Sad Things Quotes

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

  Oscar Wilde

  Life, Sadness, Useless Things

  Oscar Wilde (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Oscar Wilde (Illustrated)”, p.1670, Delphi Classics

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• 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

  Sad, Letting Go, Mean

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

  Becca Fitzpatrick

  Stupid, Reason, Needed

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

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• 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

  Pain, Struggle, Silly

  Oscar Wilde, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays”, p.20, GENERAL PRESS

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• 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

  Trying, Here And There, Forget

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2013). “The Great Gatsby”, p.52, Atlântico Press

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

  Jake Roberts

  Entertainment

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

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

  Che Guevara

  Enemy

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• 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

  Differences, Pessimist, Optimist

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

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• 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

  Cycle Of Life, Giving, Important

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• 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

  Talking, Years, Tonight

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• 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

  Change, Self, May

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

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• 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

  Thinking, Yesterday, Generations

  FaceBook post by Hugh M. Hefner from Aug 17, 2015

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• 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

  War, Thinking, Want

  "Zoe Saldana: I like movies that make you feel uncomfortable". Interview with Jarett Wieselman, pagesix.com. January 14, 2011.

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• 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

  Morning, Sorrow, Romeo And Juliet Love

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

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• 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

  Want, Terrible, Terrible Things

  Theodore Dreiser (2016). “Sister Carrie”, p.181, Theodore Dreiser

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• 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

  Life, Men, Use

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• 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

  Rome, Exhausted, Tricks

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• 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

  Watches, Want, Your Best Friend

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

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• 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

  Feel Better, Apples, Magic

  Source: www.sfgate.com

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• 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

  Being Happy, Selfish, People

  "This much I know" by Luke Bainbridge, www.theguardian.com. May 15, 2004.

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

  Mattie Stepanek

  Forever, Needs, Happens

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• 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

  Twilight, Insane, Want

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

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• 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

  Mistake, Journey, Order

  FaceBook post by Emma Watson from Dec 21, 2012

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• 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

  Self, Feelings, Attention

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

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• 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

  People, World, Navigation

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

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