100 Quotes About Sad But True

So it’s true, when all is said and done, grief is the price we pay for love. E.a. Bucchianeri

We want one class of persons to have a liberal education, and we want another class of persons, a very much larger class of necessity in every society, to forgo the privilege of a liberal education and fit themselves to perform specific difficult manual tasks. Woodrow Wilson

Some ghost of myself still lived back in the days when we'd shared a bed and talked of the future. But that love we'd had and those selves we'd been were gone, placed in a box like old photographs and letters you'd never read again. Dennis Lehane

There comes a time when we realize that our parents cannot save themselves or save us, that everyone who wades through time eventually gets dragged out to sea by the undertow-that, in short, we are all going John Green

(The Mona Lisa), that really is the ugliest portrait I’ve seen, the only thing that supposedly makes it famous is the mystery behind it, ” Katherine admitted as she remembered her trips to the Louvre and how she shook her head at the poor tourists crowding around to see a jaundiced, eyebrow-less lady that reminded her of tight-lipped Washington on the dollar bill. Surely, they could have chosen a better portrait of the First President for their currency? . E.a. Bucchianeri

...Come on let’s see the degree.” Katherine unrolled her scroll displaying a long declaration in Latin affixed with a red seal proclaiming her a Master of Art. “Imagine working for years to obtain a piece of paper we can hardly read ” Katherine joked. “And to officially declare you have talent ” Suzy returned. E.a. Bucchianeri

Why is it we want so badly to memorialize ourselves? Even while we're still alive. We wish to assert our existence, like dogs peeing on fire hydrants. We put on display our framed photographs, our parchment diplomas, our silver-plated cups; we monogram our linen, we carve our names on trees, we scrawl them on washroom walls. It's all the same impulse. What do we hope from it? Applause, envy, respect? Or simply attention, of any kind we can get? At the very least we want a witness. We can't stand the idea of our own voices falling silent finally, like a radio running down. Margaret Atwood

When you love someone, you become immune to the hurt they cause you. You don’t love hoping to get something in return, you love because you have to. In its extreme form, it is a need to give, not a need to get. Faraaz Kazi

Don’t be deceived when they tell you things are better now. Even if there’s no poverty to be seen because the poverty’s been hidden. Even if you ever got more wages and could afford to buy more of these new and useless goods which industries foist on you and even if it seems to you that you never had so much, that is only the slogan of those who still have much more than you. Don’t be taken in when they paternally pat you on the shoulder and say that there’s no inequality worth speaking of and no more reason to fight because if you believe them they will be completely in charge in their marble homes and granite banks from which they rob the people of the world under the pretence of bringing them culture. Watch out, for as soon as it pleases them they’ll send you out to protect their gold in wars whose weapons, rapidly developed by servile scientists, will become more and more deadly until they can with a flick of the finger tear a million of you to pieces. JeanPaul Marat

If we danced and shared music, we'd be too busy en-joy-in' life to start a war. E.a. Bucchianeri

The sad part is you love her..... and she didn't love you back. Joshua Pallarca

When you care about things, it ends up wearing you out. Io Sakisaka

Never say you understand someone's pain if you haven't felt the same, because not only would you sound mocking but also ignorant. Lolah Runda

Can you imagine, finally showing your true self to your spouse, your soul mate, and having him not like you? Gillian Flynn

Life isn't all about money but this life is nothing without it! Wayne Dupree

There are many forms of tyrants, but there are none so terrible as those stifling their own people in the name of freedom. E.a. Bucchianeri

The one thing that we need to escape is our minds, but our minds are the one thing that we cannot escape from. Anonymous

I always thought that we would be that couple in the movies but not all movies have a happy ending Anonymous

Don't fall for the ones who say, I am always yours. They are liars, unfortunately humans too Rushabh Patel

I collect my thoughts, I choose my words, Whenever I decide to talk to you. But... I feel like a dumb, without a tongue, Whenever I reach in front of you. I wonder why it happens to me?even when my feelings are genuine and true. Saad Salman

Perhaps there had been joy for them in finding that sugar could be made from blood. Edwidge Danticat

This generation seems to see children as a financial burden and responsibility to be avoided. Francine Rivers

I’m seeing so much of America today, ” Luya kept telling Lowell in nervously accented English. It became a personal catchphrase for him – whenever things were not to his liking, he’d say that – I’m seeing so much of America today. Karen Joy Fowler

In some neighborhoods, faces mature faster than bodies. Brandon Stanton

An emotionally locked person refuses to let go of their sad memories and live in the now. Kilroy J. Oldster

Sometimes, people meant it when they smiled. Other times, they smiled because they wanted to mean it. Shannon A. Thompson

It's easier for me to forget you than for me to try and love you again Unknown

Sometimes I return back to the state of mind I had as a child when I believed nothing was impossible. Jonathan Harnisch

One piece of wisdom a writer quickly learns ~ typos keep you humble. E.a. Bucchianeri

When they want to leave, they accuse you with endless flaws. Eyden I.

Love is always fake gradually it disappears Rushabh Patel

This here is your inheritance, says the senior partner. Yes, he says, Ludwig, I know, and stows the plan for the bathing house (5.5m long, 3.8m wide, outer wall construction: wood, roof construction: thatch), stows both the plan and the mosquito in his briefcase. On a German shelf, this mosquito, pressed flat between large quantities of paper, will outlast time and times, and one day it might even be petrified, who knows. Jenny Erpenbeck

Nothing ever happens like you imagine it will, " she says. The sky is like a monochromatic contemporary painting, drawing me in with its illusion of depth, pulling me up. "Yeah, that's true, " I say. But then after I think about it for a second, I add, "But then again, if you don't imagine, nothing ever happens at all. John Green

Sometimes two people will regard each other over a gulf too wide to ever be bridged, and know immediately what could have happened, and that it never will. Roger Ebert

I met death for the last time realizing that he, the creature I called, it because I did not want to believe came for me... Collecting. Jessica Reader

Last night I had the dream again. Except it's not a dream I know because when it comes for me, I'm still awake. There's my desk. The map on the wall. The Stuffed animals I don't play with anymore but don't want to hurt Dad's feelings by sticking in the closet I might be in bed. I might be just standing there, looking foe a missing sock. Then i'm gone.it doesn't just show me somthing this time, it takes me from here to THERE> standing on the bank of a river of fire. A thousand wasps in my head. Fighting and dying inside my skull, their bodies piling up against the backs of me eyes. Stinging and stinging. Dad's voice. Somewhere across the river. Calling my name. I've never heard him sound like that before. He's so frightened he can't hide it, even though he tries (he ALWAYS tries). The dead boy floats by. Facedown. So I wait for his head to pop up, show the holes where his eye used to be, say somthing with his blue lips. One of the terrible things it might make him do. But he just passes like a chunk of wood. I've never been here before, but I know it's real. The river is the line between this place and the Other Place. And I'm on the wrong side. There's a dark forest behind me but that's not what it is. I try to get to where Dad is. My toes touch the river and it sings with pain. Then there's arms pulling me back. Dragging me into the trees. They feel like a man's arms but it's not a man that sticks its fingers into my mouth. Nails that scratch the back of my throat. Skin that tastes like dirt. But just before that, before I'm back in my room with my missing sock in my hand, I realize I've been calling out to Dad just like he's been calling out to me. Telling him the same thing the whole time. Not words from my mouth through the air, but from my heart through the earth, so only the two of us could hear it. F I N D ME . Andrew Pyper

I always knew death of this relation would beat the death out of my life. M. Ali

Hide your feelings, hide you thoughts, hide your self from the world but dont hide you from you cause only you know where you stand & the world's knows nothing Shujoy Chowdhury

Books make the best ersatz friendships. Nenia Campbell

But it's funny how even after all these years you find yourself wondering just how well you know anyone. Hell, we've all been tight since we we're kids - been through a lot together - but we still have secrets, don't we? All of us. None of us are ever exactly, precisely what we claim to be, are we? We're one way with some people, another way with other people, maybe another way still when we're all alone. That's what it boils down to fellas. At night, when you're lying there in bed looking at the ceiling, remembering the day, thinking back through things you did and what lies ahead, when it's just you and whatever god you pray to in the dark. .that's when all the masks are peeled away and it's just you. Just you.., and whoever..or whatever you are. Unknown

Walking alone is not difficult but when we have walked a mile worth a thousand years with someone then coming back alone is what is difficult. Faraaz Kazi

It's a shame there has to be a tragedy before the best in people will finally shine. E.a. Bucchianeri

It is a sad state of affairs that I donot know of any astronomer who fully understands the energy in their own daily environment. Untilthat changes, Dark Energy will always be a mystery to the astronomical community. Steven Magee

The government of my country snubs honest simplicity but fondles artistic villainy, and I think I might have developed into a very capable pickpocket if I had remained in the public service a year or two. Mark Twain

I have been told the best things in life are free ~ I found them very expensive. E.a. Bucchianeri

Democracy was supposed to champion freedom of speech, and yet the simple rules of table decorum could clamp down on the rights their forefathers had fought and died for. E.a. Bucchianeri

There are so many problems to solve on this planet first before we begin to trash other worlds. E.a. Bucchianeri

O [Roman] people be ashamed; be ashamed of your lives. Almost no cities are free of evil dens, are altogether free of impurities, except the cities in which the barbarians have begun to live.. Let nobody think otherwise, the vices of our bad lives have alone conquered us.. The Goths lie, but are chaste, the Franks lie, but are but are generous, the Saxons are savage in cruelty..but are admirable in chastity..what hope can there be [for the Romans] when the barbarians are more pure [than they]?"- Salvian. William J. Federer

It is far more painful to awake from a beautiful slumber and — in that brief period when the continuity of life is still lost to you — to reach across the bed for a hand that is not there. E.O. Higgins

I've lived a life of unfinished things. Dorothy Kunhardt

The sad part is that you love her.... and she didn't love you back. -Joshua Pallarca

Life is brutal that way... the loss of irrecoverable moments amid trivia and distraction. Dan Simmons

So if this were a normal book about a girl with leukemia, I would probably talk a shitload about all the meaningful things Rachel had to say as she got sicker and sicker, and also probably we would fall in love and have some incredibly fulfilling romantic thing and she would die in my arms. But I don't feel like lying to you. She didn't have meaningful things to say, and we definitely didn't fall in love. She seemed less pissed with me after my stupid outburst, but she basically just went from irritable to quiet. . Jesse Andrews

I asked Raghav, as we were looking over the wasteland, if the Muslims they burnt would beg for their lives. "Yes they would say, Have mercy on us. But we were filled with such hate; we had Radhabi Chawl on our minds. And even if there was one who said, Let him go, there would be ten others saying, No kill him. And so we had to kill him. "But what if he was innocent?" Raghav looked at me. "His biggest crime was that he was Muslim. . Suketu Mehta

... the lofty mind of man can be imprisoned by the artifices of its own making. E.a. Bucchianeri

Stop thinking. I've stopped some 15 years ago. Otherwise, if you will be thinking you won't want to live. Everyone who thinks is unhappy. Sergei Dovlatov

Saying goodbye isnt hard, but saying it to something you care about is whats hard, because you dont want to forget the emmotional pain and happiness they caused in you're life. Annoymous

The most beautiful moments always seemed to accelerate and slip beyond one’s grasp just when you want to hold onto them for as long as possible. E.a. Bucchianeri

It is easy to curse someone, even a frail person can do that, but to bless someone it needs a strong heart. To love someone, to wish the best for them one must be selfless. People nowadays wish good for others, but their words know no soul, their wishes are dry, halfhearted and for name sake. As to watch someone excel, to watch someone excel due to the blessings you put upon them with a good heart and positive attitude is rate nowadays. Nowadays people don't find happiness in the happiness of others but in rubbing them off. People feel bad when someone suffer but they feel the worse when someone prosper beyond them. Ameya Agrawal

She wanted to cause him pain for taking a place in her heart she wouldn't have given him if she'd known the truth. Kristin Cashore

I think I sense a tone of honesty, if honesty exists in this world. Emilyann Girdner

...as he discovered in the course of his uncountable years that a lie is more comfortable than doubt, more useful than love, more lasting than truth... Unknown

You can kill a book quicker by your silence than by a bad review. E.a. Bucchianeri

You haven't written anything about me yet! " She said in a complaining way He replied in a sorrowful tone "I wish you could read my unwritten poems Hilal Hamdaan

You know something is wrong when the government declares opening someone else’s mail is a felony but your internet activity is fair game for data collecting. E.a. Bucchianeri

... the vintage of history is forever repeating ~ same old vines, same old wines! E.a. Bucchianeri

Isn't it strange how people are selective about the truth the want to see or hear? E.a. Bucchianeri

When you lose someone, it stays with you. Always reminding you of how easy it is to get hurt. L.j. Smith

Accept everything, even if it's pain, even if it's sadness, because there's nothing absolute in this world. If everything were to disappear, at least I was thinking it didn't matter anyway. Even if in the future, everyone left me, it would be alright. I would never get hurt. Jun Mochizuki

When you've been hurt by someone you love like he has, why would you ever seek love out? Why would you risk being hurt again? Veronica Rossi

It's funny. That feeling of home. It's so temporary, like bathwater: the warmth eventually grows cold. K.M. Alexander

I don't have a story, " I said. "I'm still waiting for one. Judy Blundell

... insanity is never reasonable. E.a. Bucchianeri

There was something melancholic about that symbol of their nation's promise of freedom, a bell with a chipped mouth and cleft body. E.a. Bucchianeri

Nobody should have to die like these people had. I didn't know each of their circumstances, but I had a good guess. These people had died in terror, horror, and pain. More than likely, they had to watch their friends or loved ones die at the same time. Their last moments would have been spent knowing that they would come back and do the same to anyone they could get their hands on, even people they'd spent their life loving. It was not the way any human being should have to go. Rose Wynters

But at home, that same day he'd jumped into the fountain, he'd gotten so anxious, pacing around the living room listening to his parents try to calm him, that he suddenly just lost it completely and slapped his face. He immediately started crying, confused and guilty, looking up at his parents like he had no idea how it happened. And, really, that's the way it always was with the hitting. It would happen so fast, his body shaking to release the tension that built up from all the thoughts swirling through his mind and all the air he was having trouble breathing and all the loud beating of his own heart ringing in his ears. It had to get out and that was the path it chose. Slap. Instant relief. . John Corey Whaley

Life is pain and everyone dies, but true love lives forever. J.T. Geissinger

(showing 1-2 of 2)sort by ↑ topup up1 positiondown down↓ bottom Remove this quote from your collection Salvador Dalí“I don't do drugs. I am drugs.” ― Salvador Dalítags: drugs 918 likes↑ topup up2 positiondown down↓ bottom Remove this quote from your collection“ But it's funny how even after all these years you find yourself wondering just how well you know anyone. Hell, we've all been tight since we we're kids - been through a lot together - but we still have secrets, don't we? All of us. None of us are ever exactly, precisely what we claim to be, are we? We're one way with some people, another way with other people, maybe another way still when we're all alone. That's what it boils down to fellas. At night, when you're lying there in bed looking at the ceiling, remembering the day, thinking back through things you did and what lies ahead, when it's just you and whatever god you pray to in the dark ..that's when all the masks are peeled away and it's just you. Just you.., and whoever..or whatever you are. . Greg F. Gifune

It's really best not to tell people when you feel bad. Growing up is about keeping secrets, and pretending everything is fine. Caitlin Moran

Healthy relationships, even those that eventually end with breakups, aren’t a mistake. They’re a chance to grow and learn, about who you are, who you want to be, what kind of relationships are worth your time and energy. I hate this assumption that when people end a romantic relationship they leave a piece of their heart behind, they shatter and will be unable to offer their next partner their whole, pure self. People aren’t puzzles or vases. People have an endless capacity both to learn and to love. People also aren’t property. They do not become less valuable or tarnished by use. . Mandy NachampassackMaloney