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Quotes About Sad

Ridiculous the waste sad time Stretching before and after
~ T.S. Eliot
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
Like the muscles knew from the beginning that it would end with this, this inevitable falling apart... It's sad, but a relief as well to know that two things so closely bound together can separate with so little violence, leaving smooth surfaces instead of bloody shreds.
~ Julie Powell
And Indian Benny, a quiet, meticulous waiter who had the sad airs of a man long accustomed to the spectacular demolition of dreams.
~ Junot Diaz
The great thing about James Baldwin and his writing is that it's still fresh every time you pick it up. That's also the sad thing about his writing sometimes, too.
~ Brian Tyree Henry
When you meet a gentPaying all kinds of rentFor a flatThat would flatten the Taj MahalCall it sad, call it funny,But it's better than even moneyThat the guy's only doin' it for some doll.
~ Frank Loesser
I love jazz music and sad music. I'm a sentimental guy. I'm a romantic guy.
~ Fred Durst
They don't want to see sad faces in Russia; they want you to be cheerful, enthusiastic, light-hearted, optimistic. It sounded very much like America to me. I wasn't born with this kind of enthusiasm
~ Henry Miller
The ineffaceable, sad birth-mark in the brow of man, is but the stamp of sorrow in the signers.
~ Herman Melville
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
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
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
And in real life endings aren't always neat, whether they're happy endings, or whether they're sad endings.
~ Stephen King
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
I think the intellectual consistency of Christianity in historical evidence is frankly overwhelming, but my materialist colleagues regard me as a slightly sad case.
~ Simon Conway Morris
Do not think that one has to be sad in order to be militant, even though the thing one is fighting is abominable. It is the connection of desire to reality (and not its retreat into the forms of representation) that possesses revolutionary force.
~ Michel Foucault
One is expected to show a bit of eccentricity to be interesting. Otherwise one is simply a sad old crone, and no one wants that, you know.
~ Camilla Lackberg
It was sad music. But it waved its sadness like a battle flag. It said the universe had done all it could, but you were still alive.
~ Terry Pratchett
If you let your mind dwell on rooms like this, you could end up being oddly sad and full of a strange diffuse compassion which would lead you to believe that it might be a good idea to wipe out the whole human race and start again with amoebas.
~ Terry Pratchett
Whenever I feel sad or a little fragile, I invoke their presence (the ancestors) for support, and they never fail to be there.
~ Thich Nhat Hanh
Faith was a power that arose from inside you, I thought, and doubt was exogenous, a speck in your eye. A black mote from the sad world of adults.
~ Karen Russell
For the great Gaels of IrelandAre the men that God made mad,For all their wars are merry,And all their songs are sad.
~ G. K. Chesterton
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
What are you reading?" Owen asks. "Charlotte's Web," Liz says. "It's really sad. One of the main characters just died." "You ought to read the book from end to beginning," Owen jokes. "That way, no one dies, and it's always a happy ending.
~ Gabrielle Zevin