“Maybe it’s sad that these are now memories. And maybe it’s not sad.”
Stephen Chbosky book The Perks of Being a Wallflower
Source: The Perks of Being a Wallflower
Source: Elsewhere
“Maybe it’s sad that these are now memories. And maybe it’s not sad.”
Stephen Chbosky book The Perks of Being a Wallflower
Source: The Perks of Being a Wallflower
Lois Lowry book The Giver
Variant: The worse part of holding the memories is not the pain. It's the loneliness of it. Memories need to be shared.
Source: The Giver
“Unhappy is he to whom the memories of childhood bring only fear and sadness.”
H.P. Lovecraft (1890–1937) American author
“With living colours give my verse to glow:
The sad memorial of a tale of woe!”
William Falconer (1732–1769) British writer
Introduction, lines 35-36.
The Shipwreck (1762)
“I'm proud of my invention, but I'm sad that it is used by terrorists.”
Mikhail Kalashnikov (1919–2013) Soviet and Russian small arms designer
As quoted in "Kalashnikov: 'I wish I'd made a lawnmower'" by Kate Connolly, in The Guardian (29 July 2002) https://www.theguardian.com/world/2002/jul/30/russia.kateconnolly <br class="br">Context: I'm proud of my invention, but I'm sad that it is used by terrorists. … I would prefer to have invented a machine that people could use and that would help farmers with their work — for example a lawnmower.
“While Memory watches o'er the sad review
Of joys that faded like the morning dew.”
Thomas Campbell (1777–1844) British writer
Part II, line 45
Pleasures of Hope (1799)
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"
“Isn't that sad! I'm so fragile. It's tragic [laughs]. Can you believe it? That's so sad.”
Edie Sedgwick (1943–1971) Socialite, actress, model
Response to watching herself on a monitor
Edie : Girl On Fire (2006)