Sad Quotes - Page 3

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

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  Love, Inspirational, Life

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• You can do terrible things when you don't know who you are.

  Adam Rex

  Fashion, Being Yourself, Just Being You

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• When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his duty.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Inspirational, Military, Stupid

  Caesar and Cleopatra (1901) act 3

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• The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we begin it so late.

  William Mather Lewis

  Inspirational, Break Up, Depressing

  "Abiding Values".

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• There is not enough darkness in all the world to put out the light of even one small candle.

  Robert Alden

  Appreciation, Light, Darkness

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• Suicide sometimes proceeds from cowardice, but not always; for cowardice sometimes prevents it; since as many live because they are afraid to die, as die because they are afraid to live.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Death, Suicide, Self Harm

  Charles Caleb Colton (1824). “Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think”, p.145

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• Reject your sense of injury, and the injury itself disappears.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Happiness, Broken Heart, Inspirational Life

  "Meditations". Book by Marcus Aurelius (circa 170), p. 19, 1995 edition.

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  Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart. The really great men must, I think, have great sadness on earth.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Inspirational, Pain, Heart

  Fyodor Dostoevsky, Jane Austen, Lewis Carroll, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (2014). “The 10 Greatest Books of All Time”, p.262, Google Publishing

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• We need never be ashamed of our tears.

  Charles Dickens

  Break Up, Breakup, Expectations

  Charles Dickens (2016). “Great Expectations”, Xist Publishing

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• Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.

  Washington Irving

  Love, Break Up, Broken Heart

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• I don’t know what they are called, the spaces between seconds– but I think of you always in those intervals.

  Salvador Plascencia

  Love, Thinking Of You, Space

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• Youth offers the promise of happiness, but life offers the realities of grief.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Grief, Reality, Thought Provoking

  Twitter post from May 27, 2012

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• All the world is full of suffering. It is also full of overcoming.

  Helen Keller

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  Helen Keller (1957). “The Open Door”, Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday

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

  Miguel de Unamuno

  Love, Life, Heartbreak

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

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Life, Happiness, Depression

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• Hearts can break. Yes, hearts can break. Sometimes I think it would be better if we died when they did, but we don't.

  Stephen King

  Heartbreak, Thinking, Heartache

  Stephen King (1999). “Hearts In Atlantis”, p.443, Simon and Schuster

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• The funniest people are the saddest once

  Confucius

  Love, Funny, People

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

  Fred Rogers

  Life, Giving Up, People

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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

  Frederick Douglass

  Country, Depressing, Light

  Frederick Douglass (1994). “Autobiographies”, p.409, Library of America

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• Imagination at wit's end spreads its sad wings.

  Samuel Beckett

  Frustration, Wings, Imagination

  Samuel Beckett (2012). “Company / Ill Seen Ill Said / Worstward Ho / Stirrings Still”, p.41, Faber & Faber

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• Nothing is more sad than the death of an illusion.

  Arthur Koestler

  Motivational, Death, Illusion

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• Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.

  Winston Churchill

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

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• What's the good of dragging up sufferings which are over, of being unhappy now just because you were then.

  Seneca the Younger

  Inspirational, Happiness, Happy

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

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  World, Dominion, Spheres

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2007). “The Art of Controversy”, p.69, Cosimo, Inc.

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• It is a time when one's spirit is subdued and sad, one knows not why; when the past seems a storm-swept desolation, life a vanity and a burden, and the future but a way to death.

  Mark Twain

  Death, Past, Vanity

  Mark Twain, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Mark Twain: All 13 Novels, Short Stories, Poetry and Essays”, p.1257, GENERAL PRESS

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