Sad Quotes

Sadness is not a problem to be solved — it is a signal to be understood. These quotes sit with grief, melancholy, heartbreak, and loss without rushing to fix them, because sometimes the most helpful thing is knowing you are not the only one who feels this way.

“If I don't make it, I'll be very sad that there are things I didn't do, but I'm happy that I've done what I have.”

Stephen Jay Gould

More Sad Quotes

“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

“No not really, it is just like real life. Not everyday you are happy and not everyday you are sad.”

Dakota Fanning

“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

“With my schedule being so crazy, I can't call every day or hang out with my friends like I used to and that's definitely sad.”

Jordin Sparks

“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

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

Bruce Springsteen

“I look at my people, and I look at those who control them - the political elite. And the sad thing is that the elites are just not interested in the welfare of the people.”

Youssou N'Dour

“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

“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

“You will soon find that I am a bit obsessive about my work. And that is a little sad, one often feels strangely restricted, not finding time to simmer, although one actually has many interests.”

Arne Jacobsen

“You get used to sadness, growing up in the mountains, I guess.”

Loretta Lynn

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

Gore Vidal

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

Stephen King

“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 best quality about Kobe Bryant? You want me to be honest? I don't know. I'll tell you why. I open my arms to everybody. But he never stepped forward for the embrace. So I never really got to know him. I don't know anything about him, and it's kinda sad.”

Shaquille O'Neal

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