Saddest Quotes - Page 2

• Tonight I can write the saddest lines...Though this be the last pain that she makes me suffer and these the last verses that I write for her.

  Pablo Neruda

  Pain, Writing, Suffering

  Pablo Neruda, “Tonight I Can Write The Saddest Lines”

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• The saddest thing for a girl to do is to dumb herself down for a guy.

  Emma Watson

  Girl, Feminist, Guy

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• The saddest thing that befalls a soul is when it loses faith in god and woman.

  Alexander Smith

  Faith, Soul, Loses

  Alexander Smith (1859). “A Life-drama: And Other Poems”, p.148

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• That's the one thing you wake up with every day: How long have I got left? And that's the saddest thing in the world, because you have this absolute realization that everything you love you're going to have to let go of and give up. I look at my daughter and I think, There's going to be a point where I'm not going to be around for her. Even the thought of that breaks my heart.

  Moby

  Letting Go, Daughter, Giving Up

  Source: www.ew.com

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• We so love all new and unusual things that we even derive a secret pleasure from the saddest and most tragic events, both because of their novelty and because of the natural malignity that exists within us.

  Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable

  Love, Unusual Things, Secret

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• Hopelessness may be the saddest word in our language. Despair is the enemy of our souls. It can paralyze us, halt our progress, and cause us to lose our way. But hope awakens us like a light shining in the darkness. We can endure all things when our hope is centered in one who will never fail us-our Savior, Jesus Christ, who is the light of the world.

  Dwan J. Young

  Jesus, Light, Shining

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• Paris was sad. One of the saddest towns: weary of its now-mechanical sensuality, weary of the tension of money, money, money, weary even of resentment and conceit, just weary to death, and still not sufficiently Americanized or Londonized to hide the weariness under a mechanical jig-jig-jig!

  D. H. Lawrence

  Paris, Towns, Resentment

  D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.3913, Delphi Classics

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• The two saddest moments of my life were when my mother died and when I was told I couldn't play football for the Colts anymore.

  Art Donovan

  Football, Mother, Two

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• I'm coming back in... and it's the saddest moment of my life.

  Edward Higgins White

  Space Flight, Moments, Coming Back

  "Fictional character: Ed White". "From the Earth to the Moon", www.imdb.com. 1998.

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• Of all tales 'tis the saddest--and more sad, Because it makes us smile.

  Lord Byron

  Sadness, Tales

  Lord Byron (2013). “Don Juan”, p.304, Simon and Schuster

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• It's the most extraordinary and saddest thing, the amount of talent out there not being seen.

  Gedde Watanabe

  Talent, Extraordinary, Amount

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• The saddest thing is that when I sat down to rehearse for the Pixies, I couldn't believe that I had given up something that I loved. Now I hold the drum at night and I want to go to bed with it.

  Joey Santiago

  Believe, Night, Bed

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• Sometimes I think the people to feel the saddest for are people who are unable to connect with the profound—people such as my boring brother-in-law, a hearty type so concerned with normality and fitting in that he eliminates any possibility of uniqueness for himself and his own personality. I wonder if some day, when he is older, he will wake up and the deeper part of him will realize that he has never allowed himself to truly exist, and he will cry with regret and shame and grief.

  Douglas Coupland

  Brother, Regret, Grief

  Douglas Coupland (2012). “Life After God”, p.31, Simon and Schuster

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• People cannot stand the saddest truth I know about the very nature of reading and writing imaginative literature, which is that poetry does not teach us how to talk to other people: it teaches us how to talk to ourselves. What I'm desperately trying to do is to get students to talk to themselves as though they are indeed themselves, and not someone else.

  Harold Bloom

  Reading, Writing, People

  "Falstaff for our times". www.theguardian.com. March 5, 1999.

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• Reality's its own thing. And I'm not really into reality that much. I'm into this cinematic stylized reality that can comment on reality. It's like the most beautiful parts of reality and the saddest parts, but it's none of this middle ground.

  Zack Snyder

  Beautiful, Reality, Middle

  Source: therumpus.net

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• The saddest thing one meets is a nominal Christian. I had not seen it in Japan where missions is younger. The church here is a “field full of wheat and tares.

  Amy Carmichael

  Christian, Japan, Church

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• If I am not, may God place me there; if I am, may God so keep me. I should be the saddest in all the world if I knew that I were not in the grace of God. But if I were in a state of sin, do you think the Voice would come to me? I would that every one could hear the Voice as I hear it.

  Joan of Arc

  Thinking, Voice, Grace

  "Saint Joan of Arc's Trials" edited by T. Douglas Murray, www.stjoan-center.com. 1903.

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• Whoever admits that he is too busy to improve his methods, has acknowledged himself to be at the end of his rope. And that is always the saddest predicament which any one can get into.

  J. Ogden Armour

  Failure, Rope, Busy

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• One of the saddest and most damaging legacies of the [George W.] Bush administration is the increased assertion of the "state secrets" privilege, which kept organizations like the ACLU - which had cases of people who had actually been tortured and held in indefinite detention - from getting their day in court.

  Edward Snowden

  Organization, People, Secret

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• I'm the happiest the saddest guy in the world can be.

  Vincent Gallo

  Guy, World

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• The saddest thing in life is wasted talent, and the choices you make will shape your life forever.

  Chazz Palminteri

  Things In Life, Choices, Forever

  Twitter post from Apr 15, 2015

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• What I do now is all my dad's fault, because he bought me a guitar as a boy, for no apparent reason. ... I wrote some of my best love songs ever when I was unhappy and my saddest love songs when I was very much in love. When I wrote 'You're in My Heart', which is an uplifting song, I had just broken up with-Now who had I broken up with?. ... Half the battle is selling music, not singing it. It's the image, not what you sing.

  Rod Stewart

  Uplifting, Song, Best Love

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• The saddest failures in life are those that come from not putting forth the power and will to succeed.

  Edwin Percy Whipple

  Inspirational, Life, Success

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• It's the saddest year in movies. We've got "Manchester," "Moonlight," "Chronic," "Jackie" ... it's sad when "American Honey" is the happiest film of the year and it's about runaways aimlessly trying to figure out their lives with no parental figures.

  Nick Kroll

  Years, Trying, Honey

  Source: variety.com

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• Even the saddest things can become, once we have made peace with them, a source of wisdom and strength.

  Frederick Buechner

  Inspirational, Hurt, Source

  Frederick Buechner (1991). “Telling Secrets”, Harper San Francisco

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