Sad But True Quotes

“You too, Caesar?”
― Merlin Franco, A Dowryless Wedding

“Figure it out. Work a lifetime to pay off a house. You finally own it, and there's nobody to live in it.”
― Arthur Miller, Death of a Salesman

“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.”
― Justina Ireland, Dread Nation

“The devil did not need to work at all when people were so willing to do his dirty work for him.”
― E.A. Bucchianeri, Vocation of a Gadfly

“People are not good to each other. Perhaps if they were our deaths would not be so sad.”
― Charles Bukowski, Love Is a Dog from Hell

“Look behind somebody’s horrible exterior, and you usually found a horrible interior, shaped by a horrible history.”
― Rick Riordan, The Ship of the Dead

“The NRA kills more Americans than Muslim terrorists do.”
― Oliver Markus Malloy, Inside The Mind of an Introvert: Comics, Deep Thoughts and Quotable Quotes

“Getting no message is a message”
― Aena

“In old days men had the rack. Now they have the Press. That is an improvement certainly. But still it is very bad, and wrong, and demoralizing. Somebody — was it Burke? — called journalism the fourth estate. That was true at the time no doubt. But at the present moment it is the only estate. It has eaten up the other three. The Lords Temporal say nothing, the Lords Spiritual have nothing to say, and the House of Commons has nothing to say and says it. We are dominated by Journalism.”
― Oscar Wilde

“... if people purposely set out to become your enemies, what an awful place they must be in to be that spiteful.”
― E.A. Bucchianeri, Vocation of a Gadfly

“Somewhere deep within you also know that you love me”
― Anamika Mishra, For the Sake of Love

“সবাই বলতে চায়, কেউ শুনতে চায় না।
[everyone wants to speak, none like to hear.]”
― Humayun Ahmed, একজন মায়াবতী

“تعرف أنها تعيش حياة متوترة وأنها تترقب الأسوأ. القلق صار عادة يومية عندها. أن تمشي في ممر طويل بسرعة جنونية ولا تعرف أين ومتى يظهر الجدار الذي يهشمك, أو الحفرة التي ستسقط فيها. لكنك لا تستطيع عمل شيء . لربما يحدث أي شيء غداً .. لربما لا يوجد عد أصلًا”
― أحمد خالد توفيق, شآبيب

“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!”
― Christian Simamora, Marry Now, Sorry Later

“If Hollywood was a Republican town, Weinstein would still be president, and he'd still be molesting women.”
― Oliver Markus Malloy, Inside The Mind of an Introvert: Comics, Deep Thoughts and Quotable Quotes

“Sometimes there's an element of truth in a smidgeon of sarcasm.”
― E.A. Bucchianeri, Vocation of a Gadfly

“I needed to be somewhere where people wouldn’t be sad, where the thoughts concerned life, not death.”
― Gayle Forman, If I Stay

“Life has a cruel way of reminding one and all it stops for no one and simply marches on, dragging everyone with it.”
― E.A. Bucchianeri, Vocation of a Gadfly

“Uncertainty within thyself may lead to a vigorous destruction of your life.”
― SoulWanderer_

“I've just become a character, we all have, in a story we don't get to write ourselves.”
― Dana Reinhardt, The Things a Brother Knows

“It hurts when you realize you aren’t that important to someone as you thought you were..”
― KanekiBlue 503

“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,”
― Musa M., I Am

“As we grow up, our huge dreams of childhood grow smaller”
― Remon Rakibul

“Sad isn't just a feeling when you feel it all the time.

It becomes a part of you.”
― Shreya Maurya

“Love is the first step toward breaking up”
― Ellen Hopkins, Glass

“Algo que había aprendido de esta experiencia es que a veces resulta necesario ocultar la verdad por el bien de todos.”
― Lottie Moggach, Bésame primero

“The last thought in the evening is often the first one in the morning.”
― Giovannie de Sadeleer

“বিয়ের চুক্তিতে কষ্ট ভাগাভাগি করার কথা লেখা থাকে না।”
― Israt Jahan Urmi

“How many infants are born each day - innocent, sweet, boundless - only to be ruined by the very people who have given them life?”
― Lisa Gardner, Alone

“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.”
― S.L. Jennings