Saddest Quotes - Page 9

• I always thought it was the saddest and most devastating ending. How you could have these enormous dreams that never get met. How without knowing it you could just make yourself smaller over time. I don't want that to happen to me.

  Meg Wolitzer

  Life, Dream, Knowing

  Meg Wolitzer (2013). “The Interestings”, p.202, Random House

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• The happiest she'd ever been was with him, and the saddest. Was that the true test of love?

  Stewart O'Nan

  Love, Tests, Tests Of Love

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• The saddest kind of sad is the sad that tries not to be sad. You know, when sad tries to bite its lip and not cry, and smile and say, "No I'm happy for you"? Thats when it's really sad.

  John Mayer

  Trying, Lips, Kind

  Rolling Stone Magazine / iTunes podcast, December 2005.

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• It is my saddest day as an MP when my party brings in a bill which I'm fundamentally opposed to. I'm very sad my party has brought this in without any democratic mandate.

  Peter Bone

  Party, Gay, Mps

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• Oh the saddest of sights in a world of sin Is the little lost pup with his tail tucked in.

  Arthur Guiterman

  Dog, Loss, Sight

  Arthur Guiterman (1915). “The Laughing Muse”

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• One of the saddest lines in the world is, 'Oh come now - be realistic.' The best parts of this world were not fashioned by those who were realistic. They were fashioned by those who dared to look hard at their wishes and gave them horses to ride.

  Richard Nelson Bolles

  Horse, Adversity, Decision

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• The saddest thing about any man is that he be ignorant, and the most exciting thing is that he knows.

  Alfred the Great

  Men, Ignorant, Exciting

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• Cancer Boy probably has the saddest, noblest, sweetest heart of any character I've ever done.

  Bruce McCulloch

  Cancer, Heart, Character

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• The education of the intellect is a great business; but an unconsecd intellect is the saddest sight on which the sun looks down.

  Edwin Chadwick

  Sight, Intelligence, Looks

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• The girls with prettiest smiles seem to tell saddest stories

  Demi Lovato

  Girl, Stories, Prettiest

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• Age does not bring wisdom... but it does give perspective... and the saddest sight of all is to see, far behind you, temptations you've resisted.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Sight, Giving, Perspective

  Robert A. Heinlein (1983). “Stranger in a Strange Land”, Berkley

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• Two people who were once very close can without blame or grand betrayal become strangers. Perhaps this is the saddest thing in the world.

  Warsan Shire

  Love, Betrayal, Two

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• This is the saddest, most depressing music I've ever heard. It makes me so happy.

  Joseph Gordon-Levitt

  Depressing, Most Depressing, Heard

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• I saw the horrible way that people could treat each other. That may be the saddest thing of all. I saw greed and anger and murder and a total lack of concern for human life. It was a wicked side of the human soul that I saw... and it saddened me to know that such a dark place existed.

  D. J. MacHale

  Dark, People, Greed

  D.J. MacHale (2002). “The Merchant of Death”, p.360, Simon and Schuster

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• You may glory in a team triumphant, but you fall in love with a team in defeat. Losing after great striving is the story of man, who was born to sorrow, whose sweetest songs tell of saddest thought, and who, if he is a hero, does nothing in life as becomingly as leaving it.

  Roger Kahn

  Song, Falling In Love, Team

  Roger Kahn (1973). “The Boys of Summer”, Signet

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• Perhaps the saddest irony of depression is that suicide happens when the patient gets a little better and can again function sufficiently.

  Dick Cavett

  Suicide, Littles, Irony

  Dick Cavett (2010). “Talk Show: Confrontations, Pointed Commentary, and Off-Screen Secrets”, p.153, Macmillan

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• The saddest illusion of the revolutionary is that revolution itself will transform the nature of human beings.

  Shirley Williams

  Revolution, Illusion, Humans

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• One of the saddest sights of the slums is to see the thrifty wife of the working man, with her rosy brood of children, used to country air and sunshine, used to space, privacy, good surroundings, cleanliness, quiet, shut up amid the noise and dirt and confusion, in the gloom of the slum.

  Albion Fellows Bacon

  Country, Children, Sunshine

  Albion Fellows Bacon (1914). “Beauty for Ashes, by Albion Fellows Bacon; with Numerous Illustrations”

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• The saddest day of my life was the day I didn't get to play football anymore.

  Brian Bosworth

  Football, Play

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• We are all so afraid, we are all so alone, we all so need from the outside the assurance of our own worthiness to exist. So, for a time, if such a passion come to fruition, the man will get what he wants. He will get the moral support, the encouragement, the relief from the sense of loneliness, the assurance of his own worth. But these things pass away; inevitably they pass away as the shadows pass across sundials. It is sad, but it is so. The pages of the book will become familiar; the beautiful corner of the road will have been turned too many times. Well, this is the saddest story.

  Ford Madox Ford

  Beautiful, Encouragement, Loneliness

  Ford Madox Ford (2003). “The Good Soldier: A Tale of Passion”, p.125, Broadview Press

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• And then sometimes I think the people to feel saddest for are people who once knew what profoundness was, but who lost or became numb to the sensation of wonder – people who closed the doors that leads us into the secret world – or who had the doors closed for them by time and neglect and decisions made in times of weakness.

  Douglas Coupland

  Thinking, Doors, People

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

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• I'm from Port Arthur, Texas! Little guy! Little character guy from one of the saddest oil-refinery towns in America. And here I was driving over to Beverly Hills, to 20th Century Fox, to be on 'M*A*S*H!'

  G.W. Bailey

  Character, Texas, Oil

  Interview with Noel Murray, www.avclub.com. August 26, 2008.

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• Did you ever see a one eyed woman cry? You know the saddest thing about the woman, the tears don't come out just one eye.

  Gary B.B. Coleman

  Sadness, Eye, Tears

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• My saddest decision in football was leaving Paul Gascoigne out of the 1998 World Cup finals. But he wasn't fit enough and once that decision is made, as a manager and a group of players, you forget about who isn't there and focus on the job.

  Glenn Hoddle

  Football, Jobs, Player

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• Life is the saddest thing there is, next to death.

  Edith Wharton

  Life, Next, Life Is

  Edith Wharton (2016). “A Backward Glance”, p.285, Edith Wharton

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