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Those who don't know how to weep with their whole heart, don't know how to laugh either.
— Golda Meir
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
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
You get used to sadness, growing up in the mountains, I guess.
— Loretta Lynn
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
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
It's fun to sing sad songs. And it's fun to listen to sad songs. Enjoyable. Satisfying. Something.
— Richard Thompson
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
My lasting impression of Truman Capote is that he was a terribly gentle, terribly sensitive, and terribly sad man.
— Alvin Ailey
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
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
I am co-writing a screenplay now and I'm working on the rights to another story I want to do. So I plan to produce and direct. So, for me, I don't really feel that I am vulnerable to that sad baggage that comes with the business of filmmaking.
— Kerry Washington
Certain emotions just take you to the notes - being furious, heroic, sad, erotic, when rain comes.
— Jeff Buckley
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
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 think Paris smells not just sweet but melancholy and curious, sometimes sad but always enticing and seductive. She's a city for the all senses, for artists and writers and musicians and dreamers, for fantasies, for long walks and wine and lovers and, yes, for mysteries.
— M. J. Rose
I work extremely hard to stay positive and happy. But I get sad and anxious, too, just like everyone.
— Rachel Platten
I so desperately hate to end these movies that the first thing I do when I'm done is write another one. Then I don't feel sad about having to leave and everybody going away.
— John Hughes
Isn't it sad to go to your grave without ever wondering why you were born? Who, with such a thought, would not spring from bed, eager to resume discovering the world and rejoicing to be part of it?
— Richard Dawkins
Let us remember that sorrow alone is the creator of great things.
— Ernest Renan
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
It's sad that we never get trained to leave assumptions behind.
— Sebastian Thrun
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
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 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
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
The saddest thing that befalls a soul is when it loses faith in God and woman.
— Alexander Smith
In this world, full often, our joys are only the tender shadows which our sorrows cast.
— Henry Ward Beecher
The old know what they want the young are sad and bewildered.
— Logan Pearsall Smith
If you don't know about pain and trouble, you're in sad shape. They make you appreciate life.
— Evel Knievel
I get mad. I get sad. I have all those emotions. But I just like to keep them to myself. I don't think my fans need to be bothered with if I'm mad or sad about something. I should just be concerned that they are keeping up with my music or I'm making them happy with my show.
— Demi Lovato
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
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.
Musical compositions can be very sad - Chopin - but you have the pleasure of this sadness. The cheap consolation is: you will be happy. The higher consolation is the pleasure and recognition of your unhappiness, the pleasure of having recognised that fate, destiny and life are such as they are and so you reach a higher form of consciousness.
— Umberto Eco
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
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
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
Do I perform sometimes in a manic style? Yes. Am I manic all the time? No. Do I get sad? Oh yeah. Does it hit me hard? Oh yeah.
— Robin Williams
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
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
I'm proud of my invention, but I'm sad that it is used by terrorists.
— Mikhail Kalashnikov
I don't know how the poor farmers deal with such situations in real life. It's really sad.
— Sanjay Dutt
I can't really have any friends. It's sad, really. It's lonely. But that's how I am.
— Randy Moss
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
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
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
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
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
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 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
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
My natural disposition is pretty joyful, but you know, I have bad days and sad moments like anybody else.
— Tracee Ellis Ross
Don't eat because you're angry, bored, sad, or stressed.
— John Rampton
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
I eat my feelings - when I'm happy, when I'm sad.
— Chrissy Metz
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
Life can be challenging and sad... but music is the easy part.
— St. Vincent
I'm not tired of who I am. That would be sad!
— Diane von Furstenberg
Being an old farm boy myself, chickens coming home to roost never did make me sad; they've always made me glad.
— Malcolm X
It's sad that you don't see drivers being real people.
— Jacques Villeneuve
Fashion really is women's liberation in a lot of ways. Look at how many women in this country are depressed about how they look and how they think they have to look! It's really sad. And it's not about money.
— Iris Apfel
When I do see a picture of myself that has been touched up too much, I do get a bit sad... it makes me look like a hypocrite. It breaks my heart. I would rather shoot a magazine and shoot my flaws, but that's not up to me.
— Kendra Wilkinson
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
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
It's kind of sad, the way we've turned the entertainment of reading into a kind of psychic broccoli - something to feel guilty about if you don't force it on your face-making children while dutifully consuming a few token florets yourself.
— Lynn Coady
I like to be sad once in a while. You need it for your equilibrium.
— Marjane Satrapi
I'm sad, upset, and disheartened with the trolling that happens on social media... At the end of the day, this whole homophobia is so disheartening and upsetting. And then they say, 'Why don't you speak about your sexuality? You could be iconic in this country.' But I don't want to be iconic anywhere. I want to live my life.
— Karan Johar
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
The sad thing about destroying the environment is that we're going to take the rest of life with us. The bluebirds will be gone, and the elephants will be gone, and the tigers will be gone, and the pandas will be gone.
— Ted Turner
I meditate an hour in the morning and an hour in the evening. Once a year I go away for a long retreat. And overall, I just feel more comfortable in my own skin and less anxious, less sad, less fearful.
— Rivers Cuomo
What I am sad about is that there is now, in America, no equivalent to the art circuit.
— Richard Attenborough
I talked to ex-wives of musicians of the '70s for research. They're the funniest people in the world, yet there is this sad, beautiful thing in their eyes that says they've seen more than they could ever possibly tell you.
— Kate Hudson
I think women should be seductive, not triste. There's enough sadness in life now without making women look sad, too.
— Azzedine Alaia
Even if my songs are quite sad or quite dark, I don't want my songs to make people sad. It's very important for me that all my songs have some kind of hope or light.
— Aurora
I'm not sad about any of my life. It's so unconventional. It doesn't look anything like I thought it would.
— Edie Falco
We can't shame women for trying to be beautiful. That's so mean and unfair. But there's a part of me that thinks it's really sad, too. It's very complicated.
— Marilyn Minter
Life is sad. People, you know, are going to pass, and you know that you will one day.
— James Mercer
Even today, England is a very repressed, repressive country, and there's pressure to be kind of a certain way, so people do things that ultimately make them sad.
— Ben Whishaw
With any group of people in life, sad things happen, and crazy things, and happy things. When you're in the public eye, it's just amplified, that's all.
— Margot Kidder
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
It's the sad thing about entertainment: it's not always about who is the best. Jake The Snake had a horrible time playing politics. I never had a belt; didn't need one. They tried to put me against Hogan twice, but when the people chanted for me, when they chanted for the DDT, that was the end of that. They couldn't ruin their marketing.
— Jake Roberts
Corporate tax reform is nice in theory but tough in practice. It most likely requires lower tax rates and the closing of loopholes, which many companies are sure to fight. And whatever new, lower tax rate is determined, there will probably be another country willing to lower its rate further, creating a sad race to zero.
— Andrew Ross Sorkin
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
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 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
Our generation, unfortunately, is stuck to our phones - and, like, Twitter - constantly, which I have no problem with. I'd say we're not describing the children of America or anything like that, but there is something to take from it: It is kind of sad how we can't go thirty minutes without checking our phone.
— Israel Broussard
Sometimes I wonder if suicides aren't in fact sad guardians of the meaning of life.
— Vaclav Havel
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
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 day you think there is no improvements to be made is a sad one for any player.
— Lionel Messi
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
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
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
It's hard to watch your life unfold, and sad. Life changes.
— Cilla Black
I often feel like I have this spirit living inside of me, always dressing in like short mini skirts... but then I start to discover myself. So there are eight spirits, mischievous ones, sad ones, handsome ones, wise ones, and crazy ones.
— Bai Ling
I like singer-songwriters, and I find sad songs comforting rather than depressing. It makes you realise you're not alone in the world.
— Natalie Imbruglia
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
However, we might oppose it, abortion is a sad feature of modern life.
— Robert Casey
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
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
There is still so much drama in my life, but I'm not a sad person anymore.
— Nikki Reed
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
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
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
It's a sad man my friend who's livin' in his own skin and can't stand the company.
— Bruce Springsteen
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
Actually, the moment of victory is wonderful, but also sad. It means that your trip is ended.
— Bill Toomey
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
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
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
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
From inside where I live, I feel like I just perceive events in a certain rational way. I often find it sad or poignant, and it may not make me laugh a bit. But I don't mind inventing a portrait that allows others to laugh if that's what they want to do.
— Madeline Kahn
It's sad that some people who have one exciting moment spend the rest of their lives rehashing it.
— Jonathan Kozol
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
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
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
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 think that the Information Age is great, but there's a downside to it obviously as well, and it's that false information can be perpetuated so quickly. And it's sad that so many people will believe it.
— Josh Hopkins
I love music videos, I really do. I think it's kind of sad that it's a dying art form.
— Adam Levine
One should either be sad or joyful. Contentment is a warm sty for eaters and sleepers.
— Eugene O'Neill
Do not make best friends with a melancholy sad soul. They always are heavily loaded, and you must bear half.
— Francois Fenelon
It is a sad thing when men have neither the wit to speak well nor the judgment to hold their tongues.
— Jean de la Bruyere
A tragedy need not have blood and death it's enough that it all be filled with that majestic sadness that is the pleasure of tragedy. 
— Jean Racine
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
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
He is a hard man who is only just, and a sad one who is only wise.
— Voltaire
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
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
I have a stepladder. It's a very nice stepladder but it's sad that I never knew my real ladder.
— Craig Charles
I don't wanta do any Blues or any sad songs.
— Bob Livingston
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
Of these years nought remains in memory but the sad feeling that we have advanced and only grown older.
— Max Muller
The sad souls of those who lived without blame and without praise.
— Dante Alighieri
How sad it is that we give up on people who are just like us.
— Fred Rogers
They say geniuses mostly have great mothers. They mostly have sad fates.
— D. H. Lawrence
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
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
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'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
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
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
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
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
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
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
It's a sad state when more people retweet than buy records.
— Noel Gallagher
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
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
Anyone can go online and write anything they want about people they don't even know, and most of the time, that is fueled by hate. The sad part is that people actually believe what they read online.
— Colton Haynes
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
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
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
Everyone feels sad occasionally. A full range of emotions is part of what makes us human.
— Michael Greger
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
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 had a daughter and lost her a long while ago. That's too sad a story to go into.
— Gene Wilder
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
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
I remembered myself as an unpopular and rather sad kid.
— Sydney Pollack
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
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 think I'm probably a very sad man wrapped in a very joyful package, and I think I'm very resilient, and I think I'm quite generous, sometimes to a fault. And I'm very bad with money, but I don't see that too much of a flaw.
— Dave Matthews
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
Whenever I'm sad, I just put on 'SpongeBob' and I cheer up.
— Richard Harmon
'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
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
I grew up feeling 'less than.' I was the sad, shy child hiding in the hall closet beneath coats. I'd wait for my grandmother's voice to call, 'Jewell, Jewell.' I was lost, waiting to be found. I thought being found, I'd be happier, better. All the while, I read stories. Stories with both truth and lies.
— Jewell Parker Rhodes
I feel most at home when I'm alone. That's not sad. It's just I feel closest to source and connection when I'm by myself.
— Tituss Burgess
Fashion is that thing that saved me from being sad.
— Lady Gaga
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
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
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 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
I don't ever want to be sad about my life.
— Tammy Duckworth
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
The sad truth is that most of my husbands turned out to be convincing liars.
— Joan Collins
I'm incredibly sad that my mother's not here to see my kids and that my kids don't get to know her. And she didn't meet my husband. That's one of the hardest things. I don't even know how to put that into words.
— Stella McCartney
Many marriages break up over hormonal imbalance, which is truly sad because it comes from a lack of understanding. When hormones are put back in balance with natural bioidentical hormones, a woman or man resumes their normal life of feeling good and having days filled with quality.
— Suzanne Somers
When you're feeling down, sad, lonely, negative, you don't want to take care of yourself - and the weight problem and the diabetic problem and the heart attack and stroke problems and high cholesterol set in.
— Richard Simmons
Pageants are already ridiculous and sad, I think.
— Casey Wilson
I wish I could wear 10 dresses to my wedding. It's so sad that you put it in storage and then never see it again. I am going to sleep in mine after I wear it.
— Eva Longoria
My father was an urchin that lived in Hell's Kitchen. He was part of a family of nine. I mean, there were times that were better and worse, but mostly, by the time we got to L.A., they'd lost whatever they had. And it was a sad time. And both he and I became truck drivers for different companies.
— Frank Gehry
One of the things psychologists used to say was that if you are depressed, anxious or angry, you couldn't be happy. Those were at opposite ends of a continuum. I believe that you can be suffering or have a mental illness and be happy - just not in the same moment that you're sad.
— Martin Seligman
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
'The Taxi Ride,' from my second album, is one people want to hear a lot. I'm consciously trying to walk on the sunny side of the street, to really lift myself into a place of greater positivity, and that's a sad song.
— Jane Siberry
If some people try to make a prenup into a pre-negotiation of a divorce... Well, that's really sad. But I do think that it's important to understand what each person has coming into the relationship, and what each person expects from the relationship. They aren't always fun discussions to have, and they can be very eye-opening.
— Laura Wasser
I want my clothes to have a life and then end up in a secondhand store, where some cool girl discovers them 20 years later. If the runway or red carpet is the only life clothes have, it's sad.
— Jeremy Scott
I think I drift toward sad love songs.
— Benmont Tench
But I'm not like sad, depressed miserable person. I guess sometimes I give off that impression.
— Edward Furlong
The study of tavern history often brings to light much evidence of sad domestic changes. Many a cherished and beautiful home, rich in annals of family prosperity and private hospitality, ended its days as a tavern.
— Alice Morse Earle
With out art, without communicating, we wouldn't live beyond 30 because we'd be so sad and depressed.
— Wayne Coyne
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
The display of grief makes more demands than grief itself. How few men are sad in their own company.
— Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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
He who is not just is severe, he who is not wise is sad.
— Voltaire
I don't have many sad days.
— Billy Graham
When I talk about sad things, I talk about sad things.
— Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
I think about my father and how sad it was that he never had grandchildren.
— Cate Blanchett
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
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
That is sad until one recalls how many bad books the world may yet be spared because of the busyness of writers.
— Gore Vidal
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
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 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
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
I end up doing selfies 'cause I am so sad.
— Rita Ora
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
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
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
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
It's sad, something coming to an end. It cracks you open, in a way - cracks you open to feeling.
— Jennifer Aniston
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
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 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
I was a very sad little girl.
— Julie Andrews
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
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
This is a sick business. It's so sad.
— Sia
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
I still really like newspapers. I'm gonna feel really sad when they go. Or not - maybe I'll be dead.
— Michael Keaton
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 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
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 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
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
Sad people dislike the happy, and the happy the sad; the quick thinking the sedate, and the careless the busy and industrious.
— Horace