Sad Quotes
Sad Sayings (5)

Every relationship is just so tenuous and precarious.
- Larry David

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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

We are stripped bare by the curse of plenty.
- Winston Churchill

There's no tragedy in life like the death of a child.
Things never get back to the way they were.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower

When you have to kill a man,
it costs nothing to be polite.
- Winston Churchill

Take your life in your own hands, and what happens?
A terrible thing: no one to blame.
- Erica Jong

Darkness is not a force -
it is merely the absence of light.
Observe that when a light
is brought to a dark place,
the darkness disappears.
Sadness is similar -
when joy is brought to suffering,
the sadness disappears.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Grief is the price we pay for love.
- Queen Elizabeth II

I am a self-centered spoiled-rotten brat,
Thank you for nurturing me.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

There is no such thing as a lovers' oath.
- Plato

Today is my day to laugh at life.
Laugh loud - laugh often.
Laugh at what's funny - laugh at what's sad.
Laugh at me - laugh at you - laugh at life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

When one gets angry, it is always angry AT someone -
perhaps a friend or spouse, perhaps a stranger,
perhaps the nameless "they" - "those people at the bank wronged me,"
perhaps God, or perhaps oneself.
In any case, when one gets angry,
they want to find someone to be "responsible" for what happened.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

TIME is poisonous construct of our rattlesnake minds.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

You hurt because you're alive.
- the 2010 movie Charlie St. Cloud

It is better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.
- Alfred Lord Tennyson

Human salvation lies in the hands
of the creatively maladjusted.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.
- Henry David Thoreau

There are people in the world so hungry,
that God cannot appear to them
except in the form of bread.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

Suspicion and jealousy are the death knell of any relationship.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Love is missing someone whenever you're apart,
but somehow feeling warm inside because you're close in heart.
- Kay Knudsen

There are no good-byes.
Wherever we are, you'll always be in my heart.
- Anonymous

I object to violence because
when it appears to do good,
the good is only temporary;
the evil it does is permanent.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

History is written by the victors.
- Winston Churchill

Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love.
- George Eliot

The very ink with which all history
is written is merely fluid prejudice.
- Mark Twain

Guilt says I've done something wrong;
... shame says there is something wrong with me.
Guilt says I've made a mistake;
... shame says I am a mistake.
Guilt says what did was not good;
... shame says I am no good.
- John Bradshaw

It takes a long while for a naturally trustful person
to reconcile himself to the idea that
after all God will not help him
- H. L. Mencken

As selfishness and complaint
pervert and cloud the mind,
so love with its joy
clears and sharpens the vision.
- Helen Keller

A pessimist is never disappointed.
- Jack Cleary

Those who play with the devil's toys
will be brought by degrees to wield his sword.
- R. Buckminster Fuller

Suffering is everywhere. Don't ever think it isn't.
So are miracles. Don't ever think they aren't.
- Jewel

It's so easy to fall in love
but hard to find someone who will catch you.
- Anonymous

When men destroy their old gods,
they will find new ones to take their place.
- Pearl S. Buck

To fall in love is awfully simple,
but to fall out of love is simply awful.
- Bess Myerson

It is never good dwelling on good-byes ...
it is not the being together that it prolongs, it is the parting.
- Elizabeth Bibesco

If self-validation were our
most significant societal measure -
we would give trophies to ourselves.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

Every goodbye is the birth of a memory.
- Dutch Proverb

Do not save your loving speeches
For your friends till they are dead;
Do not write them on their tombstones,
Speak them rather now instead.
- Anna Cummins

Careers and relationships also have their cycles
of birth, growth, and death -
to be followed by rebirth and the renewal of the cycle.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

The one who loves the least, controls the relationship.
- Robert Anthony

Those whom we can love, we can hate;
to others we are indifferent.
- Henry David Thoreau

When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of,
he always declares that it's his duty.
- George Bernard Shaw

True friendship's laws are by this rule express'd,
Welcome the coming, speed the parting guest.
- Alexander Pope

Maybe I could have loved you better.
Maybe you should have loved me more.
Maybe our hearts were just next in line.
Maybe everything breaks sometime.
- Jewel

Those who realize their folly are not true fools.
- Zhuangzi

By all means marry.
If you get a good wife, you'll be happy.
If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher
and that is a good thing for any man.
- Socrates

Love begins with a smile,
grows with a kiss,
and ends with a teardrop.
- Anonymous

Ambition is like love,
impatient both of delays and rivals.
- The Buddha

Deep in my heart I'm concealing things
that I'm longing to say.
Scared to confess what I'm feeling -
frightened you'll slip away.
- the movie Evita

I have lost my seven best friends,
which is to say that God has had mercy on me
seven times without realizing it.
He lent a friendship, took it from me, and sent me another.
- Jean Cocteau

But what a cruel thing is war
to separate and destroy families and friends.
- Robert E. Lee

There are three rules for dating:
1) Don't;
2) If you must, just be careful;
3) Forget the rules, your hormones will win anyway.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Let my soul smile through my heart
and my heart smile through my eyes,
that I may scatter rich smiles in sad hearts.
- Paramahansa Yogananda

Alas for those that never sing,
But die with all their music in them!
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

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

One of the greatest cause of unhappiness -
perhaps even the only cause of unhappiness - is comparison.
I remember as a young child hearing my mother say,
"Comparisons are odious."
That is one of the oldest sayings in the English language,
and one of the most important.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Parting is all we know of heaven, and all we need of hell.
- Emily Dickinson

This too, shall pass.
- Bible

Though lovers be lost love shall not.
- Dylan Thomas

He who does not trust enough,
will not be trusted.
- Lao Tzu

Participate joyfully in the sorrows of the world.
We cannot cure the world of sorrows,
but we can choose to live in joy.
- Joseph Campbell

Solitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strong.
- Winston Churchill

Small people never learn to be indifferent;
they either envy or pity.
- Anonymous

The world is a mirror for anger,
which returns to its source as burning torment.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

An unclean person is universally a slothful one.
- Henry David Thoreau

Touch me in the morning
Then just walk away
We don't have tomorrow
But we had yesterday
- Ron Miller/Michael Masser

Self-pity is our worst enemy
and if we yield to it,
we can never do anything wise in this world.
- Helen Keller

When you break up, your whole identity is
shattered. It's like death.
- Dennis Quaid

The River of Life is the source of all joy -
and the source of all sorrow.
Yet the River has no joy -
and the River has no sorrow.
The River is just the River.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Jealousy is a child of selfishness and distrust.
- Mourning Dove

We are addicted to being the way we are
- don Miguel Ruiz

A person isn't who they are during
the last conversation you had with them -
they're who they've been
throughout your whole relationship.
- Rainer Maria Rilke

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