Saddest Quotes - Page 10

• The saddest thing of word or pen, To know the things that might have been.

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  Might, Pens, Knows

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• Sometimes the saddest stories take the fewest words.

  Karen Thompson Walker

  Stories, Sometimes

  Karen Thompson Walker (2014). “The Age of Miracles”, p.234, Simon and Schuster

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• I'm saddest when I sing.

  Thomas Haynes Bayly

  Music

  Thomas Haynes Bayly (1844). “Songs and Ballads, Grave and Gay”, p.59

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• A man willing to work, and unable to find work, is perhaps the saddest sight that fortune's inequality exhibits under this sun.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Work, Men, Sight

  1839 Chartism, ch.4.

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• The Moral is that gardeners pine, Whene'er no pods adorn the vine. Of all sad words experience gleans, The saddest are: It might have beans.

  Guy Wetmore Carryl

  Vines, Might, Moral

  Guy Wetmore Carryl (1902). “Grimm tales made gay”, Irvington Pub

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• Talented people are written off once they hit their 50s and 60s, and the saddest thing is, we just get better as we get older.

  Kim Cattrall

  People, Get Better, Written

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The saddest day has gleams of light, The darkest wave hath bright foam beneath it. There twinkles o'er the cloudiest night, Some solitary star to cheer it.

  Sarah Winnemucca

  Stars, Cheer, Night

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  I think the saddest people always try their hardest to make people happy
  because they know what it's like to feel absolutely worthless
  and they don't want anyone else to feel like that.

  Robin Williams

  Inspirational, Change, Happiness

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• Sweetest smile is made saddest tear-drop!

  Edwin Arnold

  Smile, Tears, Made

  Sir Edwin Arnold (1885). “The Secret of Death, from the Sanskrit: With Some Collected Poems”

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• On the darkest days you have to search for a spot of brightness, on the coldest days you have to seek out a spot of warmth; on the bleakest days you have to keep your eyes onward and upward and on the saddest days you have to leave them open to let them cry. To then let them dry. To give them a chance to wash out the pain in order to see fresh and clear once again.

  Tahereh Mafi

  Pain, Inspiration, Eye

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• Jesus came to reveal God to us. He is the defining word on God—on what the heart of God is truly like, on what God is up to in the world, and on what God is up to in your life. An intimate encounter with Jesus is the most transforming experience of human existence. To know him as he is, is to come home. To have his life, joy, love, and presence cannot be compared. A true knowledge of Jesus is our greatest need and our greatest happiness. To be mistaken about him is the saddest mistake of all.

  John Eldred

  Jesus, Mistake, Home

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• Do the people of this land…desire to preserve those [liberties] protected by the First Amendment… If so, let them withstand all beginnings of encroachment. For the saddest epitaph which can be carved in memory of a vanquished liberty is that it was lost because its possessors failed to stretch for a saving hand while yet there was time.

  George Sutherland

  Memories, Hands, Land

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• Considered in its entirety, psychoanalysis won't do. It is an end product, moreover, like a dinosaur or a zeppelin; no better theory can ever be erected on its ruins, which will remain for ever one of the saddest and strangest of all landmarks in the history of twentieth century thought.

  Peter Medawar

  Science, America, World

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• The three saddest things are the ill wanting to be well, the poor wanting to be rich, and the constant traveler saying 'anywhere but here'.

  e. e. cummings

  Travel, Memorable, Three

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• The saddest thing about ephemerals was that their little lives rarely held time enough for love.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Love, Life, Littles

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Time Enough for Love”, p.175, Penguin

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• I have been one acquainted with the night. I have walked out in rain - and back in rain. I have outwalked the furthest city light. I have looked down the saddest city lane. I have passed by the watchman on his beat And dropped my eyes, unwilling to explain.

  Robert Frost

  Rain, Eye, Night

  "Acquainted with the Night" l. 1 (1928)

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• The saddest thing in life is wasted talent

  Robert De Niro

  Things In Life, Talent, Life Is

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• The funniest people are the saddest once

  Confucius

  Love, Funny, Sad

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• I believe that one of the saddest things in the world today is that some people don't have enough food to nourish themselves. It's the 21st century and that's really not acceptable, so if I could do something that would change that I would be really happy.

  Izabel Goulart

  Believe, People, Would Be

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• The saddest thing one meets is a nominal Christian.

  Amy Carmichael

  Christian, Religion, Missionary

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