Sad Life Quotes

We deem those happy who from the experience of life have learnt to bear its ills without being overcome by them. ~ Carl Jung

What a sad life when one loves nothing and no one. ~ Marty Rubin

I could step out of this sad life like it's an old sorry dress. ~ Jandy Nelson

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

Love doesn't conquer everything. And whoever thinks it does is a fool. ~ Donna Tartt

The following story is true. There was a little boy, and his father said, "Do try to be like other people. Don't frown." And he tried and tried, but could not. So his father beat him with a strap; and then he was eaten up by lions.

Reader, if young, take warning by his sad life and death. For though it may be an honour to be different from other people, if Carlyle's dictum about the 30 million be still true, yet other people do not like it.

So, if you are different, you had better hide it, and pretend to be solemn and wooden-headed. Until you make your fortune. For most wooden-headed people worship money; and, really, I do not see what else they can do. In particular, if you are going to write a book, remember the wooden-headed. So be rigorous; that will cover a multitude of sins. And do not frown. ~ Oliver Heaviside

Nothing records the effects of a sad life so graphically as the human body. ~ Naguib Mahfouz

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

It is impossible for that man to despair who remembers that his Helper is omnipotent. ~ Jeremy Taylor

We don't live in the Garden. We live far from Eden. Every life is full of heartaches. Every life, frankly, is unspeakably sad. ~ John Eldredge

Sak, pain, love are limited human experiences. and only those who know their own frontiers, those knows the life, the rest is just passing time ... ~ Paulo Coelho

I was often forced to whip him, which some men do not mind doing and which in fact some enjoy doing, but which I did not like to do; and afterward he, Tub, believes me cruel and thought to himself, Sad life, sad life. ~ Patrick DeWitt

It is a time when one's spirit is subdued and sad, one knows not why; when the past seems a storm-swept desolation, life a vanity and a burden, and the future but a way to death. It is a time when one is filled with vague longings; when one dreams of flight to peaceful islands in the remote solitudes of the sea, or folds his hands and says, What is the use of struggling, and toiling and worrying any more? let us give it all up. ~ Mark Twain

She says that beginnings are scary, endings are usually sad, but it's the middle that counts the most. ~ Sandra Bullock

I can see the humorous side of things and enjoy the fun when it comes; but look where I will, there seems to me always more sadness than joy in life. ~ Jerome K. Jerome

I knew the poor,
I knew the hideous death they die,
when famine lays its bleak hand on the door;
I knew the rich,
sated with merriment,
who yet are sad. ~ Hilda Doolittle

It is one of the most saddening things in life that, try as we may, we can never be certain of making people happy, whereas we can almost always be certain of making them unhappy. ~ Thomas Huxley

Live by this credo: have a little laugh at life and look around you for happiness instead of sadness. Laughter has always brought me out of unhappy situations. ~ Red Skelton

What you must understand about me is that I'm a deeply unhappy person. ~ John Green

There are things you're supposed to learn in life. My biggest regret was terminating a pregnancy when I was about 18. Every day, I think about who that baby would be now; it still makes me sad. ~ Suzi Quatro

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

We start to die when we no longer have the power to choose. ~ Octavian Paler

You have to let it all hang out, let go of the ideas that were more comfortable and embrace some of the sadness in your life. ~ Madeleine Peyroux

The tragedy of life is in what dies inside a man while he lives - the death of genuine feeling, the death of inspired response, the awareness that makes it possible to feel the pain or the glory of other men in yourself. ~ Norman Cousins

Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul. ~ Oscar Wilde

Nothing is miserable unless you think it so; and on the other hand, nothing brings happiness unless you are content with it. ~ Boethius

Everything, he decided, was almost unbearably sad. Life was wonderful, but nobody seemed to know what to do with it, and the world was beautiful, but nobody looked at it except tourists. ~ Craig Rice

There were points in my life where I felt oddly irresistible to women. I'm not in that state now and that makes me sad. ~ Jack Nicholson

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

In this respect you, unworthy companion of my sad life, resemble the public, to whom one must never present the delicate scents that only exasperate them, but instead give them only dung, chosen with care. ~ Charles Baudelaire

Here is a girl who is pretty in a quiet way. I bet she's had a very sad life. ~ Wally Lamb

Ah, ladies and gentlemen, a man lives a sad life when he cannot take anything or anyone seriously. ~ Milan Kundera

He calls me Josephine. He says I'm an angel, a saint, his good lucky star. I know I'm no angel, but in truth I have begun to like this Josephine he sees. She is intelligent; she amuses; she is pleasing. She is grace and charm and heart. Unlike Rose; scared, haunted and needy. Unlike Rose with her sad life. ~ Sandra Gulland

There are who keep themselves in peace and keep peace also with others, and there are who neither have peace nor suffer others to have peace; they are troublesome to others, but always more troublesome to themselves. And there are who hold themselves in peace, and study to bring others unto peace; nevertheless, all our peace in this sad life lieth in humble suffering rather than in not feeling adversities. He who best knoweth how to suffer shall possess the most peace; that man is conqueror of himself and lord of the world, the friend of Christ, and the inheritor of heaven. ~ Thomas A Kempis

We are more unhappy to see people ahead of us than happy to see people behind us. ~ Michel De Montaigne

It's hard to watch your life unfold, and sad. Life changes. ~ Cilla Black

I was told I have a sad life, because most of the good things I learn in my life, I learn from children. (Annelise Lords) ~ Annelise Lords

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

Life is sad, life is a bust, all you can do is do what you must. ~ Bob Dylan

The others wolves would devour me if they could know that my roar is, in reality, a crying. ~ Octavian Paler

Any of you who have members of your family in the lifestyle, we have a member of our family that is [lesbian]. This is not funny. It's a very sad life. It's part of Satan, I think, to say that this is gay. ~ Michele Bachmann

At the outset, I think that one should be natural, not just when it comes to writing but in every area of life. If you try to be something that you are not just to impress others, then it's a rather sad life. ~ Amish Tripathi

If you don't know about pain and trouble, you're in sad shape. They make you appreciate life. ~ Evel Knievel

I really believe that all of us have a lot of darkness in our souls. Anger, rage, fear, sadness. I don't think that's only reserved for people who have horrible upbringings. I think it really exists and is part of the human condition. I think in the course of your life you figure out ways to deal with that. ~ Kevin Bacon

I don't think I have a sad life. I just talk about all my feelings and emotions. ~ Jhene Aiko

And I've been waiting for you, because I couldn't do anything else. And we've both known that we would meet again, and then it would be all over with life and everything that gave our existence meaning and tension. A secret of the kind that lurks between the two of us has extraordinary power. It burns through the fabric of life like a scorching beam, and yet at the same time it also gives it tensile strength. It forces us to live. ~ Sandor Marai

Oh, God," Wilhelm prayed, "Let me out of my trouble. Let me out of my thoughts, and let me do something better with myself. For all the time I have wasted I am very sorry. Let me out of this clutch and into a different life. For I am all balled up. Have mercy. ~ Saul Bellow

I decided that the only way my attackers could claim victory over me was if I let fear rule my life. ~ Sandra Uwiringiyimana

I see life as a burning meteorite that you can climb all over, and feed off, as it is falling to earth. ~ Doug Aitken

Only he who crosses the stream of life wishes to know what is known as unknowable. ~ Gautama Buddha

I think the jokes would have been a bit broader and a bit more obvious in terms of the day-to-day of country life. ~ Simon Pegg

A flock of sheep near the airport or a high voltage generator beside the orchard: these combinations open up my life like a wound, but they also heal it. That's why my feelings always come in twos. ~ Yehuda Amichai

Danny and the Memories was the band at the root of Crazy Horse. They were a vocal group with Danny Whitten, Ralphie, Billy, and a guy named Ben Rocco. When I recently saw their old video of "Land of a Thousand Dances" on You-Tube, I realized that is is truly the shit. You know, I looked at it maybe twenty times in a row. Even though Danny was amazing and he held the Horse together in the early days, I did not know how great Danny was until I saw this! The moves! What an amazing dancer he was. His presence on that performance is elevating! He is gone, and no one can change that. We will never see and hear where he was going. I am telling you, the world missed one of the greatest when Danny and the Memories did not have a NUMBER ONE smash record back in the day. They were so musical, with great harmonies, and Danny was a total knockout! I am so moved by this that it could make me cry at any time. This is one of those many times when words can't describe the music.

Danny and the Memories eventually transformed into the Rockets; they were playing in this old house in Laurel Canyon, and I somehow connected with them while Buffalo Springfield was at the Whiskey. We had a lot of pots jams in the house. Later on I saw Danny and the guys at somebody's house in Topanga. After that I asked if Danny, Billy, and Ralphie would play on a record with me. We did one day, practicing in my Topanga house, and it sounded great. I named the band Crazy Horse and away we went. The Rockets ~ Neil Young

Believe me, Doctor, if your life ends in suddenness you will be glad it did, and if it does not you will wish it had. You will want suddenness, Doctor. ~ Tea Obreht

While I am watching the birds I believe I am comparatively immune from the assaults of life. The very indifference to humanity of these wild creatures affords me a certain safeguard. Where all else is dangerous, hostile and liable to inflict pain, they alone can do me no injury because, probably, they are not even aware of my existence. The birds are at once my refuge and my relaxation. ~ Anna Kavan

I'm very bad with music. I don't know any new music. I've listened to the same 10 or 12 albums my whole life. ~ Bobby Moynihan

It is partly the absence of recorded history which sends women now to the lives of women past for the detailed documentation of their daily lives. ~ Dale Spender

She was the first woman in my life to convince me to fall in love with her. ~ Mike Gayle

Horrible figure of mourning: acedia, hard-heartedness: irritability, impotence to love. Anguished because I don't know how to restore generosity to my life--or love. How to love? ~ Roland Barthes

Now I wonder if it means that the future is a place, or like a place, that I could go to; that is go to in some way other
than just getting older. ~ Audrey Niffenegger

My lines have already been drawn, In her pristine existence. For she can stop my clock, And change my time into space, And I can feel all this, Without an ounce of spirit… ~ Piyush Rohankar

The fact of the religious vision, and its history of persistent expansion, is our one ground for optimism. Apart from it, human life is a flash of occasional enjoyments lighting up a mass of pain and misery, a bagatelle of transient experience. ~ Alfred North Whitehead

Laziness and cowardice explain why so many men ... remain under a life-long tutelage and why it is so easy for some men to set themselves up as the guardians of all the rest ... If I have a book which understands for me, a pastor who has a conscience for me, a doctor who decides my diet, I need not trouble myself. If I am willing to pay, I need not think. Others will do it for me. ~ Immanuel Kant

There's no good way to die, you know? No way I've seen, anyway. It all ends with tubes and bedpans and IVs and I just
smoking gets me out of there. Gets me outside, gets me away from all the
"
"Sick people?" I say, and she shakes her head.
"Away from my life. ~ Elizabeth Scott

Life is a book. We write in everyday existence. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

The plan of God for your life is that you should be held captive by His power, doing that which you in the natural world would never do, but that which you are forced to do by the power of the Holy Ghost moving through you. ~ Smith Wigglesworth

In art as in life, form and subject, body and soul, are one. ~ Edward Abbey

There is knowledge of God and the spiritual nature of man, as well as other types of reality ... , that are not reducible to the world dealt with by the so-called "natural" sciences. The idea that knowledge - and, of course, reality - is limited to that world is the single most destructive idea on the stage of life today. ~ Dallas Willard

Religion is a wizard, a sibyl ... She faces the wreck of worlds, and prophesies restoration. She faces a sky blood-red with sunset colours that deepen into darkness, and prophesies dawn. She faces death, and prophesies life. ~ Felix Adler

I can't imagine being a single parent or a single parent that doesn't have a lot of money. That's a big, huge impact on your life and your dynamic and everything - I mean, that's huge. It affects how much you have a break from just concentrating on just one other person in your life. It becomes so myopic that way, and more intense, probably. ~ Joan Cusack

For how can a man stand, unless he have something sure under his feet. Can a man tread the unstable water all his life, and call that standing? Better give in and drown at once. ~ D.H. Lawrence

I know you don't love me. But I'm going to fight for your love. There are some things in life that are worth fighting for the end. You are worth it. ~ Paulo Coelho

Be compassionate, be kind and, above all, be loving. ~ Debasish Mridha

Out on the lawn, Bunny had just knocked Henry's ball about seventy feet outside the court. There was a ragged burst of laughter; faint, but clear, it floated back across the evening air. That laughter haunts me still. ~ Donna Tartt

I plan my life in 15-minute sections. ~ Dave Pelzer

From the moment I own a book, even before I open it to the first page, I feel that it has in some way changed my life. I treat my books the same way I treat my clothes or my shoes or my records: I use them. ~ Joe Queenan

I think there are things that aren't represented in movies that are a big part of everyone's life. We romanticize everything about people in movies. One of the things I don't like in movies is that people feel alone with their bodily functions in the real world, as if people in the movies don't do these things. ~ Charlie Kaufman

Life is more complicated than that, there are endless shades of gray that comprise a human being. ~ Janelle Brown

How those fires burned that are no longer, how the weather worsened, how the shadow of the seagull vanished without a trace. Was it the end of a season, the end of a life? Was it so long ago it seems it might never have been? What is it in us that lives in the past and longs for the future, or lives in the future and longs for the past? (from "No Words Can Describe It") ~ Mark Strand