A man willing to work and unable to find work is perhaps the saddest sight that fortune's inequality exhibits under this sun.

Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.

For all sad words of tongue and pen The saddest are these 'It might have been'.

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.

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

The saddest thing I can imagine is to get used to luxury.

The saddest thing that befalls a soul is when it loses faith in God and woman.

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.

The idea of regretting not doing this seemed insane to me. Sitting in the corner at a bar at age 60 saying: 'I could've been Bond. Buy me a drink.' That's the saddest place I could be. At least now at 60 I can say: 'I was Bond. Now buy me a drink.'