Very Sad Quotes

• Nothing hurts more than realizing they meant everything to you, but you meant nothing to them.

  Maya Angelou

  Sad Love, Hurt, Realizing

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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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• I hate the moment when suddenly my anger turns into tears

  Timothy Keller

  Sad, Hate, Heart Failure

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• The greater your capacity to love, the greater your capacity to feel the pain.

  Jennifer Aniston

  Love, Inspiring, Sad

  "Oprah Magazine", 2004.

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• Tears are words the heart can't express

  Gerard Way

  Sad, Heart, Sorrow

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• Better by far you should forget and smile than that you should remember and be sad.

  Christina Rossetti

  Happiness, Smile, Sad

  "Remember" l. 13 (1862)

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• Reject your sense of injury, and the injury itself disappears.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Happiness, Sad, Broken Heart

  "Meditations". Book by Marcus Aurelius (circa 170), p. 19, 1995 edition.

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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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• 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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• 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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• Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Sad, Song, Musical

  "To a Skylark" l. 88 (1819)

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• The authentic thing is to follow your heart, your instincts, your emotions. If you located yourself in an idea, your life would be lived very sadly.

  Emmet Gowin

  Photography, Heart, Ideas

  "Emmet Gowin: 'Everyone thought my photographs were incestuous'". Interview with Sarah Moroz, www.theguardian.com. May 29, 2014.

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• Ninety percent of people who lose weight gain it back. It's very sad.

  Richard Simmons

  People, Weight, Gains

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• I'm very, very sad to say that the only Sondheim show I've done is "A Little Night Music" and it was when I was in college.

  Kristin Chenoweth

  Night, College, Done

  Interview with Pat Cerasaro, www.broadwayworld.com. October 2, 2010.

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• The blues to me is like being very sad, very sick, going to church, being very happy ... it's sort of a mixed up thing. You just have to feel it.

  Billie Holiday

  Sick, Church, Very Happy

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• A year from now, I could go away, and people might say, 'Gosh, what ever happened to that girl who never wore pants?' But how wonderfully memorable 30 years from now, when they say, 'Do you remember Gaga and her bubbles?' Because, for a minute, everybody in that room will forget every sad, painful thing in their lives, and they'll just live in my bubble world.

  Lady Gaga

  Girl, Memorable, Years

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• deep down...she's a good woman...you should be proud of her." When I told my mom about this, she just looked very sad because he could never say those things to her. Not ever. Not even when he walked her down the aisle.

  Stephen Chbosky

  Mom, Good Woman, Proud

  Stephen Chbosky (2012). “The Perks of Being a Wallflower”, p.58, Simon and Schuster

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• So it's an absolute lie that has killed thousands of kids. Because the mothers who heard that lie, many of them didn't have their kids take either pertussis or measles vaccine, and their children are dead today. And so the people who go and engage in those anti-vaccine efforts -- you know, they, they kill children. It's a very sad thing, because these vaccines are important.

  Bill Gates

  Mother, Children, Lying

  "Bill Gates: Vaccine-autism link 'an absolute lie'". Interview with Sanjay Gupta, www.cnn.com. February 4, 2011.

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• Ethan and I are done," I said finally. "I'm sorry." "He was my first boyfriend." "I know." "The only real boyfriend I've had. I'm a senior in high school and he was my only real boyfriend." "I know." "And I won't find another one at Jones Hall. That is guaranteed." "Okay." "This is all very sad and tragic," I said. Alan unwrapped a sleeve of Smarties. "Yet, oddly, you don't seem that upset." "I know.

  Sara Zarr

  Senior, Sorry, Real

  Sara Zarr (2008). “Sweethearts”, p.148, Hachette UK

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• He'd just have to lie there and die, watched over by strange stars who didn't know him, didn't care for him. It was very sad, really.

  John Flanagan

  Stars, Lying, Care

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• Don't be too hasty," she warned. "Conserve your strength. If you're too eager to fight the undead, you may find yourselves joining them. Then you'd never see us again, and we'd be very sad." "Yes," said Christian. "I'd cry into my pillow every night." I resisted the urge to kick him. "Well, I couldn't visit if I was Strigoi, yeah, but hopefully I'd just die a normal death. Then I could come see you as a ghost.

  Richelle Mead

  Christian, Fighting, Night

  Richelle Mead (2008). “Shadow Kiss: A Vampire Academy Novel”, p.156, Penguin

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• It was very sad, he thought. The things men carried inside. The things men did or felt they had to do.

  Tim O'Brien

  Men, Felt

  Tim O'Brien (2009). “The Things They Carried”, p.24, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• This is my brain: O This is my brain after making out with Fang: * It's very sad.

  James Patterson

  Brain, Fangs

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• And I'm going to tell the truth: I didn't like that Sean Penn movie Into the Wild so much. Yes! I know it was critically acclaimed. I know it won all these awards! It's very sad that a boy is dead and all. But I thought the movie Enchanted, with the singing princess and the chipmunk and the people dancing in Central Park, was cuter. So there!

  Meg Cabot

  Princess, Boys, Awards

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• Atari is a very sad story.

  Steve Wozniak

  Stories, Atari, Sad Story

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