“Not sad because you lost me
But sad because you thought it was cool to be sad”

— Dido

See You When You're 40
Song lyrics, Life for Rent (2003)

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English singer-songwriter 1971

Antonio Porchia (1885–1968) Italian Argentinian poet

Está triste, porque te abandonan y no estás caído.
Voces (1943)

“Why are you so sad?
- Because you speak to me in words and I look at you with feelings.”

Leo Tolstoy (1828–1910) Russian writer

“Because sometimes you just feel sad and you can't explain it.”

Jenny Han book To All the Boys I've Loved Before

To All the Boys I've Loved Before

“Lara: Because sometimes you just feel sad and you can't explain it.

Kitty: PMS?

Lara: No. It's not PMS. Just because a girl is sad, it doesn't mean it has anything to do with PMS.”

Jenny Han book To All the Boys I've Loved Before

Source: To All the Boys I've Loved Before

“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 (1965) Novelist

Source: Dragonswan

“And meanwhile the sad truth was that not everyone could be extraordinary, not everyone could be extremely cool; because whom would this leave to be ordinary?”

Jonathan Franzen book The Corrections

Source: The Corrections (2001)
Context: All around him, millions of newly minted American millionaires were engaged in the identical pursuit of feeling extraordinary - of buying the perfect Victorian, of skiing the virgin slope, of knowing the chef personally, of locating the beach that had no footprints. There were further tens of millions of young Americans who didn't have money but were nonetheless chasing the Perfect Cool. And meanwhile the sad truth was that not everyone could be extraordinary, not everyone could be extremely cool; because whom would this leave to be ordinary? Who would perform the thankless work of being comparatively uncool?

“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 (1977) guitarist and singer/songwriter

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"