Change is good, but in the middle of it, it can be very sad.
— Astrid S
The stories I grew up with, whether it came to queer representation or representation of anyone that was different, it was always a story of, like, very sad, usually ended up with somebody dying, and it made the idea of being queer or different really scary, actually.
— Asia Kate Dillon
I had an inkling that I was going to prison before I actually did, because I'd witnessed my father and my elders going through it. It seemed like that's the way that you got respect, which is a sad thing.
— Ashley Walters
There are many roles and I haven't had the opportunity to do any of them. I jokingly tell people 'Sometimes I wonder, is the film industry waiting for me to die and then say it's sad. He was a good actor. He was underrated and didn't have enough chances.'
— Ashish Vidyarthi
I don't want success to affect me to that extent that I change or failure to that extent that I get sad, bitter and negative.
— Arjun Kapoor
I always knew that St. Jude was an amazing organization but meeting the kids and seeing how the hospital works first hand was truly beautiful. It doesn't feel like a regular hospital all dreary and sad. It's a colorful, beautiful, comfortable, fun place to live and the energy is wonderful.
— Ariana Grande
Those who gave away their wings are sad not to see them fly.
— Antonio Porchia
We're losing jobs in our manufacturing base, and those families that are going to be out of work over the holidays, that is a very sad thing. That is more governmental dependency. That is a reduced tax revenue for the state and for the federal government.
— Anthony Scaramucci
I've been getting into Nick Drake lately, the folk singer. Sad, gorgeous stuff.
— Anthony Doerr
My thing with fans is, it's always about being really good to them and taking the time to take every picture. If there are 300 people, you should take 300 pictures - you shouldn't take 250 because then fifty people will go home sad. Why would you do that?
— Ansel Elgort
Sad old blokes, I'm told, now dream of me with a whip in hand.
— Anne Robinson
When I see people sad, I'm sad.
— Anne-Marie
In film, you can have sad endings.
— Anna Torv
Well, you know, too much democracy is a sort of sad thing.
— Ann Richards
I'm interested in everything about people. Not just, 'what do you do for a living?' but I want to know about their fears and sadnesses and listen to their regrets, both sides of it, the happy and the sad.
— Anh Do
I didn't really want to live, so anything that was an investment in time made me angry... but also I just felt sad. When the hopelessness is hurting you, it's the fixtures and fittings that finish you off.
— Angelina Jolie
The closing of a door can bring blessed privacy and comfort - the opening, terror. Conversely, the closing of a door can be a sad and final thing - the opening a wonderfully joyous moment.
— Andy Rooney
Agencies must know who they are accountable to. If the agencies know who they are accountable to but we cannot say who they are accountable to, then really it is a very sad situation that is bound to be misused. It is bound to affect human rights.
— Asma Jahangir
The sad reality of it is, as black artists in the industry, we still have to work 10 times harder to get our voices out there.
— Ashton Sanders
When my dad passed, there's a lot of sadness right below the surface, and I think there will be until the day I die. So, writing sad songs helps it. And when I sing them, it's pure therapy for me.
— Ashley Monroe
Nothing is more sad than the death of an illusion.
— Arthur Koestler
If you're at school, children who play football, you give everything to win... If you don't succeed, that's a huge disappointment. Then it's okay to be sad, but better times are coming.
— Arjen Robben
At 21, my career took a comedic turn when I was cast in a new Broadway play called 'Brooklyn Boy,' by Donald Margulies, which was equal parts funny and sad. I realized that the more seriously I expressed my character's feelings, the funnier the scene became.
— Ari Graynor
For me, it is sad when I listen to this, that one player must be more selfish to reach the top level.
— Antonio Conte
There are sad moments - lonely moments - when you're sitting up in your room all by yourself, shooting on location in Atlanta or Vancouver or L.A., and your family's back home. You can miss home.
— Anthony Ramos
Two or three notes of music can instantly make you feel sad or tense or afraid or angry. To do that in words is much more difficult.
— Anthony Daniels
'The Fault in Our Stars' is a beautiful film that's really positive. The second half gets sad, but it's always positive.
I think it's a terrible thing to write and not enjoy it. It's a sad thing. But of course a lot of people do work because they need to eat. And we all need to eat, but that's not the only reason to work. You couldn't have paid me not to write.
— Anne Perry
When I first started writing, I wrote really sad, emotional songs which were all slow.
If I get the forty additional years statisticians say are likely coming to me, I could fit in at least one, maybe two new lifetimes. Sad that only one of those lifetimes can include being the mother of young children.
— Anna Quindlen
It's too easy to say that orange is happy and black is sad. To me, black is perfect. You can fill it with the emotion you want to express.
— Ann Demeulemeester
She would have thrived as a grandmother. I know how much she would have contributed to their lives, and I am sad they will miss out on that.
People are still programmed to think that if your child doesn't get straight As, get A-levels and go to a Russell Group university, that somehow they are not going to achieve in life. I think that's sad.
— Angela Rayner
I had sadness for breakfast.
— Andy Milonakis
The big thing for me is to make films that you feel, whether you feel happy, whether you feel sad, whether you feel sick; it's to make the audience feel so that the next day they remember what they saw.
— Asif Kapadia
I can't grow a mustache. It's pretty sad if I attempt to.
— Ashton Kutcher
Once, after I had just worked out, I hopped on the elevator at the gym only to look up and see Conan O'Brien on it with me. I was so sad. I was all sweaty, but I love him so much, and I couldn't help but nerd out on him.
— Ashlan Gorse Cousteau
You will soon find that I am a bit obsessive about my work. And that is a little sad, one often feels strangely restricted, not finding time to simmer, although one actually has many interests.
— Arne Jacobsen
The sad and horrible conclusion is that no one cared that Jews were being murdered... This is the Jewish lesson of the Holocaust and this is the lesson which Auschwitz taught us.
— Ariel Sharon
I enjoy being recognized. I'll be very sad if people stop recognizing me. I'll be very sad if I'm not interviewed, because that's a very amazing process.
— Anupam Kher
It always makes me sad when I think of how I saw Wagner wasting his vitality, not only by singing their parts to some of his artists, but acting out the smallest details, and of how few they were who were responsive to his wishes.
— Anton Seidl
I had a vocal coach. It's a sad thing, but I had to hire someone so that I could get my Australian accent back.
— Anthony LaPaglia
A lot of my characters are underdogs or sad or lonely, but I had a comfortable, golden sort of childhood.
— Anthony Browne
We all like stories that make us cry. It's so nice to feel sad when you've nothing in particular to feel sad about.
— Anne Sullivan
I feel like no matter what I write about, I try to end up being the stronger person in the situation. Even in heartbreak, I feel like I'm a much stronger person because of that. I don't want to just write a sad song and still feel sad after that. I want to feel stronger and better.
Oh, I am very weary, Though tears no longer flow; My eyes are tired of weeping, My heart is sick of woe.
— Anne Bronte
I love dancing to the radio every morning, to start the day with such passion. Otherwise, life is too sad. My little daughter and I like dancing to classical music: Bach and Schubert.
— Anna Mouglalis
That's what sort of fascinates me - what's funny as well as what's sad.
I loved being Maleficent. I was quite sad to put my staff down and put my horns away because somehow, she just lives in a different world.
Manchester United was a sad experience. Things didn't go as I had hoped. I was disappointed, and it didn't help me to rise to the surface.
— Angel Di Maria
