Quotes About Sad Truths

#1. I have spent all my years
accepting sad truths.
- Quebrado

Margarita Engle

#2. One of the sad truths about leadership is that, the higher up the ladder you travel, the less you know.

Margaret Heffernan

#3. There are sad truths in our world, and one is that slaves who read are a threat. They would be abreast of news that would incite them in ways we could not control. Yes, it's unfair to deprive them, but there's a greater good here that must be protected.

Sue Monk Kidd

#4. You think there's no detriment in a slave learning to read? There are sad truths in our world, and one is that slaves who read are a threat.

Sue Monk Kidd

#5. The instruments of darkness tell us truths ...

William Shakespeare

#6. What frustrates U.S. officials is that China sometimes seems more comfortable accommodating a strong United States, as it did in past decades, than partnering with an America that's less dominant.

David Ignatius

#7. Our first ideas of life are generally taken from fiction rather than fact.

Arthur Schopenhauer

#8. How can you believe someone to be so beautiful and amazing and just about the most magical person you've ever known, when it turns out she was in such pain that she had to drink poison to rob her cells of oxygen until her heart had no choice but to stop beating?

Gale Forman

#9. I am an open book, and I'm fine being me: I'm not a perfect person.

Tove Lo

#10. Weapons and technology may help win wars, but it is only ideas that have the power to truly change the world.

Simon Adams

#11. I'm as healthy as an ox.

Julie Gold

#12. Through strife the slumbering soul awakes, We learn on error's troubled route The truths we could not prize without The sorrow of our sad mistakes.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

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

Anonymous

#14. The bureaucrat is a man who administers things and people, and who relates himself to people as to things.

Erich Fromm

#15. Some feelings sink so deep into the heart that only loneliness can help you find them again. Some truths are so painful that only shame can help you live with them. Some things are so sad that only your soul can do the crying for them.

Gregory David Roberts

#16. When you are sad or in pain or sick or you witness any cremation then you actually learn the many truths of life.

Neem Karoli Baba

#17. The theory that can absorb the greatest number of facts, and persist in doing so, generation after generation, through all changes of opinion and detail, is the one that must rule all observation.

Adam Smith

#18. We are going to see a tremendous number of health professionals retire over the next 8-10 years. We are not doing nearly enough to deal with this problem.

Dave Obey