Sad Quotes - page 71

See, Winter comes to rule the varied year,
Sullen and sad. (James Thomson (poet))

Right from when I was an amateur, I loved kickboxing. I used to feel sad because the game had no sponsors.

Moses Golola

Back o'er the deep I turn my longing eyes, And chide the wayward passions that rebel: Yet boots it not to think, or to complain, Musing sad ditties to the reckless main. To dreams like these, adieu! the pealing bell Speaks of the hour that stays not-and the day To life's sad turmoil calls my heart away.

William Lisle Bowles

The sad, fucking truth was that no matter who you are, you never, ever, get your fill.

Richard Russo

O Balder, he who fashion'd us, And bade us live and move, Shall weave for Death's sad heavenly hair Immortal flowers of love.

Robert Williams Buchanan

Now there is fame Of all -- hunger, misery, the incomprehension by the public -- fame is by far the worst. It is the castigation of God by the artist. It is sad. It is true.

Pablo Picasso

The sad truth is that without complex business partnerships between African elites and European traders and commercial agents, the slave trade to the New World would have been impossible, at least on the scale it occurred.

Henry Louis Gates

The only one interested in hearing your sad story is . . . you; and even you wish you didn't have to relive it again!

Guy Finley

You occupied my space. But because you were not in my present, when I looked into my future I saw . . . nothing. Isn't that sad? And stupid?

Jerry Spinelli

Some people can just let things go, but I can't, especially if there's something that worries me or makes me sad.

Greta Thunberg

Pythagoras, Locke, Socrates -- but pages might be filled up, as vainly as before, with the sad usage of all sorts of sages, who in his life-time, each was deemed a bore The loftiest minds outrun their tardy ages. (Lord Byron)

In the moonlight which is always sad, as the light of the sun itself is--as the light called human life is--at its coming and its going.

Charles Dickens

Listlessness to everything, but brooding sorrow, was the night that fell on my undisciplined heart. Let me look up from it - as at last I did, thank Heaven! - and from its long, sad, wretched dream, to dawn.

Charles Dickens

Saying Good-bye to the God of Disease (1) Mauve waters and green mountains are nothing when the great ancient doctor Hua To could not defeat a tiny worm. A thousand villages collapsed, were choked with weeds, men were lost arrows. Ghosts sang in the doorway of a few desolate houses. Yet now in a day we leap around the earth or explore a thousand Milky Ways. And if the cowherd who lives on a star asks about the god of plagues, tell him, happy or sad, the god is gone, washed away in the waters. July 1, 1958.

Mao Zedong

In some way impossible to ascertain, after so many years of absense, Jose Arcadio was still an autumnal child, terribly sad and solitary.

Gabriel García Márquez

This was his world, he said to himself, the sad, oppressive world that God had provided for him, and he was responsible to it.

Gabriel García Márquez

This sad reality, To know it couldn't be, That's Portugal and love in April! The music and the wine convinced me you were mine, But it was just the spring fooling me.

Jimmy Kennedy

Part of me is drawn to the nature of sadness because I think life is sad, and sadness is not something that should be avoided or denied. It's a fact of life, like contradictions are.

Robert Redford

"No war makes Johnny McCain a sad boy.”.

Ilana Mercer

"I am bored.” Who knows this? "I am angry, sad, afraid.” Who knows this? You are the knowing, not the condition that is known.

Eckhart Tolle

If you give a jest, take one.
Let all your jokes be truly jokes. Jesting sometimes ends in sad earnest. (James Burgh)

It's a sad thing that the march of time and evolution of mores can rob one of the ability to laugh at simple domestic abuse.

James Nicoll

It would be nice if things changed in the sense that they became more cosmopolitan, more inclusive, wider rather than narrower, with a kind of a view towards the future and a view towards many different kinds of people and people from different cultures living together. Because that's what a city really is about...That's the beauty of a great city. And the sad thing is, there was a time when you thought Bombay had it.

Jeet Thayil

What do sad complaints avail if the offense is not cut down by punishment.

Horace

I shall think of you Whenever I am most happy, whenever I am Most sad, whenever I see a beautiful thing. You are a burning lamp to me, a flame The wind cannot blow out, and I shall hold you High in my hand against whatever darkness.

Edna St. Vincent Millay

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