Quotes for Sad

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

Well, you know, too much democracy is a sort of sad thing.

Ann Richards

The walls we build around us to keep sadness out also keeps out the joy.

Jim Rohn

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

It's sad that some people who have one exciting moment spend the rest of their lives rehashing it.

Jonathan Kozol

A sad soul can kill quicker than a germ.

John Steinbeck

Every life has a measure of sorrow, and sometimes this is what awakens us.

Steven Tyler

Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

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

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

Nothing is more sad than the death of an illusion.

Arthur Koestler

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

Sadness flies away on the wings of time.

Jean de la Fontaine

The word 'happy' would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.

Carl Jung

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

It's a sad state when more people retweet than buy records.

Noel Gallagher

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

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

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

I don't ever want to be sad about my life.

Tammy Duckworth