Sadder Quotes

It is sad not to be loved, but it is much sadder not to be able to love. (Miguel de Unamuno)
It's a sad thing not to have friends, but it is even sadder not to have enemies. View quote
Che Guevara
There is no sadder sight than a young pessimist, except an old optimist. View quote
Mark Twain
No sadder proof can be given of a person's own tiny stature, than their disbelief in great people. View quote
Thomas Carlyle
There's nothing sadder in this world than to awake Christmas morning and not be a child. View quote
Erma Bombeck
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 forever a harmonious conception of memory. View quote
F. Scott Fitzgerald
There are few sights sadder than a ruined book. View quote
Daniel Handler
Every single empire in its official discourse has said that it is not like all the others, that its circumstances are special, that it has a mission to enlighten, civilize, bring order and democracy, and that it uses force only as a last resort. And, sadder still, there always is a chorus of willing intellectuals to say calming words about benign or altruistic empires, as if one shouldn't trust the evidence of one's eyes watching the destruction and the misery and death brought by the latest mission civilizatrice. View quote
Edward Said
What about you? Are you happiest and saddest right now that you've ever been?" "Of course I am." "Why?" "Because nothing makes me happier and nothing makes me sadder than you. View quote
Nicole Krauss
my beerdrunk soul is sadder than all the dead christmas trees of the world. View quote
Charles Bukowski
He went like one that hath been stunned, And is of sense forlorn A sadder and a wiser man, He rose the morrow morn. (Samuel Taylor Coleridge)
Think long and hard about how you proceed, Nico di Angelo. You cannot lie to Cupid. If you let your anger rule you... well, your fate will be even sadder then mine. View quote
Rick Riordan
By the way, is there anything sadder than toys on a grave? View quote
Fannie Flagg
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 as you when all this's done, just a bit out of breath, a bit bruised and scratched, a bit wiser and sadder for it all. View quote
Shannon Hale
Only one thing's sadder than remembering you were once free, and that's forgetting you were once free. View quote
Leonard Peltier
My earlier poems were sadder than my poems are today, perhaps because I wrote them in confusion or when I was unhappy. But I am not a melancholy person, quite the contrary, no one enjoys laughing more than I do. View quote
Anne Stevenson
Half of me is this wacked-out comedienne who will do anything for a buck and a laugh. Well, at least for a laugh. But the other half is a lot darker, sadder and more pensive. It's the dark side that feeds the outrageousness and allows it to surface. I think that's true for anyone with comic flair. View quote
Faith Prince
Somehow, it seems that the sadder a song is, the happier I feel. The release of emotions that many would label as 'negative' is actually a liberating process for me. View quote
Grey DeLisle
I think there's nothing sadder than a pro athlete who plays past his prime. View quote
Lynn Samuels
Nothing is sadder than having worldly standards without worldly means. View quote
Van Wyck Brooks
Your children's losing battle with time seems even sadder than your own. (John Updike)
I can't sing. As a singist I am not a success. I am saddest when I sing. So are those who hear me. They are sadder even than I am. View quote
Artemus Ward
Every day we started fighting. Every night we fell in love. No one else could make me sadder. But no one else could lift me high above. View quote
Alexander Rybak
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 I couldn't go the whole way doing what I shouldn't, the way Doreen did, and this made me even sadder and more tired. View quote
Sylvia Plath
It were a real increase of human happiness, could all young men from the age of nineteen be covered under barrels, or rendered otherwise invisible; and there left to follow their lawful studies and callings, till they emerged, sadder and wiser, at the age of twenty-five. View quote
Thomas Carlyle