Sad Quotes

4787 Sad quotes by 2604 unique authors

Christmas it seems to me is a necessary festival; we require a season when we can regret all the flaws in our human relationships: it… — Graham Greene
once upon a time all the rivers combined to protest against the action of the sea in making their waters salt. "When we come to… — Aesop
No sense of the irony of human experience, that we are the highest form of life on earth, and yet ineffably sad because we know… — Don DeLillo
But now I discovered the wonderful power of wine. I understood why men become drunkards. For the way it worked on me was not at… — C.S. Lewis
To be joyous is to be a madman in a world of sad ghosts. — Henry Miller
If I can't feel, if I can't move, if I can't think, and I can't care, then what conceivable point is there in living? — Kay Redfield Jamison
Americans have an inability to relax into sheer pleasure.Ours is an entertainment seeking-nation, but not necessarily a pleasure-seeking one....This is the cause of that great… — Elizabeth Gilbert
The tragedy of life is not so much what men suffer, but rather what they miss. — Thomas Carlyle
Ho! Ho! Ho! To the bottle I go To heal my heart and drown my woe Rain may fall, and wind may blow And many… — J.R.R. Tolkien
They say when you are missing someone that they are probably feeling the same, but I don't think it's possible for you to miss me… — Edna St. Vincent Millay
I can’t talk about my books. I have written them and tried to forget them. I have written once, and readers have read me many… — Jorge Luis Borges
Ignore those that make you fearful and sad, that degrade you back towards disease and death. — Rumi
I cannot express the uneasiness caused in me by this intrusion of mystery and beauty into a room I had at last filled with myself… — Marcel Proust
But listen to me. For one moment quit being sad. Hear blessings dropping their blossoms around you. — Rumi
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… — Ernest Hemingway
The tune was sad, as the best of Ireland was, melancholy and lovely as a lover's tears. — Nora Roberts
The sad truth is the truth is sad. — Daniel Handler
I will not say, do not weep, for not all tears are an evil. — J.R.R. Tolkien
It's everybody, I mean. Everything everybody does is so — I don't know — not wrong, or even mean, or even stupid necessarily. But just… — J D Salinger
And the story of love is a long sad tale ending in graves. — Jack Kerouac
Though defensive violence will always be 'a sad necessity' in the eyes of men of principle, it would be still more unfortunate if wrongdoers should… — Saint Augustine
One sad thing about this world is that the acts that take the most out of you are usually the ones that people will never… — Anne Tyler
I'll never wake up in a good mood again. I'm tired of these stinky boots — Jim Morrison
To let a sad thought or a bad one get into your mind is as dangerous as letting a scarlet fever germ get into your… — Frances Hodgson Burnett
When am I happy and when am I sad and what is the difference? What do I need to know to stay alive? What is… — Toni Morrison

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