How Sad Quotes

“Drug addicts are so funny that way. Just spinning around, lost in their own little world. Doing so much, accomplishing so little. How sad.”

— James St. James

“Some few of my brothers had walked among humans and dared to love human women. These Nephilim loved fiercely and deeply. It seemed to me they had been struck with a sickness, or taken prisoner, and I dared to pity them. How sad, I thought, to Fall because of love. Until it happened to me.”

— Vicki Keire

“You don't ever know how happy you are until you remember how sad you once were and vice versa. Nothing is anything until I decide to hold nothing next to something, and declare that I see a difference.”

— Andrea Seigel

“How sad that I felt more of a connection to a fictional character than to a guy in real life.”

— Allison Van Diepen

“How sad, he thought, that desire found new objects but did not abate, that when it came to longing there was no end.”

— Allegra Goodman

“Always quick with the wit. It's your defense, isn't it? Little girl doesn't want the world to know how sad she is, how damaged. Your words, your attitude, all a big misdirection. A magician's trick.”

— Chuck Wendig

“
You took angel blood. You took a small dose, so the change on your body is small, but ... I can see from your face that you're changing. With injections from Icoru, you'll become a monster. You'll become immortal ... Even though, you'll be no longer human. Already, you're becoming a monster. How sad. You have but one life to live, and you throw it away on this.”

— Kaori Ozaki

“How thin the air felt at the forest's edge, how ghostly the trees that guarded their realm ... The whole world seemed as delicate as a dandelion seed, and as fleeting ... How sad to know that the figment village of my imagination would not vanish when I ended, to understand that it was not I who had invented the moon the first time I realized how lovely it was. To admit that it was not my breath that made the winds blow ... [M]y heart, my heart knew that when I closed my eyes I invented the night sky and the stars too. Wasn't the whole dome of the sky the same shape as the inside of my skull? Didn't I create the sun and the day when I raised my eyelids every morning?”

— Martine Leavitt

“How sad the world is, so beautiful yet so absurd ...”

— Irène Némirovsky

“How tragic it will be if we don't each come to grips with our own personal potential and learn the role the Lord has in mind for us. How sad if we waste one more day with a lack of commitment and not meet the measure of our creation.”

— Glenn L. Pace

“Me a Basseri legend? Saints, how sad must their lives be if I was the best thing they had to talk about?”

— Janice Hardy

“Don't we get into God's Word so it can get into us? So that it can interrupt us, change us, satisfy us? How sad to simply settle for learning facts about the Bible when it was meant for so much more”

— Lysa TerKeurst

“The colonel nodded. "Our childhood seems so far away now. All this" - he gestured out of the vehicle - "so much suffering. One of our Japanese poets, a court lady many years ago, wrote how sad this was. She wrote of how our childhood becomes like a foreign land once we have grown."
"Well, Colonel, it's hardly a foreign land to me. In many ways, it's where I've continued to live all my life. It's only now I've started to make my journey from it.”

— Kazuo Ishiguro

“How sad, the dependability of greed to make men fools.”

— Pierce Brown

“I remember I once saw this old movie ... ; in it the main character was talking about how sad it is that the last time you have sex you don't know it's the last time. Since I've never even had a first time, I'm not exactly an expert, but I'm guessing it's like that for most things in life
the last kiss, the last laugh, the last cup of coffee, the last sunset, the last time you jump through a sprinkler or eat an ice-cream cone, or stick your tongue out to catch a snowflake. You just don't know.
But I think that's a good thing, really, because if you did know it would be almost impossible to let go. When you do know, it's like being asked to step off the edge of a cliff: all you want to do is get down on your hands and knees and kiss the solid ground, smell it, hold on to it.”

— Lauren Oliver

“How sad," she whispered to herself. He heard it. "What?" She shook her head, meeting his gaze, the only thing familiar about him. "He's gone." "Who?" "My friend.”

— Sarah MacLean

“Stop crying. Stop sitting in the dark counting out all your individual feelings about how sad and lonely you are. Wake up ( ... ) You're not the only person in this world who doesn't want to get out of bed in the morning ( ... ) You can be whoever the hell you want to be now ( ... ) So make a choice. Make a choice and stop wasting everyone's time. Stop eating your own time. Okay?”

— Tahereh Mafi

“Ah, the world was ever so. How sad are heroes when their tasks are done ...”

— Michael Moorcock

“Live your life so that you'll have no regrets. No matter how hard, no matter how sad, if something is precious to you, protect it with both arms.”

— Masashi Kishimoto

“How sad. A leader bereft of followers. An angel with severed wings. A warrior without a sword." Beliel circles Raffe like a shark as he taunts him. "You have nothing left."
"He has me," I say.”

— Susan Ee

“How sad it must be for you to be nothing more than a hollow statue, to have your tomb preserved and your story forgotten.”

— David Levithan

“I am starting to realize what this means, and how sad it would be.
I am already feeling some of the sadness now, and it isn't even happening.”

— David Levithan

“Sometimes when you miss a person, you can only focus on how sad you feel that they are gone. Other times, it's best to focus on the memories that bring you joy and laughter.”

— Brittainy C. Cherry

“I do not think direct experience is always necessary to act, but I believe that sometimes you have to have had the real experience to act certain roles. One of those was losing your family member. I was not being able to imagine how sad that could be.”

— Go Ah-sung

“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

“So you've made a friend. How sad for them.”

— Alyson Noel

“It is said that kids have no use for the word 'then'. It is said that only 'now' and 'this minute' count with kids. It is said that kids believe time began the day they were born. How sad if this were true. It would mean kids believe they live on a tiny, isolated island in time. It would mean that when they look back, they fail to see the fascinating human adventure that led up to that day when they were born. It would mean that when they look back, they see ... nothing.”

— Jerry Spinelli

“And people loved me. I was no longer the pity case (with, how weird, the dead sister). I was the pretty girl (with, how sad, the dead sister). And so I was popular.”

— Gillian Flynn

“Tragedy, no matter how sad, becomes boring to those not caught in its addictive caress.”

— Maya Angelou

“I think about my father and how sad it was that he never had grandchildren.”

— Cate Blanchett

“I thought to myself, How sad to have to earn your living like that, by pretending to like everyone until you forget what it really feels like genuinely to enjoy someone's company as a friend, not just as a potential customer. Contrived emotion (What am I supposed to feel now?) replaces genuine emotion (How do I really feel about this person?) until the ability to know what you are really feeling disappears.”

— Harold S. Kushner

“I'm struck by how amazing it is and how sad that makes me, because I've never seen that. He's not like that around me. The way his mouth quirks and lights up his eyes. He should smile more often. It's so innocent.”

— Courtney Summers

“If a Christian really believed that his neighbor will be tortured in all eternity in Hell, he should try day and night to persuade him to repent and believe. How sad that this doesn't happen.”

— Richard Wurmbrand

“The difference between travel writing as fiction is the difference between recording what the eye sees and discovering what the imagination knows. Fiction is pure joy - how sad that I could not reinvent the trip as fiction.”

— Paul Theroux

“There are no words to express how sad and devastated I am. I have lost one of my dearest friends, and the industry has lost a giant.”

— Farrah Fawcett

“How sad, that the group with the most access to the truth chose in several strategic instances to look the other way.”

— John Ashcroft

“How sad that we can now go up in aeroplanes and see that there are no gods upon the clouds.”

— Gavin Pretor-Pinney

“It's ignorant! The stereotype is guys that are weak and have failing relationships write about how sad they are. If you listen to our songs, not one of them has that tone. Emo is bullshit! If people want to take it for the literal sense of the word, then yes, we're an emotional band, we put a lot of thought into what we do. People always try to stereotype us, but we don't fit the emo stereotype.”

— Brendon Urie

“I chose the songs for the music more than for the lyrical content and it wasn't until the end of the recording and when we were trying to decide running order that I realized how sad a lot of the songs could sound.”

— Vashti Bunyan

“How sad that men would base an entire civilization on the principle of paternity, upon the legal owership and presumed responsibility for children, and then never really get to know their sons and daughters very well.”

— Phyllis Chesler

“How sad now never to see men holding hands, while everywhere one looks they are holding guns.”

— Alice Walker

“How sad they are, the promises we never return to. They stay in our mouths, roughen the tongue, lead lives of their own.”

— Jane Hirshfield

“How sad it is when someone comes to you looking for Jesus and all they see is you.”

— Mother Teresa

“How sad to see a father with money and no joy. The man studied economics, but never studied happiness.”

— Jim Rohn

“Goodness, how sad is our Russia!”

— Nikolai Gogol

“How sad, how strange, we make companions out of air and hurt them, so they will defy us, completing creation.”

— John Updike

“With how sad steps, O moon, thou climb'st the skies!
How silently, and with how wan a face!”

— Philip Sidney

“The songwriting style, to me, is superior ... there was a certain amount of joy in it, no matter how sad the song is. You get joy in listening to these Buddy Holly or Roy Orbison sad lyrics. I'm attracted to songs that have balance between the darks and the lights and giving them all equal opportunity.”

— M. Ward

“It doesn't really matter what a person decides to do, or how radically a person plays with gender. What matters, I think, is how aware a person is of the options. How sad for a person to be missing out on some expression of identity, just for not knowing there are options”

— Kate Bornstein

“No matter how sad we might be, the universe is still planning our happiness.”

— Marianne Williamson