Saddest Quotes - Page 4

• 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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• Hopelessness may be the saddest word in our language. Despair is the enemy of our souls. It can paralyze us, halt our progress, and cause us to lose our way. But hope awakens us like a light shining in the darkness. We can endure all things when our hope is centered in one who will never fail us-our Savior, Jesus Christ, who is the light of the world.

  Dwan J. Young

  Jesus, Light, Shining

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• People cannot stand the saddest truth I know about the very nature of reading and writing imaginative literature, which is that poetry does not teach us how to talk to other people: it teaches us how to talk to ourselves. What I'm desperately trying to do is to get students to talk to themselves as though they are indeed themselves, and not someone else.

  Harold Bloom

  Reading, Writing, People

  "Falstaff for our times". www.theguardian.com. March 5, 1999.

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• Sometimes I think the people to feel the saddest for are people who are unable to connect with the profound—people such as my boring brother-in-law, a hearty type so concerned with normality and fitting in that he eliminates any possibility of uniqueness for himself and his own personality. I wonder if some day, when he is older, he will wake up and the deeper part of him will realize that he has never allowed himself to truly exist, and he will cry with regret and shame and grief.

  Douglas Coupland

  Brother, Regret, Grief

  Douglas Coupland (2012). “Life After God”, p.31, Simon and Schuster

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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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• 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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• In the lives of the saddest of us, there are bright days like this, when we feel as if we could take the great world in our arms and kiss it. Then come the gloomy hours, when the fire will neither burn on our hearths nor in our hearts; and all without and within is dismal, cold, and dark. Believe me, every heart has its secret sorrows, which the world knows not, and oftentimes we call a man cold, when he is only sad.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Depression, Believe, Heart

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1849). “Hyperion: A Romance”, p.154

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• The saddest sight these days is the image of hundreds of thousands of children kidnapped and lured into being child soldiers from the age of eight.

  Roger Moore

  Children, Eight, Sight

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• Even the saddest things can become, once we have made peace with them, a source of wisdom and strength.

  Frederick Buechner

  Inspirational, Hurt, Source

  Frederick Buechner (1991). “Telling Secrets”, Harper San Francisco

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• The saddest failures in life are those that come from not putting forth the power and will to succeed.

  Edwin Percy Whipple

  Inspirational, Life, Success

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

  Vincent Gallo

  Guy, World

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• I came to see that what constitutes strength is not just a muscle or will. It can also include the most desperate vulnerability, the saddest heartache, the lightest, sweetest laughter.

  Brenda Shaughnessy

  Laughter, Heartache, Desperate

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Earth's saddest day and gladdest day were just three days apart!

  Sarah Chauncey Woolsey

  Easter, Three, Earth

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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 songs are written when a person is happy.

  Merle Travis

  Song, Persons, Written

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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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• May your happiest days of the past be your saddest days of your future.

  Laurence J. Peter

  Happiness, Sadness, Blessing

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• The melancholy days are come, the saddest of the year, Of wailing winds, and naked woods and meadows brown and sear.

  William C. Bryant

  Fall, Sadness, Autumn

  William Cullen Bryant, “The Death Of The Flowers”

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