487 Sad Quotes that will relieve your pain

Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.

Khalil Gibran

It’s sad to know I’m done. But looking back, I’ve got a lot of great memories.

Bonnie Blair

Tears come from the heart and not from the brain.

Leonardo da Vinci

The good times of today, are the sad thoughts of tomorrow.

Bob Marley

Let my soul smile through my heart and my heart smile through my eyes, that I may scatter rich smiles in sad hearts.

Paramahansa Yogananda

Heavy hearts, like heavy clouds in the sky, are best relieved by the letting of a little water.

Christopher Morley

The word ‘happy’ would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.

Carl Jung

You can never control who you fall in love with, even when you’re in the most sad, confused time of your life. You don’t fall in love with people because they’re fun. It just happens.

Kirsten Dunst

It’s time to say goodbye, but I think goodbyes are sad and I’d much rather say hello. Hello to a new adventure.

Ernie Harwell

It’s sad when someone you know becomes someone you knew.

Henry Rollins

Every human walks around with a certain kind of sadness. They may not wear it on their sleeves, but it’s there if you look deep.

Taraji P. Henson

First, accept sadness. Realize that without losing, winning isn’t so great.

Alyssa Milano

I do believe that if you haven’t learnt about sadness, you cannot appreciate happiness.

Nana Mouskouri

Some days are just bad days, that’s all. You have to experience sadness to know happiness, and I remind myself that not every day is going to be a good day, that’s just the way it is!

Dita Von Teese

Never make a decision when you are upset, sad, jealous or in love.

Mario Teguh

I had sadness for breakfast.

Andy Milonakis

Christmas makes everything twice as sad.

Douglas Coupland

I don’t have many sad days.

Billy Graham

Red is the ultimate cure for sadness.

Bill Blass

Sadness is also a kind of defence.

Ivo Andric

Proud people breed sad sorrows for themselves.

Emily Bronte

I was a very sad little girl.

Julie Andrews

Sad to say, negative advertising really works.

Jerry Della Femina

Depression is the inability to construct a future.

Rollo May

Sadness flies away on the wings of time.

Jean de La Fontaine

Nobody understands another’s sorrow, and nobody another’s joy.

Franz Schubert

Sadness is but a wall between two gardens.

Khalil Gibran

Pageants are already ridiculous and sad, I think.

Casey Wilson

I think I drift toward sad love songs.

Benmont Tench

I’m sad I’m not in ‘The Purge 2.’

Lena Headey

Tears are the summer showers to the soul.

Alfred Austin

I’m not sad at all about turning 40.

Halle Berry

I’ll always be sad that my marriage ended.

Shania Twain

This is a sick business. It’s so sad.

Sia

Los Angeles can be a really sad city.

Adam Lambert

A sad soul can kill quicker than a germ.

John Steinbeck

There is no sadder sight than a young pessimist.

Mark Twain

In deep sadness there is no place for sentimentality.

William S. Burroughs

A teardrop on earth summons the King of heaven.

Charles R. Swindoll

One must not let oneself be overwhelmed by sadness.

Jackie Kennedy

The sad truth is that excellence makes people nervous.

Shana Alexander

Don’t eat because you’re angry, bored, sad, or stressed.

John Rampton

I actually get quite sad when I smell bacon.

Jane Velez-Mitchell

So few people read poetry. That’s sad, isn’t it?

Jerry Hall

Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

It is sad to grow old but nice to ripen.

Brigitte Bardot

I don’t wanta do any Blues or any sad songs.

Bob Livingston

I remembered myself as an unpopular and rather sad kid.

Sydney Pollack

Fashion is that thing that saved me from being sad.

Lady Gaga

It doesn’t hurt to feel sad from time to time.

Willie Nelson

It’s sad that you don’t see drivers being real people.

Jacques Villeneuve

I end up doing selfies ’cause I am so sad.

Rita Ora

People just get kicks out of making other people sad.

Maisie Williams

I don’t ever want to be sad about my life.

Tammy Duckworth

Nothing is more sad than the death of an illusion.

Arthur Koestler

Crying is cleansing. There’s a reason for tears, happiness or sadness.

Dionne Warwick

To have felt too much is to end in feeling nothing.

Dorothy Thompson

It’s sad that we never get trained to leave assumptions behind.

Sebastian Thrun

It’s a sad state when more people retweet than buy records.

Noel Gallagher

It’s hard to watch your life unfold, and sad. Life changes.

Cilla Black

I eat my feelings – when I’m happy, when I’m sad.

Chrissy Metz

It can be really powerful to write something when you’re sad.

Kathryn Stockett

When I talk about sad things, I talk about sad things.

Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

I’m not tired of who I am. That would be sad!

Diane von Furstenberg

The rose and the thorn, and sorrow and gladness are linked together.

Saadi

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

Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield

I don’t like people around me sad. I like making people happy.

Tyler, The Creator

The walls we build around us to keep sadness out also keeps out the joy.

Jim Rohn

I’m not a sad person, upset the whole time, but I seem to be quite emotional.

Freddie Highmore

Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us sorry but wise.

H. G. Wells

Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow, it only saps today of its joy.

Leo Buscaglia

You left and I cried tears of blood. My sorrow grows. Its not just that You left. But when You left my eyes went with You. Now, how will I cry?

Rumi

For me, singing sad songs often has a way of healing a situation. It gets the hurt out in the open into the light, out of the darkness.

Reba McEntire

The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil.

Hannah Arendt

Every word, facial expression, gesture, or action on the part of a parent gives the child some message about self-worth. It is sad that so many parents don’t realize what messages they are sending.

Virginia Satir

We never taste happiness in perfection, our most fortunate successes are mixed with sadness.

Pierre Corneille

I know what I look like – a weird, sad clown puppet. I’m fine with that.

Rainn Wilson

Dying is only one thing to be sad over… Living unhappily is something else.

Morrie Schwartz

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

If we could read the secret history of our enemies we should find in each man’s life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

If my world were to cave in tomorrow, I would look back on all the pleasures, excitements and worthwhilenesses I have been lucky enough to have had. Not the sadness, not my miscarriages or my father leaving home, but the joy of everything else. It will have been enough.

Audrey Hepburn

It is sad not to love, but it is much sadder not to be able to love.

Miguel de Unamuno

I’ve cried, and you’d think I’d be better for it, but the sadness just sleeps, and it stays in my spine the rest of my life.

Conor Oberst

For all sad words of tongue and pen, The saddest are these, ‘It might have been’.

John Greenleaf Whittier

Above all things let us never forget that mankind constitutes one great brotherhood; all born to encounter suffering and sorrow, and therefore bound to sympathize with each other.

Albert Pike

Every life has a measure of sorrow, and sometimes this is what awakens us.

Steven Tyler

Oh, I am very weary, Though tears no longer flow; My eyes are tired of weeping, My heart is sick of woe.

Anne Bronte

Hear me, my chiefs! I am tired. My heart is sick and sad. From where the sun now stands, I will fight no more forever.

Chief Joseph

The tragedy of life is in what dies inside a man while he lives – the death of genuine feeling, the death of inspired response, the awareness that makes it possible to feel the pain or the glory of other men in yourself.

Norman Cousins

When you’re happy you don’t always have to be laughing, and when you’re sad you don’t have to be crying; sometimes it’s the opposite. You laugh when you’re the most upset.

Freddie Highmore

Everyone can have their heart broken. Even if you know the relationship isn’t working, it’s still sad. Even in a bad relationship, they’re part of your life for a long time, and saying goodbye to that can be difficult.

James Marsden

The sad truth is that the civil rights movement cannot be reborn until we identify the causes of black suffering, some of them self-inflicted. Why can’t black leaders organize rallies around responsible sexuality, birth within marriage, parents reading to their children and students staying in school and doing homework?

Henry Louis Gates

Experiencing sadness and anger can make you feel more creative, and by being creative, you can get beyond your pain or negativity.

Yoko Ono

Participate joyfully in the sorrows of the world. We cannot cure the world of sorrows, but we can choose to live in joy.

Joseph Campbell

The sad duty of politics is to establish justice in a sinful world.

Reinhold Niebuhr

Everybody has a right to like or dislike anything or anyone. From a flower to a flavor to a book or a composition but it is very sad that in our country we actually fight over such things in an unseemly manner.

Ravi Shankar

The whole 1950s notion was find the right girl, get married, move to the suburbs and then hang out with the guys while she stayed home with the babies. I felt that was sort of sad.

Hugh Hefner

If we don’t make earnest moves toward real solutions, then each day we move one day closer to revolution and anarchy in this country. This is the sad, and yet potentially joyous, state of America.

Louis Farrakhan

I wanted to write a book that talked about the emotions of children, which is the rainbow. We all have moods. We talk about being blue when we’re sad, and being yellow when we’re cowards, and when we’re mad, we’re red.

Dolly Parton

The day you think there is no improvements to be made is a sad one for any player.

Lionel Messi

I was the class podiatrist. I never made it to class clown. I wasn’t funny enough. I would examine feet and prescribe and ointment. It was a sad childhood.

Gilbert Gottfried

I must have something to engross my thoughts, some object in life which will fill this vacuum, and prevent this sad wearing away of the heart.

Elizabeth Blackwell

But it’s a journey and the sad thing is you only learn from experience, so as much as someone can tell you things, you have to go out there and make your own mistakes in order to learn.

Emma Watson

I find it sad that by not talking about who I sleep with, that makes me mysterious. There was a time when I would have been called a gentleman.

Kevin Spacey

When this sad war is over we will all return to our homes, and feel that we can ask no higher honor than the proud consciousness that we belonged to the Army of the Potomac.

George B. McClellan

Poetry, I think, intensifies the reader’s experience. If it’s a humorous facet of the story, poetry makes it more exuberant. If it’s a sad facet, poetry can make it more poignant.

Vikram Seth

When my dad passed, there’s a lot of sadness right below the surface, and I think there will be until the day I die. So, writing sad songs helps it. And when I sing them, it’s pure therapy for me.

Ashley Monroe

It’s a sad man my friend who’s livin’ in his own skin and can’t stand the company.

Bruce Springsteen

Those who don’t know how to weep with their whole heart, don’t know how to laugh either.

Golda Meir

In this world, full often, our joys are only the tender shadows which our sorrows cast.

Henry Ward Beecher

Live by this credo: have a little laugh at life and look around you for happiness instead of sadness. Laughter has always brought me out of unhappy situations.

Red Skelton

The last few years have been my happiest. I’m happy in the years that most people are blue and sad and waiting to die. I don’t feel that a bit. Smiling has a lot to do with it. You can just lift your spirits by smiling a little bit.

William Proxmire

The ’80s were fabulous. The ’90s sucked, and the ’70s were just a sad, sad time in human history. Go 1980s! There’s something that’s just so cute about that time. And not just yellow nail polish and ‘I’m a loner.’

Jennifer Sky

I hold the world but as the world, Gratiano; A stage where every man must play a part, And mine is a sad one.

William Shakespeare

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

However, we might oppose it, abortion is a sad feature of modern life.

Robert Casey

We all go through sad times, but I was brought up to be positive.

Jess Glynne

If you don’t know about pain and trouble, you’re in sad shape. They make you appreciate life.

Evel Knievel

Our thoughts really do create our lives. They’ve done a lot of research showing if you’re an optimistic, positive person you will be a healthier person than if you’re a sad, depressed, negative person.

Alana Stewart

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.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

‘Sunset Boulevard’ – the story of Hollywood movies draped on a depressing sex affair – is an uncompromising study of American decadence displaying a sad, worn, methodical beauty few films have had since the late twenties.

Manny Farber

I love music videos, I really do. I think it’s kind of sad that it’s a dying art form.

Adam Levine

I have many years to get better and better, and that has to be my ambition. The day you think there is no improvements to be made is a sad one for any player.

Lionel Messi

I just want real reactions. I want people to laugh from the gut, be sad from the gut – or get angry from the gut.

Andy Kaufman

I love Starbucks. Maybe that’s a bit sad. But I definitely need my caffeine. It’s what gets me out of bed in the morning.

Nikki Sixx

We’re taught to be ashamed of confusion, anger, fear and sadness, and to me they’re of equal value to happiness, excitement and inspiration.

Alanis Morissette

Life will take its toll on all of us. We get injured, we get old. It’s really sad to try to run away from these harsh realities of life. Looks are not everything. I am not going to look beautiful all the time.

Aishwarya Rai Bachchan

Watergate provides a model case study of the interaction and powers of each of the branches of government. It also is a morality play with a sad and dramatic ending.

Bob Woodward

Why does the rest of the world put up with the hypocrisy, the need to put a happy face on sorrow, the need to keep on keeping on?… I don’t know the answer, I know only that I can’t.

Elizabeth Wurtzel

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

There is still so much drama in my life, but I’m not a sad person anymore.

Nikki Reed

I am sometimes sad when I hear the personal stories of Tibetan refugees who have been tortured or beaten. Some irritation, some anger comes. But it never lasts long. I always try to think at a deeper level, to find ways to console.

Dalai Lama

Actually, the moment of victory is wonderful, but also sad. It means that your trip is ended.

Bill Toomey

So many gods, so many creeds, so many paths that wind and wind while just the art of being kind is all the sad world needs.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

We don’t live in the Garden. We live far from Eden. Every life is full of heartaches. Every life, frankly, is unspeakably sad.

John Eldredge

The day I am not able to fly will be a sad day for me.

Ratan Tata

A photograph doesn’t gain weight or lose weight, or change from being happy to being sad. It’s frozen. You can use it, then recycle it.

Chuck Close

America is a country of abundance, but our food culture is sad – based on huge portions and fast food. Let’s stop with the excuses and start creating something better.

David Chang

The excursion is the same when you go looking for your sorrow as when you go looking for your joy.

Eudora Welty

Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair.

William Cowper

For I have learned to look on nature, not as in the hour of thoughtless youth, but hearing oftentimes the still, sad music of humanity.

William Wordsworth

And I remember going to the record studio and there was a park across the street and I’d see all the children playing and I would cry because it would make me sad that I would have to work instead.

Michael Jackson

It is a very sad thing that nowadays there is so little useless information.

Oscar Wilde

He is a hard man who is only just, and a sad one who is only wise.

Voltaire

To the indefinite, uncertain mind of the American radical the most contradictory ideas and methods are possible. The result is a sad chaos in the radical movement, a sort of intellectual hash, which has neither taste nor character.

Emma Goldman

Man is born passionate of body, but with an innate though secret tendency to the love of Good in his main-spring of Mind. But God help us all! It is at present a sad jar of atoms.

Lord Byron

Morality comes with the sad wisdom of age, when the sense of curiosity has withered.

Graham Greene

It is a sad commentary that today we face a choice between having schools that are a monument to our past – or schools that will be the lifeblood of our future. But since that is our choice, let us resolve to choose wisely.

Ted Kulongoski

Many things have been said about what happened, but I don’t know either. Maybe someday. One thing I’m sure of is that all the things that have happened to me, good and bad, happy and sad, have made me what I am today.

Pete Best

Art is the most beautiful deception of all. And although people try to incorporate the everyday events of life in it, we must hope that it will remain a deception lest it become a utilitarian thing, sad as a factory.

Claude Debussy

One of the sad things about contemporary journalism is that it actually matters very little. The world now is almost inured to the power of journalism. The best journalism would manage to outrage people. And people are less and less inclined to outrage.

David Simon

But I now entered on my fifteenth year – a sad epoch in the life of a slave girl. My master began to whisper foul words in my ear. Young as I was, I could not remain ignorant of their import.

Harriet Ann Jacobs

I’m proud of my invention, but I’m sad that it is used by terrorists.

Mikhail Kalashnikov

Of these years nought remains in memory but the sad feeling that we have advanced and only grown older.

Max Muller

I don’t know how the poor farmers deal with such situations in real life. It’s really sad.

Sanjay Dutt

A marriage is no amusement but a solemn act, and generally a sad one.

Queen Victoria

I have a piece of great and sad news to tell you: I am dead.

Jean Cocteau

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.

Dave Barry

I’ve had moments where I realize my body isn’t going to withstand many more seasons, but I am very satisfied with my career and I am trying not to look at retirement as a sad thing.

Cat Osterman

There were points in my life where I felt oddly irresistible to women. I’m not in that state now and that makes me sad.

Jack Nicholson

NASA has been one of the most successful public investments in motivating students to do well and achieve all they can achieve. It’s sad that we are turning the programme in a direction where it will reduce the amount of motivation and stimulation it provides to young people.

Neil Armstrong

I’ve been on Prozac for 12 years and I’m off it now. I know what it feels like to be excited and sad again. I haven’t felt like this in 12 years; I’m like a giddy little kid.

Jonathan Davis

Falling in love is awesome, but I’m never drawn to happy songs per se, so whenever you sit down to write a heartbreak song and you’re happily in love, it’s like, ‘OK, now I have to go back to a sad place to get something good.’

Miranda Lambert

The waltz can be sad and at the same time uplifting. You have to see life from both sides, and the waltz encapsulates that. If you’re in my audience you give yourself to me and the waltz will grab you.

Andre Rieu

When I moved out of my mom’s house at 18 I was almost as sad to leave her sewing machine behind as anything else.

Beth Ditto

If you have a friend or family member with breast cancer, try not to look at her with ‘sad eyes.’ Treat her like you always did; just show a little extra love.

Hoda Kotb

These days young kids don’t have any place to form an epic adventure. It’s more often in front of the TV screen or a laptop. That’s very hard on them. They’re being taught daily unsocial skills. Facebook is an unsocial skill. It’s so sad.

John Lydon

My favorite thing in the world is a quiz show, ‘University Challenge,’ so you can see what kind of sad person I am.

Lynne Truss

I do fear death. But what I actually fear is not dying. I mean, true, it will be sad. But I know that there is a better place waiting for me.

Mattie Stepanek

When you wake up each morning, you can choose to be happy or choose to be sad. Unless some terrible catastrophe has occurred the night before, it is pretty much up to you. Tomorrow morning, when the sun shines through your window, choose to make it a happy day.

Lynda Resnick

I can be dramatic. I can be funny. I can be sexy. I can be sad. I can be glad.

Kimberly Elise

I’ve always been fascinated by Elizabeth Taylor, and I had read that her first kiss happened on a film set, which actually made me a little sad. You need to have normal experiences of your own.

Emma Watson

If you look at suicides, most of them are connected to depression. And the mental health system just fails them. It’s so sad. We know what to do. We just don’t do it.

Rosalynn Carter

There are receptors to these molecules in your immune system, in your gut and in your heart. So when you say, ‘I have a gut feeling’ or ‘my heart is sad’ or ‘I am bursting with joy,’ you’re not speaking metaphorically. You’re speaking literally.

Deepak Chopra

It’s sad that some people who have one exciting moment spend the rest of their lives rehashing it.

Jonathan Kozol

I was always spiritual, even as a child. I was taught to pray, show gratitude. We had an attitude of gratitude. Even if life was ugly, bad or sad – we prayed.

Shilpa Shetty

I feel like old age in America is a very sad thing. I have been many different places around the world where getting older is something you look forward to.

Alice Waters

My mother has stories of leaving me in the bath as small kid, like a 3-year-old, and there being mirrors on the side, and her going to get a towel and coming back in, and me making faces at myself, like, ‘Now I’m happy. Now I’m sad.’

Allison Tolman

The belief that a person can and should only feel grief over one sad event at a time is a truly disturbing estimate of our emotional capacity.

Jennifer Armintrout

In this sad world of ours, sorrow comes to all; and to the young, it comes with bitterest agony because it takes them unawares. I have had experience enough to know what I say.

Abraham Lincoln

Commerce seems to be covering every aspect of our lives now. Which me, because I’m a romantic, is sad for me to say.

Jeremy Irons

Certain emotions just take you to the notes – being furious, heroic, sad, erotic, when rain comes.

Jeff Buckley

The value of beauty and inspiration is very much underrated, no question. But I want to be clear: I’m not trying to be anyone’s savior. I’m just trying to think about the future and not be sad.

Elon Musk

How sad it is that these great gentlemen should believe what anyone tells them and do not choose to judge for themselves! But it is always so.

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

When I write sad songs, I feel like I’m sewing up a scar in me, and the outcome always feels so much better than when I write happy ones.

Sam Smith

Of course, you decide which story you want to tell. For me, it’s been very authentic, so sometimes I’m super happy, and I post four pictures one after the other; sometimes I’m busy, and I don’t. Sometimes I’m sad, and I post a sad picture.

Chiara Ferragni

I’m very hard on myself. Sometimes too hard on myself. When I lost in the Wimbledon finals, I was so sad, I cried. I had the runner-up trophy! It’s still a great accomplishment, but I was so mad.

Eugenie Bouchard

The sad souls of those who lived without blame and without praise.

Dante Alighieri

You’ve got a beautiful country with so many beautiful people and so many beautiful things happening and stuff like that lets it down. I feel sad for them.

Robbie Williams

‘Flaubert’s Parrot’ is an amphibious book in which what appears to be a personal essay about Flaubertian writing is gradually, delicately transformed into an extremely sad novel in which the differences between character, author, and narrator are less clear than they appear at first glance.

Alvaro Enrigue

Whenever I’m sad, I just put on ‘SpongeBob’ and I cheer up.

Richard Harmon

The sad thing about artificial intelligence is that it lacks artifice and therefore intelligence.

Jean Baudrillard

It is a historical error for those who were not there to just refer to August 28th as ‘I Have a Dream’ speech day. That is a real disservice to those who were there. It was a sad day. It was not a celebration environment.

Jesse Jackson

It would be sad if the expertise built up during the 40 years of the U.S. and Russian manned programmes were allowed to dissipate. But abandoning the shuttle, and committing to new launch vehicles and propulsion systems, is actually a prerequisite for a vibrant manned programme.

Martin Rees

It is an awfully sad misconception that librarians simply check books in and out. The library is the heart of a school, and without a librarian, it is but an empty shell.

Jarrett J. Krosoczka

Everyone feels sad occasionally. A full range of emotions is part of what makes us human.

Michael Greger

I’ve had an amazing life, but I think I was born with a little bit of sadness in me. I’ve always been attracted to those things, whether it’s sad movies, sad music… when you’re sad, you feel everything in a greater way than you do when you’re happy.

Sam Smith

How sad it is that we give up on people who are just like us.

Fred Rogers

Do not make best friends with a melancholy sad soul. They always are heavily loaded, and you must bear half.

Francois Fenelon

I work extremely hard to stay positive and happy. But I get sad and anxious, too, just like everyone.

Rachel Platten

What I find sad is that the New Age movement is primarily a commercial undertaking. But it is answering to a human need.

Laura Esquivel

It’s sad that the cell phone is replacing the watch as a time-telling device. I wear a vintage watch that’s really skinny.

Thom Browne

Make the most of your regrets; never smother your sorrow, but tend and cherish it till it comes to have a separate and integral interest. To regret deeply is to live afresh.

Henry David Thoreau

Everything’s complicated, even those things that seem flat in their bleakness or sadness.

Nick Hornby

Among the many reasons assignable for the sad decay of true Christianity, perhaps the neglecting to assemble ourselves together, in religious societies, may not be one of the least.

George Whitefield

There’s all this stuff that is happening in Edinburgh now, it’s a sad attempt to create an Edinburgh society, similar to a London society, a highbrow literature celebrity society.

Irvine Welsh

The sad fact is that actual artistic oppression – book banning in its many modern forms – is a matter of course in the entertainment industry, especially when the underlying product is declared politically incorrect or runs contrary to the interests of Hollywood’s political altar, the Democratic Party.

Andrew Breitbart

I don’t have any problem with being the guy whose album people put on when they’re feeling sad.

Sam Smith

At that time, I feel sad, and I feel no one knows how hard I work and how many tears. They only know the score. At that time, I feel very lonely because no one understands since they haven’t been world No. 1 before.

Yani Tseng

I’m sad to report that in the past few years, ever since uncertainty became our insistent 21st century companion, leadership has taken a great leap backwards to the familiar territory of command and control.

Margaret J. Wheatley

You want people to feel something when you tell a story, whether they feel happy or whether they feel sad.

Harry Dean Stanton

And in real life endings aren’t always neat, whether they’re happy endings, or whether they’re sad endings.

Stephen King

Sad things happen. They do. But we don’t need to live sad forever.

Mattie Stepanek

The closing of a door can bring blessed privacy and comfort – the opening, terror. Conversely, the closing of a door can be a sad and final thing – the opening a wonderfully joyous moment.

Andy Rooney

When sparrows build and the leaves break forth, My old sorrow wakes and cries.

Jean Ingelow

There is something inexpressibly sad in the thought of the children who crossed the ocean with the Pilgrims and the fathers of Jamestown, New Amsterdam, and Boston, and the infancy of those born in the first years of colonial life in this strange new world.

Alice Morse Earle

I didn’t really want to live, so anything that was an investment in time made me angry… but also I just felt sad. When the hopelessness is hurting you, it’s the fixtures and fittings that finish you off.

Angelina Jolie

Sometimes I wonder if suicides aren’t in fact sad guardians of the meaning of life.

Vaclav Havel

Your joys and sorrows. You can never tell them. You cheapen the inside of yourself if you do tell them.

Greta Garbo

My natural disposition is pretty joyful, but you know, I have bad days and sad moments like anybody else.

Tracee Ellis Ross

I am an optimist, unrepentant and militant. After all, in order not to be a fool an optimist must know how sad a place the world can be. It is only the pessimist who finds this out anew every day.

Peter Ustinov

The sad and horrible conclusion is that no one cared that Jews were being murdered… This is the Jewish lesson of the Holocaust and this is the lesson which Auschwitz taught us.

Ariel Sharon

The end of anything is not fun because there’s a nostalgia to it and everything else. Even the end of a bad relationship can feel so, so, so sad.

Jessica Capshaw

We tell them that we believe it will be beautiful because that is our specialty, we only create joy and beauty. We have never done a sad work. Through the drawings, we hope a majority will be able to visualize it.

Christo

All pictures are unnatural. All pictures are sad because they’re about dead people. Paintings you don’t think of in a special time or with a specific event. With photos I always think I’m looking at something dead.

David Bailey

I was raised in an atmosphere of ‘everything’s fine.’ But as I got older, I was like, ‘Well no, everything’s not fine. There is stuff that’s sad.’ I am a really sensitive person. I think I am too sensitive sometimes.

Ellen DeGeneres

I can’t grow a mustache. It’s pretty sad if I attempt to.

Ashton Kutcher

If you go through life, and you don’t find the beauty in an unexpected place, then you really have a sad existence.

Octavia Spencer

One should either be sad or joyful. Contentment is a warm sty for eaters and sleepers.

Eugene O’Neill

It’s fun to sing sad songs. And it’s fun to listen to sad songs. Enjoyable. Satisfying. Something.

Richard Thompson

Was there ever such stuff as great as part of Shakespeare? Only one must not say so! But what think you? – What? – Is there not sad stuff? What? – What?

George III of the United Kingdom

There is no such thing as death. In nature nothing dies. From each sad remnant of decay, some forms of life arise so shall his life be taken away before he knoweth that he hath it.

Charles Mackay

You know, I think we Indians are afraid to show and celebrate our happiness, lest things change around. But I feel that it’s okay to be sad and okay to show when you are happy.

Shah Rukh Khan

It’s sad, actually, because my anxiety keeps me from enjoying things as much as I should at this age.

Amanda Seyfried

When I write, it is always the melody that comes first, and it just happens to be the case that the most beautiful tunes are sad, and the lyrics follow the mood of the melody.

Francoise Hardy

It would be a sad story to get rid of religious belief, national identity, family, and even sexual identity. That’s not freedom.

Viktor Orban

Tears are nature’s lotion for the eyes. The eyes see better for being washed by them.

Christian Nestell Bovee

My parents’ divorce left me with a lot of sadness and pain and acting, and especially humour, was my way of dealing with all that.

Jennifer Aniston

Even modern English people are imperious, superior, ridden by class. All of the hypocrisy and the difficulties that are endemic in being British also make it an incredibly fertile place culturally. A brilliant place to live. Sad but true.

Pete Townshend

I had to choose, I’d be so sad. They are flip sides of the same coin. I love both comedy and drama.

Dianne Wiest

I hooked up with director Jacques Audiard for this film called ‘Rust & Bone’ with Marion Cotillard. I loved that experience so much I’m truly sad that it’s over!

Matthias Schoenaerts

Being in ‘Doctor Who’ has been so amazing. I don’t think I will ever have a job quite so fun ever again. I feel sad because I am going to leave, but with any story, it has to come to an end.

Karen Gillan

Over a 10-year period, 99 out of 100 new entrepreneurs will fail. Only one will be left standing as others get pushed out of the market or burn out from working so hard. It’s really sad.

Robert Kiyosaki

The sad reality is that girl-on-girl hate is such a big issue in schools, at work, or online, and it never made any sense to me because, as women, we know how awesome other women can be.

Lilly Singh

I had a daughter and lost her a long while ago. That’s too sad a story to go into.

Gene Wilder

I love playing football, being out on the pitch with a ball, and I will be a little sad when that ends.

Dennis Bergkamp

If the IAAF feel that is the right way to go for TV rights and everything, the rule will stay. As much as I want to be on the podium, tonight is a sad night for athletics.

Kim Collins

The reason for the sadness of this modern age and the men who live in it is that it looks for the truth in everything and finds it.

Edmond de Goncourt

Sorrows are like thunderclouds, in the distance they look black, over our heads scarcely gray.

Jean Paul

You have to let it all hang out, let go of the ideas that were more comfortable and embrace some of the sadness in your life.

Madeleine Peyroux

That is sad until one recalls how many bad books the world may yet be spared because of the busyness of writers.

Gore Vidal

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.

James Russell Lowell

One of the sad commentaries on the way women are viewed in our society is that we have to fit one category. I have never felt that I had to be in one category.

Faye Wattleton

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.

Henry Adams

I have a stepladder. It’s a very nice stepladder but it’s sad that I never knew my real ladder.

Craig Charles

My mother sent me to psychiatrists since the age of four because she didn’t think little boys should be sad. When my brother was born, I stared out the window for days. Can you imagine that?

Andy Kaufman

Well, darkness with humor… I’m not an extremely suicidal or sad person.

Peter Steele

But you see, that’s the gilded prison of fashion. We’re riding in private jets, and meantime I was so incredibly, painfully sad and lonely.

Janice Dickinson

Everything takes me longer than I expect. It’s the sad truth about life.

Donna Tartt

I am not a sad clown. I am not a sad clown.

Nathan Lane

And the sad truth is that nobody wants me to write comedy. The Exorcist not only ended that career, it expunged all memory of its existence.

William Peter Blatty

Mainly, I thought of Barney as a kid. You can always look into the faces of kids and see what they’re thinking, if they’re happy or sad. That’s what I tried to do with Barney.

Don Knotts

The South is very beautiful but its beauty makes one sad because the lives that people live here, and have lived here, are so ugly.

James Baldwin

It is a sad day for our country when the moral foundation of our law and the acknowledgment of God has to be hidden from public view to appease a federal judge.

Soledad O’Brien

You had to be into sport and, sad to say, I’m a traitor to my country because I don’t have a sporting bone in my body.

Geoffrey Rush

I can’t really have any friends. It’s sad, really. It’s lonely. But that’s how I am.

Randy Moss

With sad music, or music that’s perceived as sad, there’s a sense of solidarity that can be really powerful. My songs are all joyful to me.

J. Tillman

The Christian conceives of his abode on Earth in no more delightful colors than the Jainist sectarian. He sees in it only a time of sad trial; he also thinks that his true country is not of this world.

Emile Durkheim

The hate directed against the colored people here in St. Louis has always given me a sad feeling because when I was a little girl I remember the horror of the East St. Louis race riot.

Josephine Baker

I think people just think I am crazy because they see me doing stand-up, but I am generally not. I am very sad. I’m one of those guys that lights candles and listens to Rachmaninoff.

Bobby Lee

I feel that World Cup cricket should be played like football in which all the 160 countries take part. If only a handful of countries are going to keep on playing in the World Cup without making the game popular, I will be a sad man.

Kapil Dev

I loved being Maleficent. I was quite sad to put my staff down and put my horns away because somehow, she just lives in a different world.

Angelina Jolie

The story of the decadence of the cathedral as a moral power, a spiritual energizer in civilization, is the sad but inevitable story of dogmatism. It is the story of the struggle of free thought with bigotry, religion making common cause with the wrong side.

Jenkin Lloyd Jones

It is sad that the more ‘successful’ a neighborhood becomes, the more it gradually takes on a recognizable, common look, as the same banks, drugstore chains and national brands move in.

Danny Meyer

Sometimes it makes me sad that I didn’t get to have one family for my entire life.

Isabel Gillies

Making people laugh is so much more difficult than making them sad. Too much fiction defaults to the somber, the tragic. This is because sad endings are easy in comparison – happy endings aren’t at all simple to earn, especially when writing to an audience jaded by them.

Stephen Graham Jones

I was a million percent in love with Edward Scissorhands. I remember looking in the mirror on the last day of shooting… and thinking how sad I was to be saying goodbye to Edward.

Johnny Depp

The British people have decided to leave. It is a sad decision but one which I respect. The vote puts the European Union in difficulties. It must recognise its shortfalls.

Francois Hollande

We have but one permanent home: heaven – that’s still the old truth that we always have to re-learn – and it’s only through the impact of sad experiences that we assimilate it.

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Kind of the sad thing is that – it’s still true – a lot of jazz people just listen to jazz, and a lot of hip-hop people just listen to hip-hop, and there’s not a lot of crossover, unfortunately.

Jose James

I was depressed a lot as a kid, and I was really sad and wouldn’t be able to get out of bed.

Alisha Boe

You are validating someone’s life by telling their story. Even if it’s a sad one.

Alex Tizon

We never taste a perfect joy; our happiest successes are mixed with sadness.

Pierre Corneille

Can I see another’s woe, and not be in sorrow too? Can I see another’s grief, and not seek for kind relief?

William Blake

When I was a child people simply looked about them and were moderately happy; today they peer beyond the seven seas, bury themselves waist deep in tidings, and by and large what they see and hear makes them unutterably sad.

E. B. White

The sad part about our past is that religions, ironically enough, are responsible for creating the most destructive idea that has ever been visited upon the human race: the idea that there is such a thing as ‘better.’

Neale Donald Walsch

It’s really a sad story, and I liked that. The songs on this album talk about relationships in every aspect.

Aaliyah

It’s a sad moment, really, when parents first become a bit frightened of their children.

Ama Ata Aidoo

I am very sad for men and women trapped in any relationship where there is cruelty, dominance, inequity. I long for the liberation of all people.

Jasmine Guy

The sad thing is most people have to check with someone before they do the things that make them happy. We’re all passing through; the least we can do is be happy, and the only way to do that is by being selfish.

Gene Simmons

I love sad songs. They say so much. I love country music but even the happy songs sound really sad.

Beth Ditto

My acting’s very understated. I think my sad and happy don’t play that differently onscreen.

Bret McKenzie

The hate directed against the colored people here in St. Louis has always given me a sad feeling… How can you expect the world to believe in you and respect your preaching of democracy when you yourself treat your colored brothers as you do?

Josephine Baker

The sad pattern of lack of trust in God has persisted since the Creation.

Henry B. Eyring

When I was a young girl, I lost a lot of weight over one summer – involuntarily – and was just really depressed and sad. There was nothing I could do to gain weight. I would look in the mirror and call myself disgusting every day.

Tyra Banks

Being an old farm boy myself, chickens coming home to roost never did make me sad; they’ve always made me glad.

Malcolm X

No one wants to fail. So most of us don’t even try. Sad. We don’t even take that first step to improve our health or to deepen our working relationships or to realize a dream.

Robin S. Sharma

At the outset, I think that one should be natural, not just when it comes to writing but in every area of life. If you try to be something that you are not just to impress others, then it’s a rather sad life.

Amish Tripathi

As a child, I was subjected to a lot of spaghetti Westerns and hated them. I wanted the Indians to win – or just not be so sad!

Kara Walker

I always go in very emotionally when I’m doing music. Sad or happy, I’m always into it. I have a hard time writing for other people, writing with someone else in mind.

Erik Hassle

I always thought it was sad that you couldn’t get anything really good to eat at concerts, so we sit down with our fans before every show and eat a gourmet meal that we made for them.

Zac Brown

Everybody has their favorite sad songs. That’s part of what I love so much about country music. Country music is never afraid to go with a sad song.

Chris Young

I had rather have a fool to make me merry than experience to make me sad and to travel for it too!

William Shakespeare

August used to be a sad month for me. As the days went on, the thought of school starting weighed heavily upon my young frame. That, coupled with the oppressive heat and humidity of my native Washington, D.C., only seemed to heighten the misery.

Henry Rollins

War is very sad and small life is pathetically fragile at times.

Henry Rollins

The history of apartheid-era South Africa is incredibly sad and at times infuriatingly incomprehensible.

Henry Rollins

The problem, when comparing contemporary television to television in 1974, is that TV has become not just bad but sad.

P. J. O’Rourke

He who is not just is severe, he who is not wise is sad.

Voltaire

The president we have today is a typical Washington politician that’s prone to hyperbole and decisiveness and false outrage. And I think it’s very sad – very sad to watch.

Marco Rubio

The display of grief makes more demands than grief itself. How few men are sad in their own company.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

If a man does not control his temper, it is a sad admission that he is not in control of his thoughts.

Ezra Taft Benson

I think about my father and how sad it was that he never had grandchildren.

Cate Blanchett

NASA’s been one of the most successful public investments in motivating students to do well and achieve all they can achieve, and it’s sad that we are turning the program in a direction where it will reduce the amount of motivation it provides to young people.

Buzz Aldrin

My style is bad white-boy dancing. I can do swing a little bit, but nothing beyond that. My solo dancing is sad. I use my arms, badly.

Robin Williams

It makes me sad when I find sisters who aren’t joyful. They might smile, but with just a smile they could be flight attendants!

Pope Francis

I’m a human being. I feel all emotions. I’m not just happy all the time. Sometimes, I’m sad and feel the blues. Sometimes I even want to feel the blues. Sometimes, you want to feel down.

Tracy Morgan

When I was growing up, albums were my closest friends, as sad as that may sound – Joy Division’s ‘Closer,’ or Echo and the Bunnymen’s ‘Heaven Up Here’… I had a more intimate relationship with those records than I did with most of the people in my life.

Moby

When I did the film Generations, in which the character died, I felt like a guest for the first time. That made me very sad.

William Shatner

A sad fact of life lately at the Museum of Modern Art is that when it comes to group shows of contemporary painting from the collection, the bar has been set pretty low.

Jerry Saltz

People say you should read your criticism because it will make you a better person but it doesn’t. It just makes you a sad bitter old showbiz nightmare.

Jo Brand

I can usually tell when a woman is going through a divorce because they look so gaunt and tired and sad. It’s just a huge sadness. It’s horrible. It’s like death. You mourn, but the person’s still there.

Andie MacDowell

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.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Many scientists think that philosophy has no place, so for me it’s a sad time because the role of reflection, contemplation, meditation, self inquiry, insight, intuition, imagination, creativity, free will, is in a way not given any importance, which is the domain of philosophers.

Deepak Chopra

I think people appreciate a songwriter who shows different sides. The whole angst thing is cool, but if that’s all you’ve got, it’s just boring. Everything I write, whether it’s happy or sad, has a sense of humor to it.

Katy Perry

I can cook, but I also want everything to look beautiful on the plate – then I get upset when people eat it. Everyone just tears through it, and that makes me sad. It’s not a rewarding experience for me to cook.

Megan Fox

It’s sad, something coming to an end. It cracks you open, in a way – cracks you open to feeling.

Jennifer Aniston

It’s sad, something coming to an end. It cracks you open, in a way – cracks you open to feeling. When you try to avoid the pain, it creates greater pain.

Jennifer Aniston

In the ’50s, too many women, even though they were very smart, they tried to make the man feel that he was brainier. It was a sad thing.

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Cancer is a very sad thing, but you can always take something from every experience.

Pierce Brosnan

It’s sad when you say a $30 million film is an inexpensive film, but it is.

Sandra Bullock

There’s no excuse to be bored. Sad, yes. Angry, yes. Depressed, yes. Crazy, yes. But there’s no excuse for boredom, ever.

Viggo Mortensen

I know I said I wanted to live forever and I would never be bored, but the reality is, it’s probably kind of sad to live forever if you’re the only one sticking around.

Viggo Mortensen

Poverty is not just a sad accident, but it’s also a result of the fact that some people make a lot of money off low-income families and directly contribute to their poverty.

Matthew Desmond

There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when we have not yet known what it is to have suffered and be healed, to have despaired and have recovered hope.

George Eliot

What’s really sad is that a lot of very talented people are being forced to do things that are very embarrassing and I don’t intend to be one of them.

Boy George

It sounds so nerdy and pathetic, but what I always do on Sunday afternoon is bring my inbox down to zero, which is so sad. But e-mail has become like homework for adults. I’ll have 141 messages from people who will be offended if I don’t write back.

Mike Birbiglia

The hardest thing to get is true emotion. I always believe you need to earn that with the audience. You can’t just tell them, ‘Ok, be sad now.’

John Lasseter

I think Jerry Lee is sad. As a musician, he was far more talented than Elvis Presley. Everybody down in Memphis knows that. Elvis became a movie star because he was beautiful. Not that Elvis wasn’t talented, but Jerry Lee Lewis was incomprehensibly talented as a musician.

Alec Baldwin

I was in a bar and I said to a friend, ‘You know, we’ve become those 40-year-old guys we used to look at and say, ‘Isn’t it sad?’

George Clooney

What we want to help children with is, just because you feel sad or happy or depressed doesn’t mean that is who you are. We want them to know, ‘I am really sad right now, but I am not a sad person.’

Goldie Hawn

I used to like to make myself sad, so I would listen to Bill Callahan as Smog.

Gillian Jacobs

‘Dancing on My Own’ is actually a really sad song! It has totally made me cry.

Gillian Jacobs

I think that there are a lot of really beautiful Christmas carols, and then sometimes there are horrible renditions of them that are played to death in malls that make me sad. I try to avoid stores where they’re playing bad versions of Christmas songs on repeat.

Gillian Jacobs

I remember a time when all my fans were crying and sad and going through hell. Now, we’re trying to uplift each other and accept ourselves for who we are, even if nobody else does.

Mary J. Blige

I just want fans to walk away knowing that no matter what’s going on, no matter how happy you are, no matter how sad you are, we did it. We’re strong in this. We’ve come a long way, and life is not just one thing.

Mary J. Blige

I believe that tracks speak to me. Some tracks make me write certain music or make me feel sad or inspire me to write a sad love song. Each track has its feeling to me.

Missy Elliott

I still really like newspapers. I’m gonna feel really sad when they go. Or not – maybe I’ll be dead.

Michael Keaton

It’s an indication of how cynical our society has become that any kind of love story with a sad theme is automatically ridiculed as sentimental junk.

Winona Ryder

I was such a sullen, angry, sad kid. I’m sure there are writers who have had happy childhoods, but what are you going to write about? No ghosts, no fear. I’m very happy that I had an unhappy and uncomfortable childhood.

Isabel Allende

It’s awkward to tell others that your spouse has died. Everyone becomes so sad and sorry, and you just hate like heck to have to break the news to someone who hasn’t heard the news.

Mike Gallagher

It’s a sad situation when you have to talk crap about other organizations that you know your paths are never going to cross competitively.

Bill Goldberg

There must be something solemn, serious, and tender about any attitude which we denominate religious. If glad, it must not grin or snicker; if sad, it must not scream or curse.

William James

I’m a comedian, and I definitely see the humor in a lot of things. I am also sad a lot. I cry often and easily. I think you’re supposed to feel all kinds of things.

Ellen DeGeneres

For my wrap present, Colin Farrell gave me a first edition book. I got so involved with this character and I was so sad when the movie was over that when I got home and I tried to read the book I got really emotional and I started crying.

Salma Hayek

If I could write rock & roll songs on purpose, I’d do it all the time. But most of what I write comes out slow and sad because that’s most of what I listen to.

Jason Isbell

When I hear somebody like Hayes Carll write a song that’s touching and poignant and sad and funny all at the same time, it motivates me to step my game up and try to figure out a way to get more different emotions into one line or one song.

Jason Isbell

The world changes fast, and a lot of the old country folks have a hard time keeping up with it, and it makes them sad.

Jason Isbell

The assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. made me very, very sad, and I mourned and I cried like many of our citizens did.

John Lewis

This is how sad my life is: I got a scar from scratching my chicken pox too much. That’s my big scar story. I really have no major scars.

Lewis Black

I think that’s why you see so many Americans in Dublin look so sad: they are looking for the door through which they can begin to understand this place. I tell them, ‘Go to the races.’ I think it’s the best place to start understanding the Irish.

Frank McCourt

They say geniuses mostly have great mothers. They mostly have sad fates.

D. H. Lawrence

Homeless people really upset me when I was little. A lot of kids have this reaction, but I would get really worried or sad or concerned or cry.

Paul Dano

The sad thing is, I never wanted to be Princess Leia – I always wanted to be Han Solo!

Katee Sackhoff

Sad people dislike the happy, and the happy the sad; the quick thinking the sedate, and the careless the busy and industrious.

Horace

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

Oh my God – this is scary and sad all at the same time. I literally dream about buying my own groceries. Swear to God. Because it is something that is real and normal.

Rihanna

I’m very sad ‘Life’ wasn’t a big hit, But it was undone by politics at NBC. It was intense. I moved my wife, and we had two children back to back. So working those hours and living abroad in L.A. was a handful. But it was a great experience.

Damian Lewis

It’s sad that children don’t spend enough time looking around and being amazed by what’s in the real world.

Damian Lewis

Frankly, I think I’m marvelous in rehearsal! Then you turn the camera on, and it gets stiff and tight. And then you trudge back to your trailer feeling sad. That’s been my experience of film acting.

Hugh Grant

I’m so pathetically eager for people to love D.C. It’s so sad. It’s like I work for the chamber of commerce or something.

Tucker Carlson

Even when I’m in quite a happy state of mind, I like writing really sad songs. I think a lot of people do.

Ellie Goulding

I’d like a male to listen to my music and find it kind of fascinating, what a girl goes through when they get heartbroken or get sad or get hurt by something.

Ellie Goulding

Fear of carbs, of gluten, of everything – we’ve distanced ourselves from the beauty of food, the art of it. It makes me sad when people say, ‘Oh, I don’t eat gluten. I don’t eat cheese. I don’t eat this. So I eat cardboard.’

Olivia Wilde

It doesn’t help to contemplate how sad your life is. You have to move on.

Teri Garr

Whenever I start a new book, I think, ‘This is the most interesting subject of all time. It’s sad, I’ll never enjoy writing another book as much as I enjoy this one.’ Every time, I’m convinced. And then I change my mind when I start the next book.

Gretchen Rubin

‘The Fault in Our Stars’ is a beautiful film that’s really positive. The second half gets sad, but it’s always positive.

Ansel Elgort

My thing with fans is, it’s always about being really good to them and taking the time to take every picture. If there are 300 people, you should take 300 pictures – you shouldn’t take 250 because then fifty people will go home sad. Why would you do that?

Ansel Elgort

It’s so sad, actually, how teachers and parents tell their kids, ‘You’re never gonna be anything.’

Solange Knowles

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

I agree with cosmetic surgery for medical reasons – my mother had breast cancer and I think it’s very sad when somebody has no choice in what happens to their body.

Paloma Faith

E! has just become a sad, sad place to live. They don’t know what they’re doing; they have no ideas… everything they do just is a failure.

Chelsea Handler

It’s sad how people want to see us females go against each other. Never been for that. Never will.

Ciara

Jo Sykes made these incredible leather jackets: the leather was like butter. I had one, but I lost it at a wedding in Ibiza. It was so sad; I’ve not been able to replace.

Poppy Delevingne

When I seemed to be irritable or sad, my father would quote the learned Dr. Knight, and then say, ‘Just go to sleep.’ Like all smart aleck kids, I thought the advice was silly. But as I’ve grown older, I’ve realized just how smart Knight was.

Ben Stein

The sad fact is that spending rises every year, no matter what people want or say they want.

Ben Stein

I feel sad when I realize how much truth is being changed or obscured in the American media.

Sharon Stone

I was friends with Susan Sontag the last four years of her life. She had this amazing charisma and so much energy, but she had a sad little funeral in Montparnasse in Paris. It was rainy. It was all wrong. And I was thinking, ‘God, she loved life so much.’

Marina Abramovic

It’s a source of great sadness to me that my father died without having seen me do anything worthwhile. He was constantly having to make excuses for me.

Daniel Day-Lewis

I’m always sad to see a relationship not work, but what happens between two people is not my business.

Debbie Reynolds

I think the thing’s that perhaps sad really is that younger people haven’t come in and I think it must have been absolutely fantastic to have worked in the 50’s when you had all of the great Broadway composers and when West Side Story didn’t win the Tony Award.

Andrew Lloyd Webber

We’re sad about some of the losses of members of great seniority and distinction in the Congress, and some very new members, who will no longer be serving with us.

Nancy Pelosi

I once made the mistake of going for a whole row of false eyelashes, which was just wrong as it gave me a sad, puppy-eyed look.

Sienna Miller

It’s hard to tell what an entire series is going to be based on the first few episodes, or even on the first season. And it’s sad because you see great casts and good ideas that don’t get that opportunity to grow and show what it could turn into.

Kaley Cuoco

When I went to college, my mum was really sad, so she preserved my bedroom, like a weird time capsule.

Gia Coppola

I love the romcom. I thought I had a career playing the best friend. What happened to that? It’s really sad to me.

Parker Posey

It is sad that so many designers don’t know how to make. CAD software can make a bad design look palatable! It is sad that four years can be spent on a 3D design course without making anything! People who are great at designing and making have a great advantage.

Jonathan Ive

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.

Hugo Chavez

I will be very sad and worried if the imperialist government was calling me a great democratic man.

Hugo Chavez

Of course it’s true: the public want to see young people – young people are the people who go to the cinema. It’s a sad fact of life, but you’ve got to accept it and not whine about it.

Joan Collins

The sad truth is that most of my husbands turned out to be convincing liars.

Joan Collins

Western governments have generally tried to contain genocide by appeasing its architects. But the sad record of the last century shows that the walls the United States tries to build around genocidal societies almost inevitably shatter.

Samantha Power

It makes me very sad. Everyone’s afraid of each other – Jews are afraid of Palestinians, Palestinians are afraid of Jews. Everywhere I see fear, not understanding. Reason went out of the window a long time ago.

Miriam Margolyes

I try to make an album that reflects what I love about country music. It’s not just all about happy parties all the time. There are some sad songs.

Dierks Bentley

I’m part of the party, getting the crowd fired up, singing songs, pouring drinks, whatever it takes to get them to have a good time. When I walk into the meet-and-greet, someone’s always going to have a story, a sad story or a happy story.

Dierks Bentley

A very sad moment for me was when my parents separated – a lot of crying, ‘It’s tragic, we’re now a broken family, blah blah blah blah blah’ – although my psychological problems stopped. I actually felt healthier.

Whit Stillman

The rise of the iPod meant that digital music became the norm, It’s sad, but you can still find the real stuff out there if you look for it!

Peter Hook

That’s why I’ve always loved country music. Whether it’s sad, pumps you up, or it’s breakup songs, it’s all real-life things.

Cole Swindell

I don’t consider myself a celebrity. That would be kind of sad.

Adam Driver

One of the sad things about retiring is that you just become increasingly irrelevant. The world flows around you, and you don’t seem to be impacting it any longer.

John Mackey

I think it is really sad that when people lose their homes they kind of lose their minds too.

Margaret Cho

It’s a sad day when Republicans will attack fellow Republicans on an issue as fundamental as free enterprise.

Doug Ducey

I have learned so much from India: for instance, the use of aloe vera, which I use, and I find it sad when I see certain arts of oiling slowly fading away.

Nargis Fakhri

It’s sad to be constantly judged for every move you make after your first success. If you wear your hair differently, you have changed.

Kriti Sanon

I don’t want success to affect me to that extent that I change or failure to that extent that I get sad, bitter and negative.

Arjun Kapoor

It does make me sad that there’s a lot of great songs out there, and they’re not going to see the light of day because they’re competing with these tailgate songs.

Zac Brown

It looks like I’m just gonna keep getting really, really happy and sad and embarrassed and excited and disappointed for the rest of my life, so let’s just do that.

Jenny Slate

I think social media has taken over for our generation. It’s a big part of our lives, and it’s kind of sad.

Kendall Jenner

I didn’t end up some sad, tragic guy singing in a lounge somewhere. I never went out and took big money for nostalgia and became like an oldies act.

David Cassidy

Watching an entrepreneur fail is sad, but watching him fail from lack of nerve is tragic.

Steve Blank

I love ‘The Sportswriter’ by Richard Ford. Ford really captures for me the bittersweetness of the quietly suffering American man. It’s stoic, sad, and really beautiful.

Mark Ruffalo

Metal isn’t necessarily aggressive. There’s metal that’s contemplative, there’s metal that’s sad, and there’s metal that’s exuberant. No genre is limited in what it can express.

John Darnielle

No matter how old and glorious the models, sad indeed is the woman who sees fashion as a means of self-expression rather than an agent of social control.

Julie Burchill

It’s a sad commentary on our time – to use a phrase much favored by my late father – that people increasingly celebrate Christmas Day by going to the movies.

Michael Dirda

Sad to say, multi-tasking is beyond me. I read one book at a time all the way through. If I’m reviewing the book, I have to write the review before I start reading any other book. I especially hate it when the phone rings and interrupts my train of thought.

Michael Dirda

Most of the time, we keep looking outside and feeling sad about what others have. Those are mere excuses.

Yami Gautam

I don’t want to see myself as this sad, disabled girl. I know that. I don’t want other people to see me as that, either.

Amy Purdy

I live on a train. I know – what a sad thing to admit. I am the New-Age Willy Loman. But there it is.

Christopher Buckley

It’s a sad indication of where Washington has come, where policy differences almost necessarily become questions of integrity. I came to Washington in the late ’70s, and people had the ability in the past to have intense policy differences but didn’t feel the need to question the other person’s character.

Eric Holder

I was going to McDonald’s and Taco Bell every day. The kids behind the counter knew me – it wouldn’t even faze them. Or I’d sit up at Denny’s or Big Boy and just eat by myself. It was sad. I got so heavy that people started to not recognize me.

Eminem

Don’t ever let the other stuff get in the way of your inherent skills as a kick-butt storyteller. Move the reader, make them happy and sad and excited and scared. Make them stare into space after they’ve put the book down, thinking about the tale that’s become a part of them.

James Dashner

New diseases like SARS and bird flu cause anxiety in the community. People get worried, some to the extent that it even affects their health. You feel very sad, and yet you must carry on and maintain your cool in very trying and difficult moments. You have to tough it out.

Margaret Chan

My mother, I suppose, is still a main figure in my life because her life was so sad and unfair, and she so brave, but also because she was determined to make me into the Sunday-school-recitation little girl I was, from the age of seven or so, fighting not to be.

Alice Munro

The question I love to get asked is: ‘What’s the hardest part of your job?’ And literally, the answer is probably real sad, but it’s to just to be me. Like, it’s really hard, because I think people, you know, have a set idea of what a pop star should be.

Kelly Clarkson

When you socially neglect a people, when you economically abandon a people, when you transfer wealth from them to the well-to-do, what are a people going to do? They’re going to respond with very sad forms of despair, and that’s true for everybody – I don’t care what color you are.

Cornel West

Sad music, I always thought, is more beautiful than other music. But at the same time, I am in my personal life a very happy guy. I have a sense of humor. I am not the kind of depressed guy all the time brooding. No. I am very enthusiastic about things.

Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

If it was up to me, I would just wear jeans and t-shirts, even to red carpets, but then no one would photograph me, so that would make me very sad. So you know, I’ve gotta keep up with the rest of the female population and sometimes try a little harder.

Shakira

I am firmly of the opinion that women who make a lot of effort to hang onto their looks in middle age (unless they are beauties, entertainers or prostitutes) are rather sad, as one should surely have something more substantial to recommend one by this time, such as kindness or cleverness.

Julie Burchill

There are more than 300,000 families in the Gulf region that lost their homes and are waiting for peace of mind. The hurricane exposed the sad reality of poverty in America. We saw, in all its horrific detail, the vulnerabilities of living in inadequate housing and the heartbreak of losing one’s home.

Harry Connick, Jr.

If people who cherish freedom, who know the importance of mutual respect and are aware of the imperative necessity to establish a constructive and critical debate, if these people are not ready to speak out, to be more committed and visible, then we can expect sad, painful tomorrows. The choice is ours.

Tariq Ramadan

Creation is a sustained period of bliss, even though the subject can still be very sad. Because there’s the triumph of coming through and understanding that you have, and that you did it the way only you could do it. You didn’t do it the way somebody told you to do it.

Alice Walker

I’ve met so many fans of daytime television who’ve watched the shows with their moms and grandmas and feel like they’ve known the characters their whole lives. It’s sad for them to have to say goodbye to their favorite soaps and characters. We don’t want that to happen to the ‘Days’ fans.

Alison Sweeney

I think everything is going to be devastatingly sad – when the phone rings, I know somebody in my family’s been hurt, somebody’s going to die. I’m sure a therapist would go, ‘That’s not a good way to live,’ but every time it’s not that bad thing, I’m so thankful and appreciative.

Sandra Bullock

I didn’t know what to expect when we first started touring behind ‘Southeastern’ because you don’t want to lull anybody to sleep or lose their attention. But it’s really been incredible how the crowds seem to be just as excited for the slow, sad songs as they are for the old rockers.

Jason Isbell

When you are joyous, look deep into your heart and you shall find it is only that which has given you sorrow that is giving you joy. When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.

Khalil Gibran

The true artist is not proud: he unfortunately sees that art has no limits; he feels darkly how far he is from the goal, and though he may be admired by others, he is sad not to have reached that point to which his better genius only appears as a distant, guiding sun.

Ludwig van Beethoven

Ten years ago, I still feared loss enough to abandon myself in order to keep things stable. I’d smile when I was sad, pretend to like people who appalled me. What I now know is that losses aren’t cataclysmic if they teach the heart and soul their natural cycle of breaking and healing.

Martha Beck

Tony Benn and I were very close, very close friends for 30, 40 years. We talked to each other a great deal, and we were great friends. And I was with him shortly before he died, talking about prospects of the world and prospects for peace. And I’m very sad that he’s gone.

Jeremy Corbyn

I like happy endings in movies. I think life has a happy ending. When it’s all said and done, it’s all something worthwhile, and I want my movies to reflect that. There are enough things to be sad about. When you pop in a movie, let the message be one that’s one of hope.

Jon Favreau

When I go in the studio, I put myself into a place where I’m feeling something I want to portray, which is often being sad, lonely. But as soon as I’m starting to make something, it’s when I’m the happiest. Ever. I think that comes out at the same time, so there’s that juxtaposition.

Jamie xx

When I was starting out, I saw it as something that was definitely going to end. Every time I came to New York for fashion week or to interview someone, I was so sad going back home because I thought, ‘These things don’t get to last.’ That’s sort of the narrative of young success.

Tavi Gevinson

It’s important to get well-rounded right off the bat. A lot of experienced dancers can get pigeonholed into one thing. I’ve been hired for a lot of different gigs simply because I can do a lot of different things with different levels of dancers. And it’s sad to me that some dancers don’t do more.

Mandy Moore

It is a sad but undeniable reality that people have died in the line of duty since the earliest days of the United Nations. The first was Ole Bakke, a Norwegian member of the United Nations guard detachment, shot and killed in Palestine in 1948. The toll since then has included colleagues at all levels.

Ban Ki-moon

The sad reality is that there are no purely domestic issues in Israel. Issues that would be dealt with by municipalities in other countries – such as how to deal with a dangerous bridge or how to resolve conflicts between religious and secular bus riders – become major international issues when they occur in Israel.

Alan Dershowitz

I am pretty weird – as weird as in my videos. The only difference is Lilly is not a performer, and Superwoman is. So Superwoman is very fearless. You’ll never see her nervous. You’ll never see her sad. But Lilly is a human. She is the person behind Superwoman, who gets sad and tired sometimes.

Lilly Singh

If I could be more vague I’d write more about people in my life, but I hate hurting feelings or making people feel uncomfortable. I’ve done that before. Unless they’re sad songs. Those get finished fast, but the mean ones often end up at the back of the bottom drawer and it’s probably for the best.

Caitlin Rose

‘Eyes Wide Open’ took shape from two real life events straight from my own past. One was the sad suicide of my young nephew, a troubled kid, who was found at the bottom of a landmark cliff in central California. The second was a chance encounter forty years ago with none other than, ahem, Charles Manson!

Andrew Gross

I write entirely in English; Tagalog chauvinists chide me for this. I feel no guilt in doing so. But I am sad that I cannot write in my native Ilokano. History demanded this; if it isn’t English I am using now, I would most probably be writing in Spanish like Rizal, or even German or Japanese.

F. Sionil Jose

I’m sad to see celluloid go, there’s no doubt. But, you know, nitrate went, by the way, in 1971. If you ever saw a nitrate print of a silent film and then saw an acetate print, you’d see a big difference, but nobody remembers anymore. The acetate print is what we have. Maybe. Now it’s digital.

Martin Scorsese

That’s what is so great about being able to record a 13-song album. You can do a very eclectic group of songs. You do have some almost pop songs in there, but you do have your traditional country, story songs. You have your ballads, your happy songs, your sad songs, your love songs, and your feisty songs.

Reba McEntire

You can think you’re living in the moment and you’re thankful, but when somebody comes face to face with you and says, ‘I just lost my child,’ or ‘I have months to live, and thank you…’ I’m of course sad for them, but I’m thankful that I gave them a gift and they’re giving me a gift.

Tig Notaro

To be honest, I’m a little upset these days. My family has been exposed to the media. Some people break into our house. My ex-girlfriend’s photos are circulating online. To say that these are things I need to endure for the sake of celebrity… that’s sad. I want to respectfully request that my private life remain private.

Song Joong-ki

The first series I wrote, ‘L.A. Candy,’ was always meant to be a three-book series, so when I started out it was all outlined that way and by the time I was done with the third book, I had become so involved and the process and the stories, I was a little bit sad to be done.

Lauren Conrad

Scientists habitually moan that the public doesn’t understand them. But they complain too much: public ignorance isn’t peculiar to science. It’s sad if some citizens can’t tell a proton from a protein. But it’s equally sad if they’re ignorant of their nation’s history, can’t speak a second language, or can’t find Venezuela or Syria on a map.

Martin Rees

Until the age of five, my parents spoke to me in Chinese or a combination of Chinese and English, but they didn’t force me to speak Mandarin. In retrospect, this was sad, because they believed that my chance of doing well in America hinged on my fluency in English. Later, as an adult, I wanted to learn Chinese.

Amy Tan

The tree I had in the garden as a child, my beech tree, I used to climb up there and spend hours. I took my homework up there, my books, I went up there if I was sad, and it just felt very good to be up there among the green leaves and the birds and the sky.

Jane Goodall

Being sad and being depressed are two different things. Also, people going through depression don’t look so, while someone sad will look sad. The most common reaction is, ‘How can you be depressed? You have everything going for you. You are the supposed number one heroine and have a plush home, car, movies… What else do you want?’

Deepika Padukone

I always think of the live show first, where the song is gonna go in the show. That’s why they aren’t sad songs. When I play, I want to make people happy, not sad. It’s such a pleasure for me to do what I do, and I want other people to feel some form of that pleasure, too.

Jason Mraz

What makes me sad about school is that the people who are unhappy are unhappy because they don’t believe it will change. And I just want to say: ‘It does! High school ends and it’s over.’ I will tell anyone that it’s OK to be unhappy at school, make lots of mistakes and then it will be over.

Alice Englert

I was a little boy singing sad songs, about 9 or 10 years old in the woods. I listened to my voice coming back to me. It was as high as you could go. I dreamed of being famous as a singer when I was on those cotton fields. I wanted to see the world and meet people.

Percy Sledge

Every day, when I am working with my boys, I tell them as long as you put in your best efforts, I am there to back you. But the day I find your energy flagging on the field, the day I find you have not put in your best, that’s when I will be really upset and sad.

Nita Ambani

For me, it’s sad to say, but I would probably have a spiritual marriage but not a legal marriage, because I think so much about marriage starts to become about finances. It has nothing to do with God or feelings or the romantic side of marriage. It’s about who owns what, who gets what? So what’s the point?

Andie MacDowell

I don’t think I could compare myself to Macaulay Culkin, because we’re pretty much two different kinds of actors. He’s done a lot of comedy. He does mostly just comedy like ‘Uncle Buck’ and ‘Home Alone’ and ‘Home Alone 2.’ And I’ve done a lot of different stuff, like sad movies, like the movie about the kid with AIDS.

Brian Bonsall

Having read my share of tell-alls over the year, including some that were passed off as autobiographies, I mostly feel sad – sometimes for the writer and sometimes for all the people in his way. I hope that the process of writing the tell-all gives some release and closure on what clearly was an unpleasant and unfulfilling life experience.

Brad Feld

‘I Know You Care’ is about my dad. And I haven’t seen him for a long, long time. And my parents divorced when I was really young. And I guess I just wanted a – it was my way of saying that I wasn’t bitter or angry anymore. I was just sad and just felt like something was missing.

Ellie Goulding

I’ve seen a couple white girls coming to my concerts wearing head wraps, and I think they look so cute. It’s kind of sad to see that people are really into separation, trying to separate everybody and making a clear division of ‘us against you,’ even with fashion. That sucks. It’s not the way the world is supposed to be.

Yuna

I’ve had tons of bullies who would call me retarded, even on my Facebook page. It’s sad and it really hurts. I want to tell people not to use the word. Don’t say your friend’s retarded when they do something foolish. If you have a disability, keep working hard. Whatever it takes, do it, and don’t be mean to people.

Lauren Potter

The Holy Spirit can be with you always and guide you back to Him, but in order to enjoy the benefits of this holy gift, you must truly receive it, and then you must use it in your life. How sad it would be to be given such a precious gift and then set it aside and never use it.

Margaret D. Nadauld

What if the Soviet intervention was a blessing in disguise? It saved the myth that if the Soviets were not to intervene, there would have been some flowering authentic democratic socialism and so on. I’m a little bit more of a pessimist there. I think that the Soviets – it’s a very sad lesson – by their intervention, saved the myth.

Slavoj Zizek

It takes a long time for a country to build a strong base in science, but only a short time to destroy it. Germany was a sad example. It was a world leader in the sciences for more than a century, until its science base was demolished during the Nazi era, and the country ceded its position to the United States.

Torsten Wiesel

Ladies and gentlemen, it is with great sadness that I announce that I will resign as Australia’s Minister for Foreign Affairs. I am sad because I love this job. I’m totally dedicated to the work that we are doing in Australia’s name around the world, and I believe that we have achieved many good results for Australia, and I’m proud of them.

Kevin Rudd

I was born in Paris in the mid-1960s, and by the time I was 12 I had started going to the movies by myself. Most of the movies of that period never appealed to me. I didn’t like the ‘naturalism,’ the sad or the ‘down-to-earth’ characters. What I wanted from film was fantasy, dreams, funny situations, extravagant decor – and beautiful women.

Christian Louboutin

When I design and wonder what the point is, I think of someone having a bad time in their life. Maybe they are sad and they wake up and put on something I have made and it makes them feel just a bit better. So, in that sense, fashion is a little help in the life of a person. But only a little.

Miuccia Prada

One day, I was at my grandmother’s house, and I found diaries that she kept as a young girl. I opened one to a page that had flowers glued inside. In her childish handwriting, my grandmother wrote, ‘Pap died today. I am very sad.’ The fact that this was true and that I could see the withered flowers made a huge impression on me.

Laura Amy Schlitz

I think that when you make yourself vulnerable, the thing that you do next is better. It’s not like you have to inflict pain on yourself in order to make yourself better, but I think it helps. The thing that bonds you to a new friend isn’t that you went to a really fun party; it’s ’cause you had a really weird, sad conversation.

Tavi Gevinson

My experience, with both my parents, is that grief has a lot of down, sad things, but I was also really emotionally raw, in the first year after each of them passed. Flowers smelled more intensely, my relationships were hotter, and I was more willing to risk. I was going for it a lot more. I was ‘unsober’ and I wasn’t playing by my rules.

Mike Mills

I get kind of sad when I look at all of my magazines and think about how at one time I was much more impressed with a certain fashion editorial, or how I feel like I can’t really relate to being that excited about fashion anymore. Maybe it’s being jaded, but I honestly like that now, when something’s really good, I feel more affected by it.

Tavi Gevinson

I had often sought for the peace there is in Christ, but I could not seem to find the freedom I desired. A terrible sadness rested on my heart. I could not think of anything I had done to cause me to feel sad; but it seemed to me that I was not good enough to enter Heaven, that such a thing would be altogether too much for me to expect.

Ellen G. White