Top 525 Sad Quotes

Dying is only one thing to be sad over… Living unhappily is something else.
Morrie Schwartz
All the things that happen to people in the industry today, the actors, what they have to put up with, all the people wanting to know every single moment of their lives – I think it’s really sad.
Tab Hunter
I’m not a sad person, upset the whole time, but I seem to be quite emotional.
Freddie Highmore
Since it’s based on my parents, it’s more emotionally close to me than some of my more surreal plays. And then I like the balance of the comic and the sad. It should play as funny, but you should care about the characters and feel sad for them.
Christopher Durang
I probably never would have been hired on Broadway had I not moved out to L.A. and pursued acting and film, which is sad, really.
Amy Adams
With Facebook, you’re not really allowed to be unhappy. Think about it: There’s only a like button. Yes, you can be angry, but it’s only lighthearted rage. On Reddit, perhaps because you can be anonymous, people are willing to be openly sad or angry. They are more honest.
Yishan Wong
If I was sad or afraid, I would sit in a corner and sing. If I was happy I would jump into the middle of the room and sing. It was how I expressed my emotions.
Nana Mouskouri
I think he Oswald felt he was a failure and for the United States and for President Kennedy and all of us. He knew he was a failure at everything he tried, frustrated, with a very sad life, but he was a Marxist.
John Sherman Cooper
We all had lots of stories of our sad experiences – they mourned the death of my wife with me – but we were hopeful that the children would return.
Otto Frank
It sounds a bit sad, but my new hobby is knitting. I love it. I find it really relaxing.
Ella Henderson
Crying is cleansing. There’s a reason for tears, happiness or sadness.
Dionne Warwick
I've never met a woman who thinks they've got a good en

I’ve never met a woman who thinks they’ve got a good enough figure – however perfect they look – which is sad, because no one else can see these perceived flaws; they’re entirely internal.
L’Wren Scott
Why does the rest of the world put up with the hypocrisy, the need to put a happy face on sorrow, the need to keep on keeping on?… I don’t know the answer, I know only that I can’t.
Elizabeth Wurtzel
The Christian conceives of his abode on Earth in no more delightful colors than the Jainist sectarian. He sees in it only a time of sad trial; he also thinks that his true country is not of this world.
Emile Durkheim
I was always depressed growing up. There wasn’t a reason for it, I just was. I was sad and morose. I cried a lot, I wrote a lot, and I read a lot; and that was how I dealt with it.
Amanda Hocking
At the end of the day, I’m a person. I have feelings. I get tired. I get sad.
Summer Walker
The word of God is full of sad and grave counsel, full of the knowledge of God, of examples of virtues, and of correction of vices, of the end of this life, and of the life to come.
John Jewel
Next to a lost battle, nothing is so sad as a battle that has been won.
Duke of Wellington
‘The Killing’ has a really great combination of qualities: Even though it’s very sad and deals with mourning and grief, it’s still exciting. It’s about real people and it doesn’t shy from the painful points of life.
Joel Kinnaman
If I get the forty additional years statisticians say are likely coming to me, I could fit in at least one, maybe two new lifetimes. Sad that only one of those lifetimes can include being the mother of young children.
Anna Quindlen
We never taste a perfect joy; our happiest successes are mixed with sadness.
Pierre Corneille
These days young kids don’t have any place to form an epic adventure. It’s more often in front of the TV screen or a laptop. That’s very hard on them. They’re being taught daily unsocial skills. Facebook is an unsocial skill. It’s so sad.
John Lydon
When you are joyous, look deep into your heart and you shall find it is only that which has given you sorrow that is giving you joy. When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.
Khalil Gibran
The flesh, alas, is sad, and I have read all the books.
Stephane Mallarme
I love music videos, I really do. I think it’s kind of sad that it’s a dying art form.
Adam Levine
Growing up I was a Cleveland Browns fan and my mood would change based on how they were playing. If they were losing I wasn’t as happy, I wasn’t as excited, I was a little sad.
C. J. McCollum
Save for thee and thy lessons, man in society would everywhere sink into a sad compound of the fiend and the wild beast; and this fallen world would be as certainly a moral as a natural wilderness.
Hugh Miller
It was a long time in the making, my divorce. One day became less special than the next, and pretty soon, we ceased all conversation. It is a sad day when you have nothing left to say.
Ricki Lake
Bob summed it up best when he was on his knees at the end of the night saying, ‘Don’t trust in Guided By Voices.’ You were there; was the show awful or something? I know it was sloppy, but they’re not really that tight anyway, but was it embarrassing, was it sad?
Kim Deal
It’s sad to know I’m done. But looking back, I’ve got a lot of great memories.
Bonnie Blair
I can see the humorous side of things and enjoy the fun when it comes; but look where I will, there seems to me always more sadness than joy in life.
Jerome K. Jerome
I mean, that’s a sad day in America when you’re recalled because you did what you said you were going to do, and the public voted you in to do that.
Russell Pearce
It’s really sad for me that in the United States the Latino community is losing its culture and language, especially among kids born here – a lot of them can’t even speak our language.
Romeo Santos
One should either be sad or joyful. Contentment is a warm sty for eaters and sleepers.
Eugene O’Neill
Honestly, it’s a sad truth, but whenever a show is about to go off air, you start getting hints because the work environment and quality changes.
Jasmin Bhasin
I’m not going to do a song that’s really sad and thoughtful. Although I’ve done ballads like ‘Dear Darlin’,’ I want to make them dance and be happy.
Olly Murs
Because the sad fact is that the Enron Corporation and others manipulated with unfortunately great effect the energy market in the West Coast starting in 2000.
Jay Inslee
The word ‘happy’ would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.
Carl Jung
It’s nice to be with someone, but I don’t think you need to be in a relationship to feel complete. That would be really sad.
Kristin Davis
I’ve had some pretty good arguments with people, but I’ve never regretted it. I’ve had people come up where it’s all emotion and no fact. That’s always sad.
Patton Oswalt
It was a relief to get dropped which is sad in a way because you never want to miss a game. But I was not performing and mentally I got to a stage where I was not concentrating and did not want to be there. I was not enjoying walking out there and feeling like I didn’t know where the next run was coming from.
Jos Buttler
I think it’s good to eat a bit of everything, but when you eat too much junk food, it’s bad for you and for your brain. You don’t understand why, but you feel sad. It’s because of the junk food!
Stromae
I am firmly of the opinion that women who make a lot of

I am firmly of the opinion that women who make a lot of effort to hang onto their looks in middle age (unless they are beauties, entertainers or prostitutes) are rather sad, as one should surely have something more substantial to recommend one by this time, such as kindness or cleverness.
Julie Burchill
I’m sad that it’s uncool or offensive to talk about environmental or human rights issues.
Grimes
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
It feels really sad, to me, to go to a dark bedroom. It’s like surrendering to the night or something.
James Franco
I love books; my suitcases are always full of them. Books and shoes. I read when I am sad, when I am happy, when I am nervous. My favourite British author is Jane Austen, and my favourite American one is John O’Hara.
Carolina Herrera
You have to keep hobbies in L.A. Otherwise, it’s sad.
Lake Bell
I’m always sad to leave paradise, but I leave behind the hopes of coming again soon.
Irina Shayk
When I write, it is always the melody that comes first, and it just happens to be the case that the most beautiful tunes are sad, and the lyrics follow the mood of the melody.
Francoise Hardy
It doesn’t matter if you’re sad or hung-over or lazy or tired – a workout will get your endorphins pumping, and you’ll feel like a new person almost instantly.
Rachel Nichols
I’m a little sad that they actually came up with the metaphor of waves for feminism. By definition, a wave goes in, and it comes out. I would really like it to be a tsunami that creates a flood that forever changes the landscape.
Nell Scovell
Every life has a measure of sorrow, and sometimes this is what awakens us.
Steven Tyler
I mean, the unfair treatment of women and black people and Indians and other groups, that’s real. Mistreatment of other people because ‘I’m better than you are’ is such a sad part of the world.
Melissa Leo
The world would be a very sad place if readers could only love one story.
Sylvia Day
It is very sad about Michael Jackson, much as in the tragic cases of Heath Ledger, Anna Nicole and other celebrities who have died are a result of drugs. It is always sad when such a bright light goes out.
Grace Park
I had sadness for breakfast.
Andy Milonakis
There is something that always will be true about painting and sculpture – that in order to really get it, you have to show up. That is something that is both sad and kind of beautiful about it. It remains analog. It remains special and irreducible.
Kehinde Wiley
Stories have always been the things that entertain me and make me feel happy and sad and move me and give me the experience of being able to live many lives in one lifetime. It’s the best thing about being alive.
Michael Sheen