Sad Flashback Quotes

Mark nodded even though she couldn't see. He'd suddenly lost any desire to talk, and his plans for a perfect day washed away with the stream. The memories. They never let him go, not even for a half hour. They always had to rush back in, bringing all the horror. ~ James Dashner

Everybody is agreeing so tersely. I just had a flashback to the month before my parents finally admitted they were getting a divorce. ~ Samantha Bee

The Fitzphie pizzazz, Sophie repeated, There's no such thing.
Not what that attitude, there isn't! Keefe told her. ~ Shannon Messenger

This can't be real," he said into my hair. "This has to be an acid flashback." I laughed, delighted to be in his arms. "I swear I'm not an acid flashback. ~ April Lindner

Before you go ahead with a flashback, ask yourself if you can
make the same impact on your reader through conflict in the
now of the novel. If the answer is no, then the flashback is
necessary, but remember that within the flashback all the same
principles of good dramatic storytelling which apply in the now
of your story - fully rounded characters, a rising conflict, inner
conflicts, and so on - continue to apply. ~ James N. Frey

Why sad? Don't be sad. If sad, will make everyone sad. ~ George Saunders

When your sad
like really sad
you only want to be with other people who are sad. ~ Nick Hornby

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

It is our single friends who keep us in our marriages. They remind us that being single is sad. Dating, is sad. Online dating is sad. Attending holidays and weddings alone is sad. Marriage, too, is sad.

But love, lust, infatuation - for a few moments, I was not sad. ~ Melissa Broder

As a writer, one of the things we all learned from the movies was a kind of compression that didn't exist before people were used to watching films. For instance, if you wanted to write a flashback in a novel, you once had to really contextualize it a lot, to set it up. Now, readers know exactly what you're doing. Close-ups, too. ~ Salman Rushdie

On the screen were some flashback shots of Daniel, Emma and Rupert from ten years ago. They were 12. I have also recently returned from New York, and while I was there, I saw Daniel singing and dancing (brilliantly) on Broadway. A lifetime seems to have passed in minutes. ~ Alan Rickman

She smelled like fresh dough rising. ~ Jodi Picoult

All I knew is that sometimes my father was sad. I hated that he was sad. It made me sad too. I didn't like sad. ~ Benjamin Alire Saenz

I love the feeling of letting fly, of pushing as far as I could go with my voice. The only way you can really graduate how you do it is by doing it regularly to people who don't have to be super impressed. You can do it in the studio all day long but you don't get the flashback that you get onstage. ~ Robert Plant

The inability to get something out of your head is a signal that shouts, "Don't forget to deal with this!" As long as you experience fear or pain with a memory or flashback, there is a lie attached that needs to be confronted. In each healing step, there is a truth to be gathered and a lie to discard. ~ Christina Enevoldsen

Tell me where are the flashbacks they all warned us would come? ~ Jimmy Buffett

Death isn't sad. There's nothing sad about it. Living a shitty life, that's sad. ~ Mac Danzig

Generally I don't listen to sad songs if I'm sad. I listen to happy songs. ~ Sinead O'Connor

The choice was whether to be sad and foolish or sad and reasonable. ~ Vicki Covington

I've never been the most important person to anybody - not even myself. ~ Ranata Suzuki

He is a hard man who is only just, and a sad one who is only wise. ~ Voltaire

You showed me that when something is really shit, it's ok to be sad. It's not a disease you have to cure. You can just... be sad. ~ Eva Woods

Death isn't sad. The sad thing is: most people don't live at all. ~ Nick Nolte

Sad things happen. They do. But we don't need to live sad forever. ~ Mattie J.T. Stepanek

You can be sad recalling sad times, but if you really want to be sad, recall happy times. ~ Robert Breault

Death is beautiful, part of life... No, it is sad. It's sad when anyone dies. Even though every single human dies. So it's really not that sad. ~ Harris Wittels

People aren't born sad; we make them that way. ~ Nikita Gill

Could it be? Samantha Kingston? Home? On a Friday?"
I roll my eyes. "I don't know. Did you do a lot of acid in the sixties? Could be a flashback."
"I was two years old in 1960. I came too late for the party." He leans down and pecks me on the head. I pull away out of habit. "And I'm not even going to ask how you know about acid flashbacks."
"What's an acid flashback?" Izzy crows.
"Nothing," my dad and I say at the same time, and he smiles at me. ~ Lauren Oliver

You need to try to master the ability to feel sad without actually being sad. ~ Laurie Anderson

I'm sad but excited for the future. ~ Warren Spector

The only thing worse than being sad is for others to know you are sad. ~ Jonathan Safran Foer

My closet is full of sad little scripts that didn't get made that have sad endings. It's very hard to get a movie made that has a sad ending. ~ Nora Ephron

You have to hurt in order to know. Fall in order to grow. Lose in order to gain. Because most of life's lessons are learned through pain ~ Boonaa Mohammed

Sometimes a gloomy street is all a sad person needs! A magical relief may arise from the meeting of the two sad things! ~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Sometimes we get sad about things and we don't like to tell other people that we are sad about them. We like to keep it a secret. Or sometimes, we are sad but we really don't know why we are sad, so we say we aren't sad but we really are. ~ Mark Haddon

We are born sad and we die sad, but meanwhile we love bodies whose sad beauty is a miracle. ~ Mario Benedetti

What a sad story, I thought for so long. Not that I now think it was happy. But I think it is true, and thus the question of whether it is sad or happy has no meaning whatever. ~ Bernhard Schlink

Sometimes, when I am sad,
I am not sad for myself.
I am sad for the world,
I am sad to see where we are going.
I am sad to see how we can
smile by making someone else sad.
I am sad to see how we have
killed our conscience and keep
toying with emotions
I am sad to see how people
are confusing selfishness
with self love.
I am sad to see how we have come to
a stage where we trust strangers
more than friends.

Let's fix this, Let's open our hearts
Let's listen to them, let's do our bit. ~ Wordions

That's the kind of stories I know. Sad ones. Anyway, taken to it's logical conclusion, every story is sad, because at the end everyone dies. ~ Margaret Atwood

The day I am not able to fly will be a sad day for me. ~ Ratan Tata

We all like stories that make us cry. It's so nice to feel sad when you've nothing in particular to feel sad about. ~ Anne Sullivan

I'm sad to say that stardom is a commodity in our culture. ~ Christine Baranski

How can you explain that it's just that he was sad, that he'd been sad all his life, and he knew he'd always be sad? ~ Don Lee

Of these years nought remains in memory but the sad feeling that we have advanced and only grown older. ~ Max Muller

Nothing gives you a fear flashback like a bunch of strangers cheering in surprise that you're not dead. ~ Tina Fey

With sad music, or music that's perceived as sad, there's a sense of solidarity that can be really powerful. My songs are all joyful to me. ~ J. Tillman

This is me being sad.
Maybe you think I'm being happy in this picture. Really I'm being sad but pretending I'm being happy. I'm doing that because I think people won't like me if I look sad. ~ Michael Rosen

I love sad songs. They say so much. I love country music but even the happy songs sound really sad. ~ Beth Ditto

there are many reasons to be sad.

u may be sad because u feel alone. the comforting thing abot feeling lonely is that every thing that has ever existed also knows what loneliness feels like too.

u may be sad because u are sad. it is ok to be sad but if u are sad because happiness is fleeting, just remember that sadness is also fleeting too. ~ Jomny Sun

Most people like the sad songs. Some of the oldest songs known to man are sad. Listening to a voice singing something sad is a really great way to help you to feel sad when you need to. ~ Patty Griffin

It all keeps coming back in flashes.
Churns you, burns you till it turns you into ashes. ~ Richa Pandey

You know what Marshall needs to do. He needs to stop being sad. When I get sad, I stop being sad, and be awesome instead. True story. ~ Barney Stinson

Sad words are just another beauty. A sad story means, this storyteller is alive. The next thing you know something fine will happen to her, something marvelous, and then she will turn around and smile. ~ Chris Cleave

If you choose to be sad then you will be sad but there times you don't know why you're sad. Tears start flowing from your eyes. ~ Ann Marie Aguilar

It's a sad, sad world when a girl will break a boy, just because she can. ~ Fiona Apple

I am not sad, he would repeat to himself over and over, I am not sad. As if he might one day convince himself. Or fool himself. Or convince others
The only thing worse than being sad is for others to know that you are sad. ~ Jonathan Safran Foer

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

Or rather, he was sad because that morning he'd understood that he'd understood nothing, because while he still understood nothing he wasn't sad at all, but now that he'd understood that he'd understood nothing he felt sad, if you follow. ~ Francois Lelord

Green clovers. Blue diamonds. Orange Stars. Pink hearts. Purple horseshoes. Man, I never know if I'm looking at a bowl of cereal or having another acid flashback. ~ David Henry

My father comes from a generation of film that actors my age don't even know about, which is really sad. ~ Amber Tamblyn

E! has just become a sad, sad place to live. They don't know what they're doing; they have no ideas ... everything they do just is a failure. ~ Chelsea Handler

Sustained negative flashbacks can stir a heart attack. ~ T.F. Hodge

I enjoy being recognized. I'll be very sad if people stop recognizing me. I'll be very sad if I'm not interviewed, because that's a very amazing process. ~ Anupam Kher

Melancholy is the happiness of being sad. ~ Victor Hugo

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

I feel sad for him. Sad for the boy bound to the killer. I am sad for the youth betrayed by their leaders for symbols and flags and war and power. ~ Susan Abulhawa

I hiked up a path and into the woods, thinking about what I should be thinking about and almost having a real feeling - a feeling like, this is really sad, this is a sad place to be, a sad part of my life, maybe just a sad life. The woods were not particularly beautiful. I was not impressed by the trees. ~ Catherine Lacey

I think it is really sad that when people lose their homes they kind of lose their minds too. ~ Margaret Cho

It's sad - it's sad for us old enough to remember when directors ruled, and films were substantially better than they are today. But it's hard to argue with those kinds of grosses. ~ Mark Rydell

There is a untold sad story behind everyone's status 'SINGLE'. ~ @shu

When I was done reading the poem, everyone was quiet. A very sad quiet. But the amazing thing was that it wasn't a bad sad at all. It was just something that made everyone look around at each other and know that they were there. ~ Stephen Chbosky

Triggers are like little psychic explosions that crash through avoidance and bring the dissociated, avoided trauma suddenly, unexpectedly, back into consciousness. ~ Carolyn Spring

Is it then so sad a thing to die? ~ Virgil

The intersection of Green and Stupid is undoubtedly an American destination, but its sad. Sad. ~ Stephen King

It's okay to be sad. Everyone gets sad now and then. Even me. ~ Nicholas Sparks

I like to be sad once in a while. You need it for your equilibrium. ~ Marjane Satrapi

Melancholy is the pleasure of being sad. ~ Victor Hugo

Thats beautiful! Sad and beautiful, murmured Meggie. Why were sad stories often so beautiful? It was different in real life. ~ Cornelia Funke

Do not make best friends with a melancholy sad soul. They always are heavily loaded, and you must bear half. ~ Francois Fenelon

Absolute silence leads to sadness. It is the image of death. ~ Jean-Jacques Rousseau

There are no sad days, only sad thoughts. ~ Marty Rubin

My acting's very understated. I think my sad and happy don't play that differently onscreen. ~ Bret McKenzie

She wasn't bitter. She was sad, though. But it was a hopeful kind of sad. The kind of sad that just takes time. ~ Stephen Chbosky

Just because I'm talking about something that might have been a sad or painful situation doesn't mean that I'm sad or tortured 24 hours a day any more than anybody else is. ~ Lucinda Williams

It is very sad about Michael Jackson, much as in the tragic cases of Heath Ledger, Anna Nicole and other celebrities who have died are a result of drugs. It is always sad when such a bright light goes out. ~ Grace Park

When you're sad, you're not sad. You are merely oblivious to the good things in your life. There is always a crack of light in the darkness. Find it. ~ Dianna Agron

The sad events that occur in my life are the sad events that happen to everybody, with losing friends and family, but that is a natural occurrence, as natural as being born. ~ Sergio Aragones

Where would we be without our painful childhoods? ~ Rebecca McNutt

The flashbacks are a great way to give answers to the story. ~ Sarah Michelle Gellar

I think as an American society, when we're paying too many taxes or dealing with war, we don't want to see sad things at the movies. ~ Zoe Saldana

The sad truth is that opportunity doesn't knock twice. ~ Gloria Estefan

She just got sad, okay? Unbearably sad. ~ Erika Swyler

The function of the flashback is Freudian ... You have to let them wander like the imagination or like a dream. ~ Sergio Leone

It's fun to sing sad songs. And it's fun to listen to sad songs. Enjoyable. Satisfying. Something. ~ Richard Thompson

I am always sad, I think. Perhaps this signifies that I am not sad at all, because sadness is something lower than your normal disposition, and I am always the same thing. Perhaps I am the only person in the world, then, who never becomes sad. Perhaps I am lucky. ~ Jonathan Safran Foer

You should also know that happiness cannot be linked to wealth, education, social status, or anything else. You know some poor people are happy; others sad. Some educated people are happy; others sad. Some wealthy people are happy; others sad. In other words, you see happy and sad people in all walks of life. ~ Pratap C. Singhal M.D.

I think it's bad for fellas when they lose their mothers. Mine was such a character. Oh it was sad, really sad. And, with her gone, the family home was gone, so what was left of any roots I had were completely dug up. ~ Paul O'Grady

I write about heartbreak because I like writing about sad things, but I'm writing happy songs, too! ~ Jackie Evancho

When I'm sad, she comes to me with a thousand smiles. ~ Jimi Hendrix

No child should ever be too sad to play. ~ Andrew Galasetti