Top 1200 Sad Things Quotes & Sayings - Page 18

I tend to want to listen to melancholy music, but sometimes if you're feeling too sad, you can't.

I think it is every woman's duty to make herself as attractive as her time and means permit. After all, there you are, in your person- a living symbol of the progress of art, science and imagination. To be as attractive as we can be is almost a civic duty; there are so many sad and ugly things in the world that I think women should say to themselves humbly, not with vanity, 'I will try to be as pretty as I can, so that when people look at me, they will feel refreshed. I will make an effort to be easy on the eye.'

It is difficult to realize the true Way just through sword-fencing. Know the smallest things and the biggest things, the shallowest things and the deepest things.

No matter how sad we might be, the universe is still planning our happiness.

I had always been aware that the Universe is sad; everything in it, animate or inanimate, the wild creatures, the stones, the stars, was enveloped in the great sadness, pervaded by it. Existence had no use. It was without end or reason. The most beautfiul things in it, a flower or a song, as well as the most compelling, a desire or a thought, were pointless. So great a sorrow. And I knew that the only rest from my anxiety—for I had been trembling even in infancy—lay in acknowledging and absorbing this sadness.

Why do people spend their time being sad when they could be happy?

Halloween put me on the map, and I'm very sad to hear of his death.

There's no doubt that when it comes to our treatment of Native Americans as well as other persons of color in this country, we've got some very sad and difficult things to account for. I personally would want to see our tragic history, or the tragic elements of our history, acknowledged. I consistently believe that when it comes to whether it's Native Americans or African-American issues or reparations, the most important thing for the U.S. government to do is not just offer words, but offer deeds.

And a flower, doesn't even know it's own beauty it's entire life. Sad, huh?

Sometimes I feel sad, but this is not nostalgia, because I don't want time to come back.

Dying is only one thing to be sad over... Living unhappily is something else.

The freedom-lovers of the world mourn the sad demise of Imam Khomeini.

I was sad and in a dark place, and I turned to a hobby to sort of take me out of that.

How sad if we pass through life and never see it with the eyes of a child.

I think you have to know how you feel when you're sad and it's healthy to mourn if a relationship ends.

One of the reasons why I fought for my roles is that I think there are so many things about them that are just human, but people like to label them as weird or bad or wrong because they're scared of them. I don't consider them bad - they're girls. They're going to make mistakes, but the films show the repercussions and show that they're going to learn. A lot of people are made to feel bad for being sad, so on top of already being unhappy, you're gonna hate yourself for it.

She was becoming sad. There is no joy involved in following others' expectations of yourself

It's sort of sad, but the public is no longer afraid of ghosts. They laugh at them instead.

We live in a vale of tears...We can have all the dreams we like, but life is hard, implacable, sad.

We believe that 95% of your emotions are determined by the way you talk to yourself as you go throughout your day. The sad fact is that if you do not deliberately and consciously talk to yourself in a positive and constructive way, you will, by default, think about things that will make you unhappy or cause you worry and anxiety. Your mind is like a garden. If you do not deliberately plant flowers and tend carefully, weeds will grow without any encouragement at all.

I'm trying to decide whether to be happy or sad. We have to be better than this or we will struggle.

Guess the world needs both sun And the moon too Sad with what I have except for you.

But really, Marilla, one can't stay sad very long in such an interesting world, can one?

It's very simple, I just tell my sad story, and people weep.

As much as I feel sad, I think that not knowing is what really bothers me.

This is a sad, regrettable day that all of us wish could have been avoided.

Life is often confusing and sad, and I'm a big fan of the slap and the tickle, as they say.

The star [Tycho's supernova] was at first like Venus and Jupiter, giving pleasing effects; but as it then became like Mars, there will next come a period of wars, seditions, captivity and death of princes, and destruction of cities, together with dryness and fiery meteors in the air, pestilence, and venomous snakes. Lastly, the star became like Saturn, and there will finally come a time of want, death, imprisonment and all sorts of sad things.

There are three things we cry about in life, things that are lost, things that are found, and things that are magnificent.

I think it's a really sad situation when I have to lie to my doctor about what I need a medication for.

Little things do matter. Sometimes, little things matter the most. Everybody pays a lot of attention to big things, but nobody seems to understand that big things are almost always made up of little things. When you ignore little things, they often turn into big things that have become a lot harder to handle.

Don't ever forget that you're a citizen of this world, and there are things you can do to lift the human spirit, things that are easy, things that are free, things that you can do every day: civility, respect, kindness, character.

It's a sad moment, really, when parents first become a bit frightened of their children.

The first film I remember seeing was Bambi. It has stayed with me because it was so sad.

I don't actually read that much. I like movies a bit more. That's how I come up with ideas - by seeing things, hearing things, recycling things. Stealing things!

I thought it would be fun to make a cartoon about this sad, misanthropic horse.

If I look forward to a day when I'm just going to play tennis, I'm kinda sad.

It's sad that people listen to music and decide how the singer should look.

I'm very free with all my emotions, whether it's happy, sad, mad, glad, whatever.

We keep racism alive. We pass it on to our children. I think that is very sad.

Some sad news from Australia... the inventor of the boomerang grenade died today.

It is sad when people can't connect, and the sense of desperation that you feel when there is nothing to look forward to.

Sad old blokes, I'm told, now dream of me with a whip in hand.

It is a sad thing to look at happiness only through another's eyes.

I'm not a sad person, upset the whole time, but I seem to be quite emotional.

When you're playing someone who is angry and sad all the time, you get a little down.

I've grown out of dancing in my car - is it sad? Or I've just become a better driver!

It's pretty sad that when people see a guy buying flowers, they assume he's in trouble.

Cancer is a very sad thing, but you can always take something from every experience.

When you know for yourselves, 'These things are wholesome; these things are blameless; these things are praised by the wise; these things, if undertaken and practiced, lead to welfare and happiness,' then you should engage in them.

I started realizing that when I played festivals I didn't want to be writing all these down, sad songs.

The idea of giving someone something that I got, that makes me feel sad.

The sad rhyme of the men who proudly clung To their first fault, and withered in their pride.

It's just that if you're not disruptive everything seems to be repeated endlessly - not so much the good things but the bland things - the ordinary things - the weaker things get repeated- the stronger things get suppressed and held down and hidden.

Lotus's efforts around the Mac were pathetically unsuccessful, which is sad.

There is nothing more sad or glorious than generations changing hands.

This means that we have barely disembarked into life, that we've only just now been born, let's not fill our mouths with so many uncertain names, with so many sad labels, with so many pompous letters, with so much yours and mine, with so much signing of papers. I intend to confuse things, to unite them, make them new-born intermingle them, undress them, until the light of the world has the unity of the ocean, a generous wholeness, a fragrance alive and crackling.

It's sad when our daddies die. Makes us one less person inside.

So many things suddenly made sense for the clowns, for the whole idea. I’d been going through a struggle, particularly after 9/11; I couldn’t figure out what I wanted to say. I still wanted the work to be the same kind of mixture – intense, with a nasty side or an ugly side, but also with a real pathos about the characters – and clowns have an underlying sense of sadness while they’re trying to cheer people up. Clowns are sad, but they’re also psychotically, hysterically happy.

Drawing Lavi’s smile eases me precisely because he has such a sad fate.