Sad Quotes - page 2

Those who gave away their wings are sad not to see them fly. (Antonio Porchia)
I have a piece of great and sad news to tell you: I am dead. View quote
Jean Cocteau
How sad the world is, so beautiful yet so absurd. View quote
Irene Nemirovsky
The sad truth is that the truth is sad. View quote
Daniel Handler
a man does not cry because he is sad, he is sad because he cries. View quote
William James
I like to see flowers growing, but when they are gathered, they cease to please. I look on them as things rootless and perishable; their likeness to life makes me sad. I never offer flowers to those I love; I never wish to receive them from hands dear to me. View quote
Charlotte Brontë
At the end of what is called the sexual life the only love which has lasted is the love which has everything, every disappointment, every failure and every betrayal, which has accepted even the sad fact that in the end there is no desire so deep as the simple desire for companionship. View quote
Graham Greene
Wondrous is the strength of cheerfulness, and its power of endurance - the cheerful man will do more in the same time, will do it; better, will preserve it longer, than the sad or sullen. View quote
Thomas Carlyle
Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad. View quote
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
O suffering, sad humanity O ye afflicted ones, who lie Steeped to the lips in misery, Longing, yet afraid to die, Patient, though sorely tried. View quote
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
We lay on our backs looking at the ceiling and wondering what God had wrought when he made life so sad and disinclined. (Jack Kerouac)
I'd sleep and forget it; I had my own life, my own sad and ragged life forever. View quote
Jack Kerouac
What is sad for women of my generation is that they weren't supposed to work if they had families. What were they to do when the children were grown - watch raindrops coming down the windowpane? View quote
Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
I'm proud of my invention, but I'm sad that it is used by terrorists. View quote
Mikhail Kalashnikov
They say such nice things about people at their funerals that it makes me sad that I'm going to miss mine by just a few days. View quote
Garrison Keillor
Like many popular best-sellers, he was a very sad and solemn man who took himself too seriously and his art not seriously enough. View quote
V. S. Pritchett
How sad and bad and mad it was But then, how it was sweet. View quote
Robert Browning
The sad rhyme of the men who proudly clung To their first fault, and withered in their pride. View quote
Robert Browning
I have come to the conclusion after many years of sometimes sad experience, that you cannot come to any conclusion at all. View quote
Vita Sackville-West
For tho' I know he loves me, To-night my heart is sad; His kiss was not so wonderful As all the dreams I had. View quote
Sara Teasdale
The poem is sad because it wants to be yours, and cannot be. (John Ashbery)
Do not make best friends with a melancholy sad soul. They always are heavily loaded, and you must bear half. View quote
François Fénelon
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 what no other animal knows, that we must die. View quote
Don DeLillo
It's sad when someone you know becomes someone you knew. View quote
Henry Rollins
It is sad to grow old but nice to ripen. View quote
Brigitte Bardot