Sad Quotes

4787 Sad quotes by 2604 unique authors

Dr. Ambrose himself told Mark Nechtr...that the problem with young people, starting sometime in about the 1960s, is that they tend to live too intensely… — David Foster Wallace
Those who do not weep, do not see. — Victor Hugo
It was sad, like those businessmen who came to work in serious clothes but wore colorful ties in a mad, desperate attempt to show there… — Terry Pratchett
And then I felt sad because I realized that once people are broken in certain ways, they can't ever be fixed, and this is something… — Douglas Coupland
You don't know who is important to you until you actually lose them. — Mahatma Gandhi
I called to wish you an unhappy birthday because you're evil and you lie and if you should die I may feel slightly sad, but… — Steven Morrissey
the colour of my soul is iron-grey and sad bats wheel about the steeple of my dreams. — Claude Debussy
Certain voices hold this odd pull on our heartstrings. They are like sad oboes or something, something that makes you want to throw all your… — Jonathan Goldstein
Then what is magic for?" Prince Lír demanded wildly. "What use is wizardry if it cannot save a unicorn?" He gripped the magician's shoulder hard,… — Peter S. Beagle
It's a sad day when you find out that it's not accident or time or fortune, but just yourself that kept things from you. — Lillian Hellman
Giving to other people makes me feel alive. Not my car or my house. Not what I look like in the mirror. When I give… — Mitch Albom
Some feelings sink so deep into the heart that only loneliness can help you find them again. Some truths are so painful that only shame… — Gregory David Roberts
I love Evensong. There's something sad and essentially English about it. — Barbara Pym
You really love her don't you," she said. With all my heart." She looked as sad as I'd ever seen her. What's your heart telling… — Nicholas Sparks
Have you ever lost someone you love and wanted one more conversation, one more chance to make up for the time when you thought they… — Mitch Albom
I asked the Zebra, are you black with white stripes? Or white with black stripes? And the zebra asked me, Are you good with bad… — Shel Silverstein
Life is both sad and solemn. We are led into a wonderful world, we meet one another here, greet each other---and wander together for a… — Jostein Gaarder
Most of the girls my age, or even younger, have babies. They appear way too young to be married, till you look in their eyes.… — Barbara Kingsolver
Melancholy is sadness that has taken on lightness. — Italo Calvino
A glooming peace this morning with it brings; The sun, for sorrow, will not show his head: Go hence, to have more talk of these… — William Shakespeare
Normally, in anything I do, I'm fairly miserable. I do it, and I get grumpy because there is a huge, vast gulf, this aching disparity,… — Neil Gaiman
The burning of a book is a sad, sad sight, for even though a book is nothing but ink and paper, it feels as if… — Daniel Handler
It is only by enlarging the scope of one’s tastes and one’s fantasies, by sacrificing everything to pleasure, that the unfortunate individual called Man, thrown… — Marquis de Sade
There's a strange sensation - you recall it from childhood - about sleeping in the afternoon. You rise into a different world from the one… — Jacquelyn Mitchard
Are the days of winter sunshine just as sad for you, too? When it is misty, in the evenings, and I am out walking by… — Gustave Flaubert

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