Saddest Quotes - Page 8

• To be known for one's saddest story is not the road to notoriety anyone would willingly choose.

  Michael Dorris

  Stories, Notoriety, Known

  Michael Dorris (1994). “Paper trail: essays”, Harpercollins

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• Your hope is the most beautiful and the saddest in the world.

  Naomi Benaron

  Beautiful, World

  Naomi Benaron (2012). “Running the Rift”, p.230, Oneworld Publications

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• The saddest life is that of a political aspirant under democracy. His failure is ignominious and his success is disgraceful.

  H. L. Mencken

  Political, Democracy, Life Is

  'Baltimore Evening Sun' 9 December 1929

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• If only…the saddest words in the English language.

  Kristan Higgins

  Language, English Language, Ifs

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• One of the saddest sights to me has always been a human at a keyboard doing something by hand that could be automated. It's sad but hilarious.

  Boris Beizer

  Sight, Hands, Keyboards

  Boris Beizer (1995). “Black-Box Testing: Techniques for Functional Testing of Software and Systems”, Wiley

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• Have you ever noticed, the saddest person has the most beautiful smile

  Kid Cudi

  Beautiful, Beautiful Smile, Persons

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• The saddest thing that can happen to a person is to find out their memories are lies.

  Juan Gabriel

  Memories, Lying, Persons

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• Family organisation is broken and young animals are increasingly being denied a mother to turn to for comfort and for grooming. One of the saddest and most pathetic of farm practices - inevitable at the present time for the supply of dairy produce - is the separation of the calf from the cow at birth or soon after.

  Ruth Harrison

  Mother, Animal, Practice

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• No matter what is happening in our lives, we choose how we wish to think about it. And the greatest gift we give ourselves is often our willingness to change our minds. Despite what might seem to be the saddest and most intractable situation, we have the power to believe that something else is possible, that things can change, that a miracle can happen.

  Marianne Williamson

  Believe, Thinking, Giving

  Marianne Williamson (2012). “The Law of Divine Compensation: On Work, Money, and Miracles”, p.7, Harper Collins

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• As a mother you are only as happy as your saddest child

  Beth Moore

  Mother, Children

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• People are happiest when they are giving, they are saddest when they are just taking. And that is the core message of community.

  Kevin Rudd

  Giving, People, Community

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• An artist's saddest secrets are those that have to do with his artistry.

  Willa Cather

  Artist, Secret, Artistry

  Willa Cather (2013). “The Essential Willa Cather Collection”, p.1799, eBookIt.com

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• So sad! This is the saddest part when you lose someone you love- that person keeps changing. And later you wonder, Is this the same person I lost?

  Amy Tan

  Someone You Love, Wonder, Lost

  Amy Tan (2006). “The Kitchen God's Wife”, p.80, Penguin

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• ... the more one needs God the more perfect he is. To need God is nothing to be ashamed of but is perfection itself. It is the saddest thing in the world if a human being goes through life without discovering that he needs God!

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Christian, Perfect, Needs

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• I've been the saddest while I've been the most successful, strangely.

  Priyanka Chopra

  Successful

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• I have to admit that one of the saddest things I see in ministry is a woman who belittles her husband. Even if he has indeed failed in some way, his wife’s disparaging words compound the disaster exponentially. Her cynicism is utterly emasculating, and many times, incredibly subtle. Like a fine, thin blade, it slices deep, penetrating to the very core of his masculine soul.

  Stu Weber

  Husband, Wife, Soul

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• If, of all words of tongue and pen, The saddest are, It might have been,' More sad are these we daily see: 'It is, but hadn't ought to be!'

  Bret Harte

  Might, Tongue, Ought

  'Mrs Judge Jenkins.'

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• The human soul finds its saddest imprisonment when it is helpless in the presence of cruelty, when it cannot right a wrong. It finds its highest freedom when it can secure justice to others.

  Jenkin Lloyd Jones

  Justice, Soul, Cruelty

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• The greatest and saddest defect is not credulity, but an habitual forgetfulness that our science is ignorance.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Ignorance, Forgetfulness, Defects

  Henry David Thoreau, Odell Shepard (1961). “The Heart of Thoreau's Journals”, p.214, Courier Corporation

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• Strange as it may seem, the most ludicrous lines I ever wrote have been written in the saddest mood.

  William Cowper

  Lines, May, Strange

  William Cowper, Robert Southey, William Harvey (1836). “The Works of William Cowper: Life and works of Cowper, by R. Southey”, p.39

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• Two people who were once very close can without blame or grand betrayal become strangers. Perhaps this is the saddest thing in the world.

  Warsan Shire

  Love, Betrayal, Two

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• Oh the saddest of sights in a world of sin Is the little lost pup with his tail tucked in.

  Arthur Guiterman

  Dog, Loss, Sight

  Arthur Guiterman (1915). “The Laughing Muse”

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• It is my saddest day as an MP when my party brings in a bill which I'm fundamentally opposed to. I'm very sad my party has brought this in without any democratic mandate.

  Peter Bone

  Party, Gay, Mps

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• The saddest thing about any man is that he be ignorant, and the most exciting thing is that he knows.

  Alfred the Great

  Men, Ignorant, Exciting

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• Cancer Boy probably has the saddest, noblest, sweetest heart of any character I've ever done.

  Bruce McCulloch

  Cancer, Heart, Character

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