540 private quotes tagged sad

“I do believe that if you haven't learnt about sadness, you cannot appreciate happiness.” — Nana Mouskouri

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“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

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“It would be sad if we lost our instinct and our courage to love and protect.” — Emeli Sande

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“We never taste a perfect joy our happiest successes are mixed with sadness.” — Pierre Corneille

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“I'm sad to report that in the past few years, ever since uncertainty became our insistent 21st century companion, leadership has taken a great leap backwards to the familiar territory of command and control.” — Margaret J. Wheatley

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“It is easy enough to praise men for the courage of their convictions. I wish I could teach the sad young of this mealy generation the courage of their confusions.” — John Ciardi

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“Art is the most beautiful deception of all. And although people try to incorporate the everyday events of life in it, we must hope that it will remain a deception lest it become a utilitarian thing, sad as a factory.” — Claude Debussy

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“I happen to be interested in watching a face age. I like faces of women aging so it makes me personally quite sad. That's a beautiful gift from God. If people don't want to see that anymore then I won't be in anymore movies.” — Debra Winger

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“Watergate provides a model case study of the interaction and powers of each of the branches of government. It also is a morality play with a sad and dramatic ending.” — Bob Woodward

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“The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil.” — Hannah Arendt

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“51st State was one that I loved doing because the character was so out there, and in a way I was sad to leave the character behind. I'm afraid I could never be that cool in real life!” — Emily Mortimer

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“I am convinced that material things can contribute a lot to making one's life pleasant, but, basically, if you do not have very good friends and relatives who matter to you, life will be really empty and sad and material things cease to be important.” — David Rockefeller

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“Sad things happen. They do. But we don't need to live sad forever.” — Mattie Stepanek

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“The good times of today, are the sad thoughts of tomorrow.” — Bob Marley

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“I think people appreciate a songwriter who shows different sides. The whole angst thing is cool, but if that's all you've got, it's just boring. Everything I write, whether it's happy or sad, has a sense of humor to it.” — Katy Perry

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“For all sad words of tongue and pen, The saddest are these, 'It might have been'.” — John Greenleaf Whittier

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“So many gods, so many creeds, so many paths that wind and wind while just the art of being kind is all the sad world needs.” — Ella Wheeler Wilcox

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“In deep sadness there is no place for sentimentality.” — William S. Burroughs

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“I've cried, and you'd think I'd be better for it, but the sadness just sleeps, and it stays in my spine the rest of my life.” — Conor Oberst

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“And I remember going to the record studio and there was a park across the street and I'd see all the children playing and I would cry because it would make me sad that I would have to work instead.” — Michael Jackson

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“I was raised in an atmosphere of 'everything's fine.' But as I got older, I was like, 'Well no, everything's not fine. There is stuff that's sad.' I am a really sensitive person. I think I am too sensitive sometimes.” — Ellen DeGeneres

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“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

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“It's a sad man my friend who's livin' in his own skin and can't stand the company.” — Bruce Springsteen

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“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

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“A sad soul can kill quicker than a germ.” — John Steinbeck

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