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Top 10 Sad Quotes

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Love and friendship have an intimate relationship with pain and sorrow. Sadness also arises from lost dreams and missed opportunities. On this page, you will find a top 10 list of sad quotes. If you are feeling sad, these soul-stirring quotes will strike a cord. Some of these quotes will give you hope for a better tomorrow.

1. John Greenleaf Whittier

For all sad words of tongue and pen, the saddest are these, 'It might have been.'

2. Jim Rohn

How sad to see a father with money and no joy. The man studied economics, but never studied happiness.

3. Psalms

They that sow in tears shall reap in joy.

4. Winston Churchill

Solitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strong.

5. Marcus Aurelius

Reject your sense of injury and the injury itself disappears.

6. Malcolm X, Malcolm X Speaks

Usually when people are sad, they don't do anything. They just cry over their condition. But when they get angry, they bring about a change.

7. Voltaire

He is a hard man who is only just, and a sad one who is only wise.

8. Olive Schreiner

My feeling is that there is nothing in life but refraining from hurting others, and comforting those who are sad.

9. Wizard of Oz

Hearts will never be practical until they are made unbreakable.

10. W. M. Lewis

The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.

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