Saddest Quotes - Page 3

• It's the most extraordinary and saddest thing, the amount of talent out there not being seen.

  Gedde Watanabe

  Talent, Extraordinary, Amount

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• The saddest thing is that when I sat down to rehearse for the Pixies, I couldn't believe that I had given up something that I loved. Now I hold the drum at night and I want to go to bed with it.

  Joey Santiago

  Believe, Night, Bed

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• The saddest thing one meets is a nominal Christian. I had not seen it in Japan where missions is younger. The church here is a “field full of wheat and tares.

  Amy Carmichael

  Christian, Japan, Church

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• The saddest thing that befalls a soul is when it loses faith in god and woman.

  Alexander Smith

  Faith, Soul, Loses

  Alexander Smith (1859). “A Life-drama: And Other Poems”, p.148

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• I don't think I'll write a large novel again because it was like being in jail for me. Even though that's the funniest book I've ever written, it was the saddest period of my life.

  Sandra Cisneros

  Book, Writing, Thinking

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• It was just like Howlin' Wolf. Once you arrive at the point that you understand it, the emotional factor is darker than some of the saddest blues stuff.

  Robert Quine

  Emotional, Stuff, Howlin Wolf

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• All of our saddest songs have somewhere in them at least a glimmer of resolve - Street Spirit has no resolve. It is the dark tunnel without the light at the end.

  Thom Yorke

  Song, Dark, Tunnels

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• What I do now is all my dad's fault, because he bought me a guitar as a boy, for no apparent reason. ... I wrote some of my best love songs ever when I was unhappy and my saddest love songs when I was very much in love. When I wrote 'You're in My Heart', which is an uplifting song, I had just broken up with-Now who had I broken up with?. ... Half the battle is selling music, not singing it. It's the image, not what you sing.

  Rod Stewart

  Uplifting, Song, Best Love

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• The saddest day of the year is the day baseball season ends.

  Tommy Lasorda

  Inspirational, Motivational, Baseball

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• The saddest thing in life is to marry a woman who looks like a cook--and isn't.

  Evan Esar

  Things In Life, Cooking, Looks

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• One of the saddest realities is that we never know when our lives are at their peak. Only after it is over and we have some kind of perspective do we realize how good we had it a day, a month, five years ago.

  Jonathan Carroll

  Reality, Years, Perspective

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• One of the saddest things about US education is that the wisdom of our most successful teachers is lost to the profession when they retire.

  John Dewey

  Teacher, Teaching, Successful

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• The saddest object in civilization, and to my mind the greatest confession of its failure, is the man who can work, who wants work, and who is not allowed to work.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Men, Civilization, Mind

  Quoted by Lloyd Osbourne in 'The Death of Stevenson', preface To Tusitala edition of Weir of Hermiston (published 1924).

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• If I am not, may God place me there; if I am, may God so keep me. I should be the saddest in all the world if I knew that I were not in the grace of God. But if I were in a state of sin, do you think the Voice would come to me? I would that every one could hear the Voice as I hear it.

  Joan of Arc

  Thinking, Voice, Grace

  "Saint Joan of Arc's Trials" edited by T. Douglas Murray, www.stjoan-center.com. 1903.

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• Whoever admits that he is too busy to improve his methods, has acknowledged himself to be at the end of his rope. And that is always the saddest predicament which any one can get into.

  J. Ogden Armour

  Failure, Rope, Busy

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• The saddest fact I've learned is nobody matters less to our society than young black women. Nobody.

  Jim DeRogatis

  Black, Our Society, Matter

  "Miss Me With the Pass for R. Kelly", www.huffingtonpost.com. December 3, 2015.

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• The saddest songs are written when a person is happy.

  Merle Travis

  Song, Persons, Written

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• The saddest summary of a life contains three descriptions: could have, might have, and should have.

  Louis E. Boone

  Life, Sad, Fear

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• The idea of regretting not doing this seemed insane to me. Sitting in the corner at a bar at age 60, saying: 'I could've been Bond. Buy me a drink.' That's the saddest place I could be. At least now at 60 I can say: 'I was Bond. Now buy me a drink.'

  Daniel Craig

  Birthday, Regret, Ideas

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• I am happy, thats just the saddest lie

  Kid Cudi

  Lying

  Song: Soundtrack To My Life, Album: Man on the Moon: The End of Day, 2009

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• I'm the happiest the saddest guy in the world can be.

  Vincent Gallo

  Guy, World

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• The saddest thing in life is wasted talent, and the choices you make will shape your life forever.

  Chazz Palminteri

  Things In Life, Choices, Forever

  Twitter post from Apr 15, 2015

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• Consider the Koran... this wretched book was sufficient to start a world-religion, to satisfy the metaphysical need of countless millions for twelve hundred years, to become the basis of their morality and of a remarkable contempt for death, and also to inspire them to bloody wars and the most extensive conquests. In this book we find the saddest and poorest form of theism. Much may be lost in translation, but I have not been able to discover in it one single idea of value.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  War, Book, Years

  "The World as Will and Representation" by Arthur Schopenhauer, translated by E. Payne, Vol. II, Ch. XVII, 1958.

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• Granting our wish is one of Fate's saddest jokes.

  James Russell Lowell

  Success, Fate, Wish

  James Russell Lowell (1871). “The poetical works of James Russell Lowell”, p.426

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• One of the saddest things about conformity is the ghastly sort of non-conformity it breeds; the noisy protesting, the aggressive rebelliousness, the rigid counter-fetishism.

  Louis Kronenberger

  Revolution, Conformity, Rebellion

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