Sad Quotes

‘For all sad words of tongue and pen, The saddest are these, ‘It might have been’.’ – John Greenleaf Whittier

‘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

‘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

‘Don’t grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form.’ – Rumi

‘Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow, it only saps today of its joy.’ – Leo Buscaglia

‘Tears come from the heart and not from the brain.’ – Leonardo da Vinci

‘Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.’ – Khalil Gibran

‘Make the most of your regrets; never smother your sorrow, but tend and cherish it till it comes to have a separate and integral interest. To regret deeply is to live afresh.’ – Henry David Thoreau

‘Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.’ – Percy Bysshe Shelley

‘Nothing is more sad than the death of an illusion.’ – Arthur Koestler

‘Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad.’ – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

‘Heavy hearts, like heavy clouds in the sky, are best relieved by the letting of a little water.’ – Christopher Morley

‘A sad soul can kill quicker than a germ.’ – John Steinbeck

‘The walls we build around us to keep sadness out also keeps out the joy.’ – Jim Rohn

‘The word ‘happy’ would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.’ – Carl Jung

‘Every life has a measure of sorrow, and sometimes this is what awakens us.’ – Steven Tyler

‘The rose and the thorn, and sorrow and gladness are linked together.’ – Saadi

‘Participate joyfully in the sorrows of the world. We cannot cure the world of sorrows, but we can choose to live in joy.’ – Joseph Campbell

‘It doesn’t hurt to feel sad from time to time.’ – Willie Nelson

‘There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when we have not yet known what it is to have suffered and be healed, to have despaired and have recovered hope.’ – George Eliot

‘Sadness flies away on the wings of time.’ – Jean de La Fontaine

‘Every human walks around with a certain kind of sadness. They may not wear it on their sleeves, but it’s there if you look deep.’ – Taraji P. Henson

‘Oh, I am very weary, Though tears no longer flow; My eyes are tired of weeping, My heart is sick of woe.’ – Anne Bronte

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

‘To have felt too much is to end in feeling nothing.’ – Dorothy Thompson

‘Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us sorry but wise.’ – H. G. Wells

‘There is no sadder sight than a young pessimist.’ – Mark Twain

‘Tears are the summer showers to the soul.’ – Alfred Austin

‘Depression is the inability to construct a future.’ – Rollo May

‘One must not let oneself be overwhelmed by sadness.’ – Jackie Kennedy

‘Tears are nature’s lotion for the eyes. The eyes see better for being washed by them.’ – Christian Nestell Bovee

‘Those who don’t know how to weep with their whole heart, don’t know how to laugh either.’ – Golda Meir

‘It’s a sad man my friend who’s livin’ in his own skin and can’t stand the company.’ – Bruce Springsteen

‘Sadness is also a kind of defence.’ – Ivo Andric

‘Dying is only one thing to be sad over… Living unhappily is something else.’ – Morrie Schwartz

‘Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair.’ – William Cowper

‘First, accept sadness. Realize that without losing, winning isn’t so great.’ – Alyssa Milano

‘Crying is cleansing. There’s a reason for tears, happiness or sadness.’ – Dionne Warwick

‘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

‘The excursion is the same when you go looking for your sorrow as when you go looking for your joy.’ – Eudora Welty

‘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

‘Sad things happen. They do. But we don’t need to live sad forever.’ – Mattie Stepanek

‘In deep sadness there is no place for sentimentality.’ – William S. Burroughs

‘We never taste happiness in perfection, our most fortunate successes are mixed with sadness.’ – Pierre Corneille

‘It is sadder to find the past again and find it inadequate to the present than it is to have it elude you and remain forever a harmonious conception of memory.’ – F. Scott Fitzgerald

‘They say it’s better to bury your sadness in a graveyard or garden that waits for the spring to wake from its sleep and burst into green.’ – Conor Oberst

‘I seldom think about my limitations, and they never make me sad. Perhaps there is just a touch of yearning at times; but it is vague, like a breeze among flowers.’ – Helen Keller

‘Above all things let us never forget that mankind constitutes one great brotherhood; all born to encounter suffering and sorrow, and therefore bound to sympathize with each other.’ – Albert Pike

‘The sad truth is that opportunity doesn’t knock twice.’ – Gloria Estefan

‘Nobody understands another’s sorrow, and nobody another’s joy.’ – Franz Schubert

‘A teardrop on earth summons the King of heaven.’ – Charles R. Swindoll

‘I get mad. I get sad. I have all those emotions. But I just like to keep them to myself. I don’t think my fans need to be bothered with if I’m mad or sad about something. I should just be concerned that they are keeping up with my music or I’m making them happy with my show.’ – Demi Lovato

‘Red is the ultimate cure for sadness.’ – Bill Blass

‘If my world were to cave in tomorrow, I would look back on all the pleasures, excitements and worthwhilenesses I have been lucky enough to have had. Not the sadness, not my miscarriages or my father leaving home, but the joy of everything else. It will have been enough.’ – Audrey Hepburn

‘Can I see another’s woe, and not be in sorrow too? Can I see another’s grief, and not seek for kind relief?’ – William Blake

‘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

‘Proud people breed sad sorrows for themselves.’ – Emily Bronte

‘He who is not just is severe, he who is not wise is sad.’ – Voltaire

‘Experiencing sadness and anger can make you feel more creative, and by being creative, you can get beyond your pain or negativity.’ – Yoko Ono

‘The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities.’ – Sophocles

‘Sad will be the day for any man when he becomes contented with the thoughts he is thinking and the deeds he is doing – where there is not forever beating at the doors of his soul some great desire to do something larger; which he knows he was meant and made to do.’ – Phillips Brooks

‘I do believe that if you haven’t learnt about sadness, you cannot appreciate happiness.’ – Nana Mouskouri

‘If you don’t know about pain and trouble, you’re in sad shape. They make you appreciate life.’ – Evel Knievel

‘The old know what they want; the young are sad and bewildered.’ – Logan Pearsall Smith

‘Good humor is the health of the soul, sadness is its poison.’ – Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield

‘One should either be sad or joyful. Contentment is a warm sty for eaters and sleepers.’ – Eugene O’Neill

‘Sadness is but a wall between two gardens.’ – Khalil Gibran

‘The saddest thing that befalls a soul is when it loses faith in God and woman.’ – Alexander Smith

‘We tell our triumphs to the crowds, but our own hearts are the sole confidants of our sorrows.’ – Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

‘Melancholy and sadness are the start of doubt… doubt is the beginning of despair; despair is the cruel beginning of the differing degrees of wickedness.’ – Comte de Lautreamont

‘In this world, full often, our joys are only the tender shadows which our sorrows cast.’ – Henry Ward Beecher

‘Delicious tears! The heart’s own dew.’ – Letitia Elizabeth Landon

‘My father’s death, my move, and my frightening and difficult delivery created a tremendous amount of stress, pain, and sadness for me. I was practically devastated beyond recovery.’ – Brooke Shields

‘Isn’t it sad to go to your grave without ever wondering why you were born? Who, with such a thought, would not spring from bed, eager to resume discovering the world and rejoicing to be part of it?’ – Richard Dawkins

‘You get used to sadness, growing up in the mountains, I guess.’ – Loretta Lynn

‘I love my past, I love my present. I am not ashamed of what I have had, and I am not sad because I no longer have it.’ – Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

‘Do not make best friends with a melancholy sad soul. They always are heavily loaded, and you must bear half.’ – Francois Fenelon

‘You left and I cried tears of blood. My sorrow grows. Its not just that You left. But when You left my eyes went with You. Now, how will I cry?’ – Rumi

‘Everything’s complicated, even those things that seem flat in their bleakness or sadness.’ – Nick Hornby

‘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

‘We look before and after, And pine for what is not; Our sincerest laughter With some pain is fraught; Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.’ – Percy Bysshe Shelley

‘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

‘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

‘People are sad. People are broke. People are worried about money, people are worried that they’re not enough and not amounting to anything and they don’t feel good about themselves. People have rough times, and everybody’s pretending it’s not true, and we need to break that veneer.’ – Eve Ensler

‘I’ve cried, and you’d think I’d be better for it, but the sadness just sleeps, and it stays in my spine the rest of my life.’ – Conor Oberst

‘Your joys and sorrows. You can never tell them. You cheapen the inside of yourself if you do tell them.’ – Greta Garbo

‘The display of grief makes more demands than grief itself. How few men are sad in their own company.’ – Lucius Annaeus Seneca

‘Sad people dislike the happy, and the happy the sad; the quick thinking the sedate, and the careless the busy and industrious.’ – Horace

‘Actually, the moment of victory is wonderful, but also sad. It means that your trip is ended.’ – Bill Toomey

‘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

‘It is a sad thing when men have neither the wit to speak well nor the judgment to hold their tongues.’ – Jean de la Bruyere

‘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

‘When sparrows build and the leaves break forth, My old sorrow wakes and cries.’ – Jean Ingelow

‘I really believe that all of us have a lot of darkness in our souls. Anger, rage, fear, sadness. I don’t think that’s only reserved for people who have horrible upbringings. I think it really exists and is part of the human condition. I think in the course of your life you figure out ways to deal with that.’ – Kevin Bacon

‘Tears are the natural penalties of pleasure. It is a law that we should pay for all that we enjoy.’ – William Gilmore Simms

‘And I remember going to the record studio and there was a park across the street and I’d see all the children playing and I would cry because it would make me sad that I would have to work instead.’ – Michael Jackson

‘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

‘I was raised in an atmosphere of ‘everything’s fine.’ But as I got older, I was like, ‘Well no, everything’s not fine. There is stuff that’s sad.’ I am a really sensitive person. I think I am too sensitive sometimes.’ – Ellen DeGeneres

‘Let us remember that sorrow alone is the creator of great things.’ – Ernest Renan

‘I had sadness for breakfast.’ – Andy Milonakis

‘It’s a source of great sadness to me that my father died without having seen me do anything worthwhile. He was constantly having to make excuses for me.’ – Daniel Day-Lewis

‘Words are less needful to sorrow than to joy.’ – Helen Hunt Jackson

‘We never taste a perfect joy; our happiest successes are mixed with sadness.’ – Pierre Corneille

‘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

‘A tragedy need not have blood and death; it’s enough that it all be filled with that majestic sadness that is the pleasure of tragedy.’ – Jean Racine

‘Sorrows are like thunderclouds, in the distance they look black, over our heads scarcely gray.’ – Jean Paul

‘When I seemed to be irritable or sad, my father would quote the learned Dr. Knight, and then say, ‘Just go to sleep.’ Like all smart aleck kids, I thought the advice was silly. But as I’ve grown older, I’ve realized just how smart Knight was.’ – Ben Stein

‘My parents’ divorce left me with a lot of sadness and pain and acting, and especially humour, was my way of dealing with all that.’ – Jennifer Aniston

‘You have to let it all hang out, let go of the ideas that were more comfortable and embrace some of the sadness in your life.’ – Madeleine Peyroux

‘It is one of the most saddening things in life that, try as we may, we can never be certain of making people happy, whereas we can almost always be certain of making them unhappy.’ – Thomas Huxley

‘I work a lot in the slums of Tondo, Manila, and the life there is poor and very sad. And I’ve always taught to myself to look for the beauty of it and look in the beauty of the faces of the children and to be grateful.’ – Catriona Gray

‘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

‘At the end of the day, I’m a person. I have feelings. I get tired. I get sad.’ – Summer Walker

‘The good times of today, are the sad thoughts of tomorrow.’ – Bob Marley

‘Let my soul smile through my heart and my heart smile through my eyes, that I may scatter rich smiles in sad hearts.’ – Paramahansa Yogananda

‘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

‘When you feel sad, it’s okay. It’s not the end of the world. Everyone has those days when you doubt yourself, and when you feel like everything you do sucks, but then there’s those days when you feel like Superman. It’s just the balance of the world. I just write to feel better.’ – Mac Miller

‘I don’t like people around me sad. I like making people happy.’ – Tyler, The Creator

‘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

‘You can never control who you fall in love with, even when you’re in the most sad, confused time of your life. You don’t fall in love with people because they’re fun. It just happens.’ – Kirsten Dunst

‘It’s sad to know I’m done. But looking back, I’ve got a lot of great memories.’ – Bonnie Blair

‘It was sad leaving ‘All Saints’ because I was leaving a family that had nurtured me and looked after me for a couple of years, and at the same time that particular storyline wasn’t a surprise to me. I knew I was going. It had been worked out very carefully over many months.’ – Chris Vance

‘It is a very sad thing that nowadays there is so little useless information.’ – Oscar Wilde

‘It’s sad when someone you know becomes someone you knew.’ – Henry Rollins

‘Football is now all about money. There are problems with the values within the game. This is sad because football is the most beautiful game. We can play it in the street. We can play it everywhere.’ – Johan Cruyff

‘Next to a lost battle, nothing is so sad as a battle that has been won.’ – Duke of Wellington

‘So many gods, so many creeds, so many paths that wind and wind while just the art of being kind is all the sad world needs.’ – Ella Wheeler Wilcox

‘I had rather have a fool to make me merry than experience to make me sad and to travel for it too!’ – William Shakespeare

‘I was going to McDonald’s and Taco Bell every day. The kids behind the counter knew me – it wouldn’t even faze them. Or I’d sit up at Denny’s or Big Boy and just eat by myself. It was sad. I got so heavy that people started to not recognize me.’ – Eminem

‘All people are sad clowns. That’s the key to comedy – and it’s a buffer against reality.’ – Bob Odenkirk

‘The sad thing about artificial intelligence is that it lacks artifice and therefore intelligence.’ – Jean Baudrillard

‘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

‘The value of beauty and inspiration is very much underrated, no question. But I want to be clear: I’m not trying to be anyone’s savior. I’m just trying to think about the future and not be sad.’ – Elon Musk

‘The true artist is not proud: he unfortunately sees that art has no limits; he feels darkly how far he is from the goal, and though he may be admired by others, he is sad not to have reached that point to which his better genius only appears as a distant, guiding sun.’ – Ludwig van Beethoven

‘I think that’s what life is: happy and sad, bittersweet. It’s everything all at once.’ – Aimee Lou Wood

‘The influence of social media is unbelievable. It’s sad to see – it’s a fake life that some people live.’ – Virgil van Dijk

‘The day you think there is no improvements to be made is a sad one for any player.’ – Lionel Messi

‘It’s a sad and stupid thing to have to proclaim yourself a revolutionary just to be a decent man.’ – David Harris

‘It is an awfully sad misconception that librarians simply check books in and out. The library is the heart of a school, and without a librarian, it is but an empty shell.’ – Jarrett J. Krosoczka

‘Morality comes with the sad wisdom of age, when the sense of curiosity has withered.’ – Graham Greene

‘I have the choice of being constantly active and happy or introspectively passive and sad.’ – Sylvia Plath

‘Grief is never something you get over. You don’t wake up one morning and say, ‘I’ve conquered that; now I’m moving on.’ It’s something that walks beside you every day. And if you can learn how to manage it and honour the person that you miss, you can take something that is incredibly sad and have some form of positivity.’ – Terri Irwin

‘Was there ever such stuff as great as part of Shakespeare? Only one must not say so! But what think you? – What? – Is there not sad stuff? What? – What?’ – George III of the United Kingdom

‘And in real life endings aren’t always neat, whether they’re happy endings, or whether they’re sad endings.’ – Stephen King

‘I didn’t really want to live, so anything that was an investment in time made me angry… but also I just felt sad. When the hopelessness is hurting you, it’s the fixtures and fittings that finish you off.’ – Angelina Jolie

‘The sad duty of politics is to establish justice in a sinful world.’ – Reinhold Niebuhr

‘We keep racism alive. We pass it on to our children. I think that is very sad.’ – Ruby Bridges

‘It is sad not to love, but it is much sadder not to be able to love.’ – Miguel de Unamuno

‘You may not enjoy loneliness, because loneliness is sad. But solitude is something else; solitude is what you look forward to when you want to be alone, when you want to be with yourself. So, solitude is something we all need from time to time.’ – Ruskin Bond

‘Life has to be everything. It can’t be all sad. It can’t be all peaches and cream. Because the lows have you appreciate the highs. And the highs give you perspective on the lows. If it’s not everything, it becomes flat or mundane.’ – Sterling K. Brown

‘Better by far you should forget and smile that you should remember and be sad.’ – Christina Rossetti

‘Never make a decision when you are upset, sad, jealous or in love.’ – Mario Teguh

‘The sad souls of those who lived without blame and without praise.’ – Dante Alighieri

‘Do I perform sometimes in a manic style? Yes. Am I manic all the time? No. Do I get sad? Oh yeah. Does it hit me hard? Oh yeah.’ – Robin Williams

‘Beauty makes idiots sad and wise men merry.’ – George Jean Nathan

‘My mother, I suppose, is still a main figure in my life because her life was so sad and unfair, and she so brave, but also because she was determined to make me into the Sunday-school-recitation little girl I was, from the age of seven or so, fighting not to be.’ – Alice Munro

‘There are times I am happy. There are times I am sad. But I always try to separate emotion from the need to reach for something stronger, deeper. And then no matter the emotion, I can reach for a stability that helps me accomplish what is the goal.’ – Troy Polamalu

‘When good people do bad things, it is sad, but when they reach the point where one can predict that they will do nothing but bad things, a deeper kind of sadness sets in, almost at the level of resignation.’ – Rick Tumlinson

‘Art is the most beautiful deception of all. And although people try to incorporate the everyday events of life in it, we must hope that it will remain a deception lest it become a utilitarian thing, sad as a factory.’ – Claude Debussy

‘People who have never dealt with depression think it’s just being sad or being in a bad mood. That’s not what depression is for me; it’s falling into a state of grayness and numbness.’ – Dan Reynolds

‘Poverty makes you sad as well as wise.’ – Bertolt Brecht

‘It’s sad that we never get trained to leave assumptions behind.’ – Sebastian Thrun

”Spring Day’ – I wrote main lyrics based on my personal experience with old friends. It is about my sad memories with him, and it makes me sentimental whenever I listen to the song.’ – Suga

‘The tree I had in the garden as a child, my beech tree, I used to climb up there and spend hours. I took my homework up there, my books, I went up there if I was sad, and it just felt very good to be up there among the green leaves and the birds and the sky.’ – Jane Goodall

‘A marriage is no amusement but a solemn act, and generally a sad one.’ – Queen Victoria

‘I am an optimist, unrepentant and militant. After all, in order not to be a fool an optimist must know how sad a place the world can be. It is only the pessimist who finds this out anew every day.’ – Peter Ustinov

‘But me writing sad songs doesn’t mean I am a sad person.’ – Phoebe Bridgers

‘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

‘Life is too short to be angry or sad for long.’ – Alphonso Davies

‘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

‘Keep it simple, keep it sexy, keep it sad.’ – Mitch Miller

‘In this sad world of ours, sorrow comes to all; and to the young, it comes with bitterest agony because it takes them unawares. I have had experience enough to know what I say.’ – Abraham Lincoln

‘Most organizations don’t fall apart as a result of one big blow. Most relationships don’t end because of one grand argument. Most lives don’t fall to pieces due to one sad event. No, I suggest to you that sustained failure happens as the consequence of small, daily acts of neglect that stack up over time to lead to a blow up – and break down.’ – Robin S. Sharma

‘I must have something to engross my thoughts, some object in life which will fill this vacuum, and prevent this sad wearing away of the heart.’ – Elizabeth Blackwell

‘It is sad to grow old but nice to ripen.’ – Brigitte Bardot

‘The sad and horrible conclusion is that no one cared that Jews were being murdered… This is the Jewish lesson of the Holocaust and this is the lesson which Auschwitz taught us.’ – Ariel Sharon

‘But probably my favorite music, believe it or not, is sad music.’ – Walton Goggins

‘Nothing always stays the same. You don’t stay happy forever. You don’t stay sad forever.’ – Cat Zingano

‘Hear me, my chiefs! I am tired. My heart is sick and sad. From where the sun now stands, I will fight no more forever.’ – Chief Joseph

‘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

‘The Indian Summer of life should be a little sunny and a little sad, like the season, and infinite in wealth and depth of tone, but never hustled.’ – Henry Adams

‘What makes old age so sad is not that our joys but our hopes cease.’ – Jean Paul

‘The old, sad art colors are gone. Now I paint bright colors. I paint paintings which are happy, where children are laughing and playing with animals. I paint paradise on Earth. I still paint sadness sometimes, but there is sadness in the world, too.’ – Margaret Keane

‘You’ve got to be happy when you play a sad character; otherwise, you just get depressed. Make your real life as fun as possible.’ – Sophie Turner

‘It’s sad that people listen to music and decide how the singer should look.’ – Joss Stone

‘It is a sad but undeniable reality that people have died in the line of duty since the earliest days of the United Nations. The first was Ole Bakke, a Norwegian member of the United Nations guard detachment, shot and killed in Palestine in 1948. The toll since then has included colleagues at all levels.’ – Ban Ki-moon

‘I had often sought for the peace there is in Christ, but I could not seem to find the freedom I desired. A terrible sadness rested on my heart. I could not think of anything I had done to cause me to feel sad; but it seemed to me that I was not good enough to enter Heaven, that such a thing would be altogether too much for me to expect.’ – Ellen G. White

‘But it’s a journey and the sad thing is you only learn from experience, so as much as someone can tell you things, you have to go out there and make your own mistakes in order to learn.’ – Emma Watson

‘How sad it is that we give up on people who are just like us.’ – Fred Rogers

‘The closing of a door can bring blessed privacy and comfort – the opening, terror. Conversely, the closing of a door can be a sad and final thing – the opening a wonderfully joyous moment.’ – Andy Rooney

‘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

‘I don’t ever want to be sad about my life.’ – Tammy Duckworth

‘I’ve been broke and sad, rich and sad, broke and happy, rich and happy, and I’ll take the rich version over the broke version all day long.’ – Jen Sincero

‘The history of soccer is a sad voyage from beauty to duty. When the sport became an industry, the beauty that blossoms from the joy of play got torn out by its very roots.’ – Eduardo Galeano

‘It’s both funny and sad which seem to me to be the two basic ingredients of good comedy.’ – Tony Hancock

‘It’s a sad day in this country when you can’t talk about law and order unless they want to call you a racist.’ – George Wallace

‘To be a character who feels a deep emotion, one must go into the memory’s vault and mix in a sad memory from one’s own life.’ – Albert Finney

‘Sometimes I wonder if suicides aren’t in fact sad guardians of the meaning of life.’ – Vaclav Havel

‘Fashion is that thing that saved me from being sad.’ – Lady Gaga

‘I am closest to my mother, as she is my rock, my pillar of strength, and my world. Not only has she stood by me through all times – happy, sad, and otherwise – but there have even been moments when I had completely lost hope, and her immense belief in me had lifted me up.’ – Amruta Khanvilkar

‘It’s sad when you can’t make everyone happy, though. It’s impossible but, at the same time, you still hope. You think, ‘Maybe I can do it,’ but you know you can’t. But gosh, if I had to rely on giving people what they wanted, I would have had to write 40 billion different books and even then, I wouldn’t get it right.’ – Stephenie Meyer

‘I had to choose, I’d be so sad. They are flip sides of the same coin. I love both comedy and drama.’ – Dianne Wiest

‘Guys like to gaslight us, and it’s not cool. And it happens so much; it’s happened to me in relationships. It’s happened to me where I have been cheated on, and I felt so sad and angry, like it wasn’t my fault, but that was because the person was gaslighting me into thinking it was my fault.’ – Ava Max

‘Sad songs are what move people.’ – Lorrie Morgan

‘I don’t have many regrets. I regret mistakes, particularly those that damage other people, and we’ve all made some of those. But I’m not sad about change.’ – John Gutfreund

‘His death was the first time that Ed Wynn ever made anyone sad.’ – Red Skelton

‘Sometimes getting something off your chest to someone else is an important step in coping – so you know that you’re not alone, you’re not failing, and that it is perfectly normal to feel overwhelmed or sad at times. Everybody does.’ – David Lidington

‘When you’re an adult, things mellow out. I think when you’re a teenager and you are sad and the world is ending, everything is about that one sadness.’ – Mitski

‘The monarchy is foremost a business, and it’s important to them that the British public continue to finance the excessive luxurious lifestyles of the now quite enormous, wasteful and useless ‘royal’ family. I find it very sad.’ – Morrissey

‘What’s interesting about emotions is that the more you try to control them or to bottle them up, the stronger they get. So, the more I try to stop being sad, the sadder I’m going to get.’ – Mark Manson

‘Apart from the fact that your physical ability starts to decline, I also think someone in their fifties being childlike becomes a little sad. You’ve got to be careful.’ – Rowan Atkinson

‘Wearing a tuxedo isn’t as simple as it sounds. I’ve been to a lot of award shows in Hollywood over the years and have seen some pretty sad tuxes. It’s surprisingly easy to go off the rails.’ – Paul Feig

‘Often when I go to home of people who have small children, the children will run from me, even though they have seen me on television. I understand why they do this but it is a sad feeling for me, even so.’ – Andre The Giant

‘Usually when people are sad, they don’t do anything. They just cry over their condition. But when they get angry, they bring about a change.’ – James Russell Lowell

‘As Dutch elm disease spread across Britain in the 1970s, the country fell into mourning. When the sentinel trees that framed our horizons were felled, their loss was a constant topic of sad and angry conversation.’ – George Monbiot

‘The sad truth is that excellence makes people nervous.’ – Shana Alexander

‘When I write sad songs, I feel like I’m sewing up a scar in me, and the outcome always feels so much better than when I write happy ones.’ – Sam Smith

‘If I don’t get at least one e-mail every ten minutes, I feel unloved. Even junk mail makes me feel seen. Sad, I know. Sigh.’ – Chris Abani

‘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

‘The day I am not able to fly will be a sad day for me.’ – Ratan Tata

‘My natural disposition is pretty joyful, but you know, I have bad days and sad moments like anybody else.’ – Tracee Ellis Ross

‘I had a daughter and lost her a long while ago. That’s too sad a story to go into.’ – Gene Wilder

‘Well, you know, too much democracy is a sort of sad thing.’ – Ann Richards

‘Life can be challenging and sad… but music is the easy part.’ – St. Vincent

‘The problem, when comparing contemporary television to television in 1974, is that TV has become not just bad but sad.’ – P. J. O’Rourke

‘The music of ABBA is not that happy. It might sound happy, in some strange way, but deep within, it’s not happy music. It has that Nordic melancholic feeling to it. What fools you is the girls’ voices. You know, I do think that is one of the secrets about ABBA. Even when we were really quite sad, we always sounded jubilant.’ – Bjorn Ulvaeus

‘They say such nice things about people at their funerals that it makes me sad that I’m going to miss mine by just a few days.’ – Garrison Keillor

‘SAD!’ is definitely one of my go-to songs when I want to vibe.’ – Tee Grizzley

‘I was friends with Susan Sontag the last four years of her life. She had this amazing charisma and so much energy, but she had a sad little funeral in Montparnasse in Paris. It was rainy. It was all wrong. And I was thinking, ‘God, she loved life so much.” – Marina Abramovic

‘Whenever I start a new book, I think, ‘This is the most interesting subject of all time. It’s sad, I’ll never enjoy writing another book as much as I enjoy this one.’ Every time, I’m convinced. And then I change my mind when I start the next book.’ – Gretchen Rubin

‘Certain emotions just take you to the notes – being furious, heroic, sad, erotic, when rain comes.’ – Jeff Buckley

‘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

‘Things that I feel really sad about, I talk about. That way, if it’s funny, it doesn’t hurt anymore.’ – Pete Davidson

‘There’s no excuse to be bored. Sad, yes. Angry, yes. Depressed, yes. Crazy, yes. But there’s no excuse for boredom, ever.’ – Viggo Mortensen

‘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

‘Everything takes me longer than I expect. It’s the sad truth about life.’ – Donna Tartt

‘It is easy enough to praise men for the courage of their convictions. I wish I could teach the sad young of this mealy generation the courage of their confusions.’ – John Ciardi

‘I didn’t want to be on the losing side. I was fed up with Jewish weakness, timidity and fear. I didn’t want any more Jewish sentimentality and Jewish suffering. I was sickened by our sad songs.’ – Lionel Blue

‘I was a sad kid.’ – Post Malone

‘I don’t know what to say to that, but I have to agree with Johnny that, yeah, we do touch upon things that most men would rather not admit: That we feel pain, we cry, get sad and sometimes don’t deal well with disappointment.’ – Peter Steele

‘Dance has helped me overcome a lot of personal challenges. If I feel sad or depressed, I just go to the set and dance. It makes me feel alive.’ – Remo D’Souza

‘It’s not nice to say it – I know female musicians, but not so many rappers. I can’t think of one I idolize, which is sad, but I’m hoping that will change.’ – Awkwafina

‘Today, actors aren’t forced to ditch their regional accents like they used to. The best example’s Tom Baker, a Scouser who went to great lengths to change his accent and ended up with something alien – and fantastic. It’s sad that when the likes of him go, there won’t be those sorts of accents any more.’ – Matt Berry

‘The Beatles, they brought a whole new dimension to pop music. Of course, the psychedelic period is much more interesting to me, starting with ‘Rubber Soul’ and on to the ‘White Album.’ Great, great records. I was such a Beatles fan. I was very sad when they broke up.’ – John McLaughlin

‘I was very sad to hear of the death of Ronnie Barker, who was such a warm, friendly and encouraging presence to have when I started in television. He was also a great comic actor to learn from.’ – John Cleese

‘I know what I look like – a weird, sad clown puppet. I’m fine with that.’ – Rainn Wilson

‘I never get scared making these kinds of movies because it’s all make-believe, but I did cry when I saw the finished version of Man On Fire because it is so sad.’ – Dakota Fanning

‘A lot of country music is sad. I think most art comes out of poverty and hard times. It applies to music. Three chords and the truth – that’s what a country song is. There is a lot of heartache in the world.’ – Willie Nelson

‘It’s true that I’m sad about not being involved in the development of ‘Dark Souls II,’ because I’ve worked on ‘Demon’s Souls’ and ‘Dark Souls” development for the past five years.’ – Hidetaka Miyazaki

‘Man is born passionate of body, but with an innate though secret tendency to the love of Good in his main-spring of Mind. But God help us all! It is at present a sad jar of atoms.’ – Lord Byron

‘Though I know he loves me, tonight my heart is sad; his kiss was not so wonderful as all the dreams I had.’ – Sara Teasdale

‘I didn’t know my mother had it. I think a lot of women don’t know their mothers had it; that’s the sad thing about depression. You know, you don’t function anymore. You shut down. You feel like you are in a void.’ – Marie Osmond

‘Many things have been said about what happened, but I don’t know either. Maybe someday. One thing I’m sure of is that all the things that have happened to me, good and bad, happy and sad, have made me what I am today.’ – Pete Best

‘Few women, I fear, have had such reason as I have to think the long sad years of youth were worth living for the sake of middle age.’ – Dwight D. Eisenhower

‘At Southwest, they’re on a mission to democratize air travel. When they first started, the only people who could fly were relatively wealthy businesspeople, and Herb Kelleher’s vision was to offer everyone the chance to visit a friend or relative during a happy and a sad time. That’s a vision employees can get excited about.’ – Ken Blanchard

‘Anytime a curtain closes forever, that’s always sad news.’ – Gennady Golovkin

‘I was a million percent in love with Edward Scissorhands. I remember looking in the mirror on the last day of shooting… and thinking how sad I was to be saying goodbye to Edward.’ – Johnny Depp

‘House of Fools,’ that was the first thing I was sad that we couldn’t do any more.’ – Bob Mortimer

‘I think the best mood for writing is a heavy feeling that’s a little bit removed from you. Sometimes I feel very self-indulgent and bratty and ungrateful, and no good music comes out of that. But sometimes I can be really sad or have an excess of feeling yet somehow be able to see the big picture more.’ – Perfume Genius

‘I was given this beautiful coffee table book of Soviet architecture for my birthday. It has a lot of holiday camps, swimming pools, theatres, and buildings that were built for leisure activities. Incredible architecture in the most obscure places. It’s a little bit sad, because a lot of it has been left to fall apart.’ – Roisin Murphy

‘I think Paris smells not just sweet but melancholy and curious, sometimes sad but always enticing and seductive. She’s a city for the all senses, for artists and writers and musicians and dreamers, for fantasies, for long walks and wine and lovers and, yes, for mysteries.’ – M. J. Rose

‘It’s actually sad to be rich.’ – Masayoshi Son

‘There must be something solemn, serious, and tender about any attitude which we denominate religious. If glad, it must not grin or snicker; if sad, it must not scream or curse.’ – William James

‘When you socially neglect a people, when you economically abandon a people, when you transfer wealth from them to the well-to-do, what are a people going to do? They’re going to respond with very sad forms of despair, and that’s true for everybody – I don’t care what color you are.’ – Cornel West

‘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

‘I think I’m probably a very sad man wrapped in a very joyful package, and I think I’m very resilient, and I think I’m quite generous, sometimes to a fault. And I’m very bad with money, but I don’t see that too much of a flaw.’ – Dave Matthews

‘I am convinced that material things can contribute a lot to making one’s life pleasant, but, basically, if you do not have very good friends and relatives who matter to you, life will be really empty and sad and material things cease to be important.’ – David Rockefeller

‘If there’s another iPhone that’s better, that’s sad for my old iPhone. But it means we get to use a better one.’ – Roger Ver

‘NASA has been one of the most successful public investments in motivating students to do well and achieve all they can achieve. It’s sad that we are turning the programme in a direction where it will reduce the amount of motivation and stimulation it provides to young people.’ – Neil Armstrong

‘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

‘When I design and wonder what the point is, I think of someone having a bad time in their life. Maybe they are sad and they wake up and put on something I have made and it makes them feel just a bit better. So, in that sense, fashion is a little help in the life of a person. But only a little.’ – Miuccia Prada

‘Creation is a sustained period of bliss, even though the subject can still be very sad. Because there’s the triumph of coming through and understanding that you have, and that you did it the way only you could do it. You didn’t do it the way somebody told you to do it.’ – Alice Walker

‘I am very sad for men and women trapped in any relationship where there is cruelty, dominance, inequity. I long for the liberation of all people.’ – Jasmine Guy

‘Usually, I’m only sad when something sad happens. I am not a melancholic person. I like to live very much in the present. If I was an animal, I’d be a little cat. They like to live life.’ – Monica Bellucci

‘Home will always be Northern Ireland but my schedule means for the next few years I won’t be there as much. I can’t do the same things that I did a year ago. That is I’m something conscious of, but I’m not sad about it. It’s fine.’ – Rory McIlroy

‘Football is a sad game.’ – George Best

‘Emotions fascinate me, just being able to express myself through acting. I love that. And I think, in everyday life, you’re always trying to repress your emotions. Like if you’re sad, you don’t want to show it to someone else.’ – Jodie Comer

‘How sad it is that these great gentlemen should believe what anyone tells them and do not choose to judge for themselves! But it is always so.’ – Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

‘My belief is that if I can achieve that level of entertainment by making the audience happy or sad or angry, then I have succeeded as an actor and have done my job. The profits and the fame as an actor will eventually surface, but first and foremost comes the work as an actor.’ – Cole Hauser

‘You have to really understand that although certain memories or stories make you sad, you are not sad. Pull yourself out from that emotion and remember that.’ – Rupi Kaur

‘Scientology is probably one of the most misunderstood things, and it’s sad that it’s so misunderstood.’ – Stanley Clarke

‘I have a piece of great and sad news to tell you: I am dead.’ – Jean Cocteau

‘Among the many reasons assignable for the sad decay of true Christianity, perhaps the neglecting to assemble ourselves together, in religious societies, may not be one of the least.’ – George Whitefield

‘The sad truth is that mass migration, whatever the colour of the skins of those involved, upsets and worries indigenous people, especially the poorest.’ – Peter Hitchens

‘What is sad for women of my generation is that they weren’t supposed to work if they had families. What were they going to do when the children are grown – watch the raindrops coming down the window pane?’ – Jackie Kennedy

‘Among the many signs of a lively faith and hope we have in eternal life, one of the surest is not being overly sad at the death of those whom we dearly love in our Lord.’ – Saint Ignatius

‘To be honest, I’m a little upset these days. My family has been exposed to the media. Some people break into our house. My ex-girlfriend’s photos are circulating online. To say that these are things I need to endure for the sake of celebrity… that’s sad. I want to respectfully request that my private life remain private.’ – Song Joong-ki

‘Unfortunately, we live in a world where no mistakes can be made, and it’s sad because you learn from your mistakes. If we can’t make mistakes, how the hell are we going to learn?’ – Deon Cole

‘All pictures are unnatural. All pictures are sad because they’re about dead people. Paintings you don’t think of in a special time or with a specific event. With photos I always think I’m looking at something dead.’ – David Bailey

‘The sad thing is that I feel so boring because ‘Twilight’ is literally how every conversation I have these days begins – whether it’s someone I’m meeting for the first time or someone I just haven’t seen in a while. The first thing I want to say to them is, ‘It’s insane! And, as a person, I can’t do anything!” – Kristen Stewart

‘When you’re happy you don’t always have to be laughing, and when you’re sad you don’t have to be crying; sometimes it’s the opposite. You laugh when you’re the most upset.’ – Freddie Highmore

‘People talk about games and loneliness – it’s a lonely activity. I didn’t understand that. ‘Gears of War’ was the first multiplayer game for me that I enjoyed. But I wasn’t sad. I liked being alone. I liked playing games by myself. I had lots of companionship at the house.’ – Tim Schafer

”Dancing on My Own’ is actually a really sad song! It has totally made me cry.’ – Gillian Jacobs

‘I loved being Maleficent. I was quite sad to put my staff down and put my horns away because somehow, she just lives in a different world.’ – Angelina Jolie

‘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

‘I like happy endings in movies. I think life has a happy ending. When it’s all said and done, it’s all something worthwhile, and I want my movies to reflect that. There are enough things to be sad about. When you pop in a movie, let the message be one that’s one of hope.’ – Jon Favreau

‘I could really make a song of hurt, because I’ve been hurt by a lot of men. I’m talking about, like, how sad I be when a dude curves me. And I never talk about that because I refuse to let people know that I get sad because when a man don’t answer my calls.’ – Cardi B

‘Being sad and being depressed are two different things. Also, people going through depression don’t look so, while someone sad will look sad. The most common reaction is, ‘How can you be depressed? You have everything going for you. You are the supposed number one heroine and have a plush home, car, movies… What else do you want?” – Deepika Padukone

‘I got interested in reading very early, because a story was read to me, by Hans Christian Andersen, which was ‘The Little Mermaid,’ and I don’t know if you remember ‘The Little Mermaid,’ but it’s dreadfully sad. The little mermaid falls in love with this prince, but she cannot marry him because she is a mermaid.’ – Alice Munro

‘I have many years to get better and better, and that has to be my ambition. The day you think there is no improvements to be made is a sad one for any player.’ – Lionel Messi

‘With out art, without communicating, we wouldn’t live beyond 30 because we’d be so sad and depressed.’ – Wayne Coyne

‘He is a hard man who is only just, and a sad one who is only wise.’ – Voltaire

‘Before I left for Germany, I had gotten accepted to the performing arts high school in New York, which was a big dream of mine. And having to leave that was very sad for me.’ – Nina Arianda

‘The first beat that I ever made that I thought was actually worth a damn was called ‘Toilet Paper Nostrils,’ and I made it when I had a cold. I had the worst cold ever. And I had toilet-paper nostrils making music, but it was really reflective of how I felt. It was a really sad trumpet sound.’ – Flying Lotus

‘When you pretend for a living and you have to pretend in your private life as well, it’s very sad. Because it’s intangible, depression is an issue that people don’t like to talk about. It’s like a huge, guilty secret.’ – Sarah Lancashire

‘Our country is made up of groups of immigrants who came here hoping for a better life. They created America. It’s a sad thing to have so many people not remember that, including Trump.’ – Mazie Hirono

‘It is a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money writing or talking about his art than he can by practicing it.’ – W. H. Auden

‘My style is bad white-boy dancing. I can do swing a little bit, but nothing beyond that. My solo dancing is sad. I use my arms, badly.’ – Robin Williams

‘I talked to ex-wives of musicians of the ’70s for research. They’re the funniest people in the world, yet there is this sad, beautiful thing in their eyes that says they’ve seen more than they could ever possibly tell you.’ – Kate Hudson

‘You can play basketball and have a magic night and score 40 points with your team-mates and win the game. There are favourites for the World Cup, but you can’t guarantee Germany, Spain, or Brazil will win, but here, everyone can guarantee that Mercedes or Ferrari will win the race, and this is very sad for the sport.’ – Fernando Alonso

‘I don’t have many sad days.’ – Billy Graham

‘It was sad when Sid Vicious died… I was freaked out when Phil Lynott died from Thin Lizzy. I cried. It was too crazy.’ – Dee Dee Ramone

‘When we sit at the table, there is more going on than satisfying hunger. It is sad to think of those who eat simply to satisfy their hunger and who do not permit themselves to linger under the many spells offered by a good meal – the satisfaction of our hearts, our minds and our spirits.’ – Leo Buscaglia

‘It’s cool to be in your feelings, and it’s cool to be sad, and it’s cool to feel all of these things.’ – Cuco

‘We don’t have all this gay-bashing crime. You don’t see that. It’s not there. That is not really happening in Jamaica. But because a few artists basically sing it and put records out and the media runs with it, then the stigma becomes big, and now we’re trapped with that whole thing. It’s really sad.’ – Shaggy

‘Ten years ago, I still feared loss enough to abandon myself in order to keep things stable. I’d smile when I was sad, pretend to like people who appalled me. What I now know is that losses aren’t cataclysmic if they teach the heart and soul their natural cycle of breaking and healing.’ – Martha Beck

‘Whenever the lion fish in the fish tank in the captain’s ready room died it was always a sad moment.’ – Patrick Stewart

‘We’re sad about some of the losses of members of great seniority and distinction in the Congress, and some very new members, who will no longer be serving with us.’ – Nancy Pelosi

‘What I loved about the acting class was that you got to think all day long about a person that wasn’t you, and figure out why they were sad and what they wanted, what they dreamed.’ – Beth Henley

‘It would be sad if we lost our instinct and our courage to love and protect.’ – Emeli Sande

‘I was very moved by shows that combined things that were funny and sad. I remember liking ‘Simpsons’ episodes in which emotions were central.’ – Raphael Bob-Waksberg

‘We can feel sad, hurt, demoralized. But we can’t give up.’ – Patrisse Cullors

‘I often say the last role I played that really touched me and where I was able to access what I really am was Bonnie, which is kind of sad when you think how early in my career that was.’ – Faye Dunaway

‘You see so many artists who are so talented end up living sad, empty lives. This industry takes so much out of you that without the accountability and leaving God in the center, you can be left so empty and void.’ – Stacie Orrico

‘While continuing to speak out and work against those laws that sanction homosexuality, we also shall continue to seek help and change for homosexuals themselves, whose sad and sick values belie the word ‘gay’ which they pathetically use to cover their unhappy lives.’ – Anita Bryant

‘You mustn’t smile when you lose. You have to be sad like other people. You have to win every game.’ – Eden Hazard

‘The sad thing about destroying the environment is that we’re going to take the rest of life with us. The bluebirds will be gone, and the elephants will be gone, and the tigers will be gone, and the pandas will be gone.’ – Ted Turner

‘We all remember where we were and we all remember what we were doing. I had a brother in New York, an uncle, lots of friends in New York. It made me angry, it made me sad; what could I do.’ – Timothy Bottoms

‘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

‘In film, you can have sad endings.’ – Anna Torv

‘You’re playing a role, but you’re still feeling it. You can walk away from it after ‘Cut,’ but if you’re playing a sad or mixed-up person, it’s hard to stay in that place for these longish period of times. You kind of have to check out.’ – Nick Nolte

‘Poetry is a beautiful way of expressing feelings – happy, sad, angry, caring. It’s also a way that we share with other people, to help them with those feelings.’ – Mattie Stepanek

‘I don’t think of my songs as sad songs. I think of them as vulnerable and honest. I crack jokes in between songs, so people don’t leave feeling too dark.’ – Mary Lambert

‘They say geniuses mostly have great mothers. They mostly have sad fates.’ – D. H. Lawrence

‘It’s been a bit sad to see that out of Linux distributions, it was Android – the most successful mobile Linux distribution – that has really introduced the malware problem to the Linux world.’ – Mikko Hypponen

‘I’m not sure how to describe my style. A lot of my work is dark and looks a bit sad, which is strange because I’m such a smiley, over-the-top positive guy who wears gold shoes most days.’ – Aaron Huey

‘We equate beauty for women with youth, and that’s sad. It’s a shame it’s so hard for so many of us to appreciate the beauty of an older woman and to accept it in ourselves.’ – Jennifer Connelly

‘For those aspiring to make a living from travel photography, it’s a sad fact that the boring shots are the shots that are going to make you money.’ – Martin Parr

‘Sometimes I’m sad and mostly I like sad songs.’ – Nico

‘To the indefinite, uncertain mind of the American radical the most contradictory ideas and methods are possible. The result is a sad chaos in the radical movement, a sort of intellectual hash, which has neither taste nor character.’ – Emma Goldman

”A Bug’s Life’ is a really funny movie and the characters have such different personalities. The movie is happy and then gets really sad and I’m like, W’hoa, I’m feeling this way and this movie is about bugs!” – Booboo Stewart

‘Well, darkness with humor… I’m not an extremely suicidal or sad person.’ – Peter Steele

‘It’s sad when girls think they don’t have anything going on except being pretty.’ – Keri Russell

‘Whenever I am feeling happy or sad, I always find comfort in food.’ – Rachel Hollis

‘I hold the world but as the world, Gratiano; A stage where every man must play a part, And mine is a sad one.’ – William Shakespeare

‘President Bush spent last night calling world leaders to support the war with Iraq and it is sad when the most powerful man on earth is yelling, ‘I know you’re there, pick up, pick up.’ – Craig Kilborn

‘Who indeed, after pulling off the coloured glasses of prejudice and thrusting out of sight his pet projects, can help seeing the folly of these endeavours to protect men against themselves? A sad population of imbeciles would our schemers fill the world with, could their plans last.’ – Herbert Spencer

‘Our thoughts really do create our lives. They’ve done a lot of research showing if you’re an optimistic, positive person you will be a healthier person than if you’re a sad, depressed, negative person.’ – Alana Stewart

‘For my wrap present, Colin Farrell gave me a first edition book. I got so involved with this character and I was so sad when the movie was over that when I got home and I tried to read the book I got really emotional and I started crying.’ – Salma Hayek

‘I was friends with Susan Sontag the last four years of her life. She had this amazing charisma and so much energy, but she had a sad little funeral in Montparnasse in Paris.’ – Marina Abramovic

‘As a kid I remember being frightened all of the time, and kind of sad. I was certainly troubled. But a lot of people were, y’know? I don’t really know how to measure my trouble against somebody else’s.’ – Aldous Harding

‘You listen to a piece of music and it will remind you of something – it might make you happy, it might make you sad, but it is very emotive. And I think that Duran Duran have always understood that.’ – Nick Rhodes

‘People just don’t like me, and it’s unfortunate, because I’m trying to get people to come down and visit New Zealand. I’m an ambassador for New Zealand… it’s kind of sad.’ – Steven Adams

‘From inside where I live, I feel like I just perceive events in a certain rational way. I often find it sad or poignant, and it may not make me laugh a bit. But I don’t mind inventing a portrait that allows others to laugh if that’s what they want to do.’ – Madeline Kahn

‘Cyndi Lauper’s ‘Time After Time’ was a perfect song. It was so beautiful and so heartfelt. Her vocals were so amazing. And, for me, that was a song I went to when I was feeling sad and wanted to feel even sadder.’ – Lea Thompson

‘When I see ‘Sunshine,’ I see a film that part of me is kind of very proud of and another part of me is very sad about, so it’s a really complicated film for me. And I’ve never been really able to resolve all that in myself.’ – Alex Garland

‘I’m sad to see the passing of the great drug warriors. I certainly did my part in that battle and I don’t regret any of it.’ – Marc Maron

‘We’re trying to say that if you, in love, when you’re not true to yourself, the love won’t last. Because love is complex, and we always have the dark sides and the sad sides.’ – RM

‘I love music videos, I really do. I think it’s kind of sad that it’s a dying art form.’ – Adam Levine

‘Those who gave away their wings are sad not to see them fly.’ – Antonio Porchia

‘I wanted to write a book that talked about the emotions of children, which is the rainbow. We all have moods. We talk about being blue when we’re sad, and being yellow when we’re cowards, and when we’re mad, we’re red.’ – Dolly Parton

‘As virtuous men pass mildly away, and whisper to their souls to go, whilst some of their sad friends do say, the breath goes now, and some say no.’ – John Donne

‘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

‘The sad thing is most people have to check with someone before they do the things that make them happy. We’re all passing through; the least we can do is be happy, and the only way to do that is by being selfish.’ – Gene Simmons

‘I’m sad to report that in the past few years, ever since uncertainty became our insistent 21st century companion, leadership has taken a great leap backwards to the familiar territory of command and control.’ – Margaret J. Wheatley

‘To presume that my greatest achievement is that I dated someone famous twenty years ago is completely sexist and anti-woman. It’s lazy, nasty journalism that makes me sad about our world.’ – Shoshanna Lonstein Gruss

‘This is how sad my life is: I got a scar from scratching my chicken pox too much. That’s my big scar story. I really have no major scars.’ – Lewis Black

‘When you hear a solo piano, there’s a solitude about just one instrument playing. It can be beautiful; it can be sad.’ – Jean-Marc Vallee

‘I always knew that St. Jude was an amazing organization but meeting the kids and seeing how the hospital works first hand was truly beautiful. It doesn’t feel like a regular hospital all dreary and sad. It’s a colorful, beautiful, comfortable, fun place to live and the energy is wonderful.’ – Ariana Grande

‘I am sometimes sad when I hear the personal stories of Tibetan refugees who have been tortured or beaten. Some irritation, some anger comes. But it never lasts long. I always try to think at a deeper level, to find ways to console.’ – Dalai Lama

‘You won’t remember what it was like when your technology didn’t recognize when you are sad or angry.’ – Rana el Kaliouby

‘Hearing is a subjective experience, but I never really understood that it’s the same with seeing as well. I always thought that everything we see is the same for everyone. But having these more psychedelic experiences of being really, really sad made me realize how brittle reality can be.’ – Robyn

‘Unfortunately, we are living in an era where plenty of songs with vulgar, objectionable lyrics are also becoming popular. It’s a disturbing trend, and I feel really sad when I see small kids dancing to such numbers in television shows. In my career so far, I have refused any song whose lyrics I haven’t been comfortable with.’ – Shreya Ghoshal

‘If I remember the suffering of my childhood and youth, it could make me sad. But if one thinks of the benefits, it is precisely because of these sufferings since I was small that I have become a man. I have become a person who thinks, who has feelings, because I have suffered.’ – Suharto

‘I feel like modern country is deliberately dumbing down the human race. They’re deliberately making people take glory in being uneducated and racist, and it’s just sad. I think it’s absolute mind control.’ – Jim James

‘I tell people on Facebook what my Playstation user name is. It’s quite a social thing. I put the headset on and I’m just yappin’ away. It’s kind of like a sad way of socialising. It’s like meeting up with people but when you get bored with them you can just switch them off and walk away.’ – Limmy

‘We have but one permanent home: heaven – that’s still the old truth that we always have to re-learn – and it’s only through the impact of sad experiences that we assimilate it.’ – Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

‘Even just listening to a sad country song, yeah, I can get pretty emotional.’ – Jason Kelce

‘Sonny’ is a very sad song that I wrote. It’s just me playing this beautiful guitar with flat wound strings and I was sat on a sofa chair.’ – Declan McKenna

‘Many Russia experts note the deep and sad capacity of the Russian people for suffering.’ – Roger Altman

‘The picture of Prince Charles meeting Gerry Adams is inexpressibly sad.’ – Peter Hitchens

‘I don’t want to tell sad stories about myself. We may not have had a lot to spend when I grew up, but my childhood was good. The public likes to hear a dramatic story. They want a star to rise, have a meltdown and then return to greatness. Very American.’ – Gegard Mousasi

‘There are receptors to these molecules in your immune system, in your gut and in your heart. So when you say, ‘I have a gut feeling’ or ‘my heart is sad’ or ‘I am bursting with joy,’ you’re not speaking metaphorically. You’re speaking literally.’ – Deepak Chopra

‘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

‘I can’t say I’m happy to be talking about John Ritter and his passing. In my 21 years of Entertainment Tonight, this really was one of the most shocking and sad things to have happened.’ – Mary Hart

‘I don’t feel scared about death, I just feel so frustrated and sad to think I won’t see how stories end. My children’s story. My wife’s. The football. All the stories going on in the world that you’re going to miss the end of.’ – Bob Mortimer

‘I pity my brother Ferdinand, knowing by my own feelings how sad a thing it is to live apart from one’s family.’ – Marie Antoinette

‘Nobody destroys people – people destroy themselves, and it’s very, very sad.’ – John Catsimatidis

‘It is so sad that it takes so long for people to understand what needs to happen in order to be free.’ – Faith Ringgold

‘I like everything perfect. Everything has to be neat. My sister is 5, and she’s more messy than I am. I make my bed every morning, everything’s perfect. My shoes are all arranged. It’s sad. I’m a little like Ray, a little bit.’ – Dakota Fanning

‘No one wants to fail. So most of us don’t even try. Sad. We don’t even take that first step to improve our health or to deepen our working relationships or to realize a dream.’ – Robin S. Sharma

‘I love the script and I just thought it was a great role. Like I say, it’s like this – the script is like this sad, funny, desperate love song to the lost American man.’ – Oliver Platt

‘I like to write sad songs. They’re much easier to write and you get a lot more emotion into them. But people don’t want to hear them as much. And radio definitely doesn’t; they want that positive, uptempo thing.’ – Alan Jackson

‘Your friend dies, and people always say, ‘Oh, he lives through me,’ or whatever. But it’s just sad that they’re not living. If a person dies that’s close to them, then they say, ‘I lost this person.’ It always tripped me out because I would always be like, ‘Yeah, but that person lost their life.” – Lil Tracy

‘It makes me so desperately sad to witness just how unforgivably wretched our world has become.’ – Ralph Steadman

‘For a culture that has such a problem with death, we seem to deal with it in a quite bizarre way. We see people shot, killed and blown up, and we find it funny and sexy and all those things. But, the reality of it is that every day people die, and people are really sad and they grieve and they go through a really difficult process with it.’ – Michael Sheen

‘We once believed we were auteurs, but we weren’t. We had no idea, really. Film is over. It’s sad nobody is really exploring it. But what to do? And anyway, with mobile phones and everything, everyone is now an auteur.’ – Jean-Luc Godard

‘Mainly, I thought of Barney as a kid. You can always look into the faces of kids and see what they’re thinking, if they’re happy or sad. That’s what I tried to do with Barney.’ – Don Knotts

‘I’m proud of my invention, but I’m sad that it is used by terrorists.’ – Mikhail Kalashnikov

‘We must learn how to live in the space of inner peace in our everyday lives. This takes consistent, conscious effort because I know so many black women are hurting and sad, and we don’t easily express our heartache or show our wounds.’ – Susan L. Taylor

‘I mean, I was just one of the ones who got exposed, and because of the position I was in, where I was in my life, it went mainstream. A lot of people got out of it after my situation, not because I went to prison but because it was sad for them to see me go through something that was so pointless, that could have been avoided.’ – Michael Vick

‘Fortune has played me a sad trick by letting me live on and on.’ – Belle Boyd

‘I feel like listening to sad songs are a way of narrating your life and confirming your identity.’ – Olly Alexander

‘It would be nice to be a piece of toast. Everyone likes a piece of toast, don’t they? No one is ever sad when you offer them a piece of toast, and if I could be that to someone, that would be nice.’ – Jon Richardson

‘I’m, like, the only actor in New York who’s never, ever been on any ‘Law & Order.’ And I’ve auditioned for so many. The sad thing is I love ‘Law & Order.’ I’m really obsessed with it. And they always said to me, ‘You seem like you’re making fun of the material.” – Greta Gerwig

‘The way you build trust with your team is around super-clear communication in that instant when they say, ‘I will be sad if you don’t do X.’ You have to say, ‘We’re not going to do X, and here’s why, and believe me, you’ll be much sadder later if I let you go do it and you spend a bunch of time on it and nothing ever happens.” – Dick Costolo

‘Anyone can go online and write anything they want about people they don’t even know, and most of the time, that is fueled by hate. The sad part is that people actually believe what they read online.’ – Colton Haynes

‘What I like on Kickstarter is when I see real innovation and I see people building something new. It makes me sad when I see things that are just the same technology; you aren’t passing the technology forward.’ – Bre Pettis

‘I was so sad from losing two of my dogs and my mother. I had this vision of all these animals sitting behind bars. They had no control and were scared. That’s why I got into fostering and adopting animals out.’ – Linda Blair

‘I like singer-songwriters, and I find sad songs comforting rather than depressing. It makes you realise you’re not alone in the world.’ – Natalie Imbruglia

‘It’s sad that you don’t see drivers being real people.’ – Jacques Villeneuve

‘Country fans need to support country music by buying albums and concert tickets for traditional artists or the music will just fade away. And that would be really sad.’ – George Jones

‘I’d like a male to listen to my music and find it kind of fascinating, what a girl goes through when they get heartbroken or get sad or get hurt by something.’ – Ellie Goulding

‘If you’re lucky like me, your relationship with your brother has resolved itself on the peaceful side of the fence and has stayed there. But if you’re someone who’s got a family that’s all fractured and finding it hard to relate, that’s a very sad place to be.’ – Tom Hardy

‘I survived turning 60, I was not thrilled to turn 61, I was less thrilled to turn 62, I didn’t much like being 63, I loathed being 64, and I will hate being 65. I don’t let on about such things in person; in person, I am cheerful and Pollyanna-ish. But the honest truth is that it’s sad to be over 60.’ – Nora Ephron

‘I wrote a techno song after I was deported. I was in America for a little bit, but then I was deported back to Germany. I was very sad.’ – Flula Borg

‘The Beach Boys were my favorite. I use to listen to their hits over and over, especially ‘In My Room’ and ‘Don’t Worry Baby.’ There’s something really sad about ‘Don’t Worry Baby.’ Even though it’s just a California song about racing cars, the melody is really sad. There’s melancholy in it.’ – Phil Elverum

‘Women get the attention when we get into the men’s arena, and that’s sad.’ – Billie Jean King

‘A photograph doesn’t gain weight or lose weight, or change from being happy to being sad. It’s frozen. You can use it, then recycle it.’ – Chuck Close

‘But I now entered on my fifteenth year – a sad epoch in the life of a slave girl. My master began to whisper foul words in my ear. Young as I was, I could not remain ignorant of their import.’ – Harriet Ann Jacobs

‘People are getting away from the whole album experience, it’s true. I think that’s sad. Maybe I’m just saying that because I’m an old fart. But I can’t help it – albums are what I grew up with, and I still love them.’ – Alex Lifeson

‘I love the sad songs with their maudlin, self-deprecating, almost funny lyrics. As an Englishman, they make a lot of sense.’ – Teddy Thompson

‘I’m not a sad person, upset the whole time, but I seem to be quite emotional.’ – Freddie Highmore

‘Ladies and gentlemen, it is with great sadness that I announce that I will resign as Australia’s Minister for Foreign Affairs. I am sad because I love this job. I’m totally dedicated to the work that we are doing in Australia’s name around the world, and I believe that we have achieved many good results for Australia, and I’m proud of them.’ – Kevin Rudd

‘Whenever I am sad, I paint, I do that whenever I am happy too.’ – Wamiqa Gabbi

‘Fear of carbs, of gluten, of everything – we’ve distanced ourselves from the beauty of food, the art of it. It makes me sad when people say, ‘Oh, I don’t eat gluten. I don’t eat cheese. I don’t eat this. So I eat cardboard.” – Olivia Wilde

‘I remember I was, like, 6 years old when I found out that I was having a little brother, and I was wishing and wishing for a sister. When my mom came out and my dad, and they’re like, ‘It’s a boy,’ Spencer, my twin brother, is cheering and jumping up and down, and then I burst into tears. I was so sad. I was crying.’ – Peyton List

‘Novi Sad is a really beautiful city, and the club is really nice. It is one of the best youth academies in Serbia.’ – Dusan Tadic

‘I think that the Information Age is great, but there’s a downside to it obviously as well, and it’s that false information can be perpetuated so quickly. And it’s sad that so many people will believe it.’ – Josh Hopkins

‘The hate directed against the colored people here in St. Louis has always given me a sad feeling because when I was a little girl I remember the horror of the East St. Louis race riot.’ – Josephine Baker

‘To me, ‘Alors On Danse’ is the definition of clubbing. Because everyone is just trying to forget their problems, but actually, it’s so sad, clubbing. We try to sell happiness in clubs, but you can’t.’ – Stromae

‘Change is inevitable with the evolution of technology. In the ’70s, we had records. In the ’80s, we had CDs, and now we are living in the digital age. You can say it’s sad or unfortunate, but the reality is you’ve got to roll with the times and the technology.’ – Mike Portnoy

‘The move to hide aging is sort of sad. But it’s a wonderful thing to celebrate our aging.’ – Jesse Ball

‘I can usually tell when a woman is going through a divorce because they look so gaunt and tired and sad. It’s just a huge sadness. It’s horrible. It’s like death. You mourn, but the person’s still there.’ – Andie MacDowell

‘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

‘How do I control my emotions? How do I stop getting angry so often, or how do I stop being sad? And I think there’s a really important distinction to understand is that you can’t completely control your emotions. What you control is your reaction to your own emotions. And a lot of people don’t ever make that separation for what goes on with them.’ – Mark Manson

‘It is sad when a particular group of people, no matter what they are, are able to… thrust their way of life on a society.’ – Anita Bryant

‘I felt calm when I was called first runner-up because I felt it was fate. But when they announced that I was Miss Universe, I had mixed emotions. I was happy because I really wanted to win but felt sad for Miss Colombia.’ – Pia Wurtzbach

‘I like to express certain things that happen in my life, the joy of spring, the birds singing and young babies coming into the world. You know, the whole thing as well as the part I’m not happy with, the sad part.’ – Roy Haynes

‘That is sad until one recalls how many bad books the world may yet be spared because of the busyness of writers.’ – Gore Vidal

‘It’s a sad commentary when I have to say that sometimes in our country we are real sensitive to race.’ – Oscar Robertson

‘Academics who take themselves really seriously sometimes make me laugh. But sometimes they make me sad.’ – Lou Sanders

‘I’ve got so much to do, I don’t have time to sit down and be sad.’ – Norma McCorvey

‘When you win by three touchdowns in a state championship and you’ve got people who can’t appreciate that? That’s really sad.’ – Dabo Swinney

‘The South is very beautiful but its beauty makes one sad because the lives that people live here, and have lived here, are so ugly.’ – James Baldwin

‘She would have thrived as a grandmother. I know how much she would have contributed to their lives, and I am sad they will miss out on that.’ – Angelina Jolie

‘I can’t grow a mustache. It’s pretty sad if I attempt to.’ – Ashton Kutcher

‘We tell them that we believe it will be beautiful because that is our specialty, we only create joy and beauty. We have never done a sad work. Through the drawings, we hope a majority will be able to visualize it.’ – Christo

‘I was very depressed at a young age and felt like I didn’t have agency towards that. Being ‘female’ meant I couldn’t be that – I couldn’t be angry, loud, sullen. Being sad meant I was weak.’ – Petra Collins

‘Love songs too have many moods. It can be sad or be joyous and upbeat when one feels jubilant and in love.’ – Anupam Roy

‘The new generation of musicians is writing music on computers, and this is very sad because the quality of songwriting has crashed and dived. There are some songs out that are made by only one guy who works a computer and doesn’t play any instruments.’ – Joe Walsh

‘Having read my share of tell-alls over the year, including some that were passed off as autobiographies, I mostly feel sad – sometimes for the writer and sometimes for all the people in his way. I hope that the process of writing the tell-all gives some release and closure on what clearly was an unpleasant and unfulfilling life experience.’ – Brad Feld

‘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

‘The hardest thing is at the end you have to say bye to all these people who you have worked with for so many months. It was really sad not to see them anymore. But you have the parties that you go to and you get to see them, like the premieres and the screenings.’ – Dakota Fanning

‘I’m not a very serious person. You know how they say that clowns are very funny in public and are really sad at home? I’m really kind of stupid at home and more serious in public.’ – Roland Joffe

‘I was sad that Corpse Bride was so short. I would’ve liked to have had her around for way longer. She doesn’t actually have that many scenes.’ – Helena Bonham Carter

‘My dad constantly tells me I should calm down, but I feel so sad when I see places I’ve known since I was a child closing. I burst out crying when a local pharmacy closed the other day; it’s just going to become a shop that nobody has much of a need for. But I am trying to move with the times.’ – Zawe Ashton

‘I find it sad that by not talking about who I sleep with, that makes me mysterious. There was a time when I would have been called a gentleman.’ – Kevin Spacey

‘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

‘Since I had the baby I can’t tolerate anything violent or sad, I saw the Matrix and I had my eyes closed through a lot of it, though I didn’t need to. I would peek, and then think, oh OK, I can see that.’ – Lisa Kudrow

‘We all like stories that make us cry. It’s so nice to feel sad when you’ve nothing in particular to feel sad about.’ – Anne Sullivan

‘When I was a child people simply looked about them and were moderately happy; today they peer beyond the seven seas, bury themselves waist deep in tidings, and by and large what they see and hear makes them unutterably sad.’ – E. B. White

‘It’s a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money writing or talking about his art than he can by practicing it.’ – W. H. Auden

‘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

‘It is very sad for a man to make himself servant to a single thing; his manhood all taken out of him by the hydraulic pressure of excessive business.’ – Theodore Parker

‘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

‘It is a sad commentary that today we face a choice between having schools that are a monument to our past – or schools that will be the lifeblood of our future. But since that is our choice, let us resolve to choose wisely.’ – Ted Kulongoski

‘I find America falling in love with a TV show flattering and interesting, but at the same time a little sad.’ – David Schwimmer

‘I think when I’m in love, I really am very good with calling, little faxes, and visiting and I really put a lot of effort into it. I’m really not the one that’s not available because of work and I’m very sad when I actually leave.’ – Franka Potente

‘We have newsreaders behaving like actors, lowering their voices if it’s a sad story, as if we didn’t know it’s a sad story. There isn’t a single cool newsreader.’ – Tom Baker

‘The last few years have been my happiest. I’m happy in the years that most people are blue and sad and waiting to die. I don’t feel that a bit. Smiling has a lot to do with it. You can just lift your spirits by smiling a little bit.’ – William Proxmire

‘Well in the end the world can crank itself up to sanctions, as it has with Zimbabwe, another sad case.’ – Helen Clark

‘I’ve never thought of my characters as being sad. On the contrary, they are full of life. They didn’t choose tragedy. Tragedy chose them.’ – Juliette Binoche

‘I think it’s a terrible thing to write and not enjoy it. It’s a sad thing. But of course a lot of people do work because they need to eat. And we all need to eat, but that’s not the only reason to work. You couldn’t have paid me not to write.’ – Anne Perry

‘I have a stepladder. It’s a very nice stepladder but it’s sad that I never knew my real ladder.’ – Craig Charles

‘I often feel like I have this spirit living inside of me, always dressing in like short mini skirts… but then I start to discover myself. So there are eight spirits, mischievous ones, sad ones, handsome ones, wise ones, and crazy ones.’ – Bai Ling

‘Acting gave me the opportunity to do outrageous things. It allowed me to be sad, happy, angry and lustful, even if it was just vicariously.’ – Joan Allen

‘It’s fun to sing sad songs. And it’s fun to listen to sad songs. Enjoyable. Satisfying. Something.’ – Richard Thompson

‘Once I was checking to hotel and a couple saw my ring with Blues on it. They said, ‘You play blues. That music is so sad.’ I gave them tickets to the show, and they came up afterwards and said, ‘You didn’t play one sad song.” – Buddy Guy

‘Everybody has a right to like or dislike anything or anyone. From a flower to a flavor to a book or a composition but it is very sad that in our country we actually fight over such things in an unseemly manner.’ – Ravi Shankar

‘You’ve got a beautiful country with so many beautiful people and so many beautiful things happening and stuff like that lets it down. I feel sad for them.’ – Robbie Williams

‘It’s sad and upsetting when you see somebody crying hysterically, but at the same time it’s real funny.’ – Seth Green

‘I think that the majority of messages are validating messages to confirm the survival of conscious. And many times that validation message is negative or sad.’ – John Edward

‘I so desperately hate to end these movies that the first thing I do when I’m done is write another one. Then I don’t feel sad about having to leave and everybody going away.’ – John Hughes

‘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

‘I just want real reactions. I want people to laugh from the gut, be sad from the gut – or get angry from the gut.’ – Andy Kaufman

‘It’s very simple, I just tell my sad story, and people weep.’ – Corazon Aquino

‘Our hope, and it’s a sad hope, is that… well, I mean we need a tip. That’s why we have such a big reward. We just hope that someone is holding her for her child and that we can, you know, get her back with a tip.’ – Scott Peterson

‘You want people to feel something when you tell a story, whether they feel happy or whether they feel sad.’ – Harry Dean Stanton

‘I don’t wanta do any Blues or any sad songs.’ – Bob Livingston

‘Sad old blokes, I’m told, now dream of me with a whip in hand.’ – Anne Robinson

‘If we don’t make earnest moves toward real solutions, then each day we move one day closer to revolution and anarchy in this country. This is the sad, and yet potentially joyous, state of America.’ – Louis Farrakhan

‘But I’m not like sad, depressed miserable person. I guess sometimes I give off that impression.’ – Edward Furlong

‘It’s sad that the most glorious of sexual experiences can make us feel guilty, ashamed, embarrassed, and abnormal.’ – Sue Johanson

‘If I can procure three hundred good substantial names of persons, or bodies, or institutions, I cannot fail to do well for my family, although I must abandon my life to its success, and undergo many sad perplexities and perhaps never see again my own beloved America.’ – John James Audubon

‘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

‘Here in the United States, our profession is much maligned, people simply don’t trust or like journalists anymore and that’s sad.’ – Christiane Amanpour

‘You know, they just don’t make big movie stars the way they used to, maybe because the system has changed, the studio system, but it’s sad to see people like Jimmy Stewart go, all the giants of the past.’ – Tom Atkins

‘It’s the sad thing about entertainment, it’s not always about who is the best.’ – Jake Roberts

‘I’m sad and blue, about nobody but you. I told you that I loved you right from the start, you told me the same and now you try to break my little heart.’ – Leon Redbone

‘All you’d have to do is get a sad look, and he’d try to do something for you.’ – Margaret O’Brien

‘But you see, that’s the gilded prison of fashion. We’re riding in private jets, and meantime I was so incredibly, painfully sad and lonely.’ – Janice Dickinson

‘This was an important part of my life. But it was also sad that we didn’t play there, cause we had such alot of fans that were waiting for us and Brazilians are great people. It’s now my second home.’ – Jim Capaldi

‘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

‘It’s sad that we have become so accustomed to bad service that we’re shocked when we get good service.’ – Neil Cavuto

’51st State was one that I loved doing because the character was so out there, and in a way I was sad to leave the character behind. I’m afraid I could never be that cool in real life!’ – Emily Mortimer

‘I would never have become music director of the Chicago Symphony, which would have been an extremely sad loss.’ – Georg Solti

‘It’s a sad day when the leaders of the free world engage in such deception and trickery. I voted against this unnecessary war and will continue to argue that the best way to support our troops is to bring them home.’ – Major Owens

‘In LA, I mean, here’s this place full of desperate and sad people who take their only pleasure from destroying others for the purposes of their own self-aggrandizement.’ – Heather Donahue

‘A lot of our entertainment throws into detail the stagnation and illness of how we live today-it’s sad and it’s sick… and it’s profitable.’ – Heather Donahue

‘The books are funny and sad, and that’s what people respond to.’ – Paula Danziger

‘In a sad twist of fate, the bill to reauthorize the Patriot Act was debated on the floor of the House of Representatives the same day that terrorists struck again.’ – Jim Sensenbrenner

‘Then, of course, there are those sad occasions when a poet or a writer has not grown, and one has to let them go because they’re just not making headway. But we have a very clear personal relationship with the authors.’ – James Laughlin

‘It can make you sad to look at pictures from your youth. So there’s a trick to it. The trick is not to look at the later pictures.’ – Jerry Stiller

‘The sad part about our past is that religions, ironically enough, are responsible for creating the most destructive idea that has ever been visited upon the human race: the idea that there is such a thing as ‘better.” – Neale Donald Walsch

‘I have felt terribly from the beginning when I saw the problems and recognized that they would be ongoing. We were hired to put back the contours of the greens as closely as possible to George Thomas’s designs and were real proud of what we did. It’s a sad situation now.’ – Ben Crenshaw

‘It’s sad – it’s sad for us old enough to remember when directors ruled, and films were substantially better than they are today. But it’s hard to argue with those kinds of grosses.’ – Mark Rydell

‘People say, oh it’s a shame, you’re not nostalgic about the ’60s. Well actually, it’s quite good, when you think of it. Wouldn’t it be sad if I was sitting here wishing it back?’ – Robert Wyatt

‘Wrap parties can be really sad, actually, disorienting.’ – Josh Lucas

‘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

‘We try to… we are, I suppose to a certain extent all affected and erm, that is both funny and sad I think.’ – Tony Hancock

‘I was sad Jon Ronson, who wrote in the Guardian and has made a TV show for Channel 4, took against me.’ – Jonathan King

‘It’s pretty sad when you have to choose between the lesser of two evils.’ – Meg White

‘When I was in Philadelphia during the Depression in 1930 or ’31, I got a very sad job as a night watchman in a garage. The cars in the garage had been abandoned by their owners, since they had lost their jobs and couldn’t keep up the payments.’ – Tom Glazer

‘Some really good things kind of swing both ways and I like to see people that can swing really, really, really sad and horrible and terrible and really, really, really beautiful and funny.’ – Beth Henley

‘I like ‘Bewitched’ off the first album because it’s one of the happiest songs I’ve ever written and, as any writer will tell you, happy songs are a million times more difficult to write than sad songs.’ – Malcolm Wilson

‘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

‘When I was in Paris, all of the German refugees began to flow in and it was a very sad time.’ – Elliott Carter

‘I am not a sad clown. I am not a sad clown.’ – Nathan Lane

‘Lately, I’ve been a little sad that I’m not a gay man.’ – Gina Gershon

‘Even modern English people are imperious, superior, ridden by class. All of the hypocrisy and the difficulties that are endemic in being British also make it an incredibly fertile place culturally. A brilliant place to live. Sad but true.’ – Pete Townshend

‘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

‘Someone once accused me of being like Eliot Ness. I sad no sir, I’m not E.N., but I can promise you that I’m not Al Capone!’ – Robert Stack

‘When I did the film Generations, in which the character died, I felt like a guest for the first time. That made me very sad.’ – William Shatner

‘I think the thing’s that perhaps sad really is that younger people haven’t come in and I think it must have been absolutely fantastic to have worked in the 50’s when you had all of the great Broadway composers and when West Side Story didn’t win the Tony Award.’ – Andrew Lloyd Webber

‘I’ve always been drawn to Marilyn Monroe, but certain aspects of her story may be too sad to tell.’ – Sherilyn Fenn

‘What I am sad about is that there is now, in America, no equivalent to the art circuit.’ – Richard Attenborough

‘My father comes from a generation of film that actors my age don’t even know about, which is really sad.’ – Amber Tamblyn

‘People say you should read your criticism because it will make you a better person but it doesn’t. It just makes you a sad bitter old showbiz nightmare.’ – Jo Brand

‘I know that some endeavor to throw the mantle of romance over the subject and treat woman like some ideal existence, not liable to the ills of life. Let those deal in fancy who have nothing better to deal in; we have to do with sober, sad realities, with stubborn facts.’ – Ernestine Rose

‘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

‘Just because I’m talking about something that might have been a sad or painful situation doesn’t mean that I’m sad or tortured 24 hours a day any more than anybody else is.’ – Lucinda Williams

‘I love music and musicians. And seeing great artists dropped from labels was really frustrating and sad to me.’ – Rosanna Arquette

‘All he cares about is going out there with his Jack Daniels bottle. Nothing has changed. That’s kind of sad. If David was doing better than he used to be, then that would be different. But it was a joke and he made it that way.’ – Sammy Hagar

‘They’re not willing to admit that I’ve also shed blood and tears and often paid dearly for my success. This makes me feel extremely sad.’ – Zhang Ziyi

‘It’s incredible that they censor films. It’s sad.’ – Dario Argento

‘Elaine is just in pain. I think Elaine has become very, very sad woman. She is someone who is in deep need of many hours of analysis and I like to think that I’m not that type of person.’ – Julia Louis-Dreyfus

‘What I really tried to do with Helen was make her show this sad side of her. She was married off at 16, was so young and living in this castle that can’t leave because of how she looks, and married to a man she hates and three times her age.’ – Diane Kruger

‘However, we might oppose it, abortion is a sad feature of modern life.’ – Robert Casey

‘Watergate provides a model case study of the interaction and powers of each of the branches of government. It also is a morality play with a sad and dramatic ending.’ – Bob Woodward

‘I think I have a dark view of the world. I have to make everything funny, otherwise it all seems so sad.’ – Moon Unit Zappa

‘You have to sound sad first of all, then maybe later you can sound good.’ – Steve Lacy

‘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 recently turned down a film that I didn’t want my kids to see. Priorities shift. Sometimes I’m sad about that, but not enough to do anything about it.’ – Dianne Wiest

‘I used to sit near Marilyn Monroe in the Actor’s Studio. She’d get dressed up because that was her identity. Sad. Those cameras wouldn’t leave her alone. She didn’t know where to hide.’ – Doris Roberts

‘With any group of people in life, sad things happen, and crazy things, and happy things. When you’re in the public eye, it’s just amplified, that’s all.’ – Margot Kidder

‘If you have ever been in a real tragic or sad situation, the words that come out are hopelessly inadequate and kind of cliched.’ – Erika Slezak

‘Informed by our sad experience of history, we require nothing short of a foundation for lasting democracy.’ – Ibrahim Babangida

‘Well, I did Marlene 15 years ago and that’s in the style. It’s somehow similar and not similar because Marlene was much more aggressive, funny and sad.’ – Maximilian Schell

‘You will soon find that I am a bit obsessive about my work. And that is a little sad, one often feels strangely restricted, not finding time to simmer, although one actually has many interests.’ – Arne Jacobsen

‘You put a song on the record or on tape and you stop singing it. You just don’t sit around and sing it anymore unless you’re performing. That’s kind of sad.’ – Rick Danko

‘It is sad to see a woman sacrificing the ties of the affections even to do good.’ – Maria Mitchell

‘I enjoyed in every way my 12 years of playing Archie, and I wasn’t personally sad about finishing a long job.’ – Carroll O’Connor

‘Our family has gone through a very difficult time. My husband and I have taken the brunt of it. I’ve never known what it truly felt like to be so sad and desperate inside.’ – Tracey Gold

‘I wrote the song For A Dancer for a friend of mine who died in a fire. He was in the sauna in a house that burned down, so he had no idea anything was going on. It was very sad.’ – Jackson Browne

‘I had never felt so lonely and so sad in my entire life.’ – Susan Smith

‘Atari is a very sad story.’ – Steve Wozniak

‘I have been to several wars to draw. I went to Vietnam. And made drawings in Vietnam during that period of the war there, and found that to be a very very sad situation.’ – Gerald Scarfe

‘So war is an extremely sad business, because the majority of people don’t want to be in it.’ – Gerald Scarfe

‘Of these years nought remains in memory but the sad feeling that we have advanced and only grown older.’ – Max Muller

‘I love New York. I was sad, depressed and incredibly moved by our fellow countrymen and what they’ve done. I wanted to give people a chance to see something funny, have a distraction.’ – Ben Stiller

‘I’ve grown as a person. The dynamics on this set are very demanding because we work a lot of hours, it’s very sad material, so there’s always someone upset because it’s really heavy stuff.’ – Elisabeth Rohm

‘I was sad to see anybody leave, we had a very nice family on that show. I was very sad to see momma go, Victoria and especially Linda. My god that was my wife on the show, in fact my wife calls her wife.’ – Larry Hagman

‘I don’t know how the poor farmers deal with such situations in real life. It’s really sad.’ – Sanjay Dutt

‘It’s much easier to write when you’re sad. But you can end up isolated and depressed because you almost need to put yourself in that situation to have that angst to write from.’ – Natalie Imbruglia

‘That’s what so sad about a lot of modern music, in my opinion, so many young bands never stay around long enough to fulfill their ultimate promise. They only get halfway there or a quarter of the way there.’ – Alan Vega

‘I know for works for me – those wonderful sad love songs.’ – Toni Braxton

‘And it’s sad because it’s like a surprise to people – almost an anomaly – when artists are actually refined and trained on an instrument. That’s the last thing people think about.’ – Vanessa Carlton

‘One of the reasons I wanted to teach deaf children was because it made me very sad that they spoke so clumsily and that they moved with less grace that I knew was possible of deaf people.’ – Stephanie Beacham

‘The sad thing about any business I suppose, but in mine you see it particularly, is that you’re always asked to do what you’ve already done.’ – Jeremy Irons

‘You know how sad your life is when you know the release date of DVDs.’ – Heston Blumenthal

‘I’m not sad at all about turning 40.’ – Halle Berry

‘But now Americans, they felt a sense of peace and protection because they’ve been separated by so many thousands of miles of ocean. And you know, the fact that it’s come to the U.S. like this is so sad, and yet you know, what can you do? It’s here.’ – Patty Hearst

‘Everybody likes Johnny Cash. I think the sad part of it is his health is givin’ him problems.’ – Merle Haggard

‘I’m sad to say that stardom is a commodity in our culture.’ – Christine Baranski

‘There is the glamour side of it, which allows you to meet great variety of people with whom you simply can have a good time, but there’s also the sad side of it that drags you into a superficial and artificial world.’ – Karolina Kurkova

‘Don’t Cry Daddy is a pretty sad song. He got to the end of it and it was just real quiet and Elvis says, I’m gonna cut that someday for my daddy. And, by God, he did. He lived up to his word.’ – Mac Davis

‘I’ve been looking forward to doing an album, but it’s really sad to see how many doors have been closed because of the gay thing. I thought it was about the music.’ – Jai Rodriguez

‘I would be sad if it ended now. It’s been the best job I’ve had by a long shot, especially creatively because the writing is so good. Every week I get the script and I laugh out loud and get excited for the different stuff we get to do.’ – Sarah Chalke

‘So far, at least, I haven’t found a way to tell my kind of stories without making them both sad and funny.’ – Todd Solondz

‘I love playing football, being out on the pitch with a ball, and I will be a little sad when that ends.’ – Dennis Bergkamp

‘With the other fellow actors who have gone astray, I think it’s sad that society wants to label the business as doing this to people. It’s really not true.’ – Tina Yothers

‘What happened was very sad. Mr. Lacey told the staff that he was disappointed and appalled that the front of the book was all commentary and that he wanted hard news.’ – Sydney Schanberg

‘What’s really sad is that a lot of very talented people are being forced to do things that are very embarrassing and I don’t intend to be one of them.’ – Boy George

‘There’s all this stuff that is happening in Edinburgh now, it’s a sad attempt to create an Edinburgh society, similar to a London society, a highbrow literature celebrity society.’ – Irvine Welsh

‘At a time when 2500 American soldiers have given their lives for the cause of bringing democracy to Iraq, it is sad and frustrating to watch the Republican establishment disgrace the exercise of democracy in our own House of Representatives.’ – Earl Blumenauer

‘I am sure that the sad days and happenings were rare, and that I lived the joyous and careless life of other children; but just because the happy days were so habitual to me they made no impression upon my mind, and I can no longer recall them.’ – Pierre Loti

‘I think that’s very sad, that I haven’t allowed my heart to be broken. I have broken a few.’ – Sally Field

‘I’ve never had my heart broken. It’s a very sad state of affairs. I think everybody should have their heart broken. I don’t think it says anything good about me at all.’ – Sally Field

‘And the sad truth is that nobody wants me to write comedy. The Exorcist not only ended that career, it expunged all memory of its existence.’ – William Peter Blatty

‘My lasting impression of Truman Capote is that he was a terribly gentle, terribly sensitive, and terribly sad man.’ – Alvin Ailey

‘The sad events that occur in my life are the sad events that happen to everybody, with losing friends and family, but that is a natural occurrence, as natural as being born.’ – Sergio Aragones

‘It’s really a sad story, and I liked that. The songs on this album talk about relationships in every aspect.’ – Aaliyah

‘It’s an indication of how cynical our society has become that any kind of love story with a sad theme is automatically ridiculed as sentimental junk.’ – Winona Ryder

‘The sad fact is that the same terrorist scenarios, if they occurred in five different States, there could be five different sets of responses to the American people. We need, at a minimum, a level of coordination on communicating threats to the public.’ – Vito Fossella

‘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

‘When I was leaving I kind of felt a little bit sad, because I made some friends down in skid row.’ – Pras Michel

‘I’ve been getting into Nick Drake lately, the folk singer. Sad, gorgeous stuff.’ – Anthony Doerr

‘It is sad that the Republican leadership is not as interested as they say they are in protecting the institution of marriage as they are in waging a campaign to divide and distract the American people from the real issues that need to be addressed.’ – Kendrick Meek

‘Sad Patience, too near neighbour to despair.’ – Matthew Arnold

‘The flesh, alas, is sad, and I have read all the books.’ – Stephane Mallarme

‘The poem is sad because it wants to be yours, and cannot be.’ – John Ashbery

‘I was in a bar and I said to a friend, ‘You know, we’ve become those 40-year-old guys we used to look at and say, ‘Isn’t it sad?” – George Clooney

‘It’s a sad moment, really, when parents first become a bit frightened of their children.’ – Ama Ata Aidoo

‘Women are reputed never to be disgusted. The sad fact is that they often are, but not with men; following the lead of men, they are most often disgusted with themselves.’ – Germaine Greer

‘A Church which has lost its memory is in a sad state of senility.’ – Henry Chadwick

‘I would not know how I am supposed to feel about many stories if not for the fact that the TV news personalities make sad faces for sad stories and happy faces for happy stories.’ – Dave Barry

‘It’s a sad day when a cartoon is doing more and cares more and pays more attention to the environment than our president.’ – Kathy Najimy

‘It is a sad day for our country when the moral foundation of our law and the acknowledgment of God has to be hidden from public view to appease a federal judge.’ – Soledad O’Brien

‘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

‘It always makes me sad when I think of how I saw Wagner wasting his vitality, not only by singing their parts to some of his artists, but acting out the smallest details, and of how few they were who were responsive to his wishes.’ – Anton Seidl

‘Saturdays and Sundays, America in the year 2009 does not in some ways differ significantly from the country that existed almost 50 years ago. This is truly sad.’ – Eric Holder

‘Dwight is a sad clown. You’ve seen those paintings of sad clown.’ – Rainn Wilson

‘If Michael Steele doesn’t make you sad, well, then there’s radio host Rush Limbaugh, no longer content with wanting the President to fail, Rush is now calling out Mr. Obama as a girly man.’ – David Shuster

‘Christmas makes everything twice as sad.’ – Douglas Coupland

‘The sad thing is, when it comes to diet, is that even when well-intentioned Feds try to do right by us, they fail. Either they’re outvoted by puppets of agribusiness, or they are puppets of agribusiness.’ – Mark Bittman

‘What if the Soviet intervention was a blessing in disguise? It saved the myth that if the Soviets were not to intervene, there would have been some flowering authentic democratic socialism and so on. I’m a little bit more of a pessimist there. I think that the Soviets – it’s a very sad lesson – by their intervention, saved the myth.’ – Slavoj Zizek

‘What’s sad is that there is an addictive quality to that, to believing your own hype; to allowing yourself to become validated by others and no longer by yourself. That’s the danger of celebrity.’ – Giovanni Ribisi

‘I think I would be very sad if I wasn’t able to have a baby.’ – Nicole Kidman

‘I’ll always be sad that my marriage ended.’ – Shania Twain

‘Being on your own would be sad, sick and weird. I don’t trust myself. I need that balance.’ – Daniel Craig

‘You had to be into sport and, sad to say, I’m a traitor to my country because I don’t have a sporting bone in my body.’ – Geoffrey Rush

‘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 remember a time when all my fans were crying and sad and going through hell. Now, we’re trying to uplift each other and accept ourselves for who we are, even if nobody else does.’ – Mary J. Blige

‘You have to keep hobbies in L.A. Otherwise, it’s sad.’ – Lake Bell

‘It’s sad that women characters have lost so much ground in popular movies. Didn’t ‘Thelma and Louise’ prove that women want to see women doing things on film? Thelma and Louise were in a classic car; they were being chased by cops; they shot up a truck – and women loved it.’ – Robin Quivers

‘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

‘I can’t really have any friends. It’s sad, really. It’s lonely. But that’s how I am.’ – Randy Moss

‘I’m terribly sad about Farrah’s passing. She was incredibly brave, and God will be welcoming her with open arms.’ – Cheryl Ladd

‘Nolan has the strangest affect on people. You know, I think there’s something very sad and little boy about him, but at the same time the way he goes about everything is so awkward and obnoxious. He can never say the right thing, you know? And I think if he just didn’t try so hard and calmed down, people might actually like him a bit more!’ – Gabriel Mann

‘I just did an interview where I was asked whether I drink beer or whisky, and I was sad to reveal that I’m pounding spring water.’ – Brad Delson

‘My little son, Atticus, desperately needs his dad and I haven’t been there for him… and that’s sad.’ – Daniel Baldwin

‘If the IAAF feel that is the right way to go for TV rights and everything, the rule will stay. As much as I want to be on the podium, tonight is a sad night for athletics.’ – Kim Collins

‘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

‘I’m incredibly sad that my mother’s not here to see my kids and that my kids don’t get to know her. And she didn’t meet my husband. That’s one of the hardest things. I don’t even know how to put that into words.’ – Stella McCartney

‘I think as an American society, when we’re paying too many taxes or dealing with war, we don’t want to see sad things at the movies.’ – Zoe Saldana

‘I was at the Olympic Games winning medals and I still doubted my image. I doubted what I looked like. That’s sad.’ – Shawn Johnson

”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

‘We’ve got people looking at our seamy side and our sad side a lot of the time because that’s easier. It’s much more difficult to make a film about happiness with lots of jokes in it.’ – Emma Thompson

‘I’ve had moments where I realize my body isn’t going to withstand many more seasons, but I am very satisfied with my career and I am trying not to look at retirement as a sad thing.’ – Cat Osterman

‘I once made the mistake of going for a whole row of false eyelashes, which was just wrong as it gave me a sad, puppy-eyed look.’ – Sienna Miller

‘Love Is Louder is a movement that is hopefully going to bring some awareness and make some noise when it comes to teens who are feeling suicidal or even just sad, outcasts, and being bullied, and really feel like they have nowhere to turn to.’ – Brittany Snow

‘I think it’s sad to me that I had to make a decision to not play the game that I feel like I’m best at and that I love. But if it was just about the game itself, I’d be there in a heartbeat. But that’s not how the real world works.’ – Tiffeny Milbrett

‘Money is a tremendous advantage in just about everything, but in terms of reproduction, if you’re a poor woman and you are infertile, it’s like too bad, so sad. And if you are a wealthy woman, you can kind of buy whatever you want.’ – Jennifer Weiner

‘I love jazz music and sad music. I’m a sentimental guy. I’m a romantic guy.’ – Fred Durst

‘In Mississippi, you don’t admit that you’re gay. It’s just an awkward thing down South, which is sad.’ – Lance Bass

‘Ideally, I would love to mix singing and acting, but you can only be a pop star for so many years. I mean, at 30 it’s a little bit sad, right?’ – Rachel Stevens

‘If you don’t physically age gracefully, it’s a bit sad. I think Steven Tyler can get away anything, because he still looks like he did in ’73. Especially from row Z backwards in an arena. As long as the Stones keep their hair and don’t get fat they’ll get away with the wrinkles.’ – Joe Elliott

‘I happen to be interested in watching a face age. I like faces of women aging so it makes me personally quite sad. That’s a beautiful gift from God. If people don’t want to see that anymore then I won’t be in anymore movies.’ – Debra Winger

‘The attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon shook our nation to the core. Americans were deeply frightened, sad, and angry, and they rallied around a President who, at the time, showed impressive certitude and calm.’ – Eliot Spitzer

‘The question I love to get asked is: ‘What’s the hardest part of your job?’ And literally, the answer is probably real sad, but it’s to just to be me. Like, it’s really hard, because I think people, you know, have a set idea of what a pop star should be.’ – Kelly Clarkson

‘I had a vocal coach. It’s a sad thing, but I had to hire someone so that I could get my Australian accent back.’ – Anthony LaPaglia

‘I feel quite sad for the young musicians coming up because they may never get to pay their rent properly. It doesn’t matter what the genre; nowadays, it’s so much harder than it ever was.’ – Bryan Adams

‘When you’re going through something, whether it’s a wonderful thing like having a child or a sad thing like losing somebody, you often feel like ‘Oh my God, I’m so overwhelmed; I’m dealing with this huge thing on my own.’ In fact, poetry’s a nice reminder that, no, everybody goes through it. These are universal experiences.’ – Caroline Kennedy

‘As a writer, or as a filmmaker, you have to present yourself, and part of what yourself is is what you’re interested in, or what you think is funny, or what you think is sad, or what you think is horrible.’ – Charlie Kaufman

‘My childhood, I would say, was a bit sad.’ – Columba Bush

‘My dad was a homicide cop in the gay neighborhood in the city when gay neighborhoods were desperate, depressing, sad places run by the mob. The only gay people he’d met when I came out to him were corpses.’ – Dan Savage

‘The death of any man aged 56 is very sad for his widow and family. And no one would deny that Steve Jobs was a brilliant and highly innovative technician, with great business flair and marketing ability.’ – A. N. Wilson

‘The president we have today is a typical Washington politician that’s prone to hyperbole and decisiveness and false outrage. And I think it’s very sad – very sad to watch.’ – Marco Rubio

‘People are so codified – it’s sad.’ – Jean Paul Gaultier

‘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

‘I only really watch sport. That’s where you see real joy. I don’t like watching much else on TV, because it’s generally either twisted or sad.’ – Roger Milla

‘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

”Vegas’ was something very close to me. I had such a blast doing that. I’m still a little upset that we never really got to shoot that final episode. So many people were invested in it. I’ll always be sad about that.’ – Josh Duhamel

‘This Olympics is almost a little sad. It is my final Olympics. There are a lot of good memories.’ – Bonnie Blair

‘I think a lot of people think that my parents’ deaths is why I write such sad songs, but that’s not true. Those songs may just be the woman I am.’ – Shelby Lynne

‘I was a very good girl for a long time, that’s what really drew me to acting. The stage was the perfect place to be outrageous, to be sad, to be angry, to be all these different things.’ – Joan Allen

‘The past 6 and a half years have been the most amazing years of my life. It’s sad it has come to an end but Avril and I are still family and moving forward in the most positive way possible.’ – Deryck Whibley

‘Why do we capital-N Nerds love Mars so much? Because it’s beautiful, it’s tough, it’s buried in our mythic, childhood memories. It’s covered with human triumphs but also with sad stories of failure.’ – Greg Bear

‘There are more than 300,000 families in the Gulf region that lost their homes and are waiting for peace of mind. The hurricane exposed the sad reality of poverty in America. We saw, in all its horrific detail, the vulnerabilities of living in inadequate housing and the heartbreak of losing one’s home.’ – Harry Connick, Jr.

‘War is very sad and small life is pathetically fragile at times.’ – Henry Rollins

‘There were points in my life where I felt oddly irresistible to women. I’m not in that state now and that makes me sad.’ – Jack Nicholson

‘I felt sad because everyday I had to wake up early to practice before going to school. After school I had to go back to tennis again, and then after tennis I had homework. I didn’t have time to play.’ – Li Na

‘I am co-writing a screenplay now and I’m working on the rights to another story I want to do. So I plan to produce and direct. So, for me, I don’t really feel that I am vulnerable to that sad baggage that comes with the business of filmmaking.’ – Kerry Washington

‘My comedy is for children from three to 93. You do need a slightly childish sense of humour and if you haven’t got that, it’s very sad.’ – Norman Wisdom

‘I would love to be married. But it’s not a necessity like the way that I feel I need and want to have children. It would be wonderful to have a husband, and I would feel blessed to do it. But I would feel sad for the rest of my life if I had no kids.’ – Mindy Kaling

‘Well the country songs themselves are three-chord stories, ballads which are mostly sad. If you are already feeling sorry for yourself when you listen to them they will take you to an even sadder place.’ – Willie Nelson

‘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’s sad when people break up.’ – Pete Townshend

‘I’ve got to be high class… Which is sad, because I like bars.’ – Daniel Craig

‘I’ve traveled around the country and I read local newspapers and all of that, and it’s a sad, sad thing to go from city to city and see the small newspapers and they’re tiny. They’re tiny not only in size but also in scope.’ – Jim Lehrer

‘To complain now would be kind of sad. I like the way things are going.’ – Josh Brolin

‘Well, you can’t be depressed and sad 24 hours a day.’ – Julia Sweeney

‘I think it’s sad that movies and television have caused the theatre to fade as a popular art form. I hope to get young people into the theatre and expose them to Shakespeare.’ – Kelly McGillis

‘It always made me sad that there were kids who didn’t have homes.’ – Lauren Holly

‘My childhood, I would say, was a bit sad. Society resents that.’ – Columba Bush

‘The best quality about Kobe Bryant? You want me to be honest? I don’t know. I’ll tell you why. I open my arms to everybody. But he never stepped forward for the embrace. So I never really got to know him. I don’t know anything about him, and it’s kinda sad.’ – Shaquille O’Neal

‘I’m so grounded, it’s sad.’ – Patti LaBelle

‘So many schools are getting rid of music programs and it’s really sad because I know that when I started singing and stuff it was something that I always wanted to do and I never believed in myself to be able to do it.’ – Hilary Duff

‘I find it amusing on one level, poignant on another, when people try to get recognition from an outside source. It’s sad.’ – Grace Slick

‘It’s sad, actually, because my anxiety keeps me from enjoying things as much as I should at this age.’ – Amanda Seyfried

‘It is a historical error for those who were not there to just refer to August 28th as ‘I Have a Dream’ speech day. That is a real disservice to those who were there. It was a sad day. It was not a celebration environment.’ – Jesse Jackson

‘It’s always sad if anybody you know has a personal problem.’ – Lee Child

‘I’ve been on Prozac for 12 years and I’m off it now. I know what it feels like to be excited and sad again. I haven’t felt like this in 12 years; I’m like a giddy little kid.’ – Jonathan Davis

‘The sad truth is that without complex business partnerships between African elites and European traders and commercial agents, the slave trade to the New World would have been impossible, at least on the scale it occurred.’ – Henry Louis Gates

‘The sad truth is that the civil rights movement cannot be reborn until we identify the causes of black suffering, some of them self-inflicted. Why can’t black leaders organize rallies around responsible sexuality, birth within marriage, parents reading to their children and students staying in school and doing homework?’ – Henry Louis Gates

‘You know what I have noticed? And this is really sad. Flying first class is less scary than flying coach. They speak to you and they’re so nice to you and they want to help you and they know you want a drink before the plane takes off. And they bring it to you without asking. If you’re sitting in coach and hoping for a drink, good luck.’ – Hope Davis

‘I think it is really sad that when people lose their homes they kind of lose their minds too.’ – Margaret Cho

‘Falling in love is awesome, but I’m never drawn to happy songs per se, so whenever you sit down to write a heartbreak song and you’re happily in love, it’s like, ‘OK, now I have to go back to a sad place to get something good.” – Miranda Lambert

‘The world would be a very sad place if readers could only love one story.’ – Sylvia Day

‘I do not take steroids. I never have. It’s sad to me that people want to point fingers. I don’t do that. That’s not me. I wouldn’t feel like a human being.’ – Jackie Joyner-Kersee

‘It’s very rare that things are true about yourself that are on the Internet. It’s just sad sometimes. So you definitely try and stay away from it as much as possible.’ – Taylor Lautner

‘As a songwriter I hate this whole, ‘If it’s a sad song, it has to sound like a sad song thing.’ And that goes all the way back to my days with the Format. I’m an insane narcissist, so if I have to get something off my chest, I’ll get something off my chest.’ – Nate Ruess

‘Of course it’s true: the public want to see young people – young people are the people who go to the cinema. It’s a sad fact of life, but you’ve got to accept it and not whine about it.’ – Joan Collins

‘When I look back at those pictures of my mother performing – and listen to her recordings – it makes me sad to think that all of that joy she found in her work came to an end. I wish she hadn’t had to make that sacrifice, even if it was for the benefit of my father and siblings and me.’ – Marlo Thomas

‘It’s sad, something coming to an end. It cracks you open, in a way – cracks you open to feeling.’ – Jennifer Aniston

‘If I don’t make it, I’ll be very sad that there are things I didn’t do, but I’m happy that I’ve done what I have.’ – Stephen Jay Gould

‘It feels really sad, to me, to go to a dark bedroom. It’s like surrendering to the night or something.’ – James Franco

‘My solo album is dead and buried. We had the funeral. It was sad and I cried a lot but it made such a beautiful corpse that we had an open casket.’ – Shirley Manson

‘The funny thing is I’m not bothered or sad about being on my own – after all I’ve never had a husband.’ – Francesca Annis

‘I always think of the live show first, where the song is gonna go in the show. That’s why they aren’t sad songs. When I play, I want to make people happy, not sad. It’s such a pleasure for me to do what I do, and I want other people to feel some form of that pleasure, too.’ – Jason Mraz

‘Los Angeles can be a really sad city.’ – Adam Lambert

‘A lot of sad stories in a row – that wears on you.’ – Elizabeth Edwards

‘I’m convinced I got signed because of who I am. And it makes me sad.’ – Jeff Buckley

‘It’s so sad: anything that has to do with God, people want to dispel.’ – Sylvia Browne

‘You can’t have an up without a down, a right without a left, a back without a front – or a happy without a sad.’ – Harlan Coben

‘Nobody wants to hear R&B. It’s sad. If you want to be on the radio you got to stay young.’ – Jamie Foxx

”The Taxi Ride,’ from my second album, is one people want to hear a lot. I’m consciously trying to walk on the sunny side of the street, to really lift myself into a place of greater positivity, and that’s a sad song.’ – Jane Siberry

‘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

‘The waltz can be sad and at the same time uplifting. You have to see life from both sides, and the waltz encapsulates that. If you’re in my audience you give yourself to me and the waltz will grab you.’ – Andre Rieu

‘At that time, I feel sad, and I feel no one knows how hard I work and how many tears. They only know the score. At that time, I feel very lonely because no one understands since they haven’t been world No. 1 before.’ – Yani Tseng

‘I’m not sad about any of my life. It’s so unconventional. It doesn’t look anything like I thought it would.’ – Edie Falco

‘I’m a person who likes these sort of movies… sad but moving ‘art movies’ that normally are at a festival and then they go to a small art house theater and disappear.’ – Zach Braff

‘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

‘If you win all the time, you lose the drama in life. To make the happy moments happy, you need the sad moments too.’ – Doug Davidson

‘Nowadays you really have to pump out that blockbuster in order to have the luxury of getting a body of work, and that’s sad because the work suffers. Today everything is based on money. The older actors, they inspire me.’ – Dylan McDermott

‘You know, why at the end of your life should you assemble thousands of pages of ‘Why am I so sad, why am I so depressed?’ Instead, assemble thousands of pages of why you’re so content.’ – Elizabeth Gilbert

‘It’s a sad indication of where Washington has come, where policy differences almost necessarily become questions of integrity. I came to Washington in the late ’70s, and people had the ability in the past to have intense policy differences but didn’t feel the need to question the other person’s character.’ – Eric Holder

‘Deep down, I reckon the sweetest moment will come when it’s finally all over. When, at last, I know that I can stop fighting. Of course it’ll also be a little sad. The sweetest moments, y’know, always come with just a little sadness.’ – Evander Holyfield

‘Film-makers are always going to be interested in making movies that plug into society around them. That’s what a vibrant, artistically alert community should be doing. After all, it would be sad if we only made films about alien robots.’ – Mark Boal

‘Divorce was very sad, obviously, but now I’ve gotten over it.’ – Natalie Imbruglia

‘Marketing has supplanted story as the primary force behind the worthiness of making a film, and that’s a very sad thing. It’s film only as a function of consumerism rather than as an important component of our culture, and that’s everywhere around the world.’ – Alexander Payne

‘There are a lot of people who consider themselves ‘spiritual,’ but that can mean a lot of things to a lot of people. I don’t really talk about it that often, because there’s too much talk in the world. Especially with Christians, there’s more proselytizing than there is actual living proof of it. That’s kind of sad.’ – Zachary Levi

‘With my schedule being so crazy, I can’t call every day or hang out with my friends like I used to and that’s definitely sad.’ – Jordin Sparks

‘It can be really powerful to write something when you’re sad.’ – Kathryn Stockett

‘A sad fact of life lately at the Museum of Modern Art is that when it comes to group shows of contemporary painting from the collection, the bar has been set pretty low.’ – Jerry Saltz

‘It would be sad if my best work had been 20 years ago and now I only had memories.’ – Demian Bichir

‘There’s never been a culture that wasn’t obsessed with food. The sort of sad thing is that our obsession is no longer with food, but with the price of food.’ – Jonathan Safran Foer

‘I probably have the worst wardrobe. It’s the most ill-fitting with the worst patterns and colors and the most nipple rubbage. There’s bad chafing, and it’s always tight in all the wrong places. What’s sad is that I’m kinda getting used to it.’ – Josh Hopkins

‘I wanted to be a dancer my whole life. And when I gave it up to act, I always had a really sad part of myself that missed it and missed performing and missed being physical in that way.’ – Lyndsy Fonseca

‘What makes me sad about school is that the people who are unhappy are unhappy because they don’t believe it will change. And I just want to say: ‘It does! High school ends and it’s over.’ I will tell anyone that it’s OK to be unhappy at school, make lots of mistakes and then it will be over.’ – Alice Englert

‘I’ve met so many fans of daytime television who’ve watched the shows with their moms and grandmas and feel like they’ve known the characters their whole lives. It’s sad for them to have to say goodbye to their favorite soaps and characters. We don’t want that to happen to the ‘Days’ fans.’ – Alison Sweeney

‘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

‘And for some reason, when I’m sad, I do listen to Leonard Cohen, I do listen to Joni Mitchell. I do find myself going to the music that’s actually reflecting my mood, as opposed to sticking on Motown, which might actually bring my mood up.’ – Glen Hansard

‘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

‘I have nothing against younger women and older men on screen. What is sad is that so many women over 40 who have so much to give aren’t being considered to play opposite men their own age or younger.’ – Rene Russo

‘I look at my people, and I look at those who control them – the political elite. And the sad thing is that the elites are just not interested in the welfare of the people.’ – Youssou N’Dour

‘I’m part of the party, getting the crowd fired up, singing songs, pouring drinks, whatever it takes to get them to have a good time. When I walk into the meet-and-greet, someone’s always going to have a story, a sad story or a happy story.’ – Dierks Bentley

‘I try to make an album that reflects what I love about country music. It’s not just all about happy parties all the time. There are some sad songs.’ – Dierks Bentley

‘I think coldness is chic among writers, and particularly ironic coldness. What is absolutely not allowable is sadness. People will do anything rather than to acknowledge that they are sad.’ – Mary Gordon

‘My experience, with both my parents, is that grief has a lot of down, sad things, but I was also really emotionally raw, in the first year after each of them passed. Flowers smelled more intensely, my relationships were hotter, and I was more willing to risk. I was going for it a lot more. I was ‘unsober’ and I wasn’t playing by my rules.’ – Mike Mills

‘It’s not a struggle, but sometimes when you’re gone for a month or two, you start to miss your friends. I love acting so much that it fills that gap of being sad about not being able to see my friends.’ – Willow Shields

‘Two or three notes of music can instantly make you feel sad or tense or afraid or angry. To do that in words is much more difficult.’ – Anthony Daniels

‘It’s really sad looking at people like Lindsay Lohan. She’s an amazing actress, but you see what happens when people know too much about your personal life. They start not being able to look at you the same way professionally. I don’t want that to happen to me.’ – Dianna Agron

”I Know You Care’ is about my dad. And I haven’t seen him for a long, long time. And my parents divorced when I was really young. And I guess I just wanted a – it was my way of saying that I wasn’t bitter or angry anymore. I was just sad and just felt like something was missing.’ – Ellie Goulding

‘Even when I’m in quite a happy state of mind, I like writing really sad songs. I think a lot of people do.’ – Ellie Goulding

‘If I could be more vague I’d write more about people in my life, but I hate hurting feelings or making people feel uncomfortable. I’ve done that before. Unless they’re sad songs. Those get finished fast, but the mean ones often end up at the back of the bottom drawer and it’s probably for the best.’ – Caitlin Rose

‘When I moved out of my mom’s house at 18 I was almost as sad to leave her sewing machine behind as anything else.’ – Beth Ditto

‘I love sad songs. They say so much. I love country music but even the happy songs sound really sad.’ – Beth Ditto

‘If you have a friend or family member with breast cancer, try not to look at her with ‘sad eyes.’ Treat her like you always did; just show a little extra love.’ – Hoda Kotb

‘I found out about reviews early on. They’re mostly written by sad men on bad afternoons. That’s probably why I’m less angry than some writers, who are so narcissistic they consider every line of every review, even a thoughtful one, as major treason.’ – Barry Hannah

‘You know, the sad thing of post-9/11, which was of course horrific, was that the city in which I felt completely at home for two decades, suddenly people like us – brown people – were looked at as the ‘Others.” – Mira Nair

‘I never was a great Thatcher fan, and it wasn’t a sad day in my life when she resigned.’ – Jim Broadbent

‘I think it is very sad that ‘sitcom’ has become a pejorative term.’ – Penelope Keith

‘The delta blues is a low-down, dirty shame blues. It’s a sad, big wide sound, something to make you think about people who are dead or the women who left you.’ – David Edwards

‘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

‘No matter how old and glorious the models, sad indeed is the woman who sees fashion as a means of self-expression rather than an agent of social control.’ – Julie Burchill

‘The pro athlete is a sad tale. He signs a big contract and thinks he’s set for life. I didn’t think I was set for life, and I don’t now. As athletes, we are important, celebrities, in demand and rich. Then we are out of the game and we are not important, not celebrities, not in demand and not rich.’ – Fran Tarkenton

‘My mother and father were very strange people. They tried to be funny which is always very sad to me.’ – Jonathan Winters

‘The first series I wrote, ‘L.A. Candy,’ was always meant to be a three-book series, so when I started out it was all outlined that way and by the time I was done with the third book, I had become so involved and the process and the stories, I was a little bit sad to be done.’ – Lauren Conrad

‘I’m a sucker for sad disco pop.’ – Sophie Ellis-Bextor

‘I hooked up with director Jacques Audiard for this film called ‘Rust & Bone’ with Marion Cotillard. I loved that experience so much I’m truly sad that it’s over!’ – Matthias Schoenaerts

‘Music videos are notoriously long, not fun, grueling. You are known there as a dancer and it’s kind of sad because dancers, in a lot of ways, are under-appreciated and kind of under-respected when it come to that so they don’t necessarily treat you in a nice way when you do a music video.’ – Jenna Dewan

‘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

‘The 2012 presidential campaign’s turn away from the classic, straight-up, American election – where the candidate who gets the most votes nationwide wins – is another sad reminder of the extreme political polarization distorting today’s politics. No one talks about a 50-state strategy for winning the presidency these days.’ – Juan Williams

‘Even today, England is a very repressed, repressive country, and there’s pressure to be kind of a certain way, so people do things that ultimately make them sad.’ – Ben Whishaw

‘I like to play the grey areas in life – that’s the most uncomfortable place to be. Nobody likes to be in that in-between state where there don’t know what’s going to happen. There’s a lot of tension in that, and a lot of stuff to play with – where it’s uncomfortable and awkward and sad and scary.’ – Melanie Lynskey

‘I agree with cosmetic surgery for medical reasons – my mother had breast cancer and I think it’s very sad when somebody has no choice in what happens to their body.’ – Paloma Faith

‘I’m more apt to cry at something beautiful than at something sad.’ – Teller

‘It makes me sad that corporations and media and Hollywood conspire to make people feel terrible about their bodies from the second they wake up, so I sort of try to subversively undercut that.’ – Rob Delaney

‘I enjoy being recognized. I’ll be very sad if people stop recognizing me. I’ll be very sad if I’m not interviewed, because that’s a very amazing process.’ – Anupam Kher

‘Getting a book published made me feel a little bit sad. I felt driven by the need to write a book, rather than the need to write. I needed to figure out what was important to me as a writer.’ – Nicole Krauss

‘I was a fan of ‘Six Feet Under’ and was very sad when it ended, so I was not ready to switch my allegiance to another show. So I was like, ‘I’m not watching this ‘True Blood.’ Then a friend got a bootleg copy of the first four episodes, and by the third one, I was irrevocably hooked.’ – Denis O’Hare

‘I’m sad that it’s uncool or offensive to talk about environmental or human rights issues.’ – Grimes

‘Budget cuts are a sad reality in most newsrooms, and I am concerned that they reduce the collective muscle of journalists who are doing the expensive, and often dangerous, work of on-the-ground reporting.’ – Jill Abramson

‘Sometimes you feel sad to be left out of a big debate.’ – John King

‘I don’t sit down to write a funny story. Every single thing I sit down to write is meant to be sad.’ – Lorrie Moore

‘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 get really sad when people say, ‘I’m no good. I haven’t been cast in a pilot.’ It doesn’t mean you’re not good; it just means someone hasn’t seen you yet. It doesn’t mean that in real life you’re not the greatest actor.’ – Matthew Gray Gubler

‘I grew up in Chillum Heights in the Washington, D.C. area., and it was never a garden spot. When guys go, ‘Hey, when I grew up, my neighborhood was tough, and it was this and that’… the reality is that it was just a terribly sad place. And thank God, I was able to escape it.’ – Jonathan Banks

‘It’s sad that the BBC is toning down Dennis the Menace for a cartoon series. He is losing his weapons, catapult and peashooter, will no longer pick on Walter the Softy, and his ferocious grimace is to be replaced by a charming, boyish smile.’ – Simon Hoggart

‘We don’t live in the Garden. We live far from Eden. Every life is full of heartaches. Every life, frankly, is unspeakably sad.’ – John Eldredge

‘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

‘It is always sad to write about prejudice, but sometimes when we see it being played out in the lives of fictional characters, we can recognize it in our own lives.’ – Katherine Paterson

‘My favorite thing in the world is a quiz show, ‘University Challenge,’ so you can see what kind of sad person I am.’ – Lynne Truss

‘I am essentially optimistic. Being alive is incredible. Life is extraordinary and beautiful. It can be hard and sad and terrifying, but it’s all we’ve got.’ – James Frey

‘I did ‘Lone Star Love’ in 2007 with Randy Quaid, and that was supposed to come to Broadway at the Belasco and a marquee went up and everything… and it all fell apart, and that marquee came right down, and we got severance pay. And, it was very sad.’ – Kara Lindsay

‘I’ve had tons of bullies who would call me retarded, even on my Facebook page. It’s sad and it really hurts. I want to tell people not to use the word. Don’t say your friend’s retarded when they do something foolish. If you have a disability, keep working hard. Whatever it takes, do it, and don’t be mean to people.’ – Lauren Potter

‘When people ask me, ‘Are you happy?’ I respond with, ‘You’ve asked the wrong question.’ There is a deep kind of satisfaction you get from building a company. This kind of satisfaction transcends happy, sad, hard, or easy. I seek satisfaction. I want to be positively disruptive.’ – David Ulevitch

‘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

‘Like many of my friends in the Pakistani diaspora – and many of my friends in Pakistan itself, for that matter – I have sometimes looked at the country of my birth and wondered whether its future will be one of steady and sad decline.’ – Mohsin Hamid

‘If people who cherish freedom, who know the importance of mutual respect and are aware of the imperative necessity to establish a constructive and critical debate, if these people are not ready to speak out, to be more committed and visible, then we can expect sad, painful tomorrows. The choice is ours.’ – Tariq Ramadan

‘I have received hostile voice mail messages and e-mails. They are often anonymous, I’m sad to say, as anonymous messages are delivered only by very low forms of human life, in my opinion.’ – Ben Brantley

‘I don’t buy art just to make artists happy any more than I want to make them sad if I sell their work.’ – Charles Saatchi

‘My loving sister Mary has always shared the pain and pleasure of my heartbeat in a unique and special way. We have sung our sad and warm songs together.’ – John Henrik Clarke

‘Poetry, I think, intensifies the reader’s experience. If it’s a humorous facet of the story, poetry makes it more exuberant. If it’s a sad facet, poetry can make it more poignant.’ – Vikram Seth

‘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

‘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

‘Being single is only sad if you have a problem with your own company. I’m content with mine.’ – Olga Kurylenko

‘If the sad truth be known, writers, being the misfits we are, probably ought not to belong to families in the first place. We simply are too self-interested, though we may excuse the flaw by calling it ‘focused.” – Roger Rosenblatt

”EastEnders’ has been wonderful to me and it’s no secret that it changed my life all of those years ago. I’ll be so sad to leave Peggy behind; she’s such a wonderful character to play. I have had the pleasure of working with a marvelous cast and crew and have made many lasting good friends.’ – Barbara Windsor

”Sunset Boulevard’ – the story of Hollywood movies draped on a depressing sex affair – is an uncompromising study of American decadence displaying a sad, worn, methodical beauty few films have had since the late twenties.’ – Manny Farber

‘It’s occurred to me I need to laugh at myself more, and that I don’t need to be some sad folk singer all the time. I don’t want to be the queen of pain.’ – Patty Griffin

‘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

‘I like devilish, thorny, dirty, mean roles, muck and mire, unbelievably sad, unbelievably happy, burdened. Inner conflict – that’s where drama is.’ – Amanda Plummer

‘I can’t watch my first audition because it makes me too upset. I just think it is really sad. I look at myself and don’t recognize myself. I do think fame and fortune changes people.’ – Rebecca Ferguson

‘I think, honestly, that a lot of people think I’m sad and dark all the time, because of the music I have made. But there’s a huge part of my personality that’s really energetic, outgoing and goofy.’ – Skylar Grey

‘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

‘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

‘I play sad bastard music. For the money.’ – Josh Tillman

‘With sad music, or music that’s perceived as sad, there’s a sense of solidarity that can be really powerful. My songs are all joyful to me.’ – Josh Tillman

‘When I was growing up, albums were my closest friends, as sad as that may sound – Joy Division’s ‘Closer,’ or Echo and the Bunnymen’s ‘Heaven Up Here’… I had a more intimate relationship with those records than I did with most of the people in my life.’ – Moby

‘I take my inspiration for the song writing from little experiences, not even if I’ve experienced them myself but say if something has made me sad, I will use that emotion. I just use everyday life and write about it.’ – Pixie Lott

‘Nothing is as sad as seeing a person who used to have power have none.’ – Abraham A. Ribicoff

‘It’s a sad state when more people retweet than buy records.’ – Noel Gallagher

‘I wish I could wear 10 dresses to my wedding. It’s so sad that you put it in storage and then never see it again. I am going to sleep in mine after I wear it.’ – Eva Longoria

‘I know I said I wanted to live forever and I would never be bored, but the reality is, it’s probably kind of sad to live forever if you’re the only one sticking around.’ – Viggo Mortensen

‘I get kind of sad when I look at all of my magazines and think about how at one time I was much more impressed with a certain fashion editorial, or how I feel like I can’t really relate to being that excited about fashion anymore. Maybe it’s being jaded, but I honestly like that now, when something’s really good, I feel more affected by it.’ – Tavi Gevinson

‘I was the class podiatrist. I never made it to class clown. I wasn’t funny enough. I would examine feet and prescribe and ointment. It was a sad childhood.’ – Gilbert Gottfried

‘I allow myself to not feel the need to be some sort of wonder woman. You can’t do everything at once and tear your hair out when you miss your baby using a potty for the first time, although my son was obviously very sad that his mum was not there on his big day.’ – Catherine Zeta-Jones

‘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

‘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

‘One of the sad truths about leadership is that, the higher up the ladder you travel, the less you know.’ – Margaret Heffernan

‘There’s a rule of writing: if everything is funny, nothing is funny; if everything is sad, nothing is sad. You want that contrast.’ – J. Michael Straczynski

‘I like to be sad once in a while. You need it for your equilibrium.’ – Marjane Satrapi

‘I was born in Paris in the mid-1960s, and by the time I was 12 I had started going to the movies by myself. Most of the movies of that period never appealed to me. I didn’t like the ‘naturalism,’ the sad or the ‘down-to-earth’ characters. What I wanted from film was fantasy, dreams, funny situations, extravagant decor – and beautiful women.’ – Christian Louboutin

‘Our generation, unfortunately, is stuck to our phones – and, like, Twitter – constantly, which I have no problem with. I’d say we’re not describing the children of America or anything like that, but there is something to take from it: It is kind of sad how we can’t go thirty minutes without checking our phone.’ – Israel Broussard

‘One of the things psychologists used to say was that if you are depressed, anxious or angry, you couldn’t be happy. Those were at opposite ends of a continuum. I believe that you can be suffering or have a mental illness and be happy – just not in the same moment that you’re sad.’ – Martin Seligman

‘Scientists habitually moan that the public doesn’t understand them. But they complain too much: public ignorance isn’t peculiar to science. It’s sad if some citizens can’t tell a proton from a protein. But it’s equally sad if they’re ignorant of their nation’s history, can’t speak a second language, or can’t find Venezuela or Syria on a map.’ – Martin Rees

‘When you think about such fine actors as Maggie Smith or Michael Gambon, they do all mediums. I think it would be quite sad and a bit dull just to have to stick to one. I like all of them.’ – Keeley Hawes

‘Guys should not be allowed to use the Internet all day long. So sad.’ – Natasha Leggero

‘All my work shares a kind of balance between black comedy and sad and despairing melancholy.’ – Martin McDonagh

‘I took a couple of classes in clowning, but that was more like Lucille Ball kind of slapstick, not Ringling Brothers. But we had to do things silently, and the teacher would do this running commentary. ‘Does this make Clown sad? Oh, Clown doesn’t like that, does Clown?’ Always ‘Clown.’ Never a name.’ – June Diane Raphael

‘It makes me sad when I find sisters who aren’t joyful. They might smile, but with just a smile they could be flight attendants!’ – Pope Francis

‘I think love’s exciting and happy, as well as being able to make you sad.’ – Billy Idol

‘It’s a sad fact that a lot of those countries who haven’t been involved in the war in Iraq have taken far more responsibility for rehoming people displaced by the war than Britain has done.’ – Romola Garai

‘I’m very free with all my emotions, whether it’s happy, sad, mad, glad, whatever.’ – Kimberly Elise

‘I can be dramatic. I can be funny. I can be sexy. I can be sad. I can be glad.’ – Kimberly Elise

‘David Mamet’s writing is pretty spectacular, obviously. I like the honesty of it; I like how funny it is and how sad it is.’ – T. R. Knight

‘The trick of ‘Up’ was to balance the sad stuff with the silly stuff.’ – Bob Peterson

‘It’s sad that my daughter will get attention because of her daddy. I’m already watching her run around the house and pick up microphones. It’s scary.’ – Bow Wow

‘My father was an urchin that lived in Hell’s Kitchen. He was part of a family of nine. I mean, there were times that were better and worse, but mostly, by the time we got to L.A., they’d lost whatever they had. And it was a sad time. And both he and I became truck drivers for different companies.’ – Frank Gehry

‘I’ve always been fascinated by Elizabeth Taylor, and I had read that her first kiss happened on a film set, which actually made me a little sad. You need to have normal experiences of your own.’ – Emma Watson

‘The sad reality is that there are no purely domestic issues in Israel. Issues that would be dealt with by municipalities in other countries – such as how to deal with a dangerous bridge or how to resolve conflicts between religious and secular bus riders – become major international issues when they occur in Israel.’ – Alan Dershowitz

‘NASA’s been one of the most successful public investments in motivating students to do well and achieve all they can achieve, and it’s sad that we are turning the program in a direction where it will reduce the amount of motivation it provides to young people.’ – Buzz Aldrin

‘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

‘I honestly think I was an Indian living in the time of the Trail of Tears. Something like that. Every time I read books about back then, I get so devastatingly sad, so, so… I feel such a deep connection to it.’ – Q’orianka Kilcher

‘I don’t think I could compare myself to Macaulay Culkin, because we’re pretty much two different kinds of actors. He’s done a lot of comedy. He does mostly just comedy like ‘Uncle Buck’ and ‘Home Alone’ and ‘Home Alone 2.’ And I’ve done a lot of different stuff, like sad movies, like the movie about the kid with AIDS.’ – Brian Bonsall

‘I think everything is going to be devastatingly sad – when the phone rings, I know somebody in my family’s been hurt, somebody’s going to die. I’m sure a therapist would go, ‘That’s not a good way to live,’ but every time it’s not that bad thing, I’m so thankful and appreciative.’ – Sandra Bullock

‘It’s sad when you say a $30 million film is an inexpensive film, but it is.’ – Sandra Bullock

‘Ninety percent of people who lose weight gain it back. It’s very sad.’ – Richard Simmons

‘When you’re feeling down, sad, lonely, negative, you don’t want to take care of yourself – and the weight problem and the diabetic problem and the heart attack and stroke problems and high cholesterol set in.’ – Richard Simmons

‘Part of me is drawn to the nature of sadness because I think life is sad, and sadness is not something that should be avoided or denied. It’s a fact of life, like contradictions are.’ – Robert Redford

‘I’m not tired of who I am. That would be sad!’ – Diane von Furstenberg

‘Musical compositions can be very sad – Chopin – but you have the pleasure of this sadness. The cheap consolation is: you will be happy. The higher consolation is the pleasure and recognition of your unhappiness, the pleasure of having recognised that fate, destiny and life are such as they are and so you reach a higher form of consciousness.’ – Umberto Eco

‘Whenever I’m sad, I just put on ‘SpongeBob’ and I cheer up.’ – Richard Harmon

‘It’s sad that grandkids show up at the end of obituaries, way behind the list of work place achievements, social clubs and survivors. Why last? If you’ve got grandkids, you know they’re first when it comes to the joy in your life.’ – Regina Brett

‘I’ve found that people feel very free to say insulting things, not about me personally, but about the things I believe. It’s sad, because I really could care less where people are coming from, politically, religiously.’ – Patricia Heaton

‘The whole 1950s notion was find the right girl, get married, move to the suburbs and then hang out with the guys while she stayed home with the babies. I felt that was sort of sad.’ – Hugh Hefner

‘It’s important to get well-rounded right off the bat. A lot of experienced dancers can get pigeonholed into one thing. I’ve been hired for a lot of different gigs simply because I can do a lot of different things with different levels of dancers. And it’s sad to me that some dancers don’t do more.’ – Mandy Moore

‘I’m a bit of a romantic, to a fault. It’s led me to some great things and also some sad things. It’s made me a better person, to keep a good spirit about dating.’ – Alexander Koch

‘I was told so many times when I was a kid, ‘I can’t be friends with you, you’re too intense, you’re too sad all the time.’ I really thought that when I made the first album that everyone would understand me, all the people who weren’t my friends would become my friends.’ – Fiona Apple

‘The sad pattern of lack of trust in God has persisted since the Creation.’ – Henry B. Eyring

‘I fear that I won’t work in the theatre again. I’m sad about that. But I won’t retire.’ – Maggie Smith

‘Life will take its toll on all of us. We get injured, we get old. It’s really sad to try to run away from these harsh realities of life. Looks are not everything. I am not going to look beautiful all the time.’ – Aishwarya Rai Bachchan

‘I’m so glad I spent 10 years being sad and lonely.’ – Caitlin Moran

‘The sad truth is that most of my husbands turned out to be convincing liars.’ – Joan Collins

‘When DVDs finally disappear, I’m going to be sad. I’ll miss the commentaries.’ – Matt Groening

‘I just want fans to walk away knowing that no matter what’s going on, no matter how happy you are, no matter how sad you are, we did it. We’re strong in this. We’ve come a long way, and life is not just one thing.’ – Mary J. Blige

‘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

‘Hollywood is like a really sad, grown up version of high school where people get labeled as ‘cool,’ ‘not cool,’ ‘jock,’ ‘bombshell,’ ‘quirky’… it’s like a caste system. You’re either in, or you’re out.’ – Zoe Kravitz

‘I don’t know who would not classify themselves as a romantic. I think that would be sort of sad.’ – Natalie Portman

‘When I was a young girl, I lost a lot of weight over one summer – involuntarily – and was just really depressed and sad. There was nothing I could do to gain weight. I would look in the mirror and call myself disgusting every day.’ – Tyra Banks

‘It’s sad, something coming to an end. It cracks you open, in a way – cracks you open to feeling. When you try to avoid the pain, it creates greater pain.’ – Jennifer Aniston

‘That’s what is so great about being able to record a 13-song album. You can do a very eclectic group of songs. You do have some almost pop songs in there, but you do have your traditional country, story songs. You have your ballads, your happy songs, your sad songs, your love songs, and your feisty songs.’ – Reba McEntire

‘It was sad leaving the BBC; not quite like being divorced, but you don’t leave after a period stretching from 1960 to 1999 without feeling a certain number of pangs.’ – Richie Benaud

‘If you look at suicides, most of them are connected to depression. And the mental health system just fails them. It’s so sad. We know what to do. We just don’t do it.’ – Rosalynn Carter

‘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

‘I’m the only one in my family who is deaf, and there are still conversations that go around me that I miss out on. And I ask what’s going on, and I have to ask to be included. But I’m not going to be sad about it. I don’t live in sad isolation. It’s just a situation I’m used to.’ – Marlee Matlin

‘I was really sad after ‘The Avengers’ when I realized I was not going to have a part in ‘Thor 2’ or ‘Captain America: The Winter Soldier.’ But I’m not arguing with my fantastic plane and my really cool car.’ – Clark Gregg

‘I don’t really do sad, depressing songs.’ – Olly Murs

‘If people are paying money to see me, then I want them to walk away from the show knowing they had a really great time. I want it to be very energetic and to have fun, sad, emotional and uplifting moments. I want it to have everything!’ – Olly Murs

‘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

‘I’m sad to see celluloid go, there’s no doubt. But, you know, nitrate went, by the way, in 1971. If you ever saw a nitrate print of a silent film and then saw an acetate print, you’d see a big difference, but nobody remembers anymore. The acetate print is what we have. Maybe. Now it’s digital.’ – Martin Scorsese

‘The hardest thing to get is true emotion. I always believe you need to earn that with the audience. You can’t just tell them, ‘Ok, be sad now.” – John Lasseter

‘I was such a sullen, angry, sad kid. I’m sure there are writers who have had happy childhoods, but what are you going to write about? No ghosts, no fear. I’m very happy that I had an unhappy and uncomfortable childhood.’ – Isabel Allende

‘I get to play characters that kind of shock people and I enjoy doing that. I like characters that have meaning and get people in the heart. I want to be able to get people to cry or make people angry or sad.’ – Alexa Vega

‘Many scientists think that philosophy has no place, so for me it’s a sad time because the role of reflection, contemplation, meditation, self inquiry, insight, intuition, imagination, creativity, free will, is in a way not given any importance, which is the domain of philosophers.’ – Deepak Chopra

‘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

‘When I was at Upright Citizens Brigade, I would pretend to be a sad, drunk rapper.’ – Bobby Moynihan

‘It sounds so nerdy and pathetic, but what I always do on Sunday afternoon is bring my inbox down to zero, which is so sad. But e-mail has become like homework for adults. I’ll have 141 messages from people who will be offended if I don’t write back.’ – Mike Birbiglia

‘Being an old farm boy myself, chickens coming home to roost never did make me sad; they’ve always made me glad.’ – Malcolm X

‘You get people who come to London, sever links with where they come from, and then when they need people, there’s nobody there. To feel like you can’t go back home would be a horribly sad place to be, as is mistaking fame for genuine love and affection.’ – Johnny Vegas

‘The sad fact is that spending rises every year, no matter what people want or say they want.’ – Ben Stein

‘I’m not bothered or sad about being on my own – after all, I’ve never had a husband.’ – Francesca Annis

‘People tend to put entertainers on pedestals. We’re human beings, just like you. You may see us smiling, and whether we have money or not, we still have bills to pay, we still have our stresses. I think a lot of people want to focus on others’ shortcomings to make themselves feel better. And it’s a very sad thing.’ – Janet Jackson

‘I find it a bit sad that there is no photo of me hanging on the walls in the Berlin Museum at Checkpoint Charlie.’ – David Hasselhoff

‘It’s sad that some people who have one exciting moment spend the rest of their lives rehashing it.’ – Jonathan Kozol

‘I feel sad when I realize how much truth is being changed or obscured in the American media.’ – Sharon Stone

‘There is the melancholy of Europe. There is the romantic malaise. Feeling sad is almost a form of deepness.’ – Mathieu Amalric

‘If you live with someone that is depressed, the truth of it – it’s not that dramatic, it’s just a bit, kind of, ‘Here we go, this is what we’re doing today. This is sad. But we’re gonna get through it.” – Josh Thomas

‘When my dad passed, there’s a lot of sadness right below the surface, and I think there will be until the day I die. So, writing sad songs helps it. And when I sing them, it’s pure therapy for me.’ – Ashley Monroe

‘It’s sad, the lottery. Good projects get funded by it, but there’s an air of desperation about it.’ – Nina Conti

‘I think some women try to make you feel you’re not all female because you haven’t given birth. There are a lot of prejudices. Some women think women who have animals are deeply sad, because what they really want is a child. Mind you, there’s probably an element of truth in that.’ – Alison Goldfrapp

‘The sad thing is that I know no athletes’ names. I am not a sports girl at all.’ – Clara Mamet

‘If a man does not control his temper, it is a sad admission that he is not in control of his thoughts.’ – Ezra Taft Benson

‘I think people just think I am crazy because they see me doing stand-up, but I am generally not. I am very sad. I’m one of those guys that lights candles and listens to Rachmaninoff.’ – Bobby Lee

‘I think women should be seductive, not triste. There’s enough sadness in life now without making women look sad, too.’ – Azzedine Alaia

‘If you’re sad about what you see in the mirror when you wake up every morning, you must change it.’ – Azzedine Alaia

‘Nixon has enough to overcome in terms of his legacy and his political history. Now he has to overcome the in-fighting between his daughters. It’s so sad. There’s another obstacle for him to clear.’ – Monica Crowley

”m really proud of ‘Sad, Sad World’ because it manages to state a very complex paradox of an emotion that I experienced when I had children, which is this great happiness and this great intensity, but with that intensity comes a deeper understanding of the world.’ – Jamie Cullum

‘It’s sad that the cell phone is replacing the watch as a time-telling device. I wear a vintage watch that’s really skinny.’ – Thom Browne

‘I am very sad that some designers are still using real fur when the fake alternatives are so effective and so easily obtainable.’ – Twiggy

‘I went to high school with girls that would daydream about what strip club they wanted to work at. That’s one of the sad things about Vegas.’ – Brandon Flowers

‘I want to be able to make people laugh and cry and feel happy or sad and feel all these different emotions through singing and acting. Hopefully throughout my career, I’ll get to pursue them.’ – Olivia Holt

‘The history of apartheid-era South Africa is incredibly sad and at times infuriatingly incomprehensible.’ – Henry Rollins

‘Life is sad. People, you know, are going to pass, and you know that you will one day.’ – James Mercer

‘I like to think my sense of humor is sort of smart and dumb at the same time. I like to work on multiple levels – smart and dumb, funny and sad, profound and mundane, cynical and hopeful.’ – Robert Lopez

‘August used to be a sad month for me. As the days went on, the thought of school starting weighed heavily upon my young frame. That, coupled with the oppressive heat and humidity of my native Washington, D.C., only seemed to heighten the misery.’ – Henry Rollins

‘I can honestly say – not proudly, but honestly – before I had a child, I would see things on TV or hear the news, feel sad for the people and move forward with my day. Now I see everything through a mother’s eyes.’ – Marissa Jaret Winokur

‘In the 1970s, British food was beginning to get good, whereas in France it was just starting its long, sad decline. My most memorable meals, however, have been in Italy.’ – Sebastian Faulks

‘For whatever reason, the films I gravitate towards do have these strange sort of tonal balances to them… I kind of realized on ’50/ 50′ why I liked these blending of tones, because I think it’s kind of what life is like: funny one minute, sad the next, scary the next.’ – Jonathan Levine

‘There is something sad about clothes laid in a tomb of trunks.’ – Suzy Menkes

‘If some people try to make a prenup into a pre-negotiation of a divorce… Well, that’s really sad. But I do think that it’s important to understand what each person has coming into the relationship, and what each person expects from the relationship. They aren’t always fun discussions to have, and they can be very eye-opening.’ – Laura Wasser

‘The Holy Spirit can be with you always and guide you back to Him, but in order to enjoy the benefits of this holy gift, you must truly receive it, and then you must use it in your life. How sad it would be to be given such a precious gift and then set it aside and never use it.’ – Margaret D. Nadauld

‘I write entirely in English; Tagalog chauvinists chide me for this. I feel no guilt in doing so. But I am sad that I cannot write in my native Ilokano. History demanded this; if it isn’t English I am using now, I would most probably be writing in Spanish like Rizal, or even German or Japanese.’ – F. Sionil Jose

‘My parents were mourning the death of my sister. She was killed in a car accident before I was born, and I didn’t know she existed until I was 13 or 14 years old. I knew I was growing up in a house where people were angry and sad.’ – Andrew Hudgins

‘What is sad to me is not what Bill Nye thinks about me. What I found really unfortunate is that after presenting my stand on God’s Word, there were a number of Christians who were more complimentary of Bill Nye than of me because Bill Nye was defending evolution and billions of years.’ – Ken Ham

‘I was always spiritual, even as a child. I was taught to pray, show gratitude. We had an attitude of gratitude. Even if life was ugly, bad or sad – we prayed.’ – Shilpa Shetty

‘It’s too easy to say that orange is happy and black is sad. To me, black is perfect. You can fill it with the emotion you want to express.’ – Ann Demeulemeester

‘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

‘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

‘I can cook, but I also want everything to look beautiful on the plate – then I get upset when people eat it. Everyone just tears through it, and that makes me sad. It’s not a rewarding experience for me to cook.’ – Megan Fox

‘Over a 10-year period, 99 out of 100 new entrepreneurs will fail. Only one will be left standing as others get pushed out of the market or burn out from working so hard. It’s really sad.’ – Robert Kiyosaki

‘When ‘Foyle’s War’ ended in 2010 after seven series, I was sad but not despondent. After all, ITV had already axed the show once in 2007, then brought it back due to public demand.’ – Honeysuckle Weeks

‘If someone is sad, they put on a song, or if someone wants to rock out, and they want to get into a good mood, they put on music. Just being able to be a part of something like that I feel like was my ultimate push to do music.’ – Adam Hicks

‘Being a father can ‘unreason’ your worldview, or at least make it very flexible, and that can create all sorts of fun and insights. It’s sad that children’s open-eyed wonder and sense of play begin to fade as they approach adolescence. One grand function of fathering is to keep the fading to a minimum.’ – Clyde Edgerton

‘There is something inexpressibly sad in the thought of the children who crossed the ocean with the Pilgrims and the fathers of Jamestown, New Amsterdam, and Boston, and the infancy of those born in the first years of colonial life in this strange new world.’ – Alice Morse Earle

‘The study of tavern history often brings to light much evidence of sad domestic changes. Many a cherished and beautiful home, rich in annals of family prosperity and private hospitality, ended its days as a tavern.’ – Alice Morse Earle

‘At the outset, I think that one should be natural, not just when it comes to writing but in every area of life. If you try to be something that you are not just to impress others, then it’s a rather sad life.’ – Amish Tripathi

‘I guess I was an early method actress. I would go to a quiet part of the sound stage with my mother. I wouldn’t think of anything sad, I would just make my mind a blank. In a minute I could cry.’ – Shirley Temple

‘I’d love to have a room full of taxidermy. I’d be devastated if my cat, Archimedes, ever died. I was debating the other day with a friend whether I should stuff him, but don’t know whether he would end up looking like himself. I’d be really sad if he looked strange.’ – Tuppence Middleton

‘I think people tend to forget that as celebrities we are still human. We have the same emotions – we cry, we have fun, we laugh, we get sad, and we get hurt. When something is written about you, which millions of people are reading, and it is not true, imagine how hurtful it can be.’ – Sania Mirza

‘I watch so much TV, it’s sad. I watch ‘Happy Endings’, ’30 Rock’, ‘Parks and Rec’, ‘The Office’, ‘Eagleheart’, ‘Children’s Hospital’. ‘Modern Family’ I guess I’m still kinda watching.’ – Anders Holm

‘I remember that I used to get lots of books from the library, and ‘Little Women’ was one of them. And I used to just cross out the parts of it that really upset me because it’s such a sad book in so many ways. I’d cross out the parts that upset me, and I would rewrite new endings.’ – Helen Oyeyemi

‘If I were surrounded by angels who were purely rational and had no inclinations at all, I couldn’t do anything for them. I couldn’t make them happy; I couldn’t make them sad, I would be entirely useless as a moral agent.’ – Thomas Pogge

”Dawn (Go Away)’ is a sad lyric, but the melody is so happy and fun.’ – Erich Bergen

‘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

‘I actually get quite sad when I smell bacon.’ – Jane Velez-Mitchell

‘Every day, when I am working with my boys, I tell them as long as you put in your best efforts, I am there to back you. But the day I find your energy flagging on the field, the day I find you have not put in your best, that’s when I will be really upset and sad.’ – Nita Ambani

‘I feel that World Cup cricket should be played like football in which all the 160 countries take part. If only a handful of countries are going to keep on playing in the World Cup without making the game popular, I will be a sad man.’ – Kapil Dev

‘It’s a sad thing to contemplate, but I’m the last surviving cast member of ‘The African Queen.” – Theodore Bikel

‘The baby boomer surge is forcing society to face decisions about costs – and particularly what is valuable. It’s senseless for clinicians and governments to bear these choices alone; a sad effect of needless paternalism is that it places a false burden on responsible people.’ – Dave deBronkart

‘It would be sad if the expertise built up during the 40 years of the U.S. and Russian manned programmes were allowed to dissipate. But abandoning the shuttle, and committing to new launch vehicles and propulsion systems, is actually a prerequisite for a vibrant manned programme.’ – Martin Rees

‘You start to fall in love with characters as you work with them, and anytime that you care about your characters and you realize that you’re gonna have to kill them, that fear creeps in. It’s sad. It’s scary, and it’s also sad. Because you like these people.’ – Drew Goddard

‘For reasons we don’t have to get into, climate change has become an incredibly polarized issue in the United States. I think that is sad. My own personal view is that we’re in a planetary emergency such has not been seen in 600,000 years.’ – Marshall Herskovitz

‘I tried to get into comics initially after I graduated Clemson in 1994. I spent a year trying to get in, and I quit reading books because not getting in made me sad.’ – Jonathan Hickman

‘I’m always sad when a gig ends. No matter how long the shoot, you become a family for the period of time you are together, and then you separate and rarely see each other for a long time after.’ – Georgina Reilly

‘It’s so sad to see how few people in the Obama administration have any private sector experience.’ – Foster Friess

‘I used to like to make myself sad, so I would listen to Bill Callahan as Smog.’ – Gillian Jacobs

‘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

‘Homeless people really upset me when I was little. A lot of kids have this reaction, but I would get really worried or sad or concerned or cry.’ – Paul Dano

‘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 am not sad, but I am melancholic. When you lose your mother at 20 and then your father soon after, melancholia is part of your life.’ – Patricia Kaas

‘As a kid, we had one television channel and a sad little roller rink. And there was not much else to do. So I used my imagination all of the time growing up. That’s the main way I played. When we moved and I went to high school, I did my first play, and I was completely addicted to theatre. It felt like home; it felt natural.’ – Darby Stanchfield

‘I always feel sad when I come to the end of a book.’ – Claire Tomalin

‘I love curves; I’m all about curves. I don’t have many, which is really sad, but I think the more the better.’ – Cara Delevingne

‘I write about heartbreak because I like writing about sad things, but I’m writing happy songs, too!’ – Jackie Evancho

‘I so desperately hate to end these movies that the first thing I do when I’m done is write another one. Then I don’t feel sad about having to leave and everybody going away. That’s why I tend to work with the same people; I really befriend them.’ – John Hughes

‘For a long time, censors have been cutting my works. This makes me so sad, because many times they will tell me, ‘Television won’t like, so we have to cut, cut, cut!” – Dario Argento

‘I’ve always loved movies since I was a kid. I loved how they could make me happy, sad, or just show me different parts of the world and people. So when I was about six, I decided that that was what I wanted to do: make movies.’ – Daniella Alonso

‘I’m just a guy who wears TOMS. It’s the sad truth.’ – Ryan Eggold

‘Corporate tax reform is nice in theory but tough in practice. It most likely requires lower tax rates and the closing of loopholes, which many companies are sure to fight. And whatever new, lower tax rate is determined, there will probably be another country willing to lower its rate further, creating a sad race to zero.’ – Andrew Ross Sorkin

‘A lot of my movies have come to be thought about only years after the fact, and I’m sad about that but also happy about it in a way, as it’s given them longevity.’ – Nicolas Roeg

‘The end of anything is not fun because there’s a nostalgia to it and everything else. Even the end of a bad relationship can feel so, so, so sad.’ – Jessica Capshaw

‘My beauty secret is to try to keep my heart as open and happy as I can, because it really makes the sad lines on my face look better.’ – Lea Thompson

‘I think a lot of times we’re so told in our world that marriage is everything, and having a partner is everything. If you look at our movies and things, it’s all directed around that love, and if you don’t have that love, how sad you are.’ – Brooke Elliott

‘Pageants are already ridiculous and sad, I think.’ – Casey Wilson

‘What I think is funny is when people, despite tragic situations, are still hopeful, still trying. It’s sweet and sad – and, to me, hilarious.’ – Casey Wilson

‘That internal ache is the starting point of country music. If it’s a happy song and I can still feel sad in it? That’s my favorite.’ – Shane McAnally