Saddest Thing Quotes

“The saddest thing is a retarded man who is crying and promising a broken egg that it will still be a chicken some day.
And that they'll play together in a field when it gets better.”
― Chris Onstad

“The saddest thing is a little girl who is told by her own mother and father that she will never be pretty.

And then they open the front door, and on the porch is a little white suitcase, with all of her things in it.”
― Chris Onstad

“And then the queen wept with all her heart. Not for the cruel and greedy man who had warred and killed and savaged everywhere he could. But for the boy who had somehow turned into that man, the boy whose gentle hand had comforted her childhood hurts, the boy whose frightened voice had cried out to her at the end of his life, as if he wondered why he had gotten lost inside himself, as if he realized that it was too, too late to get out again.”
― Orson Scott Card, Maps in a Mirror: The Short Fiction of Orson Scott Card

“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

“The saddest thing is when the toilet from an abandoned space station falls back to earth, lands upside-down on a child who was playing alone in the backyard, and smooshes them into the shape of half a hard-boiled egg.
...And when they lift the toilet off of the child, two lips at the top of the bloody mound say, on their dying breath, "I love you, mommy.”
― Chris Onstad

“There's no sadder sight than that of a child's coffin.”
― Aaron Dries, The Fallen Boys

“Can there be no sadder thing to make me cry,
With the exception of losing more days with you,
That when you looked at me and said goodbye,
I had déjà vu.”
― Karl Kristian Flores, Can I Tell You Something?