Best Sad Things Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“One of the sad things about contemporary journalism is that it actually matters very little. The world now is almost inured to the power of journalism. The best journalism would manage to outrage people. And people are less and less inclined to outrage.”

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Author:David Simon

“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.”

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Author:Zoe Saldana

“People tend to put entertainers on pedestals. We're human beings, just like you. You may see us smiling, and whether we have money or not, we still have bills to pay, we still have our stresses. I think a lot of people want to focus on others' shortcomings to make themselves feel better. And it's a very sad thing.”

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Author:Janet Jackson

“I'm a bit of a romantic, to a fault. It's led me to some great things and also some sad things. It's made me a better person, to keep a good spirit about dating.”

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Author:Alexander Koch

“It's a sad thing to contemplate, but I'm the last surviving cast member of 'The African Queen.'”

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Author:Theodore Bikel

“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.”

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Author:Hugh Hefner

“It was a sad thing. I don't know how he learned that.”

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Author:Julian Sands

“The sad thing is many people learn how to manage money after they've made a lot of financial mistakes, some that take decades to fix.”

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Author:Michelle Singletary

“The sad thing about working on a movie is that you can never see the movie.”

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Author:Charlie Kaufman

“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.”

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Author:Marcus Tullius Cicero

“The sad thing about true stupidity is that you can do absolutely nothing about it.”

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Author:John Cleese

“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.”

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Author:Luise Rainer

“For every sad thing you think of, you should think of three happy things to chase it away.”

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Author:Zoe Sugg

“It would be a sad thing if the religious and moral convictions upon which the American experiment was founded could now somehow be considered a danger to free society.”

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Author:Pope John Paul II

“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.”

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Author:Will Smith

“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.”

“The sad thing about doping is how much it obscures our appreciation of greatness.”

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Author:Malcolm Gladwell

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

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Book:India of My Dreams

Source: India of My Dreams

“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.”

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Author:Joan Jett

“The sad thing is that often when you expose your secrets and become more honest with yourself, you find the reaction from the outside world is more complicated than the intense guilt you yourself have inflicted.”

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Author:James Scott

“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.”

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Author:Mike Mills

“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.”

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Author:Ted Turner

“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.”

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“But 'tis a sad thing that all one's happiness is only that the world does not know you are miserable.”

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Author:Dorothy Osborne

“It's kind of a sad thing when a normal love of country makes you a super patriot. I do think we have a pretty wonderful country, and I thank God that He chose me to live here.”

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Author:John Wayne

“Death isn't sad. The sad thing is: most people don't live at all.”

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Author:Nick Nolte

“I write about heartbreak because I like writing about sad things, but I'm writing happy songs, too!”

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Author:Jackie Evancho

“A lot of sad things have happened to my friends' children, people you knew as babies. They've been killed or become crazy or all kinds of tragic things. There are some people whose children haven't talked to them in fifteen years. There's all kind of meshugaas in this world.”

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Author:Grace Paley

“There isn't one thing in particular; rather, a lot of different things give me inspiration. I tend to come up with tunes when I do things that are not part of my daily routine, like traveling. But even during my everyday life, I come up with tunes when I'm emotionally moved. By looking at a beautiful picture, scenery, tasting something delicious, scents that bring back memories, happy and sad things... Anything that moves my emotion gives me inspiration.”

“Discomfort and awkwardness are places where you feel things. I'm a big advocate for being happy. We can choose to live in a happy bubble. But part of being happy is understanding how sad things can be.”

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Author:Laurel Nakadate

“The sad thing is that somehow, it is a type of event that mirrors the artist. You take it into account, and you're reminded in this specific case what the artist's work is about, what his life is like, and how life mirrors art.”

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Author:Massimiliano Gioni

“I've definitely read interviews with people where they've explained exactly what they wrote something about and I've been like: "Oh no, I was thinking that was a really beautiful love song or a really sad thing."”

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Author:Lauren Mayberry

“I have to admit, I have a little sad addiction. I love watching on the E Channel that stupid show, The Girls Next Door. It's a very sad thing to say and I don't know how to explain it but I am addicted to Hugh Hefner's girlfriends and The Girls Next Door.”

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Author:Julie Halston

“I remember watching Romeo + Juliet when I was 14 and listening to the soundtrack. When I hear that soundtrack now, all those emotions come back. It's really beautiful when you're at a certain point in your life where most of the adventure lies ahead of you. And it's a sad thing when you feel like you've lost that. But you can get it back.”

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Author:Lykke Li

“I have the manual, and the sad thing is that many of the techniques are exactly the same ones with a few enhancements by the US since World War II. So the role of our European allies and others has just really disappointed me greatly.”

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Author:Ray McGovern

“It's a sad thing about politics that most people get power too late, in that they differ from ladies of easy virtue who get their pleasures too early.”

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Author:Malcolm Muggeridge

“One of the sad things about this political season is that it allows [requires] us to get behind our big "Liberal" or "Conservative" banner and forget, for a time, that the big problems in our country have been around a long time and have been batted back and forth, caused and exacerbated, by both sides, and are more spiritual or ethical than [merely] political.”

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Author:George Saunders

“It was just a wonderful experience, one for the memory book for sure. The sad thing about it was that the picture came under this absurd cloud of controversy. Here was a movie based on the central theme that racism is something that is taught, and it's illustrated by this story of a dog and the efforts of humans to re-train it after it had been trained to go after black people. And it created this ridiculous controversy and wound up being the last Hollywood movie that Sam [Fuller] made.”

“Most of us grow up with a sense of "I'm not intelligent enough." It's such a sad thing that in the West we worship a certain kind of left-brain intelligence.”

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Author:Tara Brach

“When you're going through something, whether it's a wonderful thing like having a child or a sad thing like losing somebody, you often feel like 'Oh my God, I'm so overwhelmed; I'm dealing with this huge thing on my own.' In fact, poetry's a nice reminder that, no, everybody goes through it. These are universal experiences.”

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Author:Caroline Kennedy

“The sad thing about Trump is that everybody is secretly really relieved he got elected, of the people I know - the professional left and academic left.”

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Author:Cody Wilson

“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.”

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Author:Alex Gibney

“The sad thing about artificial intelligence is that it lacks artifice and therefore intelligence.”

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Book:Cool memories

Source: Cool memories

“You know, the sad thing of post-9/11, which was of course horrific, was that the city in which I felt completely at home for two decades, suddenly people like us - brown people - were looked at as the 'Others.'”

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Author:Mira Nair

“I didn't know my mother had it. I think a lot of women don't know their mothers had it; that's the sad thing about depression. You know, you don't function anymore. You shut down. You feel like you are in a void.”

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Author:Marie Osmond

“Marketing has supplanted story as the primary force behind the worthiness of making a film, and that's a very sad thing. It's film only as a function of consumerism rather than as an important component of our culture, and that's everywhere around the world.”

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Author:Alexander Payne

“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.”

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Author:Gene Simmons

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

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Author:Mattie Stepanek

“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!'”

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Author:Kristen Stewart

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