„It's sad when someone you know becomes someone you knew.“

„Sad thing is, you can still love someone and be wrong for them.“

—  Elvis Presley American singer and actor 1935 - 1977

„Reader, nothing is sweeter in this sad world than the sound of someone you love calling your name. Nothing.“

—  Kate DiCamillo, kniha The Tale of Despereaux

Varianta: Reader, nothing is sweeter in this sad world than the sound of someone you love calling your name. Nothing.
Zdroj: The Tale of Despereaux (2004)

„I’m here because I know the sadness inside you. I know what it feels like to wake in the morning, lost and lonely and aching for someone to be there with me. (Sebastian)“

—  Sherrilyn Kenyon Novelist 1965

Zdroj: Dragonswan

„Long after you’ve forgotten someone’s voice, you can still remember the sound of their happiness or their sadness. You can feel it in your body.“

—  Anne Michaels Poet and novelist 1958

„People don't read any more. It's a sad state of affairs. Reading's the only thing that allows you to use your imagination. When you watch films it's someone else's vision, isn't it?"

[Interview in, 15 October 2005]“

—  Lemmy Kilmister British singer-songwriter 1945 - 2015

„You fall in and out of love, but when you really love someone… it's forever.“

—  Sophie Kinsella, kniha Wedding Night

Zdroj: Wedding Night

„Don’t feel sad over someone who gave up on you, feel sorry for them because they gave up on someone who would have never given up on them.“

—  Ralph Smart

„The saddest kind of sad is the sad that tries not to be sad. You know, when Sad tries to bite its lip and not cry and smile and go, "No, I'm happy for you?"“

—  John Mayer guitarist and singer/songwriter 1977

That's when it's really sad.
Rolling Stone magazine/iTunes podcast (December 2005)
On the "chin-up sad" tone of one of his new songs on his upcoming album "Continuum"

„Never stop smiling not even when you're sad, someone might fall in love with your smile.“

—  Gabriel García Márquez Colombian writer 1927 - 2014

„As you go through life's rich tapestry, you realize that most people you meet aren't fit to shine your shoes. It's a sad fact, but it's true. A good friend is someone who'd hide you if you were on the run for murder. How many of them do you know?“

—  Lemmy Kilmister British singer-songwriter 1945 - 2015

„Despereaux," she whispered.
And then she shouted it, "Despereaux!"
Reader, nothing is sweeter in this sad world than the sound of someone you love calling your name.
Nothing.“

—  Kate DiCamillo, kniha The Tale of Despereaux

Zdroj: The Tale of Despereaux

„I still don't think it's pathetic to cry over someone. It just means you care about them deeply and you're sad.“

—  Jenny Han, kniha P.S. I Still Love You

Zdroj: P.S. I Still Love You

„If it's sad / you know it's true / God is glad on bluer moons / When your room is all you do / it comes to you“

—  Blake Schwarzenbach American singer 1967

"Psalm"
Perfecting Loneliness (2002)

„I wondered if it was possible to take someone's pain away with a kiss. Because that was what i wanted to do, take all of his sadness and pour it out of him, comfort him, make the boy i knew come back.“

—  Jenny Han American writer 1980

Zdroj: The Summer I Turned Pretty

„Conspiracy theories (actually: hypotheses) are comforting, anthropocentric, affirming constructs. They assume that someone runs the world, that someone is in control. The sad truth is that nobody is in control. That's way more terrifying.“

—  Johannes Grenzfurthner Austrian artist, writer, curator, and theatre and film director 1975

via Twitter https://twitter.com/johannes_mono/status/1250039288517050369

„There's a hazardous sadness to the first sounds of someone else's work in the morning; it's as if stillness experiences pain in being broken.“

—  Jonathan Franzen, kniha Freedom

Zdroj: Freedom

„It's more sad than anything else, to see someone with such potential throw it all down the drain because of a sexual addiction.“

—  Mark Foley

regarding Bill Clinton; quoted in Foleygate: The former congressman's true crime, The Phoenix, 2006-10-05, 2006-12-13 http://www.thephoenix.com/article_ektid24210.aspx,

„she was a girl who knew how to be happy even when she was sad“

—  Marilyn Monroe American actress, model, and singer 1926 - 1962

Varianta: She was a girl who knew how to be happy even when she was sad. And that’s important—you know

„How sad, ye gods, how sad the world is at evening, how mysterious the mists over the swamps. You will know it when you have suffered greatly before dying, when you have walked through the world carrying an unbearable burden. You know it too when you are weary and ready to leave this earth without regret; it's mists, it's swamps and it's rivers; ready to give yourself into the arms of death with a light heart, knowing that death alone can comfort you.“

—  Mikhail Bulgakov, kniha The Master and Margarita

Book Two in 'Absolution and Eternal Refuge', MG. (Note: Alternate translation of above passage ('Gods, my gods...'))
The Master and Margarita (1967)