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Sadder than the beggar is the man who eats alone in public. -- Jean Baudrillard
Of all the horrid, hideous notes of woe, Sadder than owl-songs or the midnight blast; Is that portentous phrase, "I told you so. -- Lord Byron
Sadder than destitution, sadder than a beggar is the man who eats alone in public. Nothing more contradicts the laws of man or beast, for animals always do each other the honor of sharing or disputing each other's food. -- Jean Baudrillard
There is no sadder sight than a young pessimist. -- Mark Twain
Nothing is sadder than having worldly standards without worldly means. -- Van Wyck Brooks
I am very pro-royal. Britain without them would be a sadder place. -- Alison Jackson
Can anything be sadder than work left unfinished? Yes, work never begun. -- Christina Rossetti
I think there's nothing sadder than a pro athlete who plays past his prime. -- Lynn Samuels
There's nothing sadder in this world than to awake Christmas morning and not be a child. -- Erma Bombeck
It is sad not to love, but it is much sadder not to be able to love. -- Miguel de Unamuno
I'm not a morose person; it's just that my best songs reflect on the sadder aspects of life. -- Robert Smith
No sadder proof can be given by a man of his own littleness than disbelief in great men. -- Thomas Carlyle
There's never been a particular band that I've followed religiously. But I do tend to listen to sadder music. -- Freddie Highmore
If I make a song where I'm happy, I sound completely mad - I think my voice is better-suited for sadder songs. -- Jessie Ware
No feature of the Obama presidency has been sadder than its constant efforts to divide us, to curry favor with some Americans by castigating others. -- Mitch Daniels
There is no sadder tale in the annals of architecture than the virtual disappearance of the defining architectural form of the Modern Movement - publicly sponsored housing. -- Martin Filler
Somehow, it seems that the sadder a song is, the happier I feel. The release of emotions that many would label as 'negative' is actually a liberating process for me. -- Grey DeLisle
It is sadder to find the past again and find it inadequate to the present than it is to have it elude you and remain forever a harmonious conception of memory. -- F. Scott Fitzgerald
Well the country songs themselves are three-chord stories, ballads which are mostly sad. If you are already feeling sorry for yourself when you listen to them they will take you to an even sadder place. -- Willie Nelson
Every time I see documentaries or infomercials about little kids with cancer, I just freak out. It affects me on the highest emotional level... Anytime I think about it, it makes me sadder than anything I can think of. -- Kurt Cobain
I am a divorced child, of divided, uncertain background. Within this division I - supposed fruit of their love - no longer exist. It happened nearly forty years ago, yet to me, nothing is sadder than my parents' divorce. -- Sylvia Kristel
The darker and the sadder the song, the happier it makes me feel. It's just this, ah. I'm in the moment. I'm part of this beautiful world, and it's fantastic, and I don't really know how else to describe it. -- Sarah McLachlan
My earlier poems were sadder than my poems are today, perhaps because I wrote them in confusion or when I was unhappy. But I am not a melancholy person, quite the contrary, no one enjoys laughing more than I do. -- Anne Stevenson
Cyndi Lauper's 'Time After Time' was a perfect song. It was so beautiful and so heartfelt. Her vocals were so amazing. And, for me, that was a song I went to when I was feeling sad and wanted to feel even sadder. -- Lea Thompson
I'm more prone to his '70s material, which is what I was around for and watched a lot. I listen to a lot of that stuff. It probably influenced me quite a bit. I'm more drawn to the darker, sadder songs. -- Lisa Marie Presley
It were a real increase of human happiness, could all young men from the age of nineteen be covered under barrels, or rendered otherwise invisible; and there left to follow their lawful studies and callings, till they emerged, sadder and wiser, at the age of twenty-five. -- Thomas Carlyle
Is there anything sadder than the foods of the 1950s? Canned, frozen, packaged concoctions, served up by the plateful, three meals per day, in an era in which the supermarket was king, the farmer's market was, well, for farmers, and the word 'locavore' sounded vaguely like a mythical beast. -- Jeffrey Kluger
Half of me is this wacked-out comedienne who will do anything for a buck and a laugh. Well, at least for a laugh. But the other half is a lot darker, sadder and more pensive. It's the dark side that feeds the outrageousness and allows it to surface. I think that's true for anyone with comic flair. -- Faith Prince
The way you build trust with your team is around super-clear communication in that instant when they say, 'I will be sad if you don't do X.' You have to say, 'We're not going to do X, and here's why, and believe me, you'll be much sadder later if I let you go do it and you spend a bunch of time on it and nothing ever happens.' -- Dick Costolo
Nothing is sadder than love left unheard. -- Neil Diamond
The more you know, the sadder you get. -- Stephen Colbert
It's almost always sadder to stay than to depart -- Miguel Sousa Tavares
There are few sights sadder than a ruined book. -- Daniel Handler
But youth isn't happy. Youth is sadder than age. -- Ellen Glasgow
Only a battle lost is sadder than a battle won. -- Robert Jordan
By the way, is there anything sadder than toys on a grave? -- Fannie Flagg
Few sights in science are sadder than astronomers standing in the rain. -- Dennis Overbye
No sadder sound salutes you than the clear, Wild laughter of the loon. -- Celia Thaxter
Every day, a little sadder, a little madder. Will someone get me a ladder? -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
my beerdrunk soul is sadder than all the dead christmas trees of the world. -- Charles Bukowski
Being a friend of Fischer obviously is no undivided pleasure, though being Fischer seems sadder. -- Hans Ree
A house without books must be sad. Even sadder a house of books without people. -- Manuel Rivas
The longer and more carefully we look at a funny story, the sadder it becomes. -- Nikolai Gogol
It is sad to be an exception. But not to be one is even sadder. -- Peter Altenberg
In search of Truth the hopeful zealot goes,But all the sadder tums, the more he knows! -- H. P. Lovecraft
There is no death. The thing that we call death Is but another, sadder name for life. -- Richard Henry Stoddard
It's a sad thing not to have friends, but it is even sadder not to have enemies. -- Che Guevara
There's nothing sadder than getting to the end of your life and saying, 'I didn't do it right'. -- Lily Tomlin
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Nothing can be sadder or more profound than to see a thousand things for the first and last time. -- Victor Hugo
There is no sadder sight in the world than to see a beautiful theory killed by a brutal fact. -- Thomas Huxley
Can anything be sadder than work left unfinished? Yes, work never begun. Change your thoughts and you change your world. -- Norman Vincent Peale
Nothing is sadder than laughter; nothing more beautiful, more magnificent, more uplifting and enriching than the terror of deep despair. -- Federico Fellini
The heavens, with their everlasting faithfulness, look down on no sadder contradiction than the sluggard and the slattern in their prayers. -- James Martineau
A sadder but wiser man is a thousand times more agreeable to meet than the feller that never makes a mistake. -- Kin Hubbard
There's some sad things known to man, but ain't too much sadder than, the tears of a clown when noones around. -- Smokey Robinson
I'll no doubt just continue stumbling and bumbling through life, putting myself in precarious places, rising sadder if not wiser, as always. -- Allan Weisbecker
The old happiness is unreturning. Boy's griefs are not so grievous as youth's yearning. Boys have no sadness sadder than our hope. -- Wilfred Owen
...why were you happier when you were a kid? Because you didn't know anything. The more you know, the sadder you get. -- Stephen Colbert
I'm the type of person who listens to like sad music when I'm sad to feel sadder, and to feel sorry for myself. -- Troye Sivan
a parting is sadder than a death, Ma always said, for two people are dead to one another and yet go on living ... -- Caroline Pafford Miller
Some people as a result of adversity are sadder, wiser, kinder, more human. Most of us are better, though, when things go better. -- Malcolm Forbes
She is sadder and sadder, and for a man there is no balm more soothing than the sadness he has caused a woman. -- Milan Kundera
He went like one that hath been stunn'd, And is of sense forlorn: A sadder and a wiser man He rose the morrow morn. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The sun that brief December day Rose cheerless over hills of gray, And, darkly circled, gave at noon A sadder light than waning moon. -- John Greenleaf Whittier
The world he saw was sadder than the one he hoped to find. But it wasn't near as lonesome as the one he left behind. -- Kris Kristofferson
I love to sing big rock and roll songs; I love to sing country-pop stuff, and then I love to sing soft, sadder beautiful songs. -- Elle King
Human comedy is more profound than tragedy. In tragedy we die and it is very sad. In comedy we avoid death, and it is even sadder. -- Jennifer Stone
There are many types of marriage relationships and all of them can work, but none is sadder than the one that doesn't represent peace in your heart. -- Shannon L. Alder
In life, I have learnt that the more I learnt about life, the sadder I became and the sadder I became the desire to learn about life increased. -- Manoj Vaz
I can't sing. As a singist I am not a success. I am saddest when I sing. So are those who hear me. They are sadder even than I am. -- Artemas Ward
We love to chew the cud of a foregone vision; to collect the scattered rays of a brighter phantasm, or act over again, with firmer nerves, the sadder nocturnal tragedies. -- Charles Lamb
There is nothing sadder than the cheerful letters of the dead, expressing hopes that were never fulfilled, ambitions that were never achieved, dreams cut off before they could come to fruition. -- Barbara Mertz
What about you? Are you happiest and saddest right now that you've ever been?" "Of course I am." "Why?" "Because nothing makes me happier and nothing makes me sadder than you." -- Nicole Krauss
What about you? Are you happiest and saddest right now that you've ever been?" "Of course I am." "Why?" "Because nothing makes me happier and nothing makes me sadder than you. -- Nicole Krauss
The days grow shorter, the nights grow longer, The headstones thicken along the way; And life grows sadder, but love grows stronger For those who walk with us day by day. -- Ella Wheeler Wilcox
There is nothing sadder in this world than the waste of human potential. The purpose of evolution is to raise us out of the mud, not have us grovelling in it -- Andrew Schneider
There is nothing sadder in this world than the waste of human potential. The purpose of evolution is to raise us out of the mud, not have us grovelling in it. -- Andrew Schneider
Think long and hard about how you proceed, Nico di Angelo. You cannot lie to Cupid. If you let your anger rule you... well, your fate will be even sadder then mine. -- Rick Riordan
There's nothing sadder to me than associations held together by nothing but the glue of postage stamps. If you can't see or hear or touch a man, it's best to let him go. -- John Steinbeck
It was his optimism that Freud bequeathed to America and it was the optimism of our youthfulness, our freedom from the sterner, sadder tradition of Europe which enabled us to seize his gift. -- Karl A. Menninger
I think weddings are sadder than funerals, because they remind you of your own wedding. You can't be reminded of your own funeral because it hasn't happened. But weddings always make me cry. -- Brendan Behan
But if one's dreams having to come true was the only referendum on whether they were beautiful, or worth dreaming, well then, no one would wish for anything. And that would be so much sadder. -- David Rakoff
There is no death-the thing that we call death Is but another, sadder name for life, Which is itself an insufficient name, Faint recognition of that unknown life- That Power whose shadow is the Universe. -- Richard Henry Stoddard
One of the sadder things, I think, Is how our birthdays slowly sink: Presents and parties disappear, The cards grow fewer year by year, Till, when one reaches sixty-five, How many care we're still alive? -- Philip Larkin

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