Sad Quotes

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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
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
Poverty makes you sad as well as wise. — Bertolt Brecht
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Reminiscences make one feel so deliciously aged and sad. — George Bernard Shaw
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
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
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
When you're happy you enjoy the music, but when you're sad you understand the lyrics. — Frank Ocean
Talk happiness. The world is sad enough without your woe. No path is wholly rough. — Ella Wheeler Wilcox
...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
Actually, the moment of victory is wonderful, but also sad. It means that your trip is ended. — Bill Toomey

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