Sad famous quotes

You know that saying about how you don't know what you have until it's gone-I already did know what I had, and now that she's gone, I know even more.
-- A.S. King

#Sad #Breakup #Gone

It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
-- Albert Einstein

#Inspirational #Sad #Education

We are all so much together, but we are all dying of loneliness.
-- Albert Schweitzer

#Sad #Lonely #Loneliness

Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.
-- Ambrose Bierce

#Inspirational #Cute #Sad

Sorrow is one of the vibrations that prove the fact of living.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupery

#Sad #Sorrow #Vibrations

I stumbled out into the courtyard to try to flee my misery, but of course we can never flee the misery that is within us.
-- Arthur Golden

#Sad #Trying #Misery

The deep pain that is felt at the death of every friendly soul arises from the feeling that there is in every individual something which is inexpressible, peculiar to him alone, and is, therefore, absolutely and irretrievably lost.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer

#Sad #Death #Pain

A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer

#Sad #Men #Want

In the sphere of thought, absurdity and perversity remain the masters of the world, and their dominion is suspended only for brief periods.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer

#Sad #World #Dominion

Red is the ultimate cure for sadness.
-- Bill Blass

#Sad #Red #Cures

Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.
-- Blaise Pascal

#Inspirational #Sad #Religious

Behind every beautiful thing, there's some kind of pain.
-- Bob Dylan

#Sad #Beautiful #Pain

She said she usually cried at least once each day not because she was sad, but because the world was so beautiful and life was so short.
-- Brian Andreas

#Sad #Beautiful #Each Day

A wounded heart will heal in time, and when it does, the memory and love of our lost ones is sealed inside to comfort us.
-- Brian Jacques

#Sad #Memories #Heart

It is sad to grow old but nice to ripen.
-- Brigitte Bardot

#Inspirational #Life #Sad

I have learned now that while those who speak about one's miseries usually hurt, those who keep silence hurt more.
-- C. S. Lewis

#Love #Sad #Hurt

It is sad but unfortunately true that man learns nothing from history.
-- Carl Jung

#Sad #Men

Sometimes, indeed, there is such a discrepancy between the genius and his human qualities that one has to ask oneself whether a little less talent might not have been better.
-- Carl Jung

#Sad #Quality #Littles

They say time heals all wounds, but that presumes the source of the grief is finite
-- Cassandra Clare

#Sad #Get Well #Grief

We need never be ashamed of our tears.
-- Charles Dickens

#Sad #Sorrow #Tears

In the Book of Life, The answers aren't in the back.
-- Charles M. Schulz

#Life #Sad #Wisdom

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

#Happiness #Smile #Sad

It's easy to cry when you realize that everyone you love will reject you or die.
-- Chuck Palahniuk

#Sad #Rejection #Realizing

It's only after we've lost everything that we're free to do anything.
-- Chuck Palahniuk

#Sad #Freedom #Loss

If they tell you that she died of sleeping pills you must know that she died of a wasting grief, of a slow bleeding at the soul.
-- Clifford Odets

#Sad #Suicide #Grief

any fool can be happy. It takes a man with real heart to make beauty out of the stuff that makes us weep.
-- Clive Barker

#Love #Sad #Art

The funniest people are the saddest once
-- Confucius

#Love #Funny #Sad

They say it's better to bury your sadness in a graveyard or garden that waits for the spring to wake from its sleep and burst into green.
-- Conor Oberst

#Sad #Spring #Sleep

Oftentimes. when people are miserable, they will want to make other people miserable, too. But it never helps.
-- Daniel Handler

#Sad #People #Want

Sometimes it happens that a man's circle of horizon becomes smaller and smaller, and as the radius approaches zero it concentrates on one point. And then that becomes his point of view.
-- David Hilbert

#Sad #Zero #Men

It was one of those times you feel a sense of loss, even though you didn't have something in the first place. I guess that's what disappointment is- a sense of loss for something you never had.
-- Deb Caletti

#Sad #Disappointment #Loss

If you love something let it go free. If it doesn't come back, you never had it. If it comes back, love it forever.
-- Douglas Horton

#Love #Sad #Forever

Deep in earth my love is lying And I must weep alone.
-- Edgar Allan Poe

#Sad #Lying #Love Is

The best protection any woman can have... is courage.
-- Elizabeth Cady Stanton

#Motivational #Inspiring #Sad

Do not apologize for crying. Without this emotion, we are only robots.
-- Elizabeth Gilbert

#Sad #Robots #Emotion

Laugh, and the world laughs with you: Weep, and you weep alone. For the sad old earth must borrow its mirth, But has trouble enough of its own...
-- Ella Wheeler Wilcox

#Sad #Laughter #Being Alone

Sadness does not inhere in things; it does not reach us from the world and through mere contemplation of the world. It is a product of our own thought. We create it out of whole cloth.
-- Emile Durkheim

#Sad #Sorrow #Doe

Love means not ever having to say you're sorry.
-- Erich Segal

#Love #Sad #Sorry

No one goes straight to happiness after a breakup.
-- Estelle

#Sad #Breakup

There is some sadness for me now about acting because it used to be that there was a reverence for actors.
-- Estelle Parsons

#Sad #Acting #Actors

And lastly from that period I remember riding in a taxi one afternoon between very tall buildings under a mauve and rosy sky; I began to bawl because I had everything I wanted and knew I would never be so happy again.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald

#Happiness #Sad #Sky

"Don't you want to join us?" I was recently asked by an acquaintance when he ran across me alone after midnight in a coffeehouse that was already almost deserted. "No, I don't," I said.
-- Franz Kafka

#Sad #Midnight #Want

I expose slavery in this country, because to expose it is to kill it. Slavery is one of those monsters of darkness to whom the light of truth is death.
-- Frederick Douglass

#Sad #Country #Light

Nobody deserves your tears, but whoever deserves them will not make you cry.
-- Gabriel Garcia Marquez

#Sad #Stay Strong #Tears

There being in the make of an English mind a certain gloom and eagerness, which carries to the sad extreme; religion to fanaticism; free-thinking to atheism; liberty to rebellion.
-- George Berkeley

#Sad #Mind #Religion

When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his duty.
-- George Bernard Shaw

#Inspirational #Sad #Stupid

Write your Sad times in Sand, Write your Good times in Stone.
-- George Bernard Shaw

#Sad #Writing #Stones

She was no longer wrestling with the grief, but could sit down with it as a lasting companion and make it a sharer in her thoughts.
-- George Eliot

#Sad #Grief #Wrestling

When you're going through a breakup, you should just let yourself feel everything so you can get over it as opposed to pretending everything's okay and dragging it out.
-- Hannah Simone

#Sad #Breakup #Pretending

Hating people is like burning down your own house to get rid of a rat.
-- Harry Emerson Fosdick

#Inspirational #Funny #Sad

Why do people have to be this lonely? What's the point of it all? Millions of people in this world, all of them yearning, looking to others to satisfy them, yet isolating themselves. Why? Was the earth put here just to nourish human loneliness?
-- Haruki Murakami

#Life #Sad #Lonely

People do not like to think. If one thinks, one must reach conclusions. Conclusions are not always pleasant.
-- Helen Keller

#Sad #Stars #Thinking

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.
-- Helen Keller

#Sad #Flower #Ex Boyfriend

If misery loves company, misery has company enough.
-- Henry David Thoreau

#Love #Sad #Literature

In human intercourse the tragedy begins, not when there is misunderstanding about words, but when silence is not understood.
-- Henry David Thoreau

#Sad #Live Life #Silence

It's sad when someone you know becomes someone you knew.
-- Henry Rollins

#Relationship #Sad #Life And Death

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

#Sad #Men #Ideas

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

#Life #Happiness #Sad

Melancholy is sadness that has taken on lightness.
-- Italo Calvino

#Sad #Taken #Melancholy

Sadness is also a kind of defence.
-- Ivo Andric

#Sad #Sadness #Kind

Even when a river of tears courses through this body, the flame of love cannot be quenched.
-- Izumi Shikibu

#Sad #Flames #Rivers

I will not say, do not weep, for not all tears are an evil.
-- J. R. R. Tolkien

#Sad #Grief #Evil

It's funny, how one can look back on a sorrow one thought one might well die of at the time, and know that one had not yet reckoned the tenth part of true grief.
-- Jacqueline Carey

#Sad #Grief #Sorrow

My sister will die over and over again for the rest of my life. Grief is forever. It doesn't go away; it becomes a part of you, step for step, breath for breath. I will never stop grieving Bailey because I will never stop loving her. That's just how it is. Grief and love are conjoined, you don't get one without the other. All I can do is love her, and love the world, emulate her by living with daring and spirit and joy.
-- Jandy Nelson

#Sad #Grief #Loss

I know what it's like to have someone coming home who looks at you not in the way they used to in the old days, and I've seen my own face contorted with sadness and rage in the mirror.
-- Jane Birkin

#Sad #Home #Mirrors

She laughed so easily when she was happy. But also when she was sad.
-- Janet Fitch

#Sad

There is a joy in sorrow which none but a mourner can know.
-- Jean Paul

#Sad #Sadness #Joy

We couldn't imagine the emptiness of a creature who put a razor to her wrists and opened her veins, the emptiness and the calm.
-- Jeffrey Eugenides

#Sad #Suicide #Veins

I love you. I love you. I send this message through my fingers and into his, up his arm and into his heart. Hear me. I love you. And I'm sorry to leave you.
-- Jenny Downham

#Sad #Sorry #Love You

I'm having a bad day. I am not size six. My legs are not skinny as sticks, and dammit, someone's got to pay. I'm afraid that I can't satisfy myself and that my happiness depends on someone else. I feel weak, so you're gonna take the fall. You're so shallow.
-- Jewel

#Sad #Fall #Bad Day

I'll never wake up in a good mood again. I'm tired of these stinky boots
-- Jim Morrison

#Sad #Tired #Wake Up

How sad to see a father with money and no joy. The man studied economics, but never studied happiness.
-- Jim Rohn

#Motivational #Sad #Father

If it doesn't work out there will never be any doubt that the pleasure was worth all the pain.
-- Jimmy Buffett

#Sad #Pain #Work Out

In the English language there are orphans and widows, but there is no word for the parents who loses a child.
-- Jodi Picoult

#Sad #Children #Parent

We all want to do something to mitigate the pain of loss or to turn grief into something positive, to find a silver lining in the clouds. But I believe there is real value in just standing there, being still, being sad.
-- John Green

#Sad #Pain #Real

. . . owning a dog always ended with this sadness because dogs just don't live as long as people do.
-- John Grogan

#Sad #Dog #Long

She was a genius of sadness, immersing herself in it, separating its numerous strands, appreciating its subtle nuances. She was a prism through which sadness could be divided into its infinite spectrum.
-- Jonathan Safran Foer

#Sad #Lost Love #Grief

You cannot protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from happiness.
-- Jonathan Safran Foer

#Happiness #Sad #Believe

I am always sad, I think. Perhaps this signifies that I am not sad at all, because sadness is something lower than your normal disposition, and I am always the same thing. Perhaps I am the only person in the world, then, who never becomes sad. Perhaps I am lucky.
-- Jonathan Safran Foer

#Sad #Thinking #Normal

Why do beautiful songs make you sad?' 'Because they aren't true.' 'Never?' 'Nothing is beautiful and true.
-- Jonathan Safran Foer

#Sad #Beautiful #Song

Giving up on life is easier than going through the hard times to find the good.
-- Joseph Parker

#Sad #Suicide #Giving Up

If I can't feel, if I can't move, if I can't think, and I can't care, then what conceivable point is there in living?
-- Kay Redfield Jamison

#Sad #Depression #Moving

Behind every trial and sorrow that He makes us shoulder, God has a reason.
-- Khaled Hosseini

#Sad #Sorrow #Trials

March on. Do not tarry. To go forward is to move toward perfection. March on, and fear not the thorns, or the sharp stones on life's path.
-- Khalil Gibran

#Life #Sad #Moving

Solitude has soft, silky hands, but with strong fingers it grasps the heart and makes it ache with sorrow.
-- Khalil Gibran

#Sad #Spiritual #Strong

The whole world can become the enemy when you lose what you love.
-- Kristina McMorris

#Sad #Grief #Loss

Grieve not that I die young. Is it not well to pass away ere life hath lost its brightness?
-- Lady Flora Hastings

#Sad #Grieving #Passing Away

Heartbreak could be lived with if it weren't accompanied by regret.
-- Laura Kasischke

#Motivational #Sad #Heartbroken

There are wounds that never show on the body that are deeper and more hurtful than anything that bleeds.
-- Laurell K. Hamilton

#Sad #Depression #Pain

Don't cry over someone who wouldn't cry over you.
-- Lauren Conrad

#Love #Sad #Heartbreak

Good humor is the health of the soul, sadness is its poison.
-- Lord Chesterfield

#Sad #Depressing #Inspiration

The usual pretext of those who make others unhappy is that they do it for their own good.
-- Luc de Clapiers

#Sad #Unhappy #Usual

Since every death diminishes us a little, we grieve - not so much for the death as for ourselves.
-- Lynn Caine

#Sad #Grieving #Littles

All discarded lovers should be given a second chance, but with somebody else.
-- Mae West

#Love #Sad #Boyfriend

You don't know who is important to you until you actually lose them.
-- Mahatma Gandhi

#Life #Sad #Wise

When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love has always won. There have been tyrants and murderers and for a time they seem invincible, but in the end, they always fall.. think of it, always.
-- Mahatma Gandhi

#Inspirational #Motivational #Sad

A wise girl kisses but doesn't love, listens but doesn't believe, and leaves before she is left.
-- Marilyn Monroe

#Love #Sad #Anniversary

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

#Sad #People #Secret

The very ink with which history is written is merely fluid prejudice.
-- Mark Twain

#Sad #History #Historical

Imagine smiling after a slap in the face. Then think of doing it twenty-four hours a day.
-- Markus Zusak

#Sad #Pain #Thinking