Best 172 quotes in «sad but true quotes» category

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

Where would we be without our painful childhoods?

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.

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.

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?

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.

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,

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

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.

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.

You too, Caesar?

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

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.

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.

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

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 she realized, standing there, that in all her practical plans for marriage, she'd never thought about the simple pleasure of being loved.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

...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...

A writer friend who was born in England summed up her feelings for the semicolon in a remark worthy of Henry James: "There is no pleasure so acute as that of a well-placed semicolon." I guess the opposite of that is that there is no displeasure so obtuse as that of an ill-placed semicolon.

As soon as they give a reason for why they can't do something, they're already defeated.

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

Ay me! sad hours seem long.

Bagian tersulit dari mencintai seseorang adalah menunggu dia balas mencintaimu.

Bagi perempuan, komitmen nggak lebih hanya sekadar penjamin rasa aman--iya, supaya kita nggak dimiliki orang lain. Sedang pernikahan adalah pemuas fantasi masa kecil mereka. Pernah dengar seperti apa perempuan bercerita tentang pernikahan impiannya? Gaun putih panjang, pernikahan penuh dekorasi indah dan bunga-bunga. Kita laki-laki hanya pelengkap fantasi sialan itu! Berdiri di sebelah mereka di pelaminan, tak ubahnya seperti backdrop buat mereka!

Because when you're between two shores and no one can see you, you don't really exist at all

Books make the best ersatz friendships.

But at home, that same day he'd jumped into the fountain, he'd gotten so anxious, pacing around the living room listening to his parents try to calm him, that he suddenly just lost it completely and slapped his face. He immediately started crying, confused and guilty, looking up at his parents like he had no idea how it happened. And, really, that's the way it always was with the hitting. It would happen so fast, his body shaking to release the tension that built up from all the thoughts swirling through his mind and all the air he was having trouble breathing and all the loud beating of his own heart ringing in his ears. It had to get out and that was the path it chose. Slap. Instant relief.

But her greatest assets were her bound feet, called in Chinese "three-inch golden lilies" (san-tsun-gin-lian). This meant she walked "like a tender young willow shoot in a spring breeze," as Chinese connoisseurs of women traditionally put it. The sight of a woman teetering on bound feet was supposed to have an erotic effect on men, partly because her vulnerability induced a feeling of protectiveness in the onlooker.

Death was an unfeeling bitch.It didnt matter who you were, who loved you, it struck mercilessly and without discrimination

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.

But that's the way life goes most of the time: the thing you least count on comes along and ruins everything else you got planned.

Bye Bye , Father,' I said as the confessional door clicked shut behind me, 'Ah's' eyes following me, wondering, I suppose, what He'd been drinking the day he went and made a twilight zone of a disaster like me.

Canada, the most affluent of countries, operates on a depletion economy which leaves destruction in its wake. Your people are driven by a terrible sense of deficiency. When the last tree is cut, the last fish is caught, and the last river is polluted; when to breathe the air is sickening, you will realize, too late, that wealth is not in bank accounts and that you can’t eat money.