Sunset is the saddest light there is.

It is sometimes said that scientists are unromantic, that their passion to figure out robs the world of beauty and mystery. But is it…

— Carl Sagan

The sacred lamp of day Now dipt in Western clouds his parting day.

— William Falconer

Figures dark beneath their loads pass down the far bank of the river, rendered immortal by the streak of sunset upon their shoulders

— Peter Matthiessen

The saddest thing is a messiah with no one willing to kill him

— Boaz Zippor

I think one of the saddest things that's happening to literature is that it's getting over-simplified by this diet of simple political ideas.

— Arundhati Roy

“The saddest thing of all was that their party represented a deviation from the conditions of the time. It was impossible to imagine that…

— Boris Pasternak

The happiest she'd ever been was with him, and the saddest. Was that the true test of love?

— Stewart O'Nan

Granting our wish is one of Fate's saddest jokes.

— James Russell Lowell

“Do they think that they have given us great pleasure by telling us that they hold our soul to be no more than wind…

— Blaise Pascal

The saddest part of love life is when you cannot live with or without the one you love.

— Anonymous

I have the saddest pregnancy cravings. It's just a sad, formal shrimp meal that I didn't even really enjoy that much.

— Esther Povitsky

Sometimes the saddest thing in world is loving someone who used to love you...

— Anonymous

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

— James Bernard Frost

So sad! This is the saddest part when you lose someone you love- that person keeps changing. And later you wonder, Is this the…

— Amy Tan

Life is the saddest thing there is, next to death.

— Edith Wharton