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
Sad people dislike the happy, and the happy the sad the quick thinking the sedate, and the careless the busy and industrious. – Horace
Proud people breed sad sorrows for themselves. – Emily Bronte
I would not know how I am supposed to feel about many stories if not for the fact that the TV news personalities make sad faces for sad stories and happy faces for happy stories. – Dave Barry
That is sad until one recalls how many bad books the world may yet be spared because of the busyness of writers. – Gore Vidal
I love my past, I love my present. I am not ashamed of what I have had, and I am not sad because I no longer have it. – Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
War is very sad and small life is pathetically fragile at times. – Henry Rollins
They say geniuses mostly have great mothers. They mostly have sad fates. – David Herbert Lawrence
How sad it is that we give up on people who are just like us. – Fred Rogers
Of these years nought remains in memory but the sad feeling that we have advanced and only grown older. – Max Muller
Poverty makes you sad as well as wise. – Bertolt Brecht
The sad souls of those who lived without blame and without praise. – Dante Alighieri
Among the many reasons assignable for the sad decay of true Christianity, perhaps the neglecting to assemble ourselves together, in religious societies, may not be one of the least. – George Whitefield
Better by far you should forget and smile than that you should remember and be sad. – Christina G. Rossetti
Better by far you should forget and smile that you should remember and be sad. – Christina Rossetti
When I was a child people simply looked about them and were moderately happy today they peer beyond the seven seas, bury themselves waist deep in tidings, and by and large what they see and hear makes them unutterably sad. – E. B. White
When I did the film Generations, in which the character died, I felt like a guest for the first time. That made me very sad. – William Shatner
I have a piece of great and sad news to tell you: I am dead. – Jean Cocteau
Everybody has a right to like or dislike anything or anyone. From a flower to a flavor to a book or a composition but it is very sad that in our country we actually fight over such things in an unseemly manner. – Ravi Shankar
As virtuous men pass mildly away, and whisper to their souls to go, whilst some of their sad friends do say, the breath goes now, and some say no. – John Donne
