Sad Quotes

“Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player, that struts and frets his hour upon the stage, and then is heard no more; it is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.”

“One may smile, and smile, and be a villain.”

“Never regret thy fall, O Icarus of the fearless flight For the greatest tragedy of them all Is never to feel the burning light.”

“There is a luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves we feel no one else has a right to blame us.”

“I feel like crying, so I must be crying, but it's impossible to tell because I'm underwater.”

“What you must understand about me is that I’m a deeply unhappy person.”

“Every man is, or hopes to be, an idler.”

“Poverty is often concealed in splendor, and often in extravagance. It is the task of many people to conceal their neediness from others. Consequently they support themselves by temporary means, and everyday is lost in contriving for tomorrow.”

“The shortest distance between two points is often unbearable.”

“I remembered my New Orleans days, living on two five-cent candy bars a day for weeks at a time in order to have leisure to write. But starvation, unfortunately, didn't improve art. It only hindered it. A man's soul was rooted in his stomach. A man could write much better after eating a porterhouse steak and drinking a pint of whiskey than he could ever write after eating a nickel candy bar. The myth of the starving artist was a hoax.”