Saddest Quotes - Page 5

• I think of the saddest thing I can and then add a sick dog to that. If I think of a sick dog from the beginning, I just stop there.

  Sufjan Stevens

  Dog, Thinking, Sick

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• But I will say that most comedians are the saddest people I know. That is the biggest paradox to me.

  Jean Reno

  People, Comedian, Paradox

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• I can't sing. As a singist I am not a success. I am saddest when I sing. So are those who hear me. They are sadder even than I am.

  Artemas Ward

  Music, I Can

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• The saddest human experience is to view alone the scenes one has viewed through other eyes - to walk solitary where one has walked in company - to have its particular barbed shaft aimed at one from every stick and stone that mark familiar ways.

  Katherine Cecil Thurston

  Eye, Views, Stones

  Katherine Cecil Thurston (2012). “Max”, p.316, tredition

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• The saddest thing in the world was that human beings, for all their ardent striving and desire, could never achieve physical, emotional, or intellectual perfection. The species was doomed to imperfection; it thrashed forever in despair or denial of that fact.

  Dean Koontz

  Emotional, Perfection, Forever

  Dean Koontz (2007). “Dark Rivers of the Heart: A Novel”, p.194, Bantam

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• That was one of the saddest things about people--their most important thoughts and feelings often went unspoken and barely understood.

  Alexandra Adornetto

  Inspirational, Life, People

  Alexandra Adornetto (2010). “Halo”, p.12, Macmillan

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• ...of all things this was the saddest, that life goes on: if one leaves one's lover, life should stop for him, and if one disappears from the world, then the world should stop, too: and it never did. And that was the real reason for most people getting up in the morning: not because it would matter but because it wouldn't.

  Truman Capote

  Morning, Real, People

  Truman Capote (2012). “The Grass Harp”, p.139, Vintage

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• Christ is building His kingdom with earth's broken things. Men want only the strong, the successful, the victorious, the unbroken, in building their kingdoms; but God is the God of the unsuccessful, of those who have failed. Heaven is filling with earth's broken lives, and there is no bruised reed that Christ cannot take and restore to glorious blessedness and beauty. He can take the life crushed by pain or sorrow and make it into a harp whose music shall be all praise. He can lift earth's saddest failure up to heaven's glory.

  J.R. Miller

  Inspirational, Strength, God

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• The saddest journey in the world is the one that follows a precise itinerary. Then you're not a traveler. You're a f@@king tourist.

  Guillermo del Toro

  Kings, Journey, Tourists

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• It's twilight. It’s the safest time of day for us. The easiest time. But also the saddest, in a way...the end of another day, the return of the night. Darkness is so predictable, don’t you think?

  Stephenie Meyer

  Twilight, Night, Thinking

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• One of the saddest realities is that we never know when our lives are at their peak. Only after it is over and we have some kind of perspective do we realize how good we had it a day, a month, five years ago.

  Jonathan Carroll

  Reality, Years, Perspective

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• One of the saddest things about US education is that the wisdom of our most successful teachers is lost to the profession when they retire.

  John Dewey

  Teacher, Teaching, Successful

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• Earth's saddest day and gladdest day were just three days apart!

  Sarah Chauncey Woolsey

  Easter, Three, Earth

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• The saddest day of the year is the day baseball season ends.

  Tommy Lasorda

  Inspirational, Motivational, Baseball

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• The saddest part about being human is not paying attention. Presence is the gift of life.

  Stephen Levine

  Listening, Attention, Being Human

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• One of the saddest things about conformity is the ghastly sort of non-conformity it breeds; the noisy protesting, the aggressive rebelliousness, the rigid counter-fetishism.

  Louis Kronenberger

  Revolution, Conformity, Rebellion

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• May your happiest days of the past be your saddest days of your future.

  Laurence J. Peter

  Happiness, Sadness, Blessing

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• The melancholy days are come, the saddest of the year, Of wailing winds, and naked woods and meadows brown and sear.

  William C. Bryant

  Fall, Sadness, Autumn

  William Cullen Bryant, “The Death Of The Flowers”

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• Consider the Koran... this wretched book was sufficient to start a world-religion, to satisfy the metaphysical need of countless millions for twelve hundred years, to become the basis of their morality and of a remarkable contempt for death, and also to inspire them to bloody wars and the most extensive conquests. In this book we find the saddest and poorest form of theism. Much may be lost in translation, but I have not been able to discover in it one single idea of value.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  War, Book, Years

  "The World as Will and Representation" by Arthur Schopenhauer, translated by E. Payne, Vol. II, Ch. XVII, 1958.

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• Granting our wish is one of Fate's saddest jokes.

  James Russell Lowell

  Success, Fate, Wish

  James Russell Lowell (1871). “The poetical works of James Russell Lowell”, p.426

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• The greatest and saddest defect is not credulity, but an habitual forgetfulness that our science is ignorance.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Ignorance, Forgetfulness, Defects

  Henry David Thoreau, Odell Shepard (1961). “The Heart of Thoreau's Journals”, p.214, Courier Corporation

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• The saddest thing about love, Joe, is that not only the love cannot last forever, but even the heartbreak is soon forgotten.

  William Faulkner

  Heartbreak, Lost Love, Forever

  William Faulkner (2014). “Soldier's Pay”, p.319, Random House

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• have you ever seen a genius out there looking for a job? it's the saddest thing in the world. no one will hire him. there is only one place where he is always welcome- at the bottom.

  Henry Miller

  Jobs, Genius, World

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• Strange as it may seem, the most ludicrous lines I ever wrote have been written in the saddest mood.

  William Cowper

  Lines, May, Strange

  William Cowper, Robert Southey, William Harvey (1836). “The Works of William Cowper: Life and works of Cowper, by R. Southey”, p.39

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• That is the saddest part when you lose someone you love - that person keeps changing. And later you wonder, Is this the same person I lost? Maybe you lost more maybe less, then thousand different things that come from your memory or imagination - and you do not know which is which, which was true, which is false.

  Amy Tan

  Memories, Imagination, Different

  Amy Tan (2006). “The Kitchen God's Wife”, p.75, Penguin

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