Sad Quotes

Broken pencils still write beautiful songs.

Matshona Dhliwayo

Poverty makes you sad as well as wise.

Bertolt Brecht

No sadder proof can be given by a man of his own littleness than disbelief in great men.

Thomas Carlyle

No one is more profoundly sad than he who laughs too much.

Jean Paul Richter

Nothing is more sad than the death of an illusion.

Arthur Koestler

A feeling of sadness and longing that is not akin to pain and resembles sorrow only as the mist resembles the rain.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Reminiscences make one feel so deliciously aged and sad.

George Bernard Shaw

Sadness and gladness succeed each other.

Anonymous

Sadness flies on the wings of the morning and out of the heart of darkness comes the light.

Jean Giraudoux

Sadness flies away on the wings of time.

Jean de La Fontaine

Never let go of that fiery sadness called desire.

Patti Smith

What makes old age so sad is not that our joys but our hopes cease.

Jean Paul Richter

THE FLECKS OF MY ENEMY'S BLOOD THAT STAIN THIS SUIT. THEY'RE MY PRIDE AND JOY. "THIS SUIT LOOKS WHITE BECAUSE OF THE RED OF THE BLOOD ON IT." THAT'S WHY I FIGHT.FOR YOU BIG BRO. THE AWSOMELY INSANE. TO MAKE YOU AWSOMELY HAPPY...WHETHER AT AOGIRI OR AT GOAT, I'VE FOUGHT AT THE VERY FRONT LINES. ALL THE WAY.AND TOWARDS THE END, I EVEN LEARNED A FEW NEW WORDS. I HAD FUN. IF ONLY I HAD KNOWN A FEW MORE WORDS, I'D HAVE BEEN ABLE TO TALK TO YOU MORE, BIG BRO.I THINK ABOUT THAT SOMETIMES. I DON'T THINK JUST LIVING IS THAT BIG OF A DEAL. I REALLY BELIEVE I'LL BE ABLE TO SEE YOU IF I DIE.SO I'M NOT SCARED. DEATH ISN'T THAT BAD. I HATE THE FACT THAT I LOST, THOUGHBUT YOU KNOW, BRO. I... I'M NOT SAD AT ALL.NAKI

Sui Ishida

My soul is crushed under the weight of tears I can’t spill.

J.A. ANUM

We can feel damaged and sad and mad and know that it doesn’t make us any less worthy than when we didn’t feel that way.

Liz Newman

Love's whispers drown out sorrow's echoes.

Matshona Dhliwayo

Love is blind, but a broken heart sees everything.

Matshona Dhliwayo

Tears of joy are lighter than smiles of sorrow.

Matshona Dhliwayo

Count your summers, not your winters.

Matshona Dhliwayo

If money could buy happiness, the rich would not drown their sorrows in expensive wine.

Matshona Dhliwayo

If rocks did not persevere under heat and pressure, they would never become diamonds.

Matshona Dhliwayo

You don’t have to wait for a storm to pass to paint your own rainbow.

Matshona Dhliwayo

My heart's with you, Bill, no matter how it turns out. My heart is with all of them, and I think that, even if we forget each other, we'll remember in our dreams.

Stephen King

I’m sorry and I believe in you and I’ll always be near you, protecting you, and I will never leave you, I’ll be curled around your heart for the rest of your life.

Jennifer Egan

He looked at the little maiden, and she looked at him; and he felt that he was melting away, but he still managed to keep himself erect, shouldering his gun bravely.t A door was suddenly opened, the draught caught the little dancer and she fluttered like a sylph, straight into the fire, to the soldier, blazed up and was gone!t By this time the soldier was reduced to a mere lump, and when the maid took away the ashes next morning she found him, in the shape of a small tin heart. All that was left of the dancer was her spangle, and that was burnt as black as a coal.

Hans Christian Andersen

Eve continued with the inexorable process of dying, Zoe spent too much time with her grandparents, and Denny and I worked at slowing the beating of our hearts so we wouldn't feel so much pain.

Garth Stein

Knives are sharp, but are equally confusing.

Nathan Hassall

That's not cruel. This is. You come here in the middle of the night, expecting me to be awake, and ask—no, demand—me to give you things that belong to me as much as they belong to you. Never mind what it does to me. Never mind that each time I see you, I wonder if I'll ever hold you in my arms again, or be able to touch you without you cringing away like I'm a monster. I think it's fair to ask if there's an 'us,' my dear, because I suspect you're trying to use me just now. Tell me that's not cruel, and I'll let you go.

Nenia Campbell

But a part of me lies buried in lace and roses on a riverbank in France-a part of me is broken off forever. A part of me will be unflyable, stuck in the climb.

Elizabeth Wein

It lit up like a Christmas Tree Hazel Grace...

John Green

He felt as if his heart had dried up. I needed her he thought. I needed someone like her to fill the void inside me. But I wasn’t able to fill the void inside her. Until the bitter end, the emptiness inside her was hers alone.

Haruki Murakami

Every kid's afraid of that right? That someday you'll be left in a corner, like a toy, staring with button eyes and a broken heart.

Lili St. Crow

You're terribly selfish, you know. I've loved you so long, and it was never dear or precious to you. I might as well have not loved you at all.

Brenna Yovanoff

I love you!" he shouted, his eyes glowing laser green."I love you, okay? I'm not some hopeless retard you pull along behind you because you feel sorry for him! I love you and I'm going to prove it!

Lili St. Crow

When you're alone and you feel sad, try reading a book. Try touching someone's heart. Try to imagine what they were thinking, what they wanted to convey. If you do that, you might get something amazing.

Mizuki Nomura

I’m lonely, and he can see it. Maybe everyone can see it.

Madeleine Roux

You can only shove shit under your bed for so long before it starts moving around and wanting to get out. You can only cope for so long before everything breaks.

Lili St. Crow

The girl danced like light on water. After I'd watched for a while I looked with all of me, not just my eyes, and then I saw the meaning of the dance. I wanted to stop looking because it was so sad, but I couldn't because it was so beautiful.

Glenda Millard

This whole time, I wasn't waiting for something in particular. Just someone who wanted me.Not sex.But me.

Diana Peterfreund

A sob caught in my chest. I didn't even know what a gray was, other than a drab color. All I knew was that I was hungry all the time. And I knew, deep down, that it wasn't just for food.

Michelle Rowen

Maybe if the empty space inside her was filled with love there'd be no room for sad and dark things.

Glenda Millard

He knew that people were staring at him. He looked different. Even different from other Erasers. He wasn't as —seamless. He didn't look as human as the rest of them did when they weren't morphed. He kind of looked morphy all the time. He hadn't seen his plain real face in —a long time."I know who you are."Ari almost jumped —he hadn't noticed the boy slide onto the bench next to him.He frowned down at the small, open face. "What?" he growled. This was when the little boy would get scared and probably turn and run. It always happened.The boy smiled. "1 know who you are," he said, pointing at Ari happily.Ari just snarled at him.The boy wiggled with excitement. "You're Wolverine!"Ari stared at him."You look awesome, dude," said the boy. "You're totally my favorite. You're the strongest one of all of them and the coolest too. I wish 1 was like you."Ari almost gagged. No one had ever, ever said anything like that to him.

James Patterson

I’d been doing everything to please everyone else and some imaginary me.

Jolene Stockman

He's always been something like a star to me

Nojiko Hayakawa

I get so sad that sad gets to be.So scared that all my feelings they up and leave me. I got so city girl on you. I go so crazy I don't know what to do.

Tegan Quin

Before the battle they had been discussing whether there might be life after death, and Windham and Rochester had made a pact that if there was, the first to die would come back and tell the other. But, said Rochester, he [Windham] never did.

Jenny Uglow

Sometimes When You Are Serious, People Thought You Were Joking, But Sometimes When You Are Joking, People Thought You Were Serious

Harry Toh Jun Shen

God knows we’re all drawn toward what’s beautiful and broken; I have been, but some people cannot be fixed. Or if they can be, it’s only by love and sacrifice so great it destroys the giver.

Cassandra Clare

Tell her I'm sorry I sold the diamond, eh?" Sammy said. "I broke my promise. When she disappeared in Alaska... ah, so long ago, I finally used that diamond, moved to Texas as I always dreamed. I started my machine shop. Started my family! It was a good life, but Haze; was right. The diamond came with a curse. I never saw her again." "Oh, Sammy," Hazel said. "No, a curse didn't keep me away. I wanted to come back. I died!" The old man didn't seem to hear. He smiled down at the baby, and kissed him on the head. "I give you my blessing, Leo. First male great-grandchild! I have a feeling you are special, like Hazel was. You are more than a regular baby, eh? You will carry on for me. You will see her someday. Tell her hello for me.

Rick Riordan

When it’s quiet in my head like this, that’s when the voice doesn’t need to tell me how pathetic I am. I know it in the deepest part of me. When it’s quiet like this, that’s when I truly hate myself.

Portia de Rossi

I want to believe that memories, even sad and painful ones, should not be forgotten forever.

Natsuki Takaya

You sound so miserable.”“All novelists are.

Changdictator

I’m sorry,” he tells me.I sit down on the bed. He returns to the view of the street below. I follow his gaze and I see the infected walking slowly back and forth.“It’s okay,” I say.“Okay,” he says. He nods. “Good.”He puts the gun under his chin and pulls the trigger.

Courtney Summers

but good girls dont do that, dont make a fuss, dont upset parents. and i was a good girl so i curled up on the floor and sobbed silently instead

Laura Jarratt

He wanted pure compliments, just as he wanted unconditional love.

Alan Hollinghurst

my own chocolate center has filled up with poison,the roses he gave me all twisted black

Terra Elan McVoy

It seemed so good when it started.I gave my trust to you.I came to you open-hearted,Hoping it was true.Now I've gotten smart.Now I've learned some things.Now I know that what once was a start,Is just an ending.The longest good-byeI ever knew,The longest good-byeWas the dayI said hello to you.

Heather Lynn Rigaud

This softening she sees in me isn't enough to make me affectionate, but it's just enough to render me inept. I can't give her what she wants — virtuousness — or what she needs — protection.

Nenia Campbell

I wasn't a complete bastard. If she liked to think she saw good in me, if she wanted to take credit for it, I'd let her. She deserved that much.

Nenia Campbell

I just didn't want to be a loser anymore...-Mitsuko Souma

Koushun Takami

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