Sad Facts About Life Quotes

The sad fact is that if you love education, revere the life of the mind, care about the pursuit of truth, think young people need to receive wisdom from their elders, and value moral clarity, the university is the last place you would want to send your 18-year-old. ~ Dennis Prager

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

In the mornings, my pain was magnified by about a thousand. In the morning there weren't only those sad facts about my life. Now there was also the additional fact that I was a pile of shit. ~ Cheryl Strayed

What kind of books do you like?'
'I like books about nice people. And a story where it all comes out right in the end.'
'But Nancibel, that's not true to life.'
'I daresay not. Why should it be?'
'You're an escapist.'
'Pardon?'
'You don't want the face facts.'
'Not in story books, I don't. I face plenty between Monday and Saturday without reading about them.'
Bruce sighed.
'I don't think a book ought to be sad,' said Nancibel, 'unless it's a great classical book, like 'Wuthering Heights.'
'Oh! You've read 'Wuthering Heights'. Did you like it?'
'Yes, but I didn't think it was the right part for Merle Oberon. Running about with bare feet, well she was hobbling most of the time. You could see she wasn't used to it.'
'Oh... you mean the film. ~ Margaret Kennedy

People aren't born sad; we make them that way. ~ Nikita Gill

Death isn't sad. There's nothing sad about it. Living a shitty life, that's sad. ~ Mac Danzig

The lack of women directors is a sad fact of life. Kathryn Bigelow's thrilling Best Director win may help turn things around. ~ Lynda Obst

I know all about the facts of life, and I don't think much of them. ~ Dodie Smith

People keeps on complaining, but they're not doing anything about the things that they're complaining about. ~ Jayson Engay

Everybody doesn't need to know everything about you. ~ Germany Kent

I hiked up a path and into the woods, thinking about what I should be thinking about and almost having a real feeling - a feeling like, this is really sad, this is a sad place to be, a sad part of my life, maybe just a sad life. The woods were not particularly beautiful. I was not impressed by the trees. ~ Catherine Lacey

Everything takes me longer than I expect. It's the sad truth about life. ~ Donna Tartt

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

There are things you're supposed to learn in life. My biggest regret was terminating a pregnancy when I was about 18. Every day, I think about who that baby would be now; it still makes me sad. ~ Suzi Quatro

When your sad
like really sad
you only want to be with other people who are sad. ~ Nick Hornby

One of the simplest things about all facts of life is that to get where you want to go, you must keep on keeping on. ~ Norman Vincent Peale

I don't think I have a sad life. I just talk about all my feelings and emotions. ~ Jhene Aiko

If you don't know about pain and trouble, you're in sad shape. They make you appreciate life. ~ Evel Knievel

I know that some endeavor to throw the mantle of romance over the subject and treat woman like some ideal existence, not liable to the ills of life. Let those deal in fancy who have nothing better to deal in; we have to do with sober, sad realities, with stubborn facts. ~ Ernestine Rose

One of the disconcerting facts about the spiritual life is that God takes you at your word. ~ Dorothy Day

Death is beautiful, part of life... No, it is sad. It's sad when anyone dies. Even though every single human dies. So it's really not that sad. ~ Harris Wittels

[The scientist] believes passionately in facts, in measured facts. He believes there are no bad facts, that all facts are good facts, though they may be facts about bad things, and his intellectual satisfaction can come only from the acquisition of accurately known facts, from their organization into a body of knowledge, in which the inter-relationship of the measured facts is the dominant consideration. ~ Robert Watson-Watt

Sometimes we get sad about things and we don't like to tell other people that we are sad about them. We like to keep it a secret. Or sometimes, we are sad but we really don't know why we are sad, so we say we aren't sad but we really are. ~ Mark Haddon

Books make the best ersatz friendships. ~ Nenia Campbell

If a person is to get the meaning of life he must learn to like the facts about himself
ugly as they may seem to his sentimental vanity
before he can learn the truth behind the facts. And the truth is never ugly. ~ Eugene O'Neill

I knew the facts of death before I knew the facts of life. There never was a time when I didn't see the skull beneath the skin. ~ P.D. James

All I knew is that sometimes my father was sad. I hated that he was sad. It made me sad too. I didn't like sad. ~ Benjamin Alire Saenz

It's a pity... to wait for a person to decide that she doesn't need anyone. There is nothing more frightening than someone who doesn't need anybody. Nobody is born that way; but then people make it so. ~ C. JoyBell C.

The facts of life are very stubborn things. ~ Cleveland Amory

Now, what I want is, Facts ... Facts alone are wanted in life. ~ Charles Dickens

You have to hurt in order to know. Fall in order to grow. Lose in order to gain. Because most of life's lessons are learned through pain ~ Boonaa Mohammed

When I try to outline the history of ethical life, it's sometimes possible to find evidence for a hypothesis about how important transitions actually went. Often, however, that isn't so. There are many facts about human life in the Paleolithic we're never likely to know. ~ Philip Kitcher

Physiology and psychology cover, between them, the field of vital phenomena; they deal with the facts of life at large, and in particular with the facts of human life. ~ Wilhelm Wundt

It is not surprising that honest and well-informed experts can disagree about facts. But beyond the disagreement about facts, there is another deeper disagreement about values. ~ Freeman Dyson

Why sad? Don't be sad. If sad, will make everyone sad. ~ George Saunders

People don't care for facts, unless they can feel those facts in their bones. ~ Abhijit Naskar

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

It's hard to watch your life unfold, and sad. Life changes. ~ Cilla Black

He is a hard man who is only just, and a sad one who is only wise. ~ Voltaire

I don't like realism. We already know the real facts about li[fe], most of the basic facts. I'm not interested in repeating what we already know. We know about sex, about violence, about murder, about war. All these things, by the time we're 18, we're up to here. From there on we need interpreters. We need poets. We need philosophers. We need theologians, who take the same basic facts and work with them and help us make do with those facts. Facts alone are not enough. It's interpretation. ~ Ray Bradbury

I take my inspiration for the song writing from little experiences, not even if I've experienced them myself but say if something has made me sad, I will use that emotion. I just use everyday life and write about it. ~ Pixie Lott

Life possesses an amazing array of profoundly sad faces. ~ Aberjhani

Plain women he regarded as he did the other severe facts of life, to be faced with philosophy and investigated by science. ~ George Eliot

So soon did we, wayfarers, begin to learn that man's life is rounded with the same few facts, the same simple relations everywhere, and it is vain to travel to find it new. ~ Henry David Thoreau

I write about heartbreak because I like writing about sad things, but I'm writing happy songs, too! ~ Jackie Evancho

Thats beautiful! Sad and beautiful, murmured Meggie. Why were sad stories often so beautiful? It was different in real life. ~ Cornelia Funke

My whole life is reading tabloid magazines. It's really sad, because that's what my show is all about - what is going on with celebrities. So I have to know everything. ~ Chelsea Handler

War is very sad and small life is pathetically fragile at times. ~ Henry Rollins

There: see? Done with the facts already. The facts are easy to say; I say them all the time. This isn't about them. This is about whatever is cut from the frame of narrative. The fat remnants, broken bones, gristle, untender bits. ~ Molly Brodak

The sad events that occur in my life are the sad events that happen to everybody, with losing friends and family, but that is a natural occurrence, as natural as being born. ~ Sergio Aragones

We all like stories that make us cry. It's so nice to feel sad when you've nothing in particular to feel sad about. ~ Anne Sullivan

Yes, I am sad, sad as a circus-lioness, sad as an eagle without wings, sad as a violin with only one string and that one broken, sad as a woman who is growing old. Sad, sad, sad ... ~ Jean Rhys

There is still so much drama in my life, but I'm not a sad person anymore. ~ Nikki Reed

Sometimes it makes me sad that I didn't get to have one family for my entire life. ~ Isabel Gillies

However, we might oppose it, abortion is a sad feature of modern life. ~ Robert Casey

There are going to be situations where people are going to go without assistance. That's just the facts of life. ~ Daryl Gates

Life can be challenging and sad ... but music is the easy part. ~ St. Vincent

'The Killing' has a really great combination of qualities: Even though it's very sad and deals with mourning and grief, it's still exciting. It's about real people and it doesn't shy from the painful points of life. ~ Joel Kinnaman

For those of you who don't know who I am, I played Natalie on The Facts of Life. ~ Reno Collier

A lot of my movies have come to be thought about only years after the fact, and I'm sad about that but also happy about it in a way, as it's given them longevity. ~ Nicolas Roeg

Absolute silence leads to sadness. It is the image of death. ~ Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Married life requires shared mystery even when all the facts are known. ~ Richard Ford

It's a fact of life. Hearts are always hurting. And yet they still keep pumping. ~ Cecil Castellucci

I think women should be seductive, not triste. There's enough sadness in life now without making women look sad, too. ~ Azzedine Alaia

In walking with God it's not about knowing the facts. Rather, it's about knowing the God Who knows the facts. ~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

When you're sad, you're not sad. You are merely oblivious to the good things in your life. There is always a crack of light in the darkness. Find it. ~ Dianna Agron

A sad thing in life is that sometimes you meet someone who means a lot to you, only to find out in the end it was never bound to be, and you just have to let go. ~ Will Smith

I have received hostile voice mail messages and e-mails. They are often anonymous, I'm sad to say, as anonymous messages are delivered only by very low forms of human life, in my opinion. ~ Ben Brantley

It is our single friends who keep us in our marriages. They remind us that being single is sad. Dating, is sad. Online dating is sad. Attending holidays and weddings alone is sad. Marriage, too, is sad.

But love, lust, infatuation - for a few moments, I was not sad. ~ Melissa Broder

I'm really happy with my life now, but there's a lot of stuff I feel very sad about in ways I can't even control. ~ Liz Phair

Debating, doubting, or rejecting the basic scientific facts about climate change in the face of the overwhelming evidence and overwhelming scientific opinion will not change those facts. ~ Bernie Sanders

The facts of life are conservative. ~ Margaret Thatcher

Do not let either the medical authorities or the politicians mislead you. Find out what the facts are, and make your own decisions about how to live a happy life and how to work for a better world. ~ Linus Pauling

I hate to think life is just facts and laws. ~ Ang Lee

I never was a great Thatcher fan, and it wasn't a sad day in my life when she resigned. ~ Jim Broadbent

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

People get it wrong when they talk about innocence: they think it's something to do with ignorance about the facts of sex and all the nasty things that happen in the world. But facts don't change people: it's understanding how the facts feel that does. ~ Alexia Casale

How can you explain that it's just that he was sad, that he'd been sad all his life, and he knew he'd always be sad? ~ Don Lee

True believers aren't about to be seduced by the facts. ~ Gary Sloan

We need to be reminded that there is nothing morbid about honestly confronting the fact of life's end, and preparing for it so that we may go gracefully and peacefully. ~ Billy Graham

It's really sad looking at people like Lindsay Lohan. She's an amazing actress, but you see what happens when people know too much about your personal life. They start not being able to look at you the same way professionally. I don't want that to happen to me. ~ Dianna Agron

The sad fact is that spending rises every year, no matter what people want or say they want. ~ Ben Stein

Perhaps there was another life, not so sad, that I missed somehow this time, and will have in another world. ~ Nick Harkaway

I do think I have an ability to record sensual and emotional facts and factoids, to construct a convincing surface of what life feels like, both physical life and emotional life. ~ Anne Carson

It made me very sad, that question. Sad and defeated. Because I knew she knew why I was thinking about that woman - I was thinking about my own tendencies toward aloneness and I thought I could end up like that woman, with a bird perhaps, or a dog - probably a dog, I know birds are supposed to make good pets but I think there's something creepy about them - but alone with a life that didn't touch or overlap with anyone else's, a sort of hermetically sealed life. ~ Peter Cameron

The construction of life is at present in the power of facts far more than of convictions, and of such facts as have scarcely ever become the basis of convictions. ~ Walter Benjamin

Light shines through broken places. It is okay to be a little broken and sad. ~ Avijeet Das

Politics is not about facts. It is about what politicians can get people to believe. ~ Thomas Sowell

Learning is less about memorizing facts and more about the ability to think. ~ Frank K. Sonnenberg

Life is sad, life is a bust, all you can do is do what you must. ~ Bob Dylan

There are many Universal Facts of Life: things that are so tried and tested as to be irrefutable. ~ Fennel Hudson

I really believe we read differently when we know even the most banal facts of an author's life. ~ Anne Michaels

My father comes from a generation of film that actors my age don't even know about, which is really sad. ~ Amber Tamblyn

I recognize the unknowing, involuntary effect that 'Facts of Life' had and continues to have on several generations of people. ~ Kim Fields

Oh, don't tell me of facts, I never believe facts; you know, [George] Canning said nothing was so fallacious as facts, except figures. ~ Sydney Smith

American journalists tend to treat inequality as a fact of life. But it needn't be. ~ Eric Alterman

We are more unhappy to see people ahead of us than happy to see people behind us. ~ Michel De Montaigne

Of course it's true: the public want to see young people - young people are the people who go to the cinema. It's a sad fact of life, but you've got to accept it and not whine about it. ~ Joan Collins

It's okay to be sad. Everyone gets sad now and then. Even me. ~ Nicholas Sparks

But now Americans, they felt a sense of peace and protection because they've been separated by so many thousands of miles of ocean. And you know, the fact that it's come to the U.S. like this is so sad, and yet you know, what can you do? It's here. ~ Patty Hearst