Sad Quotes

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They weren't nice words he said. He could've lived a good life and died never having made a person feel rubbed down to bones and… — Shannon Hale
One day he said, "I'll tell this town How it feels to be an unfunny clown." And he told them all why he looked so… — Shel Silverstein
I've lived to bury my desires and see my dreams corrode with rust now all that's left are fruitless fires that burn my empty heart… — Alexander Pushkin
I look sad because I don't have the courage to escape from you. And I think I don't want to understand the truth: for you,… — Consuelo de Saint-ExupÃ©ry
How terribly sad it was that people are made in such a way that they get used to something as extraordinary as living. — Jostein Gaarder
Our true friends are those who are with us when the good things happen. They cheer us on and are pleased by our triumphs. False… — Paulo Coelho
We flatter those we scarcely know, We please the fleeting guest; And deal full many a thoughtless blow, To those who love us best. Laugh,… — Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Songs are as sad as the listener. — Jonathan Safran Foer
I am not sad, he would repeat to himself over and over, I am not sad. As if he might one day convince himself. Or… — Jonathan Safran Foer
You should eat a waffle! You can't be sad if you eat a waffle! — Lauren Myracle
Ester asked why people are sad. "That’s simple," says the old man. "They are the prisoners of their personal history. Everyone believes that the main… — Paulo Coelho
It is a sad thing to want for happiness, but it is a terrible thing to see another groping about blindly for it, when it… — Theodore Dreiser
The question, O me! so sad, recurring - What good amid these, O me, O life? That you are here - that life exists and… — Walt Whitman
Why do people have to be this lonely? What's the point of it all? Millions of people in this world, all of them yearning, looking… — Haruki Murakami
Did she ever feel nostalgia for any of her girlhood dreams? But life was made up of a succession of dreams, some few to be… — Mary Balogh
Perhaps this is what the stories meant when they called somebody heartsick. Your heart and your stomach and your whole insides felt empty and hollow… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez
He found it both sad and fascinating that only through an artificial universe of video images could she establish contact with the real world. — Arthur C. Clarke
You see, that is the sad, sorry, terrible thing about sarcasm. It's really funny. — Brandon Sanderson
Because what's the use of learning that I am one of a long row only - finding out that there is set down in some… — Thomas Hardy
I'm an ugly girl, My face makes you hurl, Sad I have it, I should bag it. Acne everywhere, Unwanted facial hair. I'm a relation… — Al Yankovic
It is a sad fate for a man to die too well known to everybody else, and still unknown to himself. — Francis Bacon
There were dreams once upon a time, dreams now all but forgotten. On sad days I dust them off and fondle them nostalgically, with a… — Glen Cook
Listlessness to everything, but brooding sorrow, was the night that fell on my undisciplined heart. Let me look up from it - as at last… — Charles Dickens
I was sad because I had no shoes, until I met a man who had no feet. So I said, "Got any shoes you’re not… — Steven Wright
The banjo is such a happy instrument--you can't play a sad song on the banjo - it always comes out so cheerful. — Steve Martin

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