A Quote by Peter Altenberg

It is sad to be an exception. But not to be one is even sadder.

Peter Altenberg

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Even Exception Sad Sadder

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Peter Altenberg
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March 9, 1859 - January 19, 1919

It's a sad thing not to have friends, but it is even sadder not to have enemies.

Che Guevara

I'm the type of person who listens to like sad music when I'm sad to feel sadder, and to feel sorry for myself.

Troye Sivan

Well the country songs themselves are three-chord stories, ballads which are mostly sad. If you are already feeling sorry for yourself when you listen to them they will take you to an even sadder place.

Willie Nelson

Human comedy is more profound than tragedy. In tragedy we die and it is very sad. In comedy we avoid death, and it is even sadder.

Jennifer Stone

Is anything sadder than a trainThat leaves when it's supposed to,That has only one voice,Only one route?There's nothing sadder.Except perhaps a cart horse,Shut between two shaftsAnd unable even to look sideways.

Primo Levi

It's sad to think that we've gotten to this, that we actually have to think about how to go about finding a man. But what's even sadder is that some men make you feel guilty for looking.

Terry McMillan

Cyndi Lauper's 'Time After Time' was a perfect song. It was so beautiful and so heartfelt. Her vocals were so amazing. And, for me, that was a song I went to when I was feeling sad and wanted to feel even sadder.

Lea Thompson

I just like a good, sad song. The sadder, the better. It moves me.

John Prine

Yes, I am sad, sad as a circus-lioness, sad as an eagle without wings, sad as a violin with only one string and that one broken, sad as a woman who is growing old. Sad, sad, sad.

Jean Rhys

A house without books must be sad. Even sadder a house of books without people.

Manuel Rivas

She is sadder and sadder, and for a man there is no balm more soothing than the sadness he has caused a woman.

Milan Kundera

There's some sad things known to man, but ain't too much sadder than, the tears of a clown when noones around.

Smokey Robinson

The whole romanticized sad clown thing, we have to get rid of that. That has to go. That's just getting sick people to voluntarily stay sicker and sadder than they have to be.

Chris Gethard

It is sad not to love, but it is much sadder not to be able to love.

Miguel de Unamuno

The whole romanticized 'sad clown' thing, we gotta get rid of that. That has to go! That's just getting sick people to voluntarily stay sicker and sadder than they have to be.

Chris Gethard

People think it's terribly sad to spend Christmas alone, but it's no sadder, really, than spending any other day alone, is it?