Top 28 Sad Fate Quotes
#1. Mine own people do not care for me, John Carter; I am too unlike them. It is a sad fate, since I must live my life amongst them.
Edgar Rice Burroughs
#2. It is a sad fate for a man to die too well known to everybody else, and still unknown to himself.
Francis Bacon
#3. To me, it was a sad fate to have been born into a period and a world where everything was in tip-top order, and the only real excitement was to be found in history books and occasionally also in the paper.
Hans Jonas
#4. But, alas, he never really belonged in either place, the sad fate, I am afraid, of those whose hearts break and then mend in crooked ways.
Kate DiCamillo
#5. Our wounds are not a measure of one individual's sad fate, but an indication of our unity with others.
Lynn C. Tolson
#6. Drawing Lavi's smile eases me precisely because he has such a sad fate.
Katsura Hoshino
#7. Forty years spent in wandering in a wilderness like that of the present is not a sad fate
unless one attempts to make himself believe that the wilderness is after all itself the promised land
John Dewey
#8. Everything that drowned me taught me how to swim.
Jenim Dibie
#9. It is sad when two people turn from the paths they're traveling, and their paths go on to cross without them.
Robert Breault
#10. Many, if not most, Americans can imagine a fate worse than death, and it is a seemingly interminable process of dying. For them, it is frightening that politicians can find ways to interject themselves into this sad process.
John C. Danforth
#12. [Southward and a little west
A thousand kilometers at best
Here in Area Fifty-one
Is where they took us, all undone.
Other ships are here as well
Their fate, like ours, is sad to tell.]
Marcha A. Fox
#13. Are you your daddy's boy? Her question was like a stab in the Heart, because, at the end of the day,yes, he was. He was just like his Dad, and one day blood would tell.
R.J. Scott
#14. 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
#15. We take the names of madmen, because madness is our fate. Terribly melodramatic, that.
Michael Grant
#16. Fate gave, what Chance shall not control, His sad lucidity of soul.
Matthew Arnold
#17. Narrow-minded provincialism: Sad to say but true
I am more interested in the mountain lions of Utah, the wild pigs of Arizona, than I am in the fate of all the Arabs of Araby, all the Wogs of Hindustan, all the Ethiopes of Abyssinia ...
Edward Abbey
#18. And he isn't crying for her, not for his grandma, he's crying for himself: that he: too, is going to die one day. And before that his friends wil die, and the friends of his friends, and, as time passes, the children of his friends, and, if his fate is truly bitter, his own children. (58)
Nicole Krauss
#19. Sometimes, you don't get what you want the most ... At other times, you're just lucky.
Sanhita Baruah
#20. Be still, sad heart! and cease repining;
Behind the clouds is the sun still shining;
Thy fate is the common fate of all,
Into each life some rain must fall
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
#21. I watched women file in, hoping each new one in a smart dress suit was a fairy godmother carrying my new fate. I'd catch her glance as she passed, hoping she'd see the star pattern in my eyes. Oh, it's you. I found you. Does every child have this fantasy - or just the sad ones?
Sarah Hepola
#22. Man's feeble race what ills await!
Labour, and Penury, the racks of Pain,
Disease, and Sorrow's weeping train,
And Death, sad refuge from the storms of Fate!
Thomas Gray
#23. In a sad twist of fate, the bill to reauthorize the Patriot Act was debated on the floor of the House of Representatives the same day that terrorists struck again.
Jim Sensenbrenner
#24. Ah, the world was ever so. How sad are heroes when their tasks are done ...
Michael Moorcock
#25. The life's story of great geniuses is a sad one, without much tangible reward, which does not inspire future generations to face a similar fate. Alas also, it stands to reason why so many talent will not come to sparkle on the artistic firmanent.
Joseph Haydn
#26. Well, these sad and hopeless obstacles are welcome in one sense, for they enable us to look with indifference upon the cruel satires that Fate loves to indulge in.
Thomas Hardy
#27. Life is like a good book... some chapters engaging, some funny, some sad and some challenging...However, its all left to the design of fate in which order they are arranged...
Nirmala Kasinathan
#28. I leave a sad and bitter world; and if you remember me, and think of me as of one unjustly condemned, I am resigned to the fate awaiting me.
Mary Shelley
