Sad Things Quotes:

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

- Jackie Evancho

topic: Song, Writing, Sad Things

Sometimes you have to do things when sad things happen.

- Mitch Albom

source: Mitch Albom (2009). “The Five People You Meet In Heaven”, p.32, Hachette UK

topic: Sometimes, Happens, Sad Things

Some of us do so much to make others happy. Sad thing is, some of us dont even know someone that would do the same for us.

- Wiz Khalifa

topic: Meaningful, Make Others Happy, Sad Things

Death isn't sad. The sad thing is: most people don't live at all.

- Nick Nolte

source: "Fictional character: Socrates". "Peaceful Warrior", www.imdb.com. 2006.

topic: People, Peaceful Warrior, Sad Things

It is a very sad thing that nowadays there is so little useless information.

- Oscar Wilde

topic: Life, Sadness, Littles, Sad Things, Useless Things

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

topic: Letting Go, Mean, Life Is, Sad Things

The sad thing about Trump is that everybody is secretly really relieved he got elected, of the people I know - the professional left and academic left.

- Cody Wilson

source: Source: motherboard.vice.com

topic: People, Academic, Trump, Sad Things

The sad thing is that, even though we know our lives aren't working in certain areas, we are still afraid to change. We are locked into our comfort zone, no matter how self-destructive it may be. Yet, the only way to get out of our comfort zone and to be free of our problems and limitations is to get uncomfortable.

- Robert Anthony

source: Robert Anthony (2004). “Beyond Positive Thinking: A No-Nonsense Formula for Getting the Results You Want”, p.4, Morgan James Publishing

topic: Change, Self, May, Sad Things

I'm still an Apple person, but let's just say the magic aura is gone. In a way that was a sad thing to lose, but I feel better for it. It's just a machine now, not linked with any greater mission or mystique.

- Alex Gibney

topic: Feel Better, Apples, Magic, Mystique, Sad Things

One of the sad things, I think, about the younger generation, quite frankly, is they have less sense of yesterday. And if you don't know who you were, you don't really know who you are.

- Hugh Hefner

topic: Thinking, Yesterday, Generations, Sad Things

It's a sad thing to watch your best friend turn into somebody you don't know anymore. Or even want to know.

- Robert Goolrick

source: Robert Goolrick (2013). “Heading Out to Wonderful”, p.30, Algonquin Books

topic: Want, Watches, Your Best Friend, Sad Things

Do you know the difference between an optimist and a pessimist? A pessimist says ‘Oh dear, things can’t possibly get any worse.’ And an optimist says, ‘Don’t be so sad. Things can always get worse.

- Steven Galloway

source: Steven Galloway (2009). “The Cellist of Sarajevo”, p.53, Atlantic Books Ltd

topic: Differences, Pessimist, Optimist, Sad Things

It's the sad thing about entertainment, it's not always about who is the best.

- Jake Roberts

source: "Jake 'The Snake' Roberts". Interview with Jon Robertson, www.ign.com. December 18, 2003.

topic: Entertainment, Sad Things

It's a sad thing not to have friends, but it is even sadder not to have enemies.

- Che Guevara

topic: Enemy, Sad Things

It is important to look at death because it is a part of life. It is a sad thing, melancholy but romantic at the same time. It is the end of a cycle - everything has to end. The cycle of life is positive because it gives room for new things.

- Alexander McQueen

topic: Cycle Of Life, Giving, Important, Sad Things

It is a sad thing to begin life with low conceptions of it. It may not be possible for a young man to measure life; but it is possible to say, I am resolved to put life to its noblest and best use.

- Thornton T. Munger

topic: Life, Men, May, Sad Things

The sad thing is, our foreign policy WILL change eventually, as Rome's did, when all budgetary and monetary tricks to fund it are exhausted.

- Ron Paul

topic: Rome, Exhausted, Tricks, Sad Things

I can't say I'm happy to be talking about John Ritter and his passing. In my 21 years of Entertainment Tonight, this really was one of the most shocking and sad things to have happened.

- Mary Hart

topic: Talking, Years, Entertainment, Sad Things

Kids who are least impressive in my class are the ones who only listen to one kind of music. They only listen to country or only to rap or to gospel or anything. It's a sad thing. I try really hard to get them to go out and listen to things. It's amazing what you learn. ... I'm still trying to learn. It's not like I'm going to be a calypso singer. That's not going to happen, but I'm sure there's something in that, that I can learn from and apply to my own work.

- Andy Wilkinson

topic: Country, Rap, Kids, Calypso, Sad Things

But 'tis a sad thing that all one's happiness is only that the world does not know you are miserable.

- Dorothy Osborne

topic: Doe, World, Miserable, Sad Things

It's kind of a sad thing when a normal love of country makes you a super patriot. I do think we have a pretty wonderful country, and I thank God that He chose me to live here.

- John Wayne

topic: Country, Thinking, Thank God, Sad Things

Most of us grow up with a sense of "I'm not intelligent enough." It's such a sad thing that in the West we worship a certain kind of left-brain intelligence.

- Tara Brach

source: Source: www.psychologytoday.com

topic: Growing Up, Intelligent, Brain, Sad Things, Left Brain

America's in deep trouble. We don't know what we're doing when it comes to devaluations and all of these countries all over the world, especially China. They're the best, the best ever at it. What they're doing to us is a very, very sad thing.

- Donald Trump

source: Source: www.washingtonpost.com

topic: Country, America, World, Sad Things, Best Ever

It was just a wonderful experience, one for the memory book for sure. The sad thing about it was that the picture came under this absurd cloud of controversy. Here was a movie based on the central theme that racism is something that is taught, and it's illustrated by this story of a dog and the efforts of humans to re-train it after it had been trained to go after black people. And it created this ridiculous controversy and wound up being the last Hollywood movie that Sam [Fuller] made.

- Curtis Hanson

source: Source: www.avclub.com

topic: Dog, Memories, Book, Sad Things

One of the sad things about this political season is that it allows [requires] us to get behind our big "Liberal" or "Conservative" banner and forget, for a time, that the big problems in our country have been around a long time and have been batted back and forth, caused and exacerbated, by both sides, and are more spiritual or ethical than [merely] political.

- George Saunders

source: "George Saunders on Trump, Mystery, and Why He Rejects Social Media". Interview with Catherine Woodiwiss, sojo.net. August 30, 2016.

topic: Spiritual, Country, Long, Sad Things

It's a sad thing about politics that most people get power too late, in that they differ from ladies of easy virtue who get their pleasures too early.

- Malcolm Muggeridge

source: Source: www.hrc.utexas.edu

topic: People, Too Late, Virtue, Sad Things

I have the manual, and the sad thing is that many of the techniques are exactly the same ones with a few enhancements by the US since World War II. So the role of our European allies and others has just really disappointed me greatly.

- Ray McGovern

source: Source: www.truth-out.org

topic: War, Technique, Allies, Enhancement, Sad Things

I remember watching Romeo + Juliet when I was 14 and listening to the soundtrack. When I hear that soundtrack now, all those emotions come back. It's really beautiful when you're at a certain point in your life where most of the adventure lies ahead of you. And it's a sad thing when you feel like you've lost that. But you can get it back.

- Lykke Li

source: Source: pitchfork.com

topic: Beautiful, Lying, Adventure, Sad Things, Really Beautiful

I have to admit, I have a little sad addiction. I love watching on the E Channel that stupid show, The Girls Next Door. It's a very sad thing to say and I don't know how to explain it but I am addicted to Hugh Hefner's girlfriends and The Girls Next Door.

- Julie Halston

source: Source: www.broadwayworld.com

topic: Girl, Stupid, Doors, Sad Things

I've definitely read interviews with people where they've explained exactly what they wrote something about and I've been like: "Oh no, I was thinking that was a really beautiful love song or a really sad thing."

- Lauren Mayberry

topic: Sad Things, Beautiful Love

The sad thing is that somehow, it is a type of event that mirrors the artist. You take it into account, and you're reminded in this specific case what the artist's work is about, what his life is like, and how life mirrors art.

- Massimiliano Gioni

topic: Art, Mirrors, Life Is Like, Sad Things

Discomfort and awkwardness are places where you feel things. I'm a big advocate for being happy. We can choose to live in a happy bubble. But part of being happy is understanding how sad things can be.

- Laurel Nakadate

topic: Understanding, Bigs, Discomfort, Sad Things, Awkwardness

A lot of sad things have happened to my friends' children, people you knew as babies. They've been killed or become crazy or all kinds of tragic things. There are some people whose children haven't talked to them in fifteen years. There's all kind of meshugaas in this world.

- Grace Paley

topic: Baby, Children, Crazy, Sad Things

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

topic: War, Thinking, Want, Sad Things

It is a sad thing to want for happiness, but it is a terrible thing to see another groping about blindly for it, when it is almost within the grasp.

- Theodore Dreiser

topic: Want, Terrible, Sad Things

The sad thing is that I feel so boring because 'Twilight' is literally how every conversation I have these days begins - whether it's someone I'm meeting for the first time or someone I just haven't seen in a while. The first thing I want to say to them is, 'It's insane! And, as a person, I can't do anything!'

- Kristen Stewart

source: Interview with Dennis Hopper, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 27, 2009.

topic: Twilight, Insane, Want, Sad Things, So Boring

You see I usually find myself among strangers because I drift here and there trying to forget the sad things that happened to me.

- F. Scott Fitzgerald

topic: Trying, Forget, Stranger, Sad Things, Great Gatsby Book

It is a sad thing to think of, but there is no doubt that genius lasts longer than beauty. That accounts for the fact that we all take such pains to over-educate ourselves. In the wild struggle for existence, we want to have something that endures, and so we fill our minds with rubbish and facts, in the silly hope of keeping our place. The thoroughly well-informed man--that is the modern ideal. And the mind of the thoroughly well-informed man is a dreadful thing. It is like a bric-a-brac shop, all monsters and dust, with everything priced above its proper value.

- Oscar Wilde

topic: Pain, Struggle, Silly, Struggle For Existence, Sad Things

A glooming peace this morning with it brings; The sun, for sorrow, will not show his head: Go hence, to have more talk of these sad things; Some shall be pardon'd, and some punished: For never was a story of more woe Than this of Juliet and her Romeo.

- William Shakespeare

source: 1595 Prince. Romeo andJuliet, act 5, sc.3, l.308-9.

topic: Morning, Sorrow, Romeo And Juliet Love, Sad Things, Romantic Romeo And Juliet

Vee never needed a reason to do something stupid. Sad thing was, most of the time I didn't either.

- Becca Fitzpatrick

source: Becca Fitzpatrick (2011). “Silence”, p.69, Simon and Schuster

topic: Stupid, Reason, Needed, Sad Things

There isn't one thing in particular; rather, a lot of different things give me inspiration. I tend to come up with tunes when I do things that are not part of my daily routine, like traveling. But even during my everyday life, I come up with tunes when I'm emotionally moved. By looking at a beautiful picture, scenery, tasting something delicious, scents that bring back memories, happy and sad things... Anything that moves my emotion gives me inspiration.

- Yoko Shimomura

topic: Beautiful, Memories, Moving, Sad Things, Beautiful Picture

One sad thing about this world is that the acts that take the most out of you are usually the ones that people will never know about. (from 'Celestial Navigation')

- Anne Tyler

source: Anne Tyler (2012). “Celestial Navigation”, p.141, Random House

topic: People, World, Navigation, Sad Things

I cannot express the uneasiness caused in me by this intrusion of mystery and beauty into a room I had at last filled with myself to the point of paying no more attention to the room than to that self. The anesthetizing influence of habit having ceased, I would begin to have thoughts, and feelings, and they are such sad things.

- Marcel Proust

source: Marcel Proust (2003). “Swann's Way”, Viking Press

topic: Self, Feelings, Attention, Sad Things, Thoughts And Feelings

But it's a journey and the sad thing is you only learn from experience, so as much as someone can tell you things, you have to go out there and make your own mistakes in order to learn.

- Emma Watson

source: FaceBook post by Emma Watson from Dec 21, 2012

topic: Mistake, Journey, Order, Watson, Sad Things

Sad things happen. They do. But we don't need to live sad forever.

- Mattie Stepanek

topic: Forever, Needs, Things Happen, Sad Things

The sad thing is most people have to check with someone before they do the things that make them happy. We're all passing through; the least we can do is be happy, and the only way to do that is by being selfish.

- Gene Simmons

topic: Being Happy, Selfish, People, Sad Things, Passing Through

It is of no avail to know what is about to happen; for it is a sad thing to be grieved when grief can do no good.

- Marcus Tullius Cicero

topic: Grief, Sad Things

The sad thing about working on a movie is that you can never see the movie.

- Charlie Kaufman

topic: Sad Things

The sad thing is many people learn how to manage money after they've made a lot of financial mistakes, some that take decades to fix.

- Michelle Singletary

topic: Mistake, People, Financial, Sad Things

It was a sad thing. I don't know how he learned that.

- Julian Sands

topic: Hollywood, Film, Sad Things

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

topic: Religious, Would Be, Moral, Sad Things

What a sad thing men are. Can’t do nothing good without being so weak we have to mess it up. Can’t build something up without tearing it down.

- Patrick Ness

topic: Sad Things