Society Sad Quotes

#1. The baby boomer surge is forcing society to face decisions about costs - and particularly what is valuable. It's senseless for clinicians and governments to bear these choices alone; a sad effect of needless paternalism is that it places a false burden on responsible people.

Dave DeBronkart

#2. Film-makers are always going to be interested in making movies that plug into society around them. That's what a vibrant, artistically alert community should be doing. After all, it would be sad if we only made films about alien robots.

Mark Boal

#3. 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

#4. What a sad thing I thought
to live in a world so concerned with the lives of others,
we forget to live our own.

Anonymous

#5. All writers pen sad stories to garner sympathy, writing is after all for the abandoned of the society: the ink-leech, spewing black blood and sucking innocent souls.

Aporva Kala

#6. It's sad to see how many relationships start as just a distraction from boredom, a cover up so they don't have to ever deal with the true pain below

Evan Sutter

#7. It's sad but it^s true how society says her life is alredy over. There's nothing to do and there's nothing to say..

Jean-Christophe Grange

#8. I think my family has come a long way. The sad thing is that so many haven't. So many have stayed in their own little world. Some because they don't want to leave it, others because the world around them won't let them in.

Melina Marchetta

#9. It's an indication of how cynical our society has become that any kind of love story with a sad theme is automatically ridiculed as sentimental junk.

Winona Ryder

#10. I think as an American society, when we're paying too many taxes or dealing with war, we don't want to see sad things at the movies.

Zoe Saldana

#11. Society is a little more forgiving of two women kissing than two men. It's sad but true.

Tiffani Thiessen

#12. In some neighborhoods, faces mature faster than bodies.

Brandon Stanton

#13. 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

#14. It would be a sad thing if the religious and moral convictions upon which the American experiment was founded could now somehow be considered a danger to free society.

Pope John Paul II

#15. According to the London-based Anti-Slavery International (ASI), the world's oldest human rights organization, there are at least 27 million people in some form of slavery around the world today. And remarkably, the U.S. contributes enormously to this sad state of the global society.

Linda Smith

#16. I always try to see things with children's eyes. Are they happy? Sad? What do they need? Everywhere I went, I realized that children are society's victims ... We have a duty to speak to political leaders, to influence people to give these children a better future.

Nana Mouskouri

#17. Save for thee and thy lessons, man in society would everywhere sink into a sad compound of the fiend and the wild beast; and this fallen world would be as certainly a moral as a natural wilderness.

Hugh Miller

#18. My childhood, I would say, was a bit sad. Society resents that.

Columba Bush

#19. It's a sad reflection on society how many people are shocked by honesty ... and how few by dishonesty.

Noel Coward

#20. 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

#21. People are too various to be treated so lightly. I am too various to be trusted.

James Baldwin

#22. It is nothing to celebrate that one is gay. Us heterosexuals have never celebrated our orientation. This cheering of gays is disruptive to our society. You can almost get the impression that it is better to be homosexual than heterosexual. I think this is very sad.

Carl I. Hagen

#23. People feeling the need to live inside of Faraday cages is a sad reflection on modern society that humans are devolving into living inside of safe spaces.

Steven Magee

#24. It's sad that we live in a society that has the refrain 'thank God it's Friday, that means you despise 5/7ths of your life.

Wendell Berry

#25. Living alone in a foreign country without parents, siblings, or friends, trying to keep pace with society here, was painful and sad.

Kimi Cunningham Grant

#26. We live in a sad society. Succeed--that is the advice which falls drop by drop from the overhanging corruption. In passing, we might say that success is a hideous thing. Its false similarity to merit deceives men.

Victor Hugo

#27. There's all this stuff that is happening in Edinburgh now, it's a sad attempt to create an Edinburgh society, similar to a London society, a highbrow literature celebrity society.

Irvine Welsh

#28. One of the sad commentaries on the way women are viewed in our society is that we have to fit one category. I have never felt that I had to be in one category.

Faye Wattleton

#29. It is sad to tell, but after having tried society, which had caused his misfortune, he tried Providence which created society, and condemned it also.

Victor Hugo

#30. Truthfully, there're only a handful of people in this world who really get joy from seeing you happy. Most won't care if you're happy, only if you're miserable like they are. They eat that shit up.

Crystal Woods

#31. Society can't wait. It's sad there are so many entrepreneurs, business successes and venture capitalists who give no thought to society.

Les Wexner

#32. Spontaneous insanity is the real bliss! It's sad that we are honored for playing sane, serious, safe, miserable and controlling in this poor world.

Saurabh Sharma

#33. 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