Billie Holiday
Singer
"The blues to me is like being very sad, very sick, going to church, being very happy ... it's sort of a mixed up thing. You just have to feel it."
Very Sad quotes
Very Sad
30 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Mara Wilson
Actress
"Very sad, very upset, very glad I did not have to hear about this though Twitter. Probably going to be taking some time off it for a while."
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Novelist, Short Story Writer, Journalist
"What does he say?' he asked. 'He’s very sad,’ Úrsula answered, ‘because he thinks that you’re going to die.' 'Tell him,' the colonel said, smiling, 'that a person doesn’t die when he should but when he can."
Fred Williams
Artist
"Every coach always worries about accidents happening. I was very fortunate as a head coach that we were never in any accidents. But when you hear about them happening to other schools, it is very sad."
Jim Rohn
Author, Motivational Speaker
"What you get will never make you happy; who you become will make you very happy or very sad."
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"The words, when they came to my heart, were so gentle, and familiar -- and so very sad: What is this you have done?"
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"It seems to me that very sad things always contain an element of the comical"
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"The world is a very serious and, at times, very sad place - but at other times it is all such a joke."
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"War is very sad and small life is pathetically fragile at times."
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