So Sad Quotes

• So sad, so fresh the days that are no more.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  'The Princess' (1847) pt. 4, l. 30, song (added 1850)

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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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• Our family has gone through a very difficult time. My husband and I have taken the brunt of it. I've never known what it truly felt like to be so sad and desperate inside.

  Tracey Gold

  Husband, Taken, Gone

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• It's so sad that no one writes down the things we go through, and even worse - no one will ever know about it, no one will ever see or hear about it, no one will ever be able to restore.

  Javier Marías

  Writing, Able, Knows

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• Then I feel so happy and at the same time so sad, it's unimaginable.

  Anton Chekhov

  Feels, Unimaginable

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• Home is so sad. It stays as it was left, / Shaped to the comfort of the last to go / As if to win them back

  Philip Larkin

  Home, Winning, Comfort

  Philip Larkin (2012). “The Whitsun Weddings”, p.14, Faber & Faber

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• "What do you want out of life?" I asked, and I used to ask that all the time of girls. "I don't know," she said. "Just wait on tables and try to get along." She yawned. I put my hand over her mouth and told her not to yawn. I tried to tell her how excited I was about life and the things we could do together; saying that, and planning to leave Denver in two days. She turned away wearily. We lay on our backs, looking at the ceiling and wondering what God had wrought when He made life so sad.

  Jack Kerouac

  Girl, Hands, Two

  "On the Road". Book by Jack Kerouac, 1957.

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• Why do all the clerks and navvies in the railway trains look so sad and tired, so very sad and tired? I will tell you. It is because they know that the train is going right. It is because they know that whatever place they have taken a ticket for that place they will reach. It is because after they have passed Sloane Square they know that the next station must be Victoria, and nothing but Victoria. Oh, their wild rapture! oh, their eyes like stars and their souls again in Eden, if the next station were unaccountably Baker Street!

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Stars, Taken, Tired

  Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.145, Simon and Schuster

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• I think I have a dark view of the world. I have to make everything funny, otherwise it all seems so sad.

  Moon Unit Zappa

  Dark, Thinking, Views

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• It's so sad: anything that has to do with God, people want to dispel.

  Sylvia Browne

  People, Want

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• I was so sad from losing two of my dogs and my mother. I had this vision of all these animals sitting behind bars. They had no control and were scared. That's why I got into fostering and adopting animals out.

  Linda Blair

  Mother, Dog, Animal

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• That's what so sad about a lot of modern music, in my opinion, so many young bands never stay around long enough to fulfill their ultimate promise. They only get halfway there or a quarter of the way there.

  Alan Vega

  Halfway There, Long, Promise

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• It is yesterday that makes tomorrow so sad.

  Austin O'Malley

  Yesterday, Tomorrow

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• Many years ago in a period commonly know as Next Friday Afternoon, there lived a King who was very Gloomy on Tuesday mornings because he was so Sad thinking about how Unhappy he had been on Monday and how completely Mournful he would be on Wednesday.

  Walt Kelly

  Friday, Monday, Morning

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• Do console your poor friend, who is so troubled to see his paintings so miserable, so sad, next to the radiant nature he has before his eyes!

  Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot

  Eye, Next, Painting

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• Once I was checking to hotel and a couple saw my ring with Blues on it. They said, 'You play blues. That music is so sad.' I gave them tickets to the show, and they came up afterwards and said, 'You didn't play one sad song.'

  Buddy Guy

  Song, Couple, Play

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• Just like Marilyn Monroe is a lot of girls' idol, that's how I feel about Dorothy Dandridge. And she any Marilyn were very close friends. She went through a lot, and people told her that she couldn't do certain things, but she didn't let that bother her. She said in her mind that she was going to do them and that nothing was impossible, and she did it. It was so sad... She died from drugs, and drinking as well.

  Janet Jackson

  Girl, Drinking, Idols

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Without art, without communicating, we wouldn't live beyond 30 because we'd be so sad and depressed.

  Wayne Coyne

  Depressing, Art, Communicate

  "Straight from the Lip" by Amy Raphael, www.theguardian.com. June 29, 2003.

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• Come back, come back, back to Jamaica
  Don't you know we made a big mistaika
  We would be so sad if you told us goodbye
  And we promise not to shoot you out of the sky!

  Jimmy Buffett

  Goodbye, Jamaica, Sky

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• I felt more alone that week than any. Sometimes I'd feel a body lying next to me like an amputee feels a phantom limb. All I did was think about Jennie Gerhardt and Alice Quinn and all the decades of people I had known. The more I thought, the more I felt like crying. Life seemed so sweet and so sad, and so hard to let go of in the end. But hey, man, every day is a brand new deal, right? Just keep on working and something's bound to turn up.

  Harvey Pekar

  Letting Go, Sweet, Lying

  "Fictional character: Real Harvey". "American Splendor", www.imdb.com. 2003.

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• I want to write songs that are so sad, the kind of sad where you take someone's little finger and break it in three places.

  Nick Cave

  Song, Writing, Three

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I know I can feel bad, when I get in a bad mood, and the world can look so sad, only you make me feel good.

  Madonna Ciccone

  Sad, Feel Good, Looks

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• I think there’s a lot of threshold weeping. Like, am I doing this? Am I really wearing this out in the world? My daughter is very much like that. She will put clothes on and her clothes just make her beside herself. They make her so sad sometimes. And you do realize you feel betrayed sometimes by your own clothing. You put something on that usually protects you and makes you OK, and sometimes you’re just not fit for the world and even your best pants can’t overcome that feeling for you.

  Heidi Julavits

  Daughter, Thinking, Clothes

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• Do you know the difference between an optimist and a pessimist? A pessimist says ‘Oh dear, things can’t possibly get any worse.’ And an optimist says, ‘Don’t be so sad. Things can always get worse.

  Steven Galloway

  Differences, Pessimist, Optimist

  Steven Galloway (2009). “The Cellist of Sarajevo”, p.53, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• I think people, especially the press, like to pick on children of famous people and I think that's fucking awful. Things get made up. It's so, so sad. And there's absolutely nothing you can do about it as a 16-year-old. You're like, Why? What did I do?

  Dakota Johnson

  Children, Thinking, Years

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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