Top 100 True Sad Quotes
#1. But it's better to have bad options than no options. And people won't save you either, ya know.
J.A. Huss
#2. One of the symptoms of having a broken-heart is the fact that even ghosts will give up on the hope of scaring you as you have already lived through your worst fear.
Faraaz Kazi
#3. 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
#4. It's not easy being human. Especially when you are tired and overworked all the time ... That's when you become inhuman.
Hakan Nesser
#5. 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
#6. I'm Canadian, so I'm an expert at mundane fatalism.
MCM
#7. He was a God who observed without intervening in this hell he created"
-Carlisle
David Morrell
#8. When people say they are happy for you it may mean they are sad for themselves.
Josephine Humphreys
#9. 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
#11. 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
#12. Yet they require me to make them true, he thought. It had been a long time since Davos Seaworth felt so sad.
George R R Martin
#13. The sad thing about true stupidity is that you can do absolutely nothing about it.
John Cleese
#14. Isn't it always the things that you can't see that hurt you?
Katie McGarry
#15. A writer friend who was born in England summed up her feelings for the semicolon in a remark worthy of Henry James: "There is no pleasure so acute as that of a well-placed semicolon." I guess the opposite of that is that there is no displeasure so obtuse as that of an ill-placed semicolon.
Mary Norris
#16. Our true friends are those who are with us when the good things happen. They cheer us on and are pleased by our triumphs. False friends only appear at difficult times, with their sad, supportive faces, when, in fact, our suffering is serving to console them for their miserable lives.
Paulo Coelho
#17. We're lonely down here," he said. "It's true. But we're not alone.
Lauren Groff
#18. It was only a joke, Mia," says Bree gently. "Of course I do not wish that. No one really wishes to be queen.
Kendare Blake
#19. 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
#20. 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
#21. If they weren't staring at a fellow, they were laughing at him.
Wilson Rawls
#23. Of course the sad truth is that if we are not present to the moment, our true love could come and go and we wouldn't even notice.
Joshua Waitzkin
#24. 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
#25. I'm sorry, okay, I'm not perfect, but I'm trying.
Sara Shepard
#26. 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
#27. 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
#28. We don't have to relive the sad and bad memories of Christmas Past. We can create new Christmas memories in the present for the future.
Tom North
#29. This generation seems to see children as a financial burden and responsibility to be avoided.
Francine Rivers
#30. 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
#31. 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
#32. He strode with the weight of robbed innocence and a stolen childhood, for a life time of pain and anger, of terror and death."
- Frank Balenger
David Morrell
#33. It was probably easier in the old days when the bad guys rode into town wearing black capes or whatever bad guys wore and the milk cows were ownded by honest people. Right off the bat, you'd know who you were dealing with. Now everybody dresses alike.
Joan Bauer
#34. People are getting away from the whole album experience, it's true. I think that's sad. Maybe I'm just saying that because I'm an old fart. But I can't help it - albums are what I grew up with, and I still love them.
Alex Lifeson
#35. 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
#36. Cleverness, he thinks, will get you nowhere; it is only the stupid, the brilliantly stupid, who will inherit the earth.
Ian McGuire
#37. 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
#38. The one thing that we need to escape is our minds, but our minds are the one thing that we cannot escape from.
Anonymous
#39. 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
#40. I always knew death of this relation would beat the death out of my life.
M. Ali
#41. The sad fact of life: Winners love the game. Losers don't.
The Wombat
#42. You ever feel like you're sending out a light but no one sees it?
Matthew Quick
#43. Better to have loved and lost than to live with regret.
Big Pun
#44. Don't be sad by what you see
It's true life has it's miseries
But one thing's always worked for me
Worry ends when faith begins.
Sami Yusuf
#45. The diagram of the house is a portrait of the family, a true portrait, whether it's sad or happy.
Jimenez Lai
#46. Alone is such a nebulous state when one is queen.
Rae Carson
#47. True piety hath in it nothing weak, nothing sad, nothing constrained. It enlarges the heart; it is simple, free, and attractive.
Francois Fenelon
#48. You are my true and honourable wife;
As dear to me as the ruddy drops
That visit my sad heart.
William Shakespeare
#49. 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
#50. 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
#51. When am I happy and when am I sad and what is the difference? What do I need to know to stay alive? What is true in the world?
Toni Morrison
#52. Once, when I was young and true. Someone left me sad - Broke my brittle heart in two; And that is very bad. Love is for unlucky folk, Love is but a curse. Once there was a heart I broke; And that, I think, is worse.
Dorothy Parker
#54. The tears of my eyes watered your heart but failed to evoke a response from the barren grounds of what beats in you. They will still come and I will welcome them because they contain you.
Faraaz Kazi
#55. People are sad. People are broke. People are worried about money, people are worried that they're not enough and not amounting to anything and they don't feel good about themselves. People have rough times, and everybody's pretending it's not true, and we need to break that veneer.
Eve Ensler
#56. Falling in love is like holding a candle. Initially it lightens up the world around you. Then it starts melting and hurt you. Finally it goes off and everything is darker than ever and all you are left with is the.. BURN!
Syed Arshad
#57. When you're little you believe whatever your mother tells you, so I assumed it must be true, that I must be inferior to the others in some way.
Joe Peters
#58. Sometimes two people will regard each other over a gulf too wide to ever be bridged, and know immediately what could have happened, and that it never will.
Roger Ebert
#59. I can't write a lie; the world of imagination is no good. I objectively capture my own experiences and those of my friends. I want to put true feelings into words. If I make a song when I'm sad, it's a dark one, but I think that's good. No matter when I want to be true to myself.
Ayumi Hamasaki
#60. I hate the word fine. It is descriptive of nothing. Socially acceptable filler with no true meaning. It's what you say when you are checking your feelings, unwilling or unable to let yourself be too happy or too sad. Fine. It's an emotional bookmark. A pause until you can continue the story.
Emme Burton
#61. 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
#62. We could have been happy. I know that, and it is perhaps the hardest thing to know.
Ally Condie
#64. Some ghost of myself still lived back in the days when we'd shared a bed and talked of the future. But that love we'd had and those selves we'd been were gone, placed in a box like old photographs and letters you'd never read again.
Dennis Lehane
#65. The past will forever be a part of my present as well as my future.
Anonymous
#66. 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
#67. The person who cares less has more power in the relationship. As sad as it is, it is true. Right now,
Preeti Shenoy
#68. The more money you get, the bigger target you become. That's true. It's sad but it's true that you have to be aware of every person that comes to you with the next greatest deal. You just have to look at every single person with a fine lens. That's the way my life is going to be from here on out.
Reggie Bush
#69. As you go through life's rich tapestry, you realize that most people you meet aren't fit to shine your shoes. It's a sad fact, but it's true. A good friend is someone who'd hide you if you were on the run for murder. How many of them do you know?
Lemmy Kilmister
#70. Plagiarism, is like a fatal plague which has engulfed our generation and culminated impersonate clones. sad but true.. a caricature has replaced Mona Lisa.
Himmilicious
#71. 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
#72. All she ever said to me about him was You can only love a person that much once in your life, and I didn't know enough to agree or disagree with her. What a terrible and beautiful delusion, and how sad if it's true.
Catherine Lacey
#73. So it's true, when all is said and done, grief is the price we pay for love.
E.A. Bucchianeri
#74. 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
#75. Maybe a friend is someone who wants your updates. Even if they're boring. Or sad. Or annoyingly cutesy. A friend says "Sign me up for your boring crap, yes indeed"
because he likes you anyways. He'll tolerate your junk
E. Lockhart
#76. 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
#77. Allegedly, 50 per cent of Americans believe that the Earth was created less than 10,000 years ago, which if true says something rather sad about the most expensive education system in the world.
Terry Pratchett
#78. And when I have that feeling, that feeling like I need a handout, desperate, I want to pull my skin off and turn into dust.I want to throw myself back to the angels and tell them to start over,start over without me cause you put the screws in loose, you put the hinges in wrong.
Andrea Portes
#79. Wrists are made for bracelets, not cutting.
Kellin Quinn
#80. In some neighborhoods, faces mature faster than bodies.
Brandon Stanton
#81. It's funny. That feeling of home. It's so temporary, like bathwater: the warmth eventually grows cold.
K.M. Alexander
#82. Music is no longer tasted it is swallowed.
Jules Verne
#83. 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
#84. While art thrives on the blazing colours of scandal, literature blossoms on the dark soil of tragedy.
E.A. Bucchianeri
#85. To me happiness, true happiness is when you can really dance with sad.
Tori Amos
#86. No human beings, regardless of who they might be, want to look directly at their own shortcomings.
Tatsuhiko Takimoto
#88. 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
#89. When loved ones die, people always say, "Don't be sad. I'm sure they would have wanted you to be happy." I'm sure that's true. But let's be realistic here, people also want to be missed. It is every person's nightmare to leave the world behind as if they had never been there at all.
Esther Earl
#90. 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
#91. 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
#92. It is so good to have friends who understand how there is a time for crying and a time for laughing, and that sometimes the two are very close together.
Lois Lowry
#93. 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
#94. 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
#95. 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
#96. When they want to leave, they accuse you with endless flaws.
Eyden I.
#98. When you lose someone, it stays with you. Always reminding you of how easy it is to get hurt.
L.J.Smith
#99. I no longer pursue happiness, for it alludes me in every occasion. It is as if I'm trying to find something that is invisible, and sometimes I can't help to wonder if I'm the only one who it is oblivious to
Dave Guerrero
#100. It is true that the present is powerfully shaped by the past. But it is also true that ... insight at any age keeps us from singing the same sad songs again.
Judith Viorst
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