Sad Quotes

For me, singing sad songs often has a way of healing a situation. It gets the hurt out in the open into the light, out of the darkness.

~ Reba Mcentire

A comfortable old age is the reward of a well-spent youth. Instead of its bringing sad and melancholy prospects of decay, it would give us hopes of eternal youth in a better world.

~ Maurice Chevalier

It's sad, actually, because my anxiety keeps me from enjoying things as much as I should at this age.

~ Amanda Seyfried

It is sad to grow old but nice to ripen.

~ Brigitte Bardot

Until the age of five, my parents spoke to me in Chinese or a combination of Chinese and English, but they didn't force me to speak Mandarin. In retrospect, this was sad, because they believed that my chance of doing well in America hinged on my fluency in English. Later, as an adult, I wanted to learn Chinese.

~ Amy Tan

Morality comes with the sad wisdom of age, when the sense of curiosity has withered.

~ Graham Greene

I feel like old age in America is a very sad thing. I have been many different places around the world where getting older is something you look forward to.

~ Alice Waters

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

~ Jean Paul

The reason for the sadness of this modern age and the men who live in it is that it looks for the truth in everything and finds it.

~ Edmond De Goncourt

My mother sent me to psychiatrists since the age of four because she didn't think little boys should be sad. When my brother was born, I stared out the window for days. Can you imagine that?

~ Andy Kaufman

Some days are just bad days, that's all. You have to experience sadness to know happiness, and I remind myself that not every day is going to be a good day, that's just the way it is!

~ Dita Von Teese

I do believe that if you haven't learnt about sadness, you cannot appreciate happiness.

~ Nana Mouskouri

Crying is cleansing. There's a reason for tears, happiness or sadness.

~ Dionne Warwick

We never taste happiness in perfection, our most fortunate successes are mixed with sadness.

~ Pierre Corneille

We're taught to be ashamed of confusion, anger, fear and sadness, and to me they're of equal value to happiness, excitement and inspiration.

~ Alanis Morissette

Live by this credo: have a little laugh at life and look around you for happiness instead of sadness. Laughter has always brought me out of unhappy situations.

~ Red Skelton

You know, I think we Indians are afraid to show and celebrate our happiness, lest things change around. But I feel that it's okay to be sad and okay to show when you are happy.

~ Shah Rukh Khan

When you wake up each morning, you can choose to be happy or choose to be sad. Unless some terrible catastrophe has occurred the night before, it is pretty much up to you. Tomorrow morning, when the sun shines through your window, choose to make it a happy day.

~ Lynda Resnick

I love Starbucks. Maybe that's a bit sad. But I definitely need my caffeine. It's what gets me out of bed in the morning.

~ Nikki Sixx

The sad thing about artificial intelligence is that it lacks artifice and therefore intelligence.

~ Jean Baudrillard

America is a country of abundance, but our food culture is sad - based on huge portions and fast food. Let's stop with the excuses and start creating something better.

~ David Chang

The story of the decadence of the cathedral as a moral power, a spiritual energizer in civilization, is the sad but inevitable story of dogmatism. It is the story of the struggle of free thought with bigotry, religion making common cause with the wrong side.

~ Jenkin Lloyd Jones

Our religion is itself profoundly sad - a religion of universal anguish, and one which, because of its very catholicity, grants full liberty to the individual and asks no better than to be celebrated in each man's own language - so long as he knows anguish and is a painter.

~ Charles Baudelaire

Sadness flies away on the wings of time.

~ Jean De La Fontaine

I'm not a sad person, upset the whole time, but I seem to be quite emotional.

~ Freddie Highmore

Everyone can have their heart broken. Even if you know the relationship isn't working, it's still sad. Even in a bad relationship, they're part of your life for a long time, and saying goodbye to that can be difficult.

~ James Marsden

One of the sad commentaries on the way women are viewed in our society is that we have to fit one category. I have never felt that I had to be in one category.

~ Faye Wattleton

Women often postpone their lives, thinking that if they're not with a partner then it doesn't really count. They're still searching for their prince, in a way. And as much as we don't discuss that, because it's too embarrassing and too sad, I think it really does exist.

~ Jane Campion

Heavy hearts, like heavy clouds in the sky, are best relieved by the letting of a little water.

~ Christopher Morley

The good times of today, are the sad thoughts of tomorrow.

~ Bob Marley

The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil.

~ Hannah Arendt

If we could read the secret history of our enemies we should find in each man's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility.

~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The '80s were fabulous. The '90s sucked, and the '70s were just a sad, sad time in human history. Go 1980s! There's something that's just so cute about that time. And not just yellow nail polish and 'I'm a loner.'

~ Jennifer Sky

One thing 'not right' on the 50th anniversary of the Selma marches is the sad fact that the Edmund Pettus Bridge hasn't been renamed the John Lewis Bridge.

~ Douglas Brinkley

Being in 'Doctor Who' has been so amazing. I don't think I will ever have a job quite so fun ever again. I feel sad because I am going to leave, but with any story, it has to come to an end.

~ Karen Gillan

One of the sad things about contemporary journalism is that it actually matters very little. The world now is almost inured to the power of journalism. The best journalism would manage to outrage people. And people are less and less inclined to outrage.

~ David Simon

'Eyes Wide Open' took shape from two real life events straight from my own past. One was the sad suicide of my young nephew, a troubled kid, who was found at the bottom of a landmark cliff in central California. The second was a chance encounter forty years ago with none other than, ahem, Charles Manson!

~ Andrew Gross

It's sad when you see most of your friends in the business gone, like Tommy Cooper, Frankie Howard, Eric Morecambe, Roy Castle, Les Dawson. They were very dear to me. You no longer have the chance to bump into them at a celebrity do.

~ Bruce Forsyth

You can think you're living in the moment and you're thankful, but when somebody comes face to face with you and says, 'I just lost my child,' or 'I have months to live, and thank you...' I'm of course sad for them, but I'm thankful that I gave them a gift and they're giving me a gift.

~ Tig Notaro

In their heyday, the Pet Shop Boys were the Interpol of the Eighties, dressing up to sing really weird pop songs about lust and loneliness in the big city. They're low-pro now, not retro-worshipped in the manner of Depeche Mode, New Order, or The Cure, but you can hear the reason why - these guys are too sad.

~ Rob Sheffield