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Quotes About Sadness

Now there is fame! Of all - hunger, misery, the incomprehension by the public - fame is by far the worst. It is the castigation of God by the artist. It is sad. It is true.
~ Pablo Picasso
It is always sad when someone leaves home, unless they are simply going around the corner and will return in a few minutes with ice-cream sandwiches.
~ Daniel Handler
You get lazy, you get sad. Start givin' up. Plain and simple.
~ James Dashner
We are saddened to hear of the untimely death of Christian Audigier. It is a sad end to a brilliant marketer; his incredible energy and vision brought my artwork to global attention.
~ Don Ed Hardy
I'm trying to decide whether to be happy or sad. We have to be better than this or we will struggle.
~ Mark Richt
The psychiatrist's office: the only place I can be sure my story will be treated as sad, but interesting.
~ Mason Cooley
The sad truth is the truth is sad.
~ Daniel Handler
Death isn't sad. The sad thing is: most people don't live at all.
~ Nick Nolte
There's a word in Japanese for being sad in the springtime - a whole word for just being sad - about how pretty the flowers are and how soon they're going to die.
~ Sarah Ruhl
You know... when you are sad you love the sunsets.
~ Antoine de Saint-Exupery
note the similarities with buddhism a buddhist who has achieved nirvana is not sad primarily because it does not know the concept of sad [...]
~ Tao Lin
How beautiful life is and how sad! How fleeting, with no past and no future, only a limitless now.
~ James Clavell
Reassurance is such a sad, mad thing. Deep inside, everyone knows the truth.
~ Michel Faber
To find beauty in the sad, hope in the midst of loss, and dignity in failure is great poetic art.
~ David Mamet
I knew it wasn't too important, but it made me sad anyway.
~ J. D. Salinger
Everything is so sad and so wonderful.
~ Cloris Leachman
To me happiness, true happiness is when you can really dance with sad.
~ Tori Amos
All great humorists are sad... I cannot help seeing beyond the tinsel of humour, and recognising the pitiful basis of jest - the world is indeed comic, but the joke is on mankind.
~ H. P. Lovecraft
You know, I guess I just don't like to talk a lot about sad things. Now you know my flaw. What good does it do to talk about sad things in the past?
~ James Patterson
My own heart let me more have pity on; let Me live to my sad self hereafter kind, Charitable; not live this tormented mind With this tormented mind tormenting yet.
~ Gerard Manley Hopkins
What makes old age so sad is, not that our joys, but that our hopes then cease.
~ Jean Paul
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 sad, wise valor is the brave complexion.
~ George Herbert
Tragedy, no matter how sad, becomes boring to those not caught in its addictive caress.
~ Maya Angelou