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.

“I can see the humorous side of things and enjoy the fun when it comes but look where I will, there seems to me always more sadness than joy in life.”

Jerome K. Jerome

More Sad Quotes

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

Loretta Lynn

“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

“Being on your own would be sad, sick and weird. I don't trust myself. I need that balance.”

Daniel Craig

“I do not take steroids. I never have. It's sad to me that people want to point fingers. I don't do that. That's not me. I wouldn't feel like a human being.”

Jackie Joyner-Kersee

“I was sad to see anybody leave, we had a very nice family on that show. I was very sad to see momma go, Victoria and especially Linda. My god that was my wife on the show, in fact my wife calls her wife.”

Larry Hagman

“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

“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

“It's sad when someone you know becomes someone you knew.”

Henry Rollins

“I think I would be very sad if I wasn't able to have a baby.”

Nicole Kidman

“Here in the United States, our profession is much maligned, people simply don't trust or like journalists anymore and that's sad.”

Christiane Amanpour

“Women are reputed never to be disgusted. The sad fact is that they often are, but not with men following the lead of men, they are most often disgusted with themselves.”

Germaine Greer

“I was sad that Corpse Bride was so short. I would've liked to have had her around for way longer. She doesn't actually have that many scenes.”

Helena Bonham Carter

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

Henry Ward Beecher

“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

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