Saddened Quotes

• I am personally saddened and stunned by the tragic events that took place in Red Lake.

  Collin Peterson

  Lakes, Events, Red

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• I am so saddened and grossed out by young women who look like creepy, old aliens because of their new Barbie noses and lips. Is that a smile or a grimace?

  Olivia Wilde

  Creepy, Barbie, Looks

  "Olivia Wilde Tells Us Her Dos and Don'ts of Turning 30". www.glamour.com. August 5, 2013.

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• I am saddened by how people treat one another and how we are so shut off from one another and how we judge one another, when the truth is, we are all one connected thing. We are all from the same exact molecules.

  Ellen DeGeneres

  People, Judging, Judgement

  "Oprah Talks to Ellen DeGeneres". Interview with Oprah Winfrey, www.oprah.com. December 2009.

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• We've become obsessed with beauty and the fountain of youth and, frankly, I'm really saddened by the way women mutilate their faces today in search of that.

  Halle Berry

  Beauty, Today, Way

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• One cannot be deeply responsive to the world without being saddened very often.

  Erich Fromm

  Sadness, Compassion, Curiosity

  ABC TV, May 25, 1958.

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• I am deeply saddened by the death of my dear friend, Dudley Moore.

  Liza Minnelli

  Dear Friend, Dear

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• Wherefore, be of good cheer, and do not fear, for I the Lord am with you, and will stand by you.

  Thomas S. Monson

  Cheer, Lord, Do Not Fear

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• Men are that they might have joy . . . not guilt trips.

  Russell M. Nelson

  Men, Joy, Guilt

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• Sometimes we are saddened by the weight of our sins. May we not be discouraged. Christ has come to lift this burden and give us peace.

  Pope Francis

  Giving, Weight, May

  Pope Francis‏ @Pontifex, twitter.com. February 1, 2014.

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• [I am] saddened, saddened, that this president [Bush] failed so miserably at diplomacy that we're now forced to go to war. Saddened that we have to give up one life because this president couldn't create the kind of diplomatic effort that was so critical for our country.

  Tom Daschle

  Country, Giving Up, War

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• Like everyone, I'm saddened and horrified by this. All I'll say is that I'm personally trying to pay more attention to the victims than to their murderer. I certainly will not be mentioning the murderer. I don't think he warrants our attention-particularly since he so clearly wanted it.

  John Green

  Real, Thinking, Trying

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• As one studies these preconditions, one becomes saddened by the ease with which human potentiality can be destroyed or repressed, so that a fully-human person can seem like a miracle, so improbable a happening as to be awe-inspiring. And simultaneously one is heartened by the fact that self-actualizing persons do in fact exist, that they are therefore possible, that the gauntlet of dangers can be run, that the finish line can be crossed.

  Abraham Maslow

  Running, Motivation, Self

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• Being myself animated by feelings of affection toward my fellowmen, I am saddened by the modern system of advertising. Whatever evidence it offers of enterprise, ingenuity, impudence, and resource in certain individuals, it proves to my mind the wide prevalence of that form of mental degradation which is called gullibility.

  Joseph Conrad

  Sadness, Feelings, Mind

  Joseph Conrad (2015). “A Set of Six”, p.103, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• I am saddened that it is politically inconvenient to acknowledge what everyone knows: the Iraq war is largely about oil.

  Alan Greenspan

  War, Oil, Iraq

  Alan Greenspan (2008). “The Age of Turbulence: Adventures in a New World”, p.644, Penguin UK

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• I am moved by the spirit of Angolans and the work UNICEF is doing, but I am saddened by the hardships I have seen, and the fact that a little flexing of financial muscle from rich countries could do so much.

  Alyssa Milano

  Country, Children, Rich Countries

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• I'm aware that many of my friends will be saddened and shocked, or shock-saddened, over some of the chapters in 'The Catcher In the Rye.' Some of my best friends are children. In fact, all my best friends are children. It's almost unbearable for me to realize that my book will be kept on a shelf out of their reach.

  J. D. Salinger

  Children, Book, My Best Friend

  "The Twentieth Century". Book by Caroline Farrar Ware, p. 429, 1972.

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• As a human being I am personally saddened, as I have a great deal of respect for the large number of British colleagues I have worked with over the years. That is why I personally invested countless hours, days and nights, in negotiating a fair deal for the United Kingdom.

  Jean-Claude Juncker

  Night, Numbers, Years

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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• I'm saddened to see that some have been misled into believing that Mr. Disney was something other than a kind, caring man.

  Annette Funicello

  Believe, Caring, Men

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• Your characters are always your children. And while you are writing, you're keeping them safe. Now they're ready to go into the world and it's sad. I'm happy with the way the novel came out but all the characters' ending really saddened me.

  Yiyun Li

  Children, Writing, Character

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I am deeply saddened by the loss of my children`s grandfather and my very dear friend. I loved big John with all my heart. ... Johnny Cash will, like Will Rogers, stand forever as a symbol of intelligence, creativity, compassion and common sense.

  Rodney Crowell

  Children, Heart, Creativity

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• I saw the horrible way that people could treat each other. That may be the saddest thing of all. I saw greed and anger and murder and a total lack of concern for human life. It was a wicked side of the human soul that I saw... and it saddened me to know that such a dark place existed.

  D. J. MacHale

  Dark, People, Greed

  D.J. MacHale (2002). “The Merchant of Death”, p.360, Simon and Schuster

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• Jared glared. Some people, Kami knew, had bedroom eyes. She was saddened to have to admit that Jared had filthy alleyway eyes.

  Sarah Rees Brennan

  Eye, People, Bedroom

  Sarah Rees Brennan (2012). “Unspoken”, p.165, Simon and Schuster

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• Nothing has saddened me so much in life as the hardness of heart of educated people.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Heart

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• A cynic who was still saddened whenever his jaundiced view of mankind was confirmed.

  Sharon Kay Penman

  Views, Cynic, Mankind

  Sharon Kay Penman (2010). “When Christ and His Saints Slept”, p.89, Macmillan

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• I'm often saddened and dismayed to see myself portrayed as either a Luddite or as a raving technophile. I've always thought that my job was to be as anthropologically neutral about emerging technologies as possible.

  William Gibson

  Jobs, Technology, Emerging

  Interview with Noel Murray, www.avclub.com. August 22, 2007.

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