Sad Quotes

The hate directed against the colored people here in St. Louis has always given me a sad feeling... How can you expect the world to believe in you and respect your preaching of democracy when you yourself treat your colored brothers as you do?

~ Josephine Baker

Good humor is the health of the soul, sadness is its poison.

~ Philip Stanhope

I think people appreciate a songwriter who shows different sides. The whole angst thing is cool, but if that's all you've got, it's just boring. Everything I write, whether it's happy or sad, has a sense of humor to it.

~ Katy Perry

I'm a comedian, and I definitely see the humor in a lot of things. I am also sad a lot. I cry often and easily. I think you're supposed to feel all kinds of things.

~ Ellen Degeneres

Life is never all one thing. It bounces around. Certainly, my own life has. Look at Woody Allen's funny movies - all the humor comes out of sad stuff. Sometimes you have to laugh, no matter what life deals you.

~ Tim O'brien

I like to be able to feel as many parts of myself while watching a movie at one time. I think that's what 'Super' is - it's funny, but it's also sad. It's very touching in certain ways, and it's also got a very dark sense of humor. So it's allowed to go anywhere.

~ James Gunn

Humor comes in all forms, and everyone has their cup of tea about what makes them laugh. But the day we censor humor is a sad one for sure.

~ Marlee Matlin

Well, darkness with humor... I'm not an extremely suicidal or sad person.

~ Peter Steele

When this sad war is over we will all return to our homes, and feel that we can ask no higher honor than the proud consciousness that we belonged to the Army of the Potomac.

~ George B. Mcclellan

Next to a lost battle, nothing is so sad as a battle that has been won.

~ Arthur Wellesley

I don't want success to affect me to that extent that I change or failure to that extent that I get sad, bitter and negative.

~ Arjun Kapoor

E! has just become a sad, sad place to live. They don't know what they're doing; they have no ideas... everything they do just is a failure.

~ Chelsea Handler

I have my way of dealing with lows in my career: I just go on a holiday. Coping with a failure of a film is like coping with a break-up. It's sad and heart-breaking, and it's not like I got over it right after my holiday; it took me some time.

~ Alia Bhatt

Sadness is a super important thing not to be ashamed about but to include in our lives. One of the bigger problems with sadness or depression is there's so much shame around it. If you have it you're a failure. You are felt as being very unattractive.

~ Mike Mills

Never make a decision when you are upset, sad, jealous or in love.

~ Mario Teguh

There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power. They speak more eloquently than ten thousand tongues. They are the messengers of overwhelming grief, of deep contrition, and of unspeakable love.

~ Washington Irving

It is sad not to love, but it is much sadder not to be able to love.

~ Miguel De Unamuno

Every word, facial expression, gesture, or action on the part of a parent gives the child some message about self-worth. It is sad that so many parents don't realize what messages they are sending.

~ Virginia Satir

It is a sad commentary of our times when our young must seek advice and counsel from 'Dear Abby' instead of going to Mom and Dad.

~ Pauline Phillips

New diseases like SARS and bird flu cause anxiety in the community. People get worried, some to the extent that it even affects their health. You feel very sad, and yet you must carry on and maintain your cool in very trying and difficult moments. You have to tough it out.

~ Margaret Chan

Don't ever let the other stuff get in the way of your inherent skills as a kick-butt storyteller. Move the reader, make them happy and sad and excited and scared. Make them stare into space after they've put the book down, thinking about the tale that's become a part of them.

~ James Dashner

Christmas makes everything twice as sad.

~ Douglas Coupland

I think that there are a lot of really beautiful Christmas carols, and then sometimes there are horrible renditions of them that are played to death in malls that make me sad. I try to avoid stores where they're playing bad versions of Christmas songs on repeat.

~ Gillian Jacobs

It's a sad commentary on our time - to use a phrase much favored by my late father - that people increasingly celebrate Christmas Day by going to the movies.

~ Michael Dirda

People think it's terribly sad to spend Christmas alone, but it's no sadder, really, than spending any other day alone, is it?

~ Paula Hawkins

With a track like 'White Christmas,' everybody has done that song in every format you can imagine, so I just looked at the chords at that particular song and what chords would make it work. That's kind of quite a sad song, and I had this idea of someone singing it in the subway, someone who is homeless, old and sad.

~ Vince Clarke

I was a little boy singing sad songs, about 9 or 10 years old in the woods. I listened to my voice coming back to me. It was as high as you could go. I dreamed of being famous as a singer when I was on those cotton fields. I wanted to see the world and meet people.

~ Percy Sledge

For I have learned to look on nature, not as in the hour of thoughtless youth, but hearing oftentimes the still, sad music of humanity.

~ William Wordsworth

There is no such thing as death. In nature nothing dies. From each sad remnant of decay, some forms of life arise so shall his life be taken away before he knoweth that he hath it.

~ Charles Mackay

Tears are nature's lotion for the eyes. The eyes see better for being washed by them.

~ Christian Nestell Bovee

I never made it to the school choir because the music teacher didn't like my voice. I was pretty sad. But he was probably right; I did have a voice a bit like a goat, but my dad told me to never give up and to keep going, and it's paid off.

~ Shakira

It's time to say goodbye, but I think goodbyes are sad and I'd much rather say hello. Hello to a new adventure.

~ Ernie Harwell

I think you have to know how you feel when you're sad and it's healthy to mourn if a relationship ends.

~ Leighton Meester

Wondrous is the strength of cheerfulness, and its power of endurance - the cheerful man will do more in the same time, will do it; better, will preserve it longer, than the sad or sullen.

~ Thomas Carlyle

Sad Patience, too near neighbour to despair.

~ Matthew Arnold

Nothing is more sad than the death of an illusion.

~ Arthur Koestler

The tragedy of life is in what dies inside a man while he lives - the death of genuine feeling, the death of inspired response, the awareness that makes it possible to feel the pain or the glory of other men in yourself.

~ Norman Cousins

I do fear death. But what I actually fear is not dying. I mean, true, it will be sad. But I know that there is a better place waiting for me.

~ Mattie Stepanek

His death was the first time that Ed Wynn ever made anyone sad.

~ Red Skelton

What's really sad is that so many young women between the ages of 16 and 25 are ignorant and they already believe that women get the same pay as men. They don't even really understand that equality hasn't happened with the pay force.

~ Bell Hooks