“The saddest people I've met in my life are the ones who don't care deeply about anything at all.”
Nicholas Sparks (1965) American writer and novelist
Upon completing his spacewalk and returning to the Gemini 4 capsule. "Composite Air-to-ground and Onboard Voice Tape Transcription of the GT-4 Mission (U)" http://www.jsc.nasa.gov/history/mission_trans/GT04_TEC.PDF, NASA, August 31, 1965, p. 3
“The saddest people I've met in my life are the ones who don't care deeply about anything at all.”
Nicholas Sparks (1965) American writer and novelist
“One of the saddest things in life, is the things one remembers.”
Agatha Christie (1890–1976) English mystery and detective writer
Isaac Asimov (1920–1992) American writer and professor of biochemistry at Boston University, known for his works of science fiction …
Isaac Asimov's Book of Science and Nature Quotations (1988), edited with Jason A. Shulman, p. 281
General sources
“In its last moment, the whole of my life will last only a moment.”
Antonio Porchia (1885–1968) Italian Argentinian poet
En último instante, toda mi vida durará un instante.
Voces (1943)
Sophie Scholl (1921–1943) White Rose member
As quoted in Christian Jazz Artists Newsletter (February/March 2005) http://www.songsofdavid.com/CJAFebMarch2005.htm; this source is disputed as it does not cite an original document for the quote. <br class="br">Disputed
George W. Bush (1946) 43rd President of the United States
As quoted in "Former President Bush and wife Laura visit Africa to promote initiative to fight cervical, breast cancer" https://web.archive.org/web/20130522023945/http://www.nydailynews.com/news/world/bushes-visit-africa-promote-initiative-fight-cervical-breast-cancer-article-1.1109613 (22 May 2013), by Meghan Neal, New York Daily News. <br class="br">2010s, 2013
“I could but esteem this moment of my departure as among the most happy of my life.”
Meriwether Lewis (1774–1809) American explorer
Lee Kuan Yew (1923–2015) First Prime Minister of Singapore
August 9, 1965, when Lee announced the separation of Singapore from Malaysia, as quoted in The Theatre and the State in Singapore: Orthodoxy and Resistance, Terence Chong
1960s
“My heart is empty & my life has no value anymore. Each moment a thousand tears.”
Lisa See book Peony in Love
Source: Peony in Love