Saddest Quotes - Page 8

• As a mother you are only as happy as your saddest child

  Beth Moore

  Mother, Children

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• No matter what is happening in our lives, we choose how we wish to think about it. And the greatest gift we give ourselves is often our willingness to change our minds. Despite what might seem to be the saddest and most intractable situation, we have the power to believe that something else is possible, that things can change, that a miracle can happen.

  Marianne Williamson

  Believe, Thinking, Giving

  Marianne Williamson (2012). “The Law of Divine Compensation: On Work, Money, and Miracles”, p.7, Harper Collins

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• Family organisation is broken and young animals are increasingly being denied a mother to turn to for comfort and for grooming. One of the saddest and most pathetic of farm practices - inevitable at the present time for the supply of dairy produce - is the separation of the calf from the cow at birth or soon after.

  Ruth Harrison

  Mother, Animal, Practice

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• The saddest thing I can imagine is to get used to luxury. [and therefore not appreciate it fully or be grateful for it every moment.]

  Charlie Chaplin

  Gratitude, Grateful, Luxury

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• To be known for one's saddest story is not the road to notoriety anyone would willingly choose.

  Michael Dorris

  Stories, Notoriety, Known

  Michael Dorris (1994). “Paper trail: essays”, Harpercollins

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• Your hope is the most beautiful and the saddest in the world.

  Naomi Benaron

  Beautiful, World

  Naomi Benaron (2012). “Running the Rift”, p.230, Oneworld Publications

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• The saddest thing that can happen to a person is to find out their memories are lies.

  Juan Gabriel

  Memories, Lying, Persons

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• Have you ever noticed, the saddest person has the most beautiful smile

  Kid Cudi

  Beautiful, Beautiful Smile, Persons

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• The saddest life is that of a political aspirant under democracy. His failure is ignominious and his success is disgraceful.

  H. L. Mencken

  Political, Democracy, Life Is

  'Baltimore Evening Sun' 9 December 1929

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• One of the saddest sights to me has always been a human at a keyboard doing something by hand that could be automated. It's sad but hilarious.

  Boris Beizer

  Sight, Hands, Keyboards

  Boris Beizer (1995). “Black-Box Testing: Techniques for Functional Testing of Software and Systems”, Wiley

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• I've been the saddest while I've been the most successful, strangely.

  Priyanka Chopra

  Successful

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• I have to admit that one of the saddest things I see in ministry is a woman who belittles her husband. Even if he has indeed failed in some way, his wife’s disparaging words compound the disaster exponentially. Her cynicism is utterly emasculating, and many times, incredibly subtle. Like a fine, thin blade, it slices deep, penetrating to the very core of his masculine soul.

  Stu Weber

  Husband, Wife, Soul

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• Regret; The saddest word in the English language.

  Tonya Hurley

  Regret, Language, English Language

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• But the saddest difference between them was that Zazetsky, as Luria said, 'fought to regain his lost faculties with the indomitable tenacity of the damned,' whereas Dr P. was not fighting, did not know what was lost. But who was more tragic, or who was more damned -- the man who knew it, or the man who did not?

  Oliver Sacks

  Fighting, Men, Differences

  Oliver Sacks (2014). “The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat: Picador Classic”, p.28, Pan Macmillan

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• The saddest things we fail at are fun things we never get to do, so in your busy day be sure to plan fun things too.

  Wes Fesler

  Fun, Parenting, Busy

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• The end of a marriage has got to be one of the saddest events one can experience. I’ve heard that the pain [of divorce] is second only to an actual death in the family, and that sounds about right.

  Danica McKellar

  Pain, Divorce, Sound

  "Danica McKellar Compares Divorce to a Death in the Family" by Marla Lehner, people.com. June 8, 2012.

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• If only…the saddest words in the English language.

  Kristan Higgins

  Language, English Language, Ifs

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• If, of all words of tongue and pen, The saddest are, It might have been,' More sad are these we daily see: 'It is, but hadn't ought to be!'

  Bret Harte

  Might, Tongue, Ought

  'Mrs Judge Jenkins.'

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• The human soul finds its saddest imprisonment when it is helpless in the presence of cruelty, when it cannot right a wrong. It finds its highest freedom when it can secure justice to others.

  Jenkin Lloyd Jones

  Justice, Soul, Cruelty

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• These are the saddest of possible words, Tinker-to-Evers-to-Chance. Trio of Bear Cubs fleeter than birds, Tinker-to-Evers-to-Chance. Ruthlessly pricking our gonfalon bubble, Making a Giant hit into a double, Words that are weighty with nothing but trouble, Tinker-to-Evers-to-Chance. This brief poem, immortalized the Chicago Cubs' double-play combination: Shortstop Joe Tinker, second baseman Johnny Evers, and first baseman Frank Chance.

  Franklin P. Adams

  Play, Bird, Bears

  Franklin Pierce Adams, “Baseball's Sad Lexicon”

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• The saddest people I've met in my life are the ones who don't care deeply about anything at all .

  Nicholas Sparks

  People, Care, Mets

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• While she cut the mushrooms, she cried more than she had at the grave, the most so far, because she found the saddest thing of all to be the simple truth of her capacity to move on.

  Aimee Bender

  Moving, Cutting, Simple

  Aimee Bender (2009). “Willful Creatures”, p.90, Anchor

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• The rainiest nights, like the rainiest lives, are by no means the saddest.

  Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward

  Mean, Night

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• The saddest day of your life is when you decide to sell out, and nobody wants to buy.

  Norman Spinrad

  Want, Life Is, Sells

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• One of the saddest days of my life was when my mother told me Superman did not exist. I was like what do you mean he's not real. And she thought I was crying because it’s like Santa Claus is not real and I was crying because there was no one coming with enough power to save us.

  Geoffrey Canada

  Mom, Mother, Real

  "Waiting for 'Superman'". www.imdb.com. January 22, 2010.

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