Sad Quotes

4787 Sad quotes by 2604 unique authors

The sound of distant breakers made her heart ache with melancholy. She was in the mood when the sea has a saddening effect upon the… — Baroness Orczy
I have the choice of being constantly active and happy or introspectively passive and sad. Or I can go mad by ricocheting in between. — Sylvia Plath
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
I was trying to feel some kind of good-bye. I mean I’ve left schools and places I didn’t even know I was leaving them. I… — J D Salinger
We laugh and laugh, and nothing can ever be sad, no one can be lost, or dead, or far away: right now we are here,… — Audrey Niffenegger
I finally understood that no matter what I did, or who I found, I-he-none of us-would ever be able to win over the memories she… — Nicole Krauss
The bird that would soar above the level plain of tradition and prejudice must have strong wings. It is a sad spectacle to see the… — Kate Chopin
Nothing thicker than a knife's blade separates happiness from melancholy. — Virginia Woolf
The face of the moose is as sad as the face of Jesus. — Mary Oliver
It is a sad day when one looks back and sees that his largest regrets have become some of the most integral elements of his… — John Knowles
Everything is an illusion; that is the whole thing about it - illusion, immitation, a mirage. It makes me too sad. Its having like a… — Francesca Lia Block
My suffering left me sad and gloomy. — Yann Martel
The inside jokes weren't jokes anymore. They had become stories. Nobody brought up the bad names or the bad times. And nobody felt sad as… — Stephen Chbosky
After writing a story I was always empty and both sad and happy, as though I had made love. — Ernest Hemingway
To photograph people is to violate them, by seeing them as they never see themselves, by having knowledge of them that they can never have;… — Susan Sontag
We need never be ashamed of our tears. — Charles Dickens
Los Angeles, give me some of you! Los Angeles come to me the way I came to you, my feet over your streets, you pretty… — John Fante
Well, these sad and hopeless obstacles are welcome in one sense, for they enable us to look with indifference upon the cruel satires that Fate… — Thomas Hardy
She was wearing a pair of my pajamas with the sleeves rolled up. When she laughed I wanted her again. A minute later she asked… — Albert Camus
So sad, so fresh the days that are no more. — Alfred Lord Tennyson
Be still, sad heart! and cease repining; Behind the clouds is the sun still shining; Thy fate is the common fate of all, Into each… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
It makes me sad because I've never seen such--such beautiful shirts before. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
What does he say?' he asked. 'He’s very sad,’ Úrsula answered, ‘because he thinks that you’re going to die.' 'Tell him,' the colonel said, smiling,… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez
It's only after we've lost everything that we're free to do anything. — Chuck Palahniuk
I wondered why I couldn't go the whole way doing what I should any more. This made me sad and tired. Then I wondered why… — Sylvia Plath

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