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• 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

  Grief, Happens, Knows

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• The sad thing about any business I suppose, but in mine you see it particularly, is that you’re always asked to do what you’ve already done.

  Jeremy Irons

  Done, Mines

  "Oscar, Tony, and Emmy Award-Winning Actor". The Academy Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. October 27, 2000.

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• There's some sad things known to man, but ain't too much sadder than, the tears of a clown when noones around.

  Smokey Robinson

  Sadness, Men, Tears

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• I think it's a terrible thing to write and not enjoy it. It's a sad thing. But of course a lot of people do work because they need to eat. And we all need to eat, but that's not the only reason to work. You couldn't have paid me not to write.

  Anne Perry

  Writing, Thinking, People

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The sad thing about our society is that women are put in one of two categories. You're either in the beautiful category and you're seen as sexy and beautiful, or some version of that, or you're put into another category... The latter category affords women the opportunity to be smart, funny, independent, mean, strong, intelligent and opinionated. We take them seriously as politicians, if they fit into that latter category. We respect their opinions more and give them higher expectations. That latter category is what allows female actors to be characters.

  Amber Heard

  Beautiful, Sexy, Strong

  "Amber Heard THE RUM DIARY Interview". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. October 27, 2011.

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• Even if my songs are a bit low-spirited, they make me happy. I become happy when I hear sad songs. When you sing about sad things in a beautiful way, the atmosphere turns upside down

  John Frusciante

  Beautiful, Song, Atmosphere

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• Is it not a sad thing that after all Christ's love to us, we should repay it with lukewarm love to Him?

  Charles Spurgeon

  Christ, Should, Lukewarm

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• The sad thing is, I was discovering that you almost have to make a joke of being good to strangers. Up and down the country, these people doing their good deeds were doubtless being seen as slightly eccentric, when in reality and in an ideal world they should be deemed the most normal people of all.

  Danny Wallace

  Karma, Country, Reality

  Danny Wallace (2010). “Join Me”, p.159, Random House

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• It is a sad thing that our schoolboys look upon manual labour with disfavour, if not contempt.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Looks, Look Up, Contempt

  Mahatma Gandhi (1959). “India of My Dreams”, p.175, Rajpal & Sons

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• That's the sad thing about it, is that you don't know. And you certainly don't know when you quickly meet somebody. But even as you know somebody longer, it's really hard to know. Obviously you go on your gut feeling but that can be wrong too. ANd it's terrible to have to be wary about people, because it is not my nature, but I've been burned a few times and you just have to careful.

  Joan Jett

  People, Feelings, Goes On

  Reddit AMA, www.reddit.com. October 7, 2013.

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• My experience, with both my parents, is that grief has a lot of down, sad things, but I was also really emotionally raw, in the first year after each of them passed. Flowers smelled more intensely, my relationships were hotter, and I was more willing to risk. I was going for it a lot more. I was 'unsober' and I wasn't playing by my rules.

  Mike Mills

  Grief, Flower, Years

  "Director Mike Mills Exclusive Interview BEGINNERS". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. June 4, 2011.

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• The sad thing about destroying the environment is that we're going to take the rest of life with us. The bluebirds will be gone, and the elephants will be gone, and the tigers will be gone, and the pandas will be gone.

  Ted Turner

  Elephants, Rest Of Life, Pandas

  "Interview Showdown: Ted Turner 1, Publicist 0" by Michelle Kung, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 28, 2008.

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• The sad thing is that many of us come to Christ because we are sinners, and then spend the rest of our lives trying to pretend that we are not!

  Henry Cloud

  Trying, Christ, Our Lives

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• The sad thing is, people don't want to believe that the person they're in love with is out of his mind, drinking and using, so if you give them even half an excuse, they're going to want to believe it.

  Anthony Kiedis

  Drinking, Believe, People

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• It seems to me that very sad things always contain an element of the comical

  Haruki Murakami

  Elements, Very Sad, Seems

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• I don't trust tragedies much. It's easy to make a person sad by showing him something tragic. We all recognize when sad things happen: someone dies, someone loses a loved one, young love is crushed. It's much harder to make a man laugh-what's funny to one person isn't funny to another.

  Ilona Andrews

  Love Is, Men, Laughing

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• I have never had a current state of mind. My mind changes a great deal. I am very affected by any sorrow or sad thing, and I am very affected by joy and beauty.

  Luise Rainer

  Joy, Mind, Sorrow

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• Living a life fully engaged and full of whimsy and the kind of things that love does is something most people plan to do, but along the way they just kind of forget. Their dreams become one of those "we'll go there next time" deferrals. The sad thing is, for many there is no "next time" because passing on the chance to cross over is an overall attitude toward life rather than a single decision.

  Bob Goff

  Love, Dream, Attitude

  Bob Goff, Donald Miller (2012). “Love Does: Discover a Secretly Incredible Life in an Ordinary World”, p.15, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• 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

  Men, Weak, Mess

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• It is a sad thing to look at happiness only through another's eyes.

  Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington

  Happiness, Laughter, Eye

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• 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

  Meaningful, Make Others Happy, Knows

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• It is a sad thing when you hear Christians with a groan in them. When I meet the groaner, I say in my heart, "God, move that man on into the place where he comprehends what Christianity is."

  John G. Lake

  Christian, Pain, Moving

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• The star [Tycho's supernova] was at first like Venus and Jupiter, giving pleasing effects; but as it then became like Mars, there will next come a period of wars, seditions, captivity and death of princes, and destruction of cities, together with dryness and fiery meteors in the air, pestilence, and venomous snakes. Lastly, the star became like Saturn, and there will finally come a time of want, death, imprisonment and all sorts of sad things.

  Tycho Brahe

  Stars, War, Science

  "Patrick Moore's Data Book of Astronomy". p. 336, 2011.

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• You know, I guess I just don't like to talk a lot about sad things. Now you know my flaw. What good does it do to talk about sad things in the past?

  James Patterson

  Past, Doe, Flaws

  James Patterson (2001). “Suzanne's diary for Nicholas: a novel”

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• I've had moments where I realize my body isn't going to withstand many more seasons, but I am very satisfied with my career and I am trying not to look at retirement as a sad thing.

  Cat Osterman

  Retirement, Careers, Trying

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