#saddest

The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom. ↗

— Isaac Asimov

#aspect #faster #gathers #knowledge #life

Don't fear failure so much that you refuse to try new things. The saddest summary of a life contains three descriptions: could have, might have, and should have. ↗

— Louis E. Boone

#could #descriptions #failure #fear #life

The saddest songs are written when a person is happy. ↗

— Merle Travis

#person #saddest #songs #written

Looking back now, about a year later, I can name what the saddest moment ever really is. That title goes to the moment, the split second, that one instant that someone committing to suicide has when they suddenly realize that really, truly, sincerely, and genuinely... that’s that. That moment goes on for an eternity. In it, the thoughts that run through your mind are everywhere all at once. You think, yes, my pain will go away here shortly. But also, and the real sadness comes in here, you realize that you’ll never do anything, anything ever again. In this little moment, stillness finds you. You kick the chair out from under you to dangle from a rope, you make those deep gashes on your wrists, you swallow those pills, you take that leap...and just for a second, quite possibly one of the last seconds you’ll ever know, you’ll experience the saddest moment ever. There really are some wonderfully beautiful things to experience in the world. But you’ll never get there. You’re here, in this moment, your last. You’ll feel something you didn’t anticipate when you made that plan. Regret. The worst regret anyone could ever know. ↗

— Robert Dossa

#beauty

My saddest decision in football was leaving Paul Gascoigne out of the 1998 World Cup finals. But he wasn't fit enough and once that decision is made, as a manager and a group of players, you forget about who isn't there and focus on the job. ↗

— Glenn Hoddle

#cup #cup finals #decision #enough #finals

The saddest thing is that when I sat down to rehearse for the Pixies, I couldn't believe that I had given up something that I loved. Now I hold the drum at night and I want to go to bed with it. ↗

— Joey Santiago

#believe #down #drum #given #go

We look before and after, And pine for what is not; Our sincerest laughter With some pain is fraught; Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought. ↗

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

#before #fraught #laughter #look #our

Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought. ↗

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

#saddest #songs #sweetest #tell #those

The saddest fact of climate change - and the chief reason we should be concerned about finding a proper response - is that the countries it will hit hardest are already among the poorest and most long-suffering. ↗

— Bjorn Lomborg

#already #among #change #chief #climate

The saddest thing is an old bag lady, freezing to death in the snow on Christmas Eve, and the last thing she sees is a family in a nice warm diner getting beheaded by the Taliban. ↗

— Chris Onstad

#saddest-thing #death