Saddest Quotes

• Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Life, Happiness, Sad

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  Nobody deserves your tears, but whoever deserves them will not make you cry.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Sad, Stay Strong, Tears

  FaceBook post by Gabriel García Márquez from Jun 29, 2011

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  And ever has it been known that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.

  Khalil Gibran

  Love, Relationship, Smile

  Khalil Gibran (2014). “The Prophet - Der Prophet”, p.18, Lulu.com

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• Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source.

  Anais Nin

  Sad, Broken Heart, Heartbreak

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• Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings.

  Anais Nin

  Love, Life, Inspiring

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• Every man has his secret sorrows.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Sad, Depression, Being Happy

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• there are two types of people in the world: those who prefer to be sad among others, and those who prefer to be sad alone.

  Nicole Krauss

  Love, Sad, Two

  Nicole Krauss (2006). “The History of Love: A Novel”, p.155, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Sadness flies away on the wings of time.

  Jean de La Fontaine

  Broken Heart, Heartbreak, Heartbroken

  Jean de La Fontaine (2013). “Selected Fables: A Dual-Language Book”, p.75, Courier Corporation

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• There is no greater sorrow than to recall happiness in times of misery.

  Dante Alighieri

  Inspirational, Happiness, Sad

  Dante Alighieri, Stanley Lombardo (2009). “Inferno”, p.26, Hackett Publishing

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• So, this is my life. And I want you to know that I am both happy and sad and I'm still trying to figure out how that could be.

  Stephen Chbosky

  Love, Inspirational, Sadness

  Stephen Chbosky (2013). “The Perks of Being a Wallflower YA edition”, p.11, Simon and Schuster

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• Sometimes you need to run away just to see who will come after you.

  Lisa Page Brooks

  Sad, Running, Needs

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• The greatest day of my life was the day I married Mrs. Ford.

  Henry Ford

  Married, Self Empowering

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• There are two types of people in the world, and I'm one of them.

  Aaron Allston

  Sad, Two, People

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• Sadness is but a wall between two gardens.

  Khalil Gibran

  Sad, Wall, Grief

  Khalil Gibran “The New Frontier and Sand and Foam”, Library of Alexandria

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• 'Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Love, Funny, Life

  In Memoriam canto 27 (1850) See Congreve 7

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• My feeling is that there is nothing in life but refraining from hurting others, and comforting those who are sad.

  Olive Schreiner

  Sad, Hurt, Kindness

  Olive Schreiner (1988). “Olive Schreiner Letters: 1871-1899”, Oxford University Press, USA

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• There are those who suffer and grow strong; there are those who suffer and grow weak. This mystery of pain is still for me the saddest of earth's disabilities.

  Silas Weir Mitchell

  Strong, Pain, Suffering

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• Of all the words of mice and men, the saddest are, "It might have been.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Inspirational, Sad, Regret

  Kurt Vonnegut (2009). “Cat's Cradle: A Novel”, p.279, Dial Press

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• Saddest of all are the women who were brought up to believe that self-sacrifice is the highest female virtue. They made the sacrifice, often willingly, and they are still waiting for the blessing.

  Jeanette

  Believe, Sacrifice, Blessing

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• Too late! The two saddest words in any tongue.

  Dagmar Godowsky

  Two, Too Late, Tongue

  Dagmar Godowsky (1958). “First Person Plural: The Lives of Dagmar Godowsky”, Viking Adult

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• Keep reminding yourself that literature is one of the saddest roads that leads to everything.

  Andre Breton

  Literature, Reminding Yourself, Reminding

  "Manifesto of Surrealism". Book by André Breton, 1924.

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• A withered maple leaf has left its branch and is falling to the ground; its movements resemble those of a butterfly in flight. Isn't it strange? The saddest and deadest of things is yet so like the gayest and most vital of creatures?

  Ivan Turgenev

  Fall, Butterfly, Movement

  Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev (1961). “Fathers and sons”, Signet Classics

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• The fact that you got a little happier today doesn't change the fact that you also became a little sadder. Every day you become a little more of both, which means that right now, at this exact moment, you're the happiest and saddest you've ever been in your whole life.

  Nicole Krauss

  Mean, Littles, Today

  Nicole Krauss (2006). “The History of Love: A Novel”, p.91, W. W. Norton & Company

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• May the saddest day of your future be no worse than the happiest day of your past.

  P.B. Kerr

  Blessing, Past, May

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• I’m so jealous,” she whispered, and he blinked.
  “Of what?”
  Her head fell back on the pillow, and she stared up at the ceiling with the saddest eyes he’d ever seen. “You’re so alive, Lore. There’s fire in you. A will to live, when all I want is to be done with this life.

  Larissa Ione

  Jealous, Eye, Fire

  "Ecstasy Unveiled". Book by Larissa Ione, 2010.

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