Top 35 Saddest Quotes

Here we have the best Saddest Quotes from famous authors such as Kenya Barris, Daniel Craig, John Greenleaf Whittier, Parvathy, Sandra Tsing Loh. Find the perfect quotation from our collection.

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Most importantly, I want my kids to be happy. You’re only as happy as your saddest kid.

The idea of regretting not doing this seemed insane to me. Sitting in the corner at a bar at age 60, saying: ‘I could‘ve been Bond. Buy me a drink.’ That’s the saddest place I could be. At least now at 60 I can say: ‘I was Bond. Now buy me a drink.’

For all sad words of tongue and pen, The saddest are these, ‘It might have been’.

John Greenleaf Whittier
How sad is that life when a man thinks that his manliness comes with asking sexual favours from a woman. That’s the saddest way of being a man.

The literature of menopause is the saddest, the most awful, and the most medical of all genres. You’re sleepless, you‘re anxious, you’re fat, you’re depressed – and the advice is always the same: take more walks, eat some kale, and drink lots of water. It didn’t help.

We’ve lived through some extraordinary moments, and the saddest moments as well. We have to learn.

For the saddest epitaph which can be carved in memory of a vanished freedom is that it was lost because its possessors failed to stretch forth a saving hand while there was still time.

George Sutherland
I think pink is one of the saddest colors in the world, and many American humans are taught not to take anything pink seriously, which is weird.

The saddest part of the human race is we’re obsessed with this idea of ‘us and them,’ which is really a no-win situation, whether it’s racial, cultural, religious or political.

The saddest fact of climate change – and the chief reason we should be concerned about finding a proper response – is that the countries it will hit hardest are already among the poorest and most long-suffering.

For me, the saddest thing in the world is always lost potential. That is always the most heartbreaking thing, when there’s something left to be mined from a situation or a person that goes unexplored; that’s a tragedy to me.

If a documentary crew were to follow me around, they’d probably think they were making a film about the saddest person in the world.

One of the saddest realities is that we never know when our lives are at their peak. Only after it is over and we have some kind of perspective do we realize how good we had it a day, a month, five years ago.

I’d never seen Rigondeaux’s face without it being obscured by headgear or a photograph of Fidel he was holding up after winning a tournament. Finally I saw him, only to recognize the saddest face I’d ever seen in Cuba.

The two saddest moments of my life were when my mother died and when I was told I couldn’t play football for the Colts anymore.

Art Donovan
It’s the most extraordinary and saddest thing, the amount of talent out there not being seen.

Gedde Watanabe
Two of the saddest words in the English language are, ‘What party?’ And L.A. is the ‘What party?’ capital of the world.

‘Pelleas et Melisande’ is one of the saddest and most upsetting operas ever written. If you love the opera as I do, then you love it to pieces, obsessively.

But I will say that most comedians are the saddest people I know. That is the biggest paradox to me.

I can sing the saddest song with a bunch of people, and the feeling of sharing that energy activates in a way that either heals it or makes me feel like I’ve risen a thousand miles above it into space, and I’m staring down on it as a little dot.

People didn’t know much about Rajiv because unfortunately, he wasn’t successful and that’s the saddest part. He was a wonderful human beingwarm and affectionate.

The saddest country I went to was Romania, years ago, during Ceausescu’s rule.

My favorite show tune has got to be Stephen Sondheim‘s ‘I Remember Sky.’ It’s probably the saddest song of all time; I sing it to myself in the mirror. No, I am kidding. That’s the joke.

My saddest decision in football was leaving Paul Gascoigne out of the 1998 World Cup finals. But he wasn’t fit enough and once that decision is made, as a manager and a group of players, you forget about who isn’t there and focus on the job.

It was just like Howlin’ Wolf. Once you arrive at the point that you understand it, the emotional factor is darker than some of the saddest blues stuff.

Robert Quine
I’m from Port Arthur, Texas! Little guy! Little character guy from one of the saddest oil-refinery towns in America. And here I was driving over to Beverly Hills, to 20th Century Fox, to be on ‘M*A*S*H!’

G W Bailey
In my teenage years I had a very anti-cruelty orientation and all that kind of stuff, so having spent a long time at the track and around the horses and around the people that are there, I realized the saddest thing that can happen is if anything happens to a horse.

There were a lot of areas we didn’t cover that I’m hoping to cover if we do some specials. One is to see more of Patsy’s home and her home life, which is just the saddest thing.

I don’t want to finish my life not being alive. I think that is the saddest thing that can happen to a person. I want to keep living to the end.

You don’t have to be Einstein to see that horse racing is dangerous. Those two ambulances driving behind you aren’t there for the scenery. I will never get over the fatalities of colleagues. It is the saddest and toughest part of this sport.

No tyrant, however evil, has yet lacked ready hands to execute his most abominable will. To read how eagerly men have rushed to serve the despot is the bitterest, the saddest matter of history; it is the saddest sight in our own day.

I think the saddest thing in the world will be for people who face their death and realize they never lived. That won’t be me.

The saddest day of my life was the day I didn’t get to play football anymore.

Brian Bosworth
A cynical young person is almost the saddest sight to see, because it means that he or she has gone from knowing nothing to believing nothing.

I love Bob Marley so much. Honestly, all of Madonna‘s discography. She has so many amazing, fun songs. Or Cyndi Lauper. The thing is, at the same time, I also love listening to Lana Del Rey all the time, the saddest thing you can do to yourself.