#sadder

Well the country songs themselves are three-chord stories, ballads which are mostly sad. If you are already feeling sorry for yourself when you listen to them they will take you to an even sadder place. ↗

— Willie Nelson

#ballads #country #even #feeling #listen

I'm more prone to his '70s material, which is what I was around for and watched a lot. I listen to a lot of that stuff. It probably influenced me quite a bit. I'm more drawn to the darker, sadder songs. ↗

— Lisa Marie Presley

#bit #darker #drawn #his #i

Can anything be sadder than work left unfinished? Yes, work never begun. ↗

— Christina G. Rossetti

#begun #left #never #sadder #than

My earlier poems were sadder than my poems are today, perhaps because I wrote them in confusion or when I was unhappy. But I am not a melancholy person, quite the contrary, no one enjoys laughing more than I do. ↗

— Anne Stevenson

#because #confusion #contrary #earlier #enjoys

There is no sadder sight than a young pessimist. ↗

— Mark Twain

#sadder #sight #than #young

No sadder proof can be given by a man of his own littleness than disbelief in great men. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

#given #great #great men #his #littleness

It is sadder to find the past again and find it inadequate to the present than it is to have it elude you and remain forever a harmonious conception of memory. ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

#conception #elude #find #forever #harmonious

There's nothing sadder in this world than to awake Christmas morning and not be a child. ↗

— Erma Bombeck

#child #christmas #morning #nothing #sadder

Nothing is sadder than having worldly standards without worldly means. ↗

— Van Wyck Brooks

#means #nothing #sadder #standards #than

The fact is that nothing is more difficult to believe than the truth; conversely, nothing seduces like the power of lies, the greater the better. It's only natural, and you will have to find the right balance. Having said that, let me add that this particular old woman hasn't been collecting only years; she has also collected stories, and none sadder or more terrible than the one she's about to tell you. You have been at the heart of this story without knowing it until today ... ↗

— Carlos Ruiz Zafón

#balance #collecting #lies #more-terrible #old-woman