slightly comic attitude. In the final analysis, you have got not to forget to laugh.
Katharine Hepburn
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Love means not ever having to say you're sorry.
Erich Segal
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Today I begin to understand what love must be, if it exists... When we are parted, we each feel the lack of the other half of ourselves. We are incomplete like a book in two volumes of which the first has been lost. That is what I imagine love to be: incompleteness in absence.
Edmond de Goncourt
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It's sad when someone you know becomes someone you knew.
Henry Rollins
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I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend.
Thomas Jefferson
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How do I change? If I feel depressed I will sing. If I feel sad I will laugh. If I feel ill I will double my labor. If I feel fear I will plunge ahead. If I feel inferior I will wear new garments. If I feel uncertain I will raise my voice. If I feel poverty I will think of wealth to come. If I feel incompetent I will think of past success. If I feel insignificant I will remember my goals. Today I will be the master of my emotions.
Og Mandino
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Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods.
Aristotle
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What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise
Oscar Wilde
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When I was younger, I could remember anything, whether it had happened or not; but my faculties are decaying now and soon I shall be so I cannot remember any but the things that never happened. It is sad to go to pieces like this but we all have to do it.
Mark Twain
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how sad and bad and mad it was - but then, how it was sweet
Robert Browning
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Nobody's going to do your life for you. You have to do it yourself, whether you're rich or poor, out of money or raking it in, the beneficiary of ridiculous fortune or terrible injustice. And you have to do it no matter what is true. No matter what is hard. No matter what unjust, sad, sucky things befall you. Self-pity is a dead-end road. You make the choice to drive down it. It's up to you to decide to stay parked there or to turn around and drive out.
Cheryl Strayed
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Sadness flies away on the wings of time.
Jean de La Fontaine
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The best protection any woman can have... is courage.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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Love can be magic. But magic can sometimes... just be an illusion.
Javan
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It would be wrong to refuse to face the fact that everything is fundamentally sick and sad.
Thomas Bernhard
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Nobody deserves your tears, but whoever deserves them will not make you cry.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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I declare to you that woman must not depend upon the protection of man, but must be taught to protect herself, and there I take my stand.
Susan B. Anthony
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If you haven't cried, your eyes can't be beautiful.
Sophia Loren
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Fashion is what you adopt when you don't know who you are.
Quentin Crisp
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Sometimes, only one person is missing, and the whole world seems depopulated.
Alphonse de Lamartine
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The greatest and noblest pleasure which we have in this world is to discover new truths, and the next is to shake off old prejudices.
Frederick the Great
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Better by far you should forget and smile than that you should remember and be sad.
Christina Rossetti
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I Love children, especially when they cry for then someone takes them away.
Nancy Mitford
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People cry, not because they're weak. It's because they've been strong for too long.
Johnny Depp
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Never let go of that fiery sadness called desire.
Patti Smith
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I'm sorry to say so but, sadly, it's true that Bang-ups and Hang-ups can happen to you.
Dr. Seuss
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We are born princes and the civilizing process makes us frogs.
Eric Berne
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I love walking down the street and seeing faces and drama and happiness and sadness and dirt and cleanliness.
Ric Ocasek
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Sometimes it happens that a man's circle of horizon becomes smaller and smaller, and as the radius approaches zero it concentrates on one point. And then that becomes his point of view.
David Hilbert
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Mourning is not forgetting... It is an undoing. Every minute tie has to be untied and something permanent and valuable recovered and assimilated from the dust.
Margery Allingham
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I stumbled out into the courtyard to try to flee my misery, but of course we can never flee the misery that is within us.
Arthur Golden
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Nothing is more sad than the death of an illusion.
Arthur Koestler
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It is sad to grow old but nice to ripen.
Brigitte Bardot
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Red is the ultimate cure for sadness.
Bill Blass
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Depression is the inability to construct a future.
Rollo May
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Sadness flies on the wings of the morning, and out of the heart of darkness comes the light.
Jean Giraudoux
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There is not enough darkness in all the world to put out the light of even one small candle.
Robert Alden
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the colour of my soul is iron-grey and sad bats wheel about the steeple of my dreams.
Claude Debussy
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How unhappy is he who cannot forgive himself.
Publilius Syrus
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There are two types of people in the world, and I'm one of them.
Aaron Allston
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My feeling is that there is nothing in life but refraining from hurting others, and comforting those who are sad.
Olive Schreiner
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Vegas means comedy, tragedy, happiness and sadness all at the same time.
Artie Lange
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The essence of romantic love is that wonderful beginning, after which sadness and impossibility may become the rule.
Anita Brookner
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When the dog bites, when the bee stings, when I'm feeling sad, I simply remember my favorite things and then I don't feel so bad.
Oscar Hammerstein II
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Nothing is miserable unless you think it so.
Boethius
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I found more joy in sorrow than you could find in joy.
Sara Teasdale
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Proud people breed sad sorrows for themselves.
Emily Bronte
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The sorrow which has no vent in tears may make other organs weep.
Henry Maudsley
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In depression . . . faith in deliverance, in ultimate restoration, is absent. The pain is unrelenting, and what makes the condition intolerable is the foreknowledge that no remedy will come - - not in a day, an hour, a month, or a minute . . . It is hopelessness even more than pain that crushes the soul.
William Styron
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May God have mercy on my soul for the deaths on my name and for the treachery I committed. Betrayal of God and country, what a sad and horrible thing it is.
E. Howard Hunt
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As memory may be a paradise from which we cannot be driven, it may also be a hell from which we cannot escape.
John Lancaster Spalding
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I believe that if I should die, and you were to walk near my grave, from the very depths of the earth I would hear your footsteps.
Benito Perez Galdos
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If I should go before the rest of you Break not a flower nor inscribe a stone, Nor when I'm gone speak in a Sunday voice But be the usual selves that I have known. Weep if you must, Parting is hell, But life goes on, So sing as well.
Joyce Grenfell
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A feeling of sadness and longing, That is not akin to pain, And resembles sorrow only As the mist resembles the rain.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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The sad souls of those who lived without blame and without praise.
Dante Alighieri
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It's a sad and stupid thing to have to proclaim yourself a revolutionary just to be a decent man.
David Harris
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There are hurts so deep that one cannot reach them or heal them with words.
Kate Seredy
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Keep it simple, keep it sexy, keep it sad.
Mitch Miller
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Since every death diminishes us a little, we grieve - not so much for the death as for ourselves
Lynn Caine
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It's very simple, I just tell my sad story, and people weep.
Corazon Aquino
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Friendship needs no words - it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.
Dag Hammarskjold
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In my experience, the best creative work is never done when one is unhappy.
Albert Einstein
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Whoever despises himself nonetheless respects himself as one who despises.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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The cure for grief is motion.
Elbert Hubbard
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Poverty makes you wise but it's a curse.
Bertolt Brecht
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For seldom shall she hear a tale
So said, so tender, yet so true.
William Shenstone
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No sadder proof can be given by a man of his own littleness than disbelief in great men.
Thomas Carlyle
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When You're young, you get sad, and you get high.
Ryan Adams
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I had rather be a kitten and cry mew Than one of these same metre ballet-mongers.
William Shakespeare
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The poem is sad because it wants to be yours, and cannot be.
John Ashbery
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Those who gave away their wings are sad not to see them fly.
Antonio Porchia