Quotes About Sad Reality Of Life

#1. The peace of the Eastern church was invaded by a swarm of fanatics [monks], incapable of fear, or reason, or humanity; and the Imperial troops acknowledged, without shame, that they were much less apprehensive of an encounter with the fiercest Barbarians.

Edward Gibbon

#2. The locals died and shrivelled with the autumnal leaves as their plastic, seasonal smiles faded with the last of the holidaymakers.

Moonshine Noire

#3. Dream big!
But not so big that it becomes a mess, and you may never reach reality.

Hasil Paudyal

#4. Whatever is happening here, it definitely bypassed go and went straight to really fucking weird without collecting two hundred dollars.

Sarah McCarry

#5. She wasn't sure if she even needed him anymore and the thought made her sad. In consolation, she offered him a kind smile and reached for his dependable hand.

Tan Redding

#6. I was captured by the songs as much as the singer. They grabbed my heart. The reality of Country Music moved me. Even when I was a kid, I liked the sad songs ... songs that talked about true life. I recognized this music as a simple plea. It beckoned me.

Harlan Howard

#7. Vegetarian food leaves a deep impression on our nature. If the whole world adopts vegetarianism, it can change the destiny of humankind.

Albert Einstein

#8. The others wolves would devour me if they could know that my roar is, in reality, a crying.

Octavian Paler

#9. Newton's laws of physics can rarely be applied to the real world. There is more to life than cause and effect. Things just aren't that simple

Amy Zhang

#10. In the action business, when you don't want to say you ran like a mouse, you call it 'taking cover.' It's more heroic.

Jim Butcher

#11. That's sad. How plastic and artificial life has become. It gets harder and harder to find something ... real." Nin interlocked his fingers, and stretched out his arms. "Real love, real friends, real body parts ...

Jess C. Scott

#12. ...and when we die
we die alone
I cry, I cry alone
Like a piece of stone
I am thrown
into the wavy ocean of life
to atone...to atone
Only to atone...

Munia Khan

#13. Hadley knows this isn't some Disney movie. Her parents aren't ever getting back together

Jennifer E. Smith

#14. Startups are not the best choice for work-life balance, and that's sort of just the sad reality.

Sam Altman

#15. Whether it's a hospital or wherever ... we can deliver to anyone with a phone book."
A phone book.
Such a simple and basic answer.
When the chef picked up the phone and said, "Russia Sushi, how can I help you?" did she take him literally?

Ryohgo Narita

#16. Life is a very sad piece of buffoonery, because we have .. the need to fool ourselves continuously by the spontaneous creation of a reality .. which, from time to time, reveals itself to be vain and illusory.

Luigi Pirandello

#17. Wizard's Fourth Rule
There is magic in sincere forgiveness; in the forgiveness you give, but more so in the forgiveness you receive.

Terry Goodkind

#18. These leave-takings in novels are as disagreeable as they are in real life; not so sad, indeed, for they want the reality of sadness; but quite as perplexing, and generally less satisfactory.

Anthony Trollope

#19. A Mediterranean city is really my culture.

Zinedine Zidane

#20. I don't know whether it is beautiful or sad, that I find such blissful happiness within the confines of my own mind, more so than I do in the reality that surrounds me.

Kendal Rob

#21. Sometimes, you don't get what you want the most ... At other times, you're just lucky.

Sanhita Baruah

#22. I have to admit, in the end, I like to surrender to someone; the person I love.

Laura Pausini

#23. She was a wonderful teenage girl who had the miraculous power to cure herself from any wound, either physical or mental. With her own salty tears, she would cleanse her raw wounds. And her breaths were given, as though not to breathe but, rather, to fan her sores.

Khadija Rupa

#24. Superficiality," said Richard Foster, "is the curse of our age." The desperate need of the soul is not for intelligence, nor talent, nor yet excitement; just depth.

John Ortberg