Sad Quotes - page 3

Usually when people are sad, they don't do anything. They just cry over their condition. But when they get angry, they bring about a change. (Malcolm X)
It would be wrong to refuse to face the fact that everything is fundamentally sick and sad. View quote
Thomas Bernhard
In that sweet mood when pleasant thoughts Bring sad thoughts to the mind. View quote
William Wordsworth
Sad fancies do we then affect, In luxury of disrespect To our own prodigal excess Of too familiar happiness. View quote
William Wordsworth
For of all sad words of tongue or pen, The saddest are these: "It might have been!" View quote
John Greenleaf Whittier
The Indian Summer of life should be a little sunny and a little sad, like the season, and infinite in wealth and depth of tone, but never hustled. View quote
Henry Adams
She Sadie Thompson was a girl who knew how to be gay even when she was sad. And that's important--you know. View quote
Marilyn Monroe
Traveling is a fool's paradise... I pack my trunk, embrace my friends, embark on the sea and at last wake up in Naples, and there besides me is the stern fact, the sad self, unrelenting, identical, that I fled from. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The hand that rounded Peter's dome, And groined the aisles of Christian Rome, Wrought in a sad sincerity Himself from God he could not free He builded better than he knew The conscious stone to beauty grew. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
'T is impious in a good man to be sad. View quote
Edward Young
He is ugly and sad... but he is all love. (Gabriel García Márquez)
Days of absence, sad and dreary, Clothed in sorrow's dark array, Days of absence, I am weary She I love is far away. View quote
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
I would not know how I am supposed to feel about many stories if not for the fact that the TV news personalities make sad faces for sad stories and happy faces for happy stories. View quote
Dave Barry
I hold the world but as the world, Gratiano; A stage where every man must play a part, And mine is a sad one. View quote
William Shakespeare
It is very sad for a man to make himself servant to a single thing; his manhood all taken out of him by the hydraulic pressure of excessive business. View quote
Theodore Parker
Nothing is more sad than the death of an illusion. View quote
Arthur Koestler
It makes one sad to see the sell-out of President Fox; really, it makes one sad. How sad that the president of a people like the Mexicans lets himself become the puppy dog of the empire. View quote
Hugo Chávez
What a sad era when it is easier to smash an atom than a prejudice. View quote
Albert Einstein
Few women, I fear, have had such reason as I have to think the long sad years of youth were worth living for the sake of middle age. View quote
Dwight D. Eisenhower
I like dogs. You always know what a dog is thinking. It has four moods. Happy, sad, cross and concentrating. Also, dogs are faithful and they do not tell lies because they cannot talk. View quote
Mark Haddon
Sometimes we get sad about things and we don't like to tell other people that we are sad about them. We like to keep it a secret. Or sometimes, we are sad but we really don't know why we are sad, so we say we aren't sad but we really are. (Mark Haddon)
But I don't feel sad about it. Because Mother is dead. And because Mr. Shears isn't around anymore. So I would be feeling sad about something that isn't real and doesn't exist. And that would be stupid. View quote
Mark Haddon
Live your life so that you'll have no regrets. No matter how hard, no matter how sad, if something is precious to you, protect it with both arms. View quote
Masashi Kishimoto
I always thought it was the saddest and most devastating ending. How you could have these enormous dreams that never get met. How without knowing it you could just make yourself smaller over time. I don't want that to happen to me. View quote
Meg Wolitzer
I didn't want to wake up. I was having a much better time asleep. And that's really sad. View quote
Ned Vizzini