500 quotes
Sorrow is so easy to express and yet so hard to tell.
Joni Mitchell
Musician · Canadian · b. 1943
You've got a beautiful country with so many beautiful people and so many beautiful things happening and stuff like that lets it down. I feel sad for them.
Robbie Williams
Musician · British · b. 1974
I don't need to manufacture trauma in my life to be creative. I have a big enough reservoir of sadness or emotional trauma to last me.
Sting
Musician · British · b. 1951
It is sad to grow old but nice to ripen.
Brigitte Bardot
Actress · French · b. 1934
Just because I'm talking about something that might have been a sad or painful situation doesn't mean that I'm sad or tortured 24 hours a day any more than anybody else is.
Lucinda Williams
Musician · American · b. 1953
Walt Disney was not a merchant of sadness.
James MacArthur
Actor · American · b. 1937
People say you should read your criticism because it will make you a better person but it doesn't. It just makes you a sad bitter old showbiz nightmare.
Jo Brand
Comedian · British · b. 1957
I think that's very sad, that I haven't allowed my heart to be broken. I have broken a few.
Sally Field
Actress · American · b. 1946
I am an optimist, unrepentant and militant. After all, in order not to be a fool an optimist must know how sad a place the world can be. It is only the pessimist who finds this out anew every day.
Peter Ustinov
Actor · English · 1921 – 2004
Dwight is a sad clown. You've seen those paintings of sad clown.
Rainn Wilson
Actor · American · b. 1966
Most orgies that you go to, I have found, most of it is sad. All that wildness, all those laughs were like the shining silver and gold paper on packages, but there was nothing inside.
Sammy Davis, Jr.
Entertainer · American · 1925 – 1990
Having gone through all of this, I feel in some ways calmer now. It's strange, but sad. I think I'll always be sad.
Nicole Kidman
Actress · b. 1967
I just want real reactions. I want people to laugh from the gut, be sad from the gut-or get angry from the gut.
Andy Kaufman
Comedian · American · 1949 – 1984
In a world where there is so much sadness and so much to be afraid of, good things do happen to people. Romance is still something we can find even if we're not consciously looking for it.
Kathleen Quinlan
Actress · American · b. 1954
But I'm not like sad, depressed miserable person. I guess sometimes I give off that impression.
Edward Furlong
Actor · American · b. 1977
We have newsreaders behaving like actors, lowering their voices if it's a sad story, as if we didn't know it's a sad story. There isn't a single cool newsreader.
Tom Baker
Actor · b. 1934
I used to sit near Marilyn Monroe in the Actor's Studio. She'd get dressed up because that was her identity. Sad. Those cameras wouldn't leave her alone. She didn't know where to hide.
Doris Roberts
Actress · American · b. 1930
I was sad Jon Ronson, who wrote in the Guardian and has made a TV show for Channel 4, took against me.
Jonathan King
Musician · English · b. 1944
I am not a sad clown. I am not a sad clown.
Nathan Lane
Actor · American · b. 1956
Someone once accused me of being like Eliot Ness. I sad no sir, I'm not E.N., but I can promise you that I'm not Al Capone!
Robert Stack
Actor · American · 1919 – 2003
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
Musician · American · b. 1980
All the things that happen to people in the industry today, the actors, what they have to put up with, all the people wanting to know every single moment of their lives - I think it's really sad.
Tab Hunter
Actor · American · b. 1931
It's the sad thing about entertainment, it's not always about who is the best.
Jake Roberts
Celebrity · American · b. 1955
What's sad is that there is an addictive quality to that, to believing your own hype; to allowing yourself to become validated by others and no longer by yourself. That's the danger of celebrity.
Giovanni Ribisi
Actor · American · b. 1974
There's no excuse to be bored. Sad, yes. Angry, yes. Depressed, yes. Crazy, yes. But there's no excuse for boredom, ever.
Viggo Mortensen
Actor · American · b. 1958
I'm not sad at all about turning 40.
Halle Berry
Actress · American · b. 1968
It's sad when girls think they don't have anything going on except being pretty.
Keri Russell
Actress · American · b. 1976
A lot of our entertainment throws into detail the stagnation and illness of how we live today-it's sad and it's sick... and it's profitable.
Heather Donahue
Actress · American · b. 1974
A comfortable old age is the reward of a well-spent youth. Instead of its bringing sad and melancholy prospects of decay, it would give us hopes of eternal youth in a better world.
Maurice Chevalier
Actor · French · 1888 – 1972
Sad old blokes, I'm told, now dream of me with a whip in hand.
Anne Robinson
Celebrity · British · b. 1944
I don't know what to say to that, but I have to agree with Johnny that, yeah, we do touch upon things that most men would rather not admit: That we feel pain, we cry, get sad and sometimes don't deal well with disappointment.
Peter Steele
Musician · American · b. 1962
Even modern English people are imperious, superior, ridden by class. All of the hypocrisy and the difficulties that are endemic in being British also make it an incredibly fertile place culturally. A brilliant place to live. Sad but true.
Pete Townshend
Musician · British · b. 1945
All you'd have to do is get a sad look, and he'd try to do something for you.
Margaret O'Brien
Actress · American · b. 1937
How sad it is that we give up on people who are just like us.
Fred Rogers
Celebrity · American · 1928 – 2003
Partying is such sweet sorrow.
Robert Byrne
Celebrity · American · b. 1928
In LA, I mean, here's this place full of desperate and sad people who take their only pleasure from destroying others for the purposes of their own self-aggrandizement.
My father's death, my move, and my frightening and difficult delivery created a tremendous amount of stress, pain, and sadness for me. I was practically devastated beyond recovery.
Brooke Shields
Actress · American · b. 1965
I'm happy, I would say that I'm one of the happiest people I know but I've certainly had periods of profound sadness, depression and heartache and those are the kind of things that are interesting to me to write about.
Richard Marx
Musician · American · b. 1963
I'm certainly no victim in this. I don't want to come off as a sad sack; I pissed a lot of people off.
Harry Anderson
Actor · American · b. 1952
I think that the majority of messages are validating messages to confirm the survival of conscious. And many times that validation message is negative or sad.
John Edward
Entertainer · American · b. 1969
I know what it's like to have someone coming home who looks at you not in the way they used to in the old days, and I've seen my own face contorted with sadness and rage in the mirror.
Jane Birkin
Actress · English · b. 1946
If my world were to cave in tomorrow, I would look back on all the pleasures, excitements and worthwhilenesses I have been lucky enough to have had. Not the sadness, not my miscarriages or my father leaving home, but the joy of everything else. It will have been enough.
Audrey Hepburn
Actress · Belgian · 1929 – 1993
Man, I was drowning in sadness. And Angelina, she lifted me right up out of there.
Billy Bob Thornton
Actor · American · b. 1955
I have a stepladder. It's a very nice stepladder but it's sad that I never knew my real ladder.
Craig Charles
Actor · British · b. 1964
The hardest thing is at the end you have to say bye to all these people who you have worked with for so many months. It was really sad not to see them anymore. But you have the parties that you go to and you get to see them, like the premieres and the screenings.
Dakota Fanning
Actress · American · b. 1994
I like everything perfect. Everything has to be neat. My sister is 5, and she's more messy than I am. I make my bed every morning, everything's perfect. My shoes are all arranged. It's sad. I'm a little like Ray, a little bit.
Keep it simple, keep it sexy, keep it sad.
Mitch Miller
Musician · b. 1911
Lonesome. Lonesome. I know what it means. Here all by my lonesome, dreaming empty dreams. Weary. Weary at the close of day, wondering if tomorrow brings me joy or sorrow.
Leon Redbone
Musician · American · b. 1949