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My father's face, when he said that, dissolved into a stillness, a sad expression, sadder than human feeling. — Jonathan Safran Foer

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 knew that the tears of adults were wetter, saltier, and much, much sadder than those of a child — Thomas Burnett Swann

Defeating one ant had taken all my energy. (I don't think I have ever written a sadder sentence than that.) — Rick Riordan

There is one thing sadder than to see one's children die; it is to see them leading an evil life. — Victor Hugo

One should never see a drinking establishment well lit, he thought, it just makes it look even sadder. — Graham McNeill

But I did become sadder, and sadness gets boring after a while, for the sad person and for everyone around them. — Paula Hawkins

I am very pro-royal. Britain without them would be a sadder place. — Alison Jackson

No sadder sound salutes you than the clear, Wild laughter of the loon. — Celia Thaxter

Only one thing's sadder than remembering you were once free, and that's forgetting you were once free. — Leonard Peltier

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

I was still waiting for him to 'get' that. the longer I waited, the angrier I got. But most of all, the sadder I got. — Nicole Williams

There's nothing sadder than a book that hasn't been cared for, a book too broken to read. — Rin Chupeco

I wondered which was sadder, leaving someone to cry after you were gone, or not having anyone who would miss you in the first place — William Ritter

It is sad not to love, but it is much sadder not to be able to love. — Miguel De Unamuno

I have been sadder than any man could be: for nothing in the world was made for me. — Patricia Highsmith

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

There's nothing sadder than a sobbing waffle. — Jerry Spinelli

By the way, is there anything sadder than toys on a grave? — Fannie Flagg

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

Nothing is sadder than someone who has lost his memory, and the church which has lost its memory is in the same state of senility. — Henry Chadwick

A sadder but wiser man is a thousand times more agreeable to meet than the feller that never makes a mistake. — Kin Hubbard

And you walk or wheel to this place here when you feel sad? On your walks? Or wheels? This is a sad place. More sadder it could turn you. — Andersen Prunty

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

Is there anything sadder than the scrawniest little piece of uneaten chicken at a dinner party?"
"Hmm," said Jules. "Yes. The Holocaust. — Meg Wolitzer

No sadder proof can be given by a man of his own littleness than disbelief in great men. — Thomas Carlyle

The only thing sadder than unrequited love is being in a relationship where there is unrequited love. — Shannon L. Alder

It is sad to be an exception. But not to be one is even sadder. — Peter Altenberg

He constructed a shell to hide his aloneness, and it hardened on his back. I know of no sadder story. — Peter Guralnick

Checked out the mirror to see if I looked older, or sadder, or wiser. I didn't; I just looked tired. — Nora Ephron

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 few sights sadder than a ruined book. — Lemony Snicket

It's a sad thing not to have friends, but it is even sadder not to have enemies. — Ernesto Che Guevara

The wind had a voice as it came over the waves, and it was sadder than the end. — Stephen Crane

Have you ever gotten so sad that it actually feels GOOD to do something you know will make you even sadder? — Hillary Frank

My day had already had a good dose of bitterness, and I preferred to keep it from getting any sadder. — Maria Duenas

It's almost always sadder to stay than to depart — Miguel Sousa Tavares

There's nothing sadder in this world than to awake Christmas morning and not be a child. — Erma Bombeck

There is no sadder sight than a young pessimist, except an old optimist. — Mark Twain

My beerdrunk soul is sadder than all the dead christmas trees of the world. — Charles Bukowski

I know nothing sadder than a hunchback in love or an ugly woman full of romantic ideals. — Emile Zola

The longer and more carefully we look at a funny story, the sadder it becomes. — Nikolai Gogol

There is nothing sadder than sitting in a car and having absolutely nowhere to go. — Jonathan Tropper

If you let your anger rule you, your fate will be sadder than mine — Rick Riordan

Cry your guts out because nothing is sadder than an adult who forgets how to be a child. — Alison Espach

There's never been a particular band that I've followed religiously. But I do tend to listen to sadder music. — Freddie Highmore

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

Sadder than a ticking clock, the moments without you — John Geddes

There's nothing sadder than cyberspace . . . but I've already said this. — Ruth Ozeki

But youth isn't happy. Youth is sadder than age. — Ellen Glasgow

There's nothing sadder than buying bananas one at a time. — Rainbow Rowell

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

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

It never was any better, it never will be any better. It will only be richer or poorer, sadder but not wiser, until the very last day. — Walter M. Miller Jr.

The more judgmental a person is the sadder they are. — David W. Earle

Nothing is sadder than laughter; nothing more beautiful, more magnificent, more uplifting and enriching than the terror of deep despair. — Federico Fellini

Few sights in science are sadder than astronomers standing in the rain. — Dennis Overbye

Nothing is sadder than an old whore. — Richard Bowes

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

In search of Truth the hopeful zealot goes,
But all the sadder tums, the more he knows! — H.P. Lovecraft

Sadder than the beggar is the man who eats alone in public. — Jean Baudrillard

this summer is so much sadder than the other — Vladimir Nabokov

What can be sadder than a discouraged artist dying not from his own commonplace maladies, but from the cancer of oblivion? — Vladimir Nabokov

But what in life wasn't connected to some greater, sadder story? — Hanya Yanagihara

Being a friend of Fischer obviously is no undivided pleasure, though being Fischer seems sadder. — Hans Ree

The more you know, the sadder you get. — Stephen Colbert

I'm not sure I can think of anything sadder than a homeless person with a homeless dog. — Chris Bohjalian

There's nothing sadder than getting to the end of your life and saying, 'I didn't do it right'. — Lily Tomlin

There is no death. The thing that we call death
Is but another, sadder name for life. — Richard Henry Stoddard

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

There is no sadder sight in the world than to see a beautiful theory killed by a brutal fact. — Thomas Huxley

The heavens, with their everlasting faithfulness, look down on no sadder contradiction than the sluggard and the slattern in their prayers. — James Martineau

The only thing sadder than hateful people's willingness to drag us down to their level, is our willingness to oblige. — Steve Maraboli

I think there's nothing sadder than a pro athlete who plays past his prime. — Lynn Samuels

Every day, a little sadder, a little madder. Will someone get me a ladder? — Ralph Waldo Emerson

A nation of unhappy teachers makes for a sadder and more endangered America. — Pat Conroy

I'm a little sadder for all of it, and a little meaner and a little more conscientious as well. — Anne Rice

Moorehead is one of those sad people who go into teaching so they can be worshipped by the only people sadder than they are - students. — Josh Lieb

The world would be a sadder place without stories. — David Gemmell

Can anything be sadder than work left unfinished? Yes, work never begun. — Christina Rossetti

Nothing is sadder than having worldly standards without worldly means. — Van Wyck Brooks

But for all the feet that had trodden it, it remained ordinary dust, which seemed to make everything much sadder. — William Golding

Altogether, a pleasant place, marred by activities of unpleasant people whose qualities, perhaps, are sad reflections of sadder environments. — Walter Greenwood

Nothing is sadder than a child burdened by reality, after all. Those stories were our family fairy tales. — Veronica Montes

Nothing is sadder than love left unheard. — Neil Diamond

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

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

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

Only a battle lost is sadder than a battle won. — Robert Jordan

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

It is painful to fail. But it is far sadder when a storyteller stops wanting to try. — Orson Scott Card

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

A house without books must be sad. Even sadder a house of books without people. — Manuel Rivas

If only. Were there sadder words than these? — Therese Anne Fowler

People think it's terribly sad to spend Christmas alone, but it's no sadder, really, than spending any other day alone, is it? — Paula Hawkins

I'm not a morose person; it's just that my best songs reflect on the sadder aspects of life. — Robert Smith