Best 172 quotes in «sad but true quotes» category

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.

The last thought in the evening is often the first one in the morning.

The NRA kills more Americans than Muslim terrorists do.

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

The past will forever be a part of my present as well as my future.

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.

The World is not a wish granting factory"- The Fault In Our Stars

The poet Billy Collins once laughingly observed that all babies are born with a knowledge of poetry, because the lub-dub of the mother's heart is in iambic meter. Then, Collins said, life slowly starts to choke the poetry out of us. It may be true with music, too.

There’s nothing worse than not being wanted

The sad part is that you love her.... and she didn't love you back.

The sad part is you love her..... and she didn't love you back.

We had no choice. We ran into darkness of the early morning leaving everything behind.

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.

This generation seems to see children as a financial burden and responsibility to be avoided.

We don't act like that because we are in good humor; we are in a good humor because otherwise we should go to pieces.

This here is your inheritance, says the senior partner. Yes, he says, Ludwig, I know, and stows the plan for the bathing house (5.5m long, 3.8m wide, outer wall construction: wood, roof construction: thatch), stows both the plan and the mosquito in his briefcase. On a German shelf, this mosquito, pressed flat between large quantities of paper, will outlast time and times, and one day it might even be petrified, who knows.

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

We're lonely down here," he said. "It's true. But we're not alone.

What distresses me is to see that human genius has limitations, and human stupidity has none.

When a human in happy time, he/she doesn’t understand the reality! He/she doesn’t realize it until he/she is touched by sadness, pain, poverty, refusal, betrayal, hate, abuse and so many things. Until then he/she doesn’t know what the reality is. Cause the reality is very harsh and very hard to accept.

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

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

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

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?

When you're happy, you enjoy the music but when you're sad, you undestand the lyrics.

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.

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.

Where would we be without our painful childhoods?

You haven't written anything about me yet!" She said in a complaining way He replied in a sorrowful tone "I wish you could read my unwritten poems

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

You grew up fast to the realisation That life is full of cracks And you're filling up with sadness, It's leaking words you can't take back,

Your heart is pure, but my every line is poor. Every second I write to you, I suddenly begin to hear the creaking floor boards. As the wind chimes, time goes by. Waiting, for that one moment to arrive. As I stand gaurd, I'll know it will get hard. But in the end, it will work out just like a deck of playing cards.

Your friends drag you down, Gordie. Don't you know that? [...] Your friends do. They're like drowning guys that are holding onto your legs. You can't save them. You can only drown with them.

You might want someone else to save you, or might want to save someone so badly. But no one else can save you, not really, not from yourself.

Aku belum pernah benar-benar memastikan sebesar apa cinta cowok itu untukku, tapi aku tahu cinta macam apa yang akan kuberikan padanya. Cinta yang tak mengizinkan keraguan.

You too, Caesar?

Aku nggak membencimu. Aku hanya benci karena ternyata begitu sulit melupakanmu.

You saved him just to let him go.” “Yes.” “You knew all along what this meant, yet you did it anyway. You risked your life for him, knowing that it couldn’t work.” “Yes.” Niko laughs sardonically. I look over to find him leaning over, his head in his hands. “What kind of love is that? How could something that’s supposed to bring you joy and triumph be so painful?” “It’s not love. It’s insanity.” He lifts his face from his palms, and meets my eyes. I see that the pain of love he spoke about wasn’t for me or Dorian, it was for him. That was his hurt, his anguish. I’m not the only one who’s insane. “Why do we let them do this to us?” he asks, his voice a broken whisper. “Do what?” “Leave us.” An iridescent speck rolls down his cheek, almost masked by the comfort of the shadows. “Because we’re stupid. And because we’d rather have a moment of happiness than a lifetime of loneliness.” Niko makes a noise in his throat, as if my words strangle him. I turn away, allowing him to suffer in private. “We love the unlovable,” he murmurs. “We save the unsaveable.” “It’s a sickness.” “It’s masochism.” I nod, but I don’t say a word. We’ve already said it all.

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.

Açıklanmadığı zaman anlayamıyor olman, ne kadar açıklanırsa açıklansın anlayamayacağın anlamına gelir.

A feeling won't be a feeling anymore when you are feeling the feeling.

After you die, a rare friend or family member may carry your memory throughout life. Most will forget you. As if you were never here.

Algo que había aprendido de esta experiencia es que a veces resulta necesario ocultar la verdad por el bien de todos.

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.

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.

As he made his morning coffee, Tengo found himself silently wishing that this peaceful time could go on forever. If he said it aloud, some keen-eared demon somewhere might overhear him. And so he kept his wish for continued tranquility to himself. But things never go the way you want them to, and this was no exception. The world seemed to have a better sense of how you wanted things not to go.

And when I have that feeling, that feeling like I need a handout, desperate, I want to pull my skin off and turn into dust.I want to throw myself back to the angels and tell them to start over,start over without me cause you put the screws in loose, you put the hinges in wrong.

...as he discovered in the course of his uncountable years that a lie is more comfortable than doubt, more useful than love, more lasting than truth...

As we grow up, our huge dreams of childhood grow smaller

As her lungs pumped and her head cleared, she wondered if all the effort she’d put into blotting out the pain had deadened her ability to feel pleasure, too. What a shame. What a loss.