Top 100 Sad True Quotes
#1. Which one of them would make you the most sad if you had to live your life without him?
Susan Meissner
#2. Though there had yet to be a victor in this great war that had begun almost three years ago, Maurice had written to her that they had, all of them, on all sides, lost their freedom. Freedom to think hopefully of the future.
Jacqueline Winspear
#3. I think I sense a tone of honesty, if honesty exists in this world.
Emilyann Girdner
#4. Emotion goes inside-out. Emotional contagion, though, suggests that the opposite is also true. If I can make you smile, I can make you happy. If I can make you frown, I can make you sad. Emotion, in this sense, goes outside-in.
Malcolm Gladwell
#5. So it's true, when all is said and done, grief is the price we pay for love.
E.A. Bucchianeri
#6. 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
#7. His blank face communicated an emptiness that could never be filled"
- Frank Balenger
David Morrell
#8. One day we'll look back we'll smile and we'll laugh,but right now we just cry. Cuz it's so hard to say good-bye.
Miley Cyrus
#9. The person who cares less has more power in the relationship. As sad as it is, it is true. Right now,
Preeti Shenoy
#10. To a hikikomori, winter is painful because everything feels cold, frozen over, and lonely. To a hikikomori, spring is also painful because everyone is in a good mood and therefore enviable. Summer, of course, is especially painful ...
Tatsuhiko Takimoto
#11. The past will forever be a part of my present as well as my future.
Anonymous
#13. Remember how unimportant you are because that knowledge will gain you more respect than someone who thinks the world revolves around them.
Jack Kirby
#14. I'll be darned!" said Douglas. "I never thought of that. That's brilliant! It's true. Old people never were children!"
"And it's kind of sad," said Tom, sitting still."There's nothing we can do to help them.
Ray Bradbury
#15. The sudden passing of Jack Bruce is terribly sad news. One of the greatest rock bassists to ever live and a true and profound inspiration to countless musicians. He was one of my first bass heroes and was a major influence on my playing and my music. My heartfelt condolences to his family and fans.
Geddy Lee
#16. It was not curiosity that killed the goose who laid the golden egg, but an insatiable greed that devoured common sense.
E.A. Bucchianeri
#17. We were quiet on the car ride home. I turned on the radio and found a station playing "Hey Jude." It was true, I didn't want to make it bad. I wanted to take the sad song and make it better. It's just that I didn't know how.
Jonathan Safran Foer
#18. 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
#19. The best way to teach a child abuser to stop abusing is not counseling. It is not therapy. It is a mouth full of broken teeth and arms that, when the bones heal, cannot produce the force necessary to hit or burn another child.
Ryan Sayles
#20. I always thought that we would be that couple in the movies but not all movies have a happy ending
Anonymous
#21. Sad but true that nothing puts a woman in her place more effectively than a chivalrous gesture performed in a certain manner.
Pat Barker
#22. There weren't any villains though. The world was just complicated in various ways, and there weren't any obvious villains to be found. It was excruciating.
Tatsuhiko Takimoto
#23. You are my true and honourable wife;
As dear to me as the ruddy drops
That visit my sad heart.
William Shakespeare
#25. Alone is such a nebulous state when one is queen.
Rae Carson
#26. Why not? I can be miserable if I want to. You don't need to try and make it go away. It shouldn't go away. Its just as sad as it ought to be and I'm not going to hide from what's true just because it hurts.
Toni Morrison
#27. Life for me is just a result of experiments being performed by far more developed creatures.
Hasil Paudyal
#28. When you lose someone, it stays with you. Always reminding you of how easy it is to get hurt.
L.J.Smith
#29. ... the vintage of history is forever repeating ~ same old vines, same old wines!
E.A. Bucchianeri
#31. When they want to leave, they accuse you with endless flaws.
Eyden I.
#32. 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
#33. What she mostly wanted, he learned, was the same thing many people want
someone to notice she was there.
Mitch Albom
#34. In my early years I read very hard. It is a sad reflection, but a true one, that I knew almost as much at eighteen as I do now.
Samuel Johnson
#35. Life isn't kind, and we rarely get what we want out of it. We do the best we can, and we keep putting one foot in front of the other.
Katherine Allred
#36. Truth is a troublesome motherfucker unless it's handled properly
Patrick Rothfuss
#37. Even modern English people are imperious, superior, ridden by class. All of the hypocrisy and the difficulties that are endemic in being British also make it an incredibly fertile place culturally. A brilliant place to live. Sad but true.
Pete Townshend
#38. 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
#39. With the other fellow actors who have gone astray, I think it's sad that society wants to label the business as doing this to people. It's really not true.
Tina Yothers
#40. He held the door open for me and I walked past him, leaving my conscience on the porch. It curled up next to my principles.
Janice Hardy
#41. I do fear death. But what I actually fear is not dying. I mean, true, it will be sad. But I know that there is a better place waiting for me.
Mattie Stepanek
#42. 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
#43. Time they say is the best healer. Sad, but not true. With time, pain becomes you and you become pain. One forgets what life was without the pain.
Jayant Swamy
#44. To me happiness, true happiness is when you can really dance with sad.
Tori Amos
#45. 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
#46. 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
#47. Emme pulled on Cole's hand. "Why are they crying?"
Her uncle bent down. "Well, sometimes when all your dreams come true? The best you can do is cry. It's happy, not sad.
Debra Anastasia
#48. It's funny. That feeling of home. It's so temporary, like bathwater: the warmth eventually grows cold.
K.M. Alexander
#49. It is sad but true that many business people have no business being in business.
Miles Anthony Smith
#50. Wrists are made for bracelets, not cutting.
Kellin Quinn
#52. But you know what? Peace is just an idea. There will never be peace on Earth, at least, not the kind of kumbaya-harmony people envision. There can be ceasefires and treaties, but we will never know true peace. That's the sad truth of the world.
June Gray
#53. It is true when you are by yourself and you think about life, it is always sad. All that excitement and so on has a way of suddenly leaving you, and it's as though, in the silence, somebody called your name, and you heard your name for the first time.
Katherine Mansfield
#54. My inside self and my outside self used to match. A compass needle pointed true north. Now the needle spins around and around indicating the sad direction of nowhere.
Elizabeth Berg
#55. The hardest thing to get is true emotion. I always believe you need to earn that with the audience. You can't just tell them, 'Ok, be sad now.'
John Lasseter
#57. If they weren't staring at a fellow, they were laughing at him.
Wilson Rawls
#58. Women will always choose the man over the best friend. This is a sad but true fact of life, and it's only this certitude that makes me unashamed to admit it.
Megan McCafferty
#59. It's very rare that things are true about yourself that are on the Internet. It's just sad sometimes. So you definitely try and stay away from it as much as possible.
Taylor Lautner
#60. It was a war, and in a war there are always casualties. Never winners, but always plenty of casualties."
-- Nenya, The Water Warrior
Mili Fay
#61. 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
#62. Maybe if people weren't so careless, then nothing would need to be caged.
A.S. King
#63. Some people can't have babies. It's sad but it's true. Their bodies aren't built for it. Some of those people also can't adopt babies. Just as sad, maybe sadder, and just as true. Their lifestyles aren't built for it. But most people want families. Most people need families.
Aaron Starmer
#64. Nothing you did made sense
and nothing you'll ever do.
Michael Hogan
#65. Very sad to hear about the passing of Nelson Mandela. He was a true inspiration for human rights and equality for South Africa and the reason apartheid no longer exists there. The world will never forget his capacity for forgiveness and magnanimity. RIP
Bryan Adams
#66. When people say they are happy for you it may mean they are sad for themselves.
Josephine Humphreys
#67. He was a God who observed without intervening in this hell he created"
-Carlisle
David Morrell
#68. I feel safe with him because he is so not my ideal and I feel like I can be myself because I'm not in love with him.
Gary Shteyngart
#69. is true, then, that all our actions leave their traces - some sad, others bright - on our paths; it is true that every step in our lives is like the course of an insect on the sands; - it leaves its track!
Anonymous
#70. I CAN'T GO ON! I FEEL LIKE NONE OF MY EMOTIONAL WOUNDS CAN HEAL! AS SOON AS IT TRIES TO HEAL, IT SHATTERS AGAIN! I CAN'T HEAL!
Shine
#71. I'm Canadian, so I'm an expert at mundane fatalism.
MCM
#72. An emotionally locked person refuses to let go of their sad memories and live in the now.
Kilroy J. Oldster
#73. 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
#74. Girls are always complaining that they can never meet a nice guy. Nice guys are everywhere. The problem isn't that there aren't any nice guys, the problem is that all of the nice guys are ugly.
Carroll Bryant
#75. The Christian conceives of his abode on Earth in no more delightful colors than the Jainist sectarian. He sees in it only a time of sad trial; he also thinks that his true country is not of this world.
Emile Durkheim
#76. True love transcends the unworthy object, and dwells and broods on the eternal, and when the poor interposed mask crumbles, it is not sad, but feels rid of so much earth, and feels its independency the surer.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#77. Better to have loved and lost than to live with regret.
Big Pun
#78. I always knew death of this relation would beat the death out of my life.
M. Ali
#79. Sorrow with me, Sorrowful one!
Tell me, whose voice proclaims
Things true and sad,
Naming by all their old, unhappy names,
What drove me mad
Aeschylus
#80. What a sad story, I thought for so long. Not that I now think it was happy. But I think it is true, and thus the question of whether it is sad or happy has no meaning whatever.
Bernhard Schlink
#81. 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
#82. Cleverness, he thinks, will get you nowhere; it is only the stupid, the brilliantly stupid, who will inherit the earth.
Ian McGuire
#83. The poet Billy Collins once laughingly observed that all babies are born with a knowledge of poetry, because the lub-dub of the mother's heart is in iambic meter. Then, Collins said, life slowly starts to choke the poetry out of us. It may be true with music, too.
Gene Weingarten
#84. Why do beautiful songs make you sad?' 'Because they aren't true.' 'Never?' 'Nothing is beautiful and true.
Jonathan Safran Foer
#85. Sometimes, you don't get what you want the most ... At other times, you're just lucky.
Sanhita Baruah
#86. It is sad but true that sometimes we need the tragedy to help us to see how human we are and how we are more alike than we are different.
Maya Angelou
#87. Sad beyound words that Prince is gone. To me he was one of the greatest music heroes- a true genius.There will never be another Prince.
Shania Twain
#89. Sad but true: individual intelligence probably peaked in the Upper Paleolithic, and we have been self-domesticated creatures ever since
Kim Stanley Robinson
#90. When words fail, the hammer drops,
living can never be its own excuse.
Michael Hogan
#91. Perhaps there had been joy for them in finding that sugar could be made from blood.
Edwidge Danticat
#92. If a man cries in front of you, it doesn't mean he's weak. It means that he trusts you enough to let his guard down.
Faraaz Kazi
#93. True love cannot be denied," Layla said. "You know that yourself, Betsy, given your sad
experiences. Life is fleeting and one should gather rosebuds - or is it rainbows? At any rate, one
should get on the stick before it's too late.
Eloisa James
#94. The true artist is not proud: he unfortunately sees that art has no limits; he feels darkly how far he is from the goal, and though he may be admired by others, he is sad not to have reached that point to which his better genius only appears as a distant, guiding sun.
Ludwig Van Beethoven
#95. You are a military man and should know better. If there is one science into which man has probed continuously and successfully, it is that of military technology. No potential weapon would remain unrealized for ten thousand years.
Isaac Asimov
#96. Bye Bye , Father,' I said as the confessional door clicked shut behind me, 'Ah's' eyes following me, wondering, I suppose, what He'd been drinking the day he went and made a twilight zone of a disaster like me.
Patrick McCabe
#97. Death, as has been established, holds little fear - it is but the flesh. The mind is the source of what we are, and it was the mind that they were determined to destroy.
Claire North
#98. For those who have true love, have no limits of expressing their love to one another yet it is a sad fact that those who are searching for love, fear expressing their love to even those who love them.
Auliq Ice
#99. Your friends drag you down, Gordie. Don't you know that? [ ... ] Your friends do. They're like drowning guys that are holding onto your legs. You can't save them. You can only drown with them.
Stephen King
#100. I've got a great support group, real and true friends and I'm moving forward with my life. I was sad and wanted to make things work but I'm completely fine now. I'm moving on.
Camille Grammer
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