Sad But True Quotes

She said that you've break my heart ~ Cassandra Clare

When you've been hurt by someone you love like he has, why would you ever seek love out? Why would you risk being hurt again? ~ Veronica Rossi

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

It is far more painful to awake from a beautiful slumber and – in that brief period when the continuity of life is still lost to you – to reach across the bed for a hand that is not there. ~ E.O. Higgins

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

The devil did not need to work at all when people were so willing to do his dirty work for him. ~ E.A. Bucchianeri

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

I don't have a story," I said. "I'm still waiting for one. ~ Judy Blundell

But at home, that same day he'd jumped into the fountain, he'd gotten so anxious, pacing around the living room listening to his parents try to calm him, that he suddenly just lost it completely and slapped his face. He immediately started crying, confused and guilty, looking up at his parents like he had no idea how it happened. And, really, that's the way it always was with the hitting. It would happen so fast, his body shaking to release the tension that built up from all the thoughts swirling through his mind and all the air he was having trouble breathing and all the loud beating of his own heart ringing in his ears. It had to get out and that was the path it chose. Slap. Instant relief. ~ John Corey Whaley

Last night I had the dream again. Except it's not a dream I know because when it comes for me, I'm still awake.
There's my desk. The map on the wall. The Stuffed animals I don't play with anymore but don't want to hurt Dad's feelings by sticking in the closet I might be in bed. I might be just standing there, looking foe a missing sock. Then i'm gone.
it doesn't just show me somthing this time, it takes me from here to THERE> standing on the bank of a river of fire. A thousand wasps in my head. Fighting and dying inside my skull, their bodies piling up against the backs of me eyes. Stinging and stinging.
Dad's voice. Somewhere across the river. Calling my name. I've never heard him sound like that before. He's so frightened he can't hide it, even though he tries (he ALWAYS tries).
The dead boy floats by.
Facedown. So I wait for his head to pop up, show the holes where his eye used to be, say somthing with his blue lips. One of the terrible things it might make him do. But he just passes like a chunk of wood. I've never been here before, but I know it's real. The river is the line between this place and the Other Place. And I'm on the wrong side. There's a dark forest behind me but that's not what it is. I try to get to where Dad is. My toes touch the river and it sings with pain. Then there's arms pulling me back. Dragging me into the trees. They feel like a man's arms but it's not a man that sticks its fingers into my mouth. Nails that scratch the ~ Andrew Pyper

All I want to do is pretend nothing is wrong and avoid it all, for eternity, but I know I can't. ~ Amanda Grace

Books make the best ersatz friendships. ~ Nenia Campbell

If you really loved her then you could never hate her, even if you gave it your best ~ Mahzabin Mahi

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

Perhaps there had been joy for them in finding that sugar could be made from blood. ~ Edwidge Danticat

True evil needs no reason to exist, it simply is and feeds upon itself. ~ E.A. Bucchianeri

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

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

Nobody should have to die like these people had. I didn't know each of their circumstances, but I had a good guess. These people had died in terror, horror, and pain. More than likely, they had to watch their friends or loved ones die at the same time. Their last moments would have been spent knowing that they would come back and do the same to anyone they could get their hands on, even people they'd spent their life loving.
It was not the way any human being should have to go. ~ Rose Wynters

All too often, when we love somebody, we don't accept him or her as what the person effectively is. We accept him or her insofar as this person fits the co-ordinates of our fantasy. We misidentify [...] him or her – which is why, when we discover that we were wrong, love can quickly turn into violence. ~ Slavoj Zizek

Bridget cried for the leavers and the left. For the people, like herself, grimly forsaking what precious gifts they would ever get. ~ Ann Brashares

It was not curiosity that killed the goose who laid the golden egg, but an insatiable greed that devoured common sense. ~ E.A. Bucchianeri

living a life post breakup is like drinking water from a freshly emptied cola bottle , although one drinks the water , the odour of the cola drink remains lingered for some time , but with flow of time and repeated use , the odour gets away . in the same way the pain of losing ur loved one dies a slow death from your memories untill you , once again lead to a normal life ! ~ Vishal Mishra

Singapore and China did not have diplomatic relations at that time [1976]. Communism is banned in Singapore, and nobody could visit China without official approval. The Singapore government had prohibited travel there for fear that Singaporeans would be subverted and converted to the communist cause. . .The travel ban was lifted after Lee Kuan Yew's visit. He realised that nobody could experience life there and be seduced by their system. Indeed, they would better appreciate what Singapore offered. ~ Cheong Yip Seng

It is sad but true that many business people have no business being in business. ~ Miles Anthony Smith

Music is no longer tasted it is swallowed. ~ Jules Verne

She found it easier to forgive than Ove did. Forgive God and the universe and everything. Ove got angry instead. Maybe because he felt someone had to be angry on her behalf, when everything that was evil seemed to assail the only person he'd ever met who didn't deserve it. ~ Fredrik Backman

I've lived a life of unfinished things. ~ Dorothy Kunhardt

Truth is a troublesome motherfucker unless it's handled properly ~ Patrick Rothfuss

The orb shone bright, but darkness had come to Eden and Carys didn't know is there was any light that could chase this kind of darkness away. ~ Joelle Charbonneau

When you care about things, it ends up wearing you out. ~ Io Sakisaka

Every time you do something good, and I think that maybe somewhere in deep you have a good heart, but you prove me wrong by doing something so cruel that, I can't help but hate you. Why do you do this? How can you not feel? I can't stop feeling hurt. I can't stop these emotions running through me. So, I'm asking you how can you just shut off?
- Keira ~ Niola

So while I was busy saving you from Hell,
you were pushing me further to it; the poison murdering me well. ~ Shannon Perry

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

If they weren't staring at a fellow, they were laughing at him. ~ Wilson Rawls

They say never ride with the ones you didn't walk with, real friends show you real love not only talk it.
I made the team but figured out the game wasn't important when I found my homies switching sides the nights we wasn't scoring. ~ John Maiorana (oohGiovanni)

Every choice has a consequence, every consequence another choice. Little agonies waiting to be embraced. Only the moment before the choice really weighs anything. Very heavy moments, exploding into nothing. ~ MCM

And she realized, standing there, that in all her practical plans for marriage, she'd never thought about the simple pleasure of being loved. ~ Jude Watson

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

Don't fall for the ones who say, I am always yours. They are liars, unfortunately humans too ~ Rushabh Patel

No fear can stand up to hunger, no patience can wear it out, disgust simply does not exist where hunger is; and as to superstition, beliefs, and what you may call principles, they are less than chaff in a breeze. Don't you know the devilry of lingering starvation, its exasperating torment, its black thoughts, its sombre and brooding ferocity? Well, I do. It takes a man all is inborn strength to fight hunger properly. It's really easier to face bereavement, dishonour, and the perdition of one's soul - than this kind of prolonged hunger. Sad, but true. And these chaps, too, had no earthly reason for any kind of scruple. Restraint! I would just as soon have expected restraint from a hyena prowling amongst the corpses of a battlefield. ~ Joseph Conrad

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

Getting no message is a message ~ Aena

You ever feel like you're sending out a light but no one sees it? ~ Matthew Quick

They were now their own unavoidable experiment, and were making themselves into many things they had never been before: augmented, multi-sexed, and most importantly, very long-lived, the oldest at that point being around two hundred years old. But not one whit wiser, or even more intelligent. Sad but true: individual intelligence probably peaked in the Upper Paleolithic, and we have been self-domesticated creatures ever since, dogs when we had been wolves. But also, despite that individual diminuation, finding ways to accumulate knowledge and power, compiling records, also techniques, practices, sciences
possibly smarter therefore as a species than as individuals, but prone to insanity either way ... ~ Kim Stanley Robinson

Sometimes, people meant it when they smiled. Other times, they smiled because they wanted to mean it. ~ Shannon A. Thompson

I always have the perfect love but i don't always have the perfect ending ~ Robert M. Siguenza

In old days men had the rack. Now they have the Press. That is an improvement certainly. But still it is very bad, and wrong, and demoralizing. Somebody - was it Burke? - called journalism the fourth estate. That was true at the time no doubt. But at the present moment it is the only estate. It has eaten up the other three. The Lords Temporal say nothing, the Lords Spiritual have nothing to say, and the House of Commons has nothing to say and says it. We are dominated by Journalism. ~ Oscar Wilde

What she mostly wanted, he learned, was the same thing many people want
someone to notice she was there. ~ Mitch Albom

I asked Raghav, as we were looking over the wasteland, if the Muslims they burnt would beg for their lives. "Yes they would say, Have mercy on us. But we were filled with such hate; we had Radhabi Chawl on our minds. And even if there was one who said, Let him go, there would be ten others saying, No kill him. And so we had to kill him.

"But what if he was innocent?"

Raghav looked at me. "His biggest crime was that he was Muslim. ~ Suketu Mehta

When words fail, the hammer drops,
living can never be its own excuse. ~ Michael Hogan

It's not easy being human. Especially when you are tired and overworked all the time ... That's when you become inhuman. ~ Hakan Nesser

It's sad but true that if you focus your attention on housework and meal preparation and diapers, raising children does start to look like drudgery pretty quickly. On the other hand, if you see yourself as nothing less than your child's nurturer, role model, teacher, spiritual guide, and mentor, your days take on a very different cast. ~ Joyce Maynard

Every father wants a daughter to meet the right God, and the right man. Perhaps her father had failed with both. ~ Kathy Hepinstall

Death was an unfeeling bitch.It didnt matter who you were, who loved you, it struck mercilessly and without discrimination ~ A. Meredith Walters

Life is brutal that way ... the loss of irrecoverable moments amid trivia and distraction. ~ Dan Simmons

Sad, but True
We really don't know our brothers and sisters
until the inheritance is divided. ~ Beryl Dov

As soon as they give a reason for why they can't do something, they're already defeated. ~ Bobby Hall

There are so many problems to solve on this planet first before we begin to trash other worlds. ~ E.A. Bucchianeri

When you love someone, you become immune to the hurt they cause you. You don't love hoping to get something in return, you love because you have to. In its extreme form, it is a need to give, not a need to get. ~ Faraaz Kazi

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

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

I always thought that we would be that couple in the movies but not all movies have a happy ending ~ Anonymous

It's really best not to tell people when you feel bad. Growing up is about keeping secrets, and pretending everything is fine. ~ Caitlin Moran

Come on let's see the degree."
Katherine unrolled her scroll displaying a long declaration in Latin affixed with a red seal proclaiming her a Master of Art.
"Imagine working for years to obtain a piece of paper we can hardly read " Katherine joked.
"And to officially declare you have talent " Suzy returned. ~ E.A. Bucchianeri

There's nothing worse than not being wanted ~ Jennifer Probst

Society is a little more forgiving of two women kissing than two men. It's sad but true. ~ Tiffani Thiessen

She sighs and the small release of breath bothers me. This girl needs to be off doing things that make her happy. Not standing here with me, confused and torn. It's just further proof that I'm no good to be around. I'm turning one of the happiest people I know into something she was never meant to be.
I'm turning her into me. ~ Melyssa Winchester

... if people purposely set out to become your enemies, what an awful place they must be in to be that spiteful. ~ E.A. Bucchianeri

We find that at present the human race is divided into one wise man, nine knaves, and ninety fools out of every hundred. That is, by an optimistic observer. The nine knaves assemble themselves under the banner of the most knavish among them, and become 'politicians'; the wise man stands out, because he knows himself to be hopelessly outnumbered, and devotes himself to poetry, mathematics, or philosophy; while the ninety fools plod off under the banners of the nine villains, according to fancy, into the labyrinths of chicanery, malice and warfare. It is pleasant to have command, observes Sancho Panza, even over a flock of sheep, and that is why the politicians raise their banners. It is, moreover, the same thing for the sheep whatever the banner. If it is democracy, then the nine knaves will become members of parliament; if fascism, they will become party leaders; if communism, commissars. Nothing will be different, except the name. The fools will be still fools, the knaves still leaders, the results still exploitation. As for the wise man, his lot will be much the same under any ideology. Under democracy he will be encouraged to starve to death in a garret, under fascism he will be put in a concentration camp, under communism he will be liquidated. ~ T.H. White

Despite everybody who has been born and has died, the world has just gone on. I mean, look at Napoleon -but we went right on. Look at Harpo Marx -the world went around, it didn't stop for a second. It's sad but true. John Kennedy, right? ~ Bob Dylan

When they want to leave, they accuse you with endless flaws. ~ Eyden I.

So if this were a normal book about a girl with leukemia, I would probably talk a shitload about all the meaningful things Rachel had to say as she got sicker and sicker, and also probably we would fall in love and have some incredibly fulfilling romantic thing and she would die in my arms. But I don't feel like lying to you. She didn't have meaningful things to say, and we definitely didn't fall in love. She seemed less pissed with me after my stupid outburst, but she basically just went from irritable to quiet. ~ Jesse Andrews

Rose you can't go." This time the sadness in Lissa's voice was mirrored though the bond, flooding into me. "It's not that Dimitri didn't ask to see you. He asked specifically not to see you. ~ Richelle Mead

They don't know how warm you are and how warm they are with you, not until they're cold. People think a bonfire is something they can build anywhere. It's not. It takes wood, an open space, ideally stars in the sky. They can't fabricate that. They don't know how warm you are until they're cold. They don't know your stars until you're not there. ~ C. JoyBell C.

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

Uncertainty within thyself may lead to a vigorous destruction of your life. ~ SoulWanderer_

Sad but true that nothing puts a woman in her place more effectively than a chivalrous gesture performed in a certain manner. ~ Pat Barker

Where would we be without our painful childhoods? ~ Rebecca McNutt

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

সবাই বলতে চায়, কেউ শুনতে চায় না।
[everyone wants to speak, none like to hear.] ~ Humayun Ahmed

No human beings, regardless of who they might be, want to look directly at their own shortcomings. ~ Tatsuhiko Takimoto

Even roses have thorns. ~ A E S T H E T I C

My heart stops everytime our eyes met when you look at the camera. ~ Xxdeadlyxxmemoriesxx

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

But it's better to have bad options than no options. And people won't save you either, ya know. ~ J.A. Huss

Cleverness, he thinks, will get you nowhere; it is only the stupid, the brilliantly stupid, who will inherit the earth. ~ Ian McGuire

Her beauty, her pink cheeks, and golden curls, seemed to give delight to all who looked at her and to purchase indemnity for every fault ~ Charlotte Bronte

I am so obsessed with my life that the books I used to read are resting in the bookshelf for years and my soul is dying in the arms of my life. ~ Neymat Khan

I needed to be somewhere where people wouldn't be sad, where the thoughts concerned life, not death. ~ Gayle Forman

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

I'm sorry, okay, I'm not perfect, but I'm trying. ~ Sara Shepard

Remember how unimportant you are because that knowledge will gain you more respect than someone who thinks the world revolves around them. ~ Jack Kirby

And when it comes down to it, you realize that no one is really capable of thinking of anyone else, even in the worst misfortune. Because thinking about someone really means thinking about that person minute by minute, not being distracted by anything – not housework, not a fly passing, not meals, not an urge to scratch oneself. But there are always flies and itches. This is why life is hard to live. And these people know that very well. ~ Albert Camus

Sometimes –
you & I just don't exist
and that's alright! ~ Sijdah Hussain

Canada, the most affluent of countries, operates on a depletion economy which leaves destruction in its wake. Your people are driven by a terrible sense of deficiency. When the last tree is cut, the last fish is caught, and the last river is polluted; when to breathe the air is sickening, you will realize, too late, that wealth is not in bank accounts and that you can't eat money. ~ Native American Saying

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

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

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

There was something melancholic about that symbol of their nation's promise of freedom, a bell with a chipped mouth and cleft body. ~ E.A. Bucchianeri