Saddest Quotes
265 quotes by 235 authors
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The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.
— Isaac Asimov
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A man willing to work, and unable to find work, is perhaps the saddest sight that fortune's inequality exhibits under this sun.
— Thomas Carlyle
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I made a series of wrong decisions about moderately recent books, and I've sold the rights to studios for ridiculous amounts of money and the…
— John le Carre
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One of the saddest realities is that we never know when our lives are at their peak. Only after it is over and we have…
— Jonathan Carroll
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Talented people are written off once they hit their 50s and 60s, and the saddest thing is, we just get better as we get older.
— Kim Cattrall
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The saddest thing I can imagine is to get used to luxury.
— Charlie Chaplin
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Two people who were once very close can without blame or grand betrayal become strangers. Perhaps this is the saddest thing in the world.
— Warsan Shire
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One of the saddest things about conformity is the ghastly sort of non-conformity it breeds; the noisy protesting, the aggressive rebelliousness, the rigid counter-fetishism.
— Louis Kronenberger
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May your happiest days of the past be your saddest days of your future.
— Laurence J. Peter
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The melancholy days are come, the saddest of the year, Of wailing winds, and naked woods and meadows brown and sear.
— William C. Bryant
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Granting our wish is one of Fate's saddest jokes.
— James Russell Lowell
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Oh the saddest of sights in a world of sin Is the little lost pup with his tail tucked in.
— Arthur Guiterman
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The saddest part about being human is not paying attention. Presence is the gift of life.
— Stephen Levine
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Consider the Koran, for example; this wretched book was sufficient to start a world-religion, to satisfy the metaphysical need of countless millions for twelve hundred…
— Arthur Schopenhauer
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It is my saddest day as an MP when my party brings in a bill which I'm fundamentally opposed to. I'm very sad my party…
— Peter Bone
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The saddest moment in a child's life is not when he learns that Santa Claus isn't real, it's when he learns that Vince Russo is.
— Jim Cornette
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The saddest sight these days is the image of hundreds of thousands of children kidnapped and lured into being child soldiers from the age of…
— Roger Moore
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Even the saddest things can become, once we have made peace with them, a source of wisdom and strength.
— Frederick Buechner
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The saddest failures in life are those that come from not putting forth the power and will to succeed.
— Edwin Percy Whipple
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What I do now is all my dad's fault, because he bought me a guitar as a boy, for no apparent reason. ... I wrote…
— Rod Stewart
Who Wrote These Saddest Quotes
235 authors contributed a total of 265 Saddest Quotes, led by these top contributors: