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Quotes About Sadness

Life is sometimes sad and often dull, but there are currants in the cake, and here is one of them.
~ Nancy Mitford
Melancholy is the pleasure of being sad.
~ Victor Hugo
Onions make me sad. A lot of people don't realize that.
~ Mitch Hedberg
What do I care if you are good? Be beautiful! and be sad!
~ Charles Baudelaire
When you are happy, you enjoy music, when you are sad, you understand lyrics
~ Frank Ocean
The ideal of warriorship is that the warrior should be sad and tender, and because of that, the warrior can be very brave as well.
~ Chogyam Trungpa
We used to say "Ah Hell, we're young" But now we see that life is sad And so is love.
~ Kate Bush
The blues to me is like being very sad, very sick, going to church, being very happy ... it's sort of a mixed up thing. You just have to feel it.
~ Billie Holiday
Oh, I wouldn't say Love always makes you happy. Sometimes it makes you incredibly sad.
~ Rick Riordan
Have all beautiful things sad destinies?
~ Jean Rhys, Wide Sargasso Sea
I like to listen to sad music when I'm sad. It seems honest. It makes me cry, and sometimes a good cry is the only thing that can make you feel better.
~ Elizabeth Berg
Scars are souvenirs you never lose, the past is never far, did you lose yourself somewhere out there, did you get to be a star, and don't it make you sad to know that life is more than who you are?
~ John Rzeznik
What are you so sad about? We're going to know him for the rest of our lives.
~ Melina Marchetta
You need a reason to be sad. You don't need a reason to be happy.
~ Louis Sachar
Spoilt pleasure is a sad, unseemly thing; you can only bury it.
~ Elizabeth Bowen
In terms of love, you're not in control and I hate that feeling. I seem to write a lot of sad songs because I'm a very tragic person. But there's always an element of humour at the end.
~ Freddie Mercury
Home is so sad. It stays as it was left, / Shaped to the comfort of the last to go / As if to win them back
~ Philip Larkin
This passion, and the death of a dear friend, would go near to make a man look sad.
~ William Shakespeare
Half of the secular unrest and dismal, profane sadness of modern society comes from the vain ideas that every man is bound to be a critic for life.
~ Henry Van Dyke
Some people could say, "I'd like something that's super dramatic and miserable and made me cry and made me sad forever" but that's not my taste.
~ Alex Hirsch
My marriage didn't make me sad, but it didn't make me happy either. My husband and I hardly spoke to each other. This wasn't because we were angry. We had nothing to say. I was dying of boredom.
~ Marilyn Monroe
Pretty sad. Pretty lonely. But that's how I prefer it? I quess? I guess. It's a good guess. It's the best quess ever.
~ Dan Harmon
A sad man, is man with the lights turned off.
~ Arsenie Boca
Even big-bird gets sad sometimes
~ Andrew VanWyngarden