Sadder Quotes
108 quotes by 99 authors
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Few sights in science are sadder than astronomers standing in the rain.
— Dennis Overbye
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No feature of the Obama presidency has been sadder than its constant efforts to divide us, to curry favor with some Americans by castigating others.
— Mitch Daniels
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It is sadder to find the past again and find it inadequate to the present than it is to have it elude you and remain…
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Is there anything sadder than the foods of the 1950s? Canned, frozen, packaged concoctions, served up by the plateful, three meals per day, in an…
— Jeffrey Kluger
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Well the country songs themselves are three-chord stories, ballads which are mostly sad. If you are already feeling sorry for yourself when you listen to…
— Willie Nelson
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I'm not a morose person; it's just that my best songs reflect on the sadder aspects of life.
— Robert Smith
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There is no sadder sight than a young pessimist.
— Mark Twain
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It is sad not to love, but it is much sadder not to be able to love.
— Miguel de Unamuno
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I went to bed and woke in the middle of the night thinking I heard someone cry, thinking I myself was weeping, and I felt…
— Ray Bradbury
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my beerdrunk soul is sadder than all the dead christmas trees of the world.
— Charles Bukowski
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Nothing gives a sadder sense of decay than this loss or suspension of the power to deal with unaccustomed things, and to keep up with…
— Nathaniel Hawthorne
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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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Sadly, sadly, the sun rose; it rose upon no sadder sight than the man of good abilities and good emotions, incapable of their directed exercise,…
— Charles Dickens
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The trick. . .is to find the balance between the bright colors of humor and the serious issues of identity, self-loathing, and the possibility for…
— Wendy Wasserstein
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Some people turn sad awfully young. No special reason, it seems, but they seem almost to be born that way. They bruise easier, tire faster,…
— Ray Bradbury
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Only one thing’s sadder than remembering you were once free, and that’s forgetting you were once free.
— Leonard Peltier
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Every one of Joel's important songs--including the happy ones--are ultimately about loneliness. And it's not 'clever lonely' (like Morrissey) or 'interesting lonely' (like Radiohead); it's…
— Chuck Klosterman
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your letters got sadder. your lovers betrayed you. kid, I wrote back, all lovers betray. it didn't help. you said you had a crying bench…
— Charles Bukowski
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It is hard to laugh at the need for beauty and romance, no matter how tasteless, even horrible, the results of that need are. But…
— Nathanael West
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Poor gosling. It hurts to be lost. And worse to be home with no kind of homecoming...I'll be lucky if I can do as well…
— Shannon Hale
Who Wrote These Sadder Quotes
99 authors contributed a total of 108 Sadder Quotes, led by these top contributors: