Sad Quotes

Love is ironic. Only when you hurt someone, they realise they truly love you. We shall always fall in love with the people who break our hearts.

People here are funny. They work so hard at living they forget how to live. : Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
Robert Riskin

Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad.

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.

Half of the secular unrest and dismal, profane sadness of modern society comes from the vain ideas that every man is bound to be a critic for life.
Henry Van Dyke

It is a time when one's spirit is subdued and sad, one knows not why; when the past seems a storm-swept desolation, life a vanity and a burden, and the future but a way to death.

Better by far you should forget and smile than that you should remember and be sad.
Christina G. Rossetti

We ask God to forgive us for our evil thoughts and evil temper, but rarely, if ever ask Him to forgive us for our sadness.
R. W. Dale

I seldom think about my limitations, and they never make me sad. Perhaps there is just a touch of yearning at times; but it is vague, like a breeze among flowers.

Reject your sense of injury and the injury itself disappears.

There are as many nights as days, and the one is just as long as the other in the year's course. Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness and the word 'happy' would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.

There is no greater sorrow than to recall in misery the time when we were happy.
Dante

Having a baby's sweet face so close to your own, for so long a time as it takes to nurse 'em, is a great tonic for sad souls.
Erica Eisdorfer

I could never have imagined that firing 67 people on national television would actually make me more popular, especially with the younger generation.
Donald Trump

One of the key problems today is that politics is such a disgrace, good people don't go into government.
Donald Trump

Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, And yet a third of life is passed in sleep.

My life has been one great big joke, a dance that's walked a song that's spoke, I laugh so hard I almost choke when I think about myself.
Maya Angelou

No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the far greater part of the members are poor and miserable.

Most successes are unhappy. That's why they are successes - they have to reassure themselves about themselves by achieving something that the world will notice.
Dame Agatha Christie

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

Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol or morphine or idealism.

Poor people cannot rely on the government to come to help you in times of need. You have to get your education. Then nobody can control your destiny.
Charles Barkley

Is it a crime, to fight, for what is mine?
Tupac Shakur

More than 820 million people in the world suffer from hunger; and 790 million of them live in the Third World.
Fidel Castro

In the Third World, there are 1.3 billion poor people. In other words, one out of every three inhabitants lives in poverty.
Fidel Castro

One of the greatest problems of our time is that many are schooled but few are educated.

I don't need drugs to make my life tragic .
Eddie Vedder

Use a make-up table with everything close at hand and don't rush; otherwise you'll look like a patchwork quilt.
Lucille Ball

How much better a thing it is to be envied than to be pitied.
Herodotus

In peace, sons bury their fathers. In war, fathers bury their sons.
Herodotus

Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons.
R. Buckminster Fuller

A woman would rather visit her own grave than the place where she has been young and beautiful after she is aged and ugly.
Thomas Hardy

I was very sorry when I found out that your intentions were good and not what I supposed they were.
Sitting Bull

An artist has no home in Europe except in Paris.

Happiness is mental harmony; unhappiness is mental inharmony.
James Allen

I think it better that in times like these a poet's mouth be silent, for in truth we have no gift to set a statesman right.

There is some self-interest behind every friendship. There is no friendship without self-interests. This is a bitter truth.
Chanakya

The gross heathenism of civilization has generally destroyed nature, and poetry, and all that is spiritual.
John Muir

Growing older is not upsetting; being perceived as old is.
Kenny Rogers

He felt the loyalty we feel to unhappiness - the sense that is where we really belong.
Graham Greene

Media is just a word that has come to mean bad journalism.
Graham Greene

A man builds a house in England with the expectation of living in it and leaving it to his children; we shed our houses in America as easily as a snail does his shell.
Harriet Beecher Stowe

So much has been said and sung of beautiful young girls, why doesn't somebody wake up to the beauty of old women.
Harriet Beecher Stowe

All those who seek to destroy the liberties of a democratic nation ought to know that war is the surest and shortest means to accomplish it.
Alexis de Tocqueville

The whole life of an American is passed like a game of chance, a revolutionary crisis, or a battle.
Alexis de Tocqueville

A bachelor's life is a fine breakfast, a flat lunch, and a miserable dinner.

Americans adore me and will go on adoring me until I say something nice about them.

Exaggerated sensitiveness is an expression of the feeling of inferiority.
Alfred Adler

Because power corrupts, society's demands for moral authority and character increase as the importance of the position increases.
John Adams

During the 1960s, I think, people forgot what emotions were supposed to be. And I don't think they've ever remembered.
Andy Warhol