Sad Quotes
4787 quotes by 2604 authors
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Witnessing the extreme poverty in remote parts of Affrica can make you feel sad and powerless until you realize how little it takes to change…
— John Legend
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Every morning our newspapers could read, 'More than 20,000 people perished yesterday of extreme poverty.' How? The poor die in hospital wards that lack drugs,…
— Jeffrey Sachs
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Poverty makes you sad as well as wise.
— Bertolt Brecht
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I've met so many fans of daytime television who've watched the shows with their moms and grandmas and feel like they've known the characters their…
— Alison Sweeney
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The hardest thing is at the end you have to say bye to all these people who you have worked with for so many months.…
— Dakota Fanning
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This is the forest primeval. The murmuring pines and the hemlocks, Bearded with moss, and in garments green, indistinct in the twilight, Stand like Druids…
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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As one gets older being sad and miserable can become a bit of a habit. To counteract this, she suggests making a point of savoring…
— Rumer Godden
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It is easy enough to praise men for the courage of their conviction. I wish I could teach the sad young of this mealy generation…
— John Ciardi
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When I had my sheep, I was happy, and I made those around me happy. People saw me coming and welcomed me, he thought. But…
— Paulo Coelho
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A sad spectacle. If they be inhabited, what a scope for misery and folly. If they be not inhabited, what a waste of space.
— Thomas Carlyle
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Why is it that man desires to be made sad, beholding doleful and tragical things, which yet himself would by no means suffer?
— Saint Augustine
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It is very difficult to be wholly joyous or wholly sad on this earth. The comic, when he is human, soon takes upon itself the…
— Joseph Conrad
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Reminiscences make one feel so deliciously aged and sad.
— George Bernard Shaw
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The thing I try to get across to the writers - and I do a lot of writing, too - is that when I do…
— Chris Rock
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You see all these things that make you feel desperate or sad, but you realize changes can be made, and it doesn't take a lot…
— John Legend
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IT is reported of Margaret Fuller that she said she accepted the universe. "Gad, she'd better!" retorted Carlyle. Carlyle himself did not accept the universe…
— John Burroughs
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When you're happy you enjoy the music, but when you're sad you understand the lyrics.
— Frank Ocean
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Talk happiness. The world is sad enough without your woe. No path is wholly rough.
— Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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...Something about, 'I love my dad, I love my dad, makes me feel better when I'm sad ... I love you to the moon and…
— Peter Facinelli
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Actually, the moment of victory is wonderful, but also sad. It means that your trip is ended.
— Bill Toomey
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