Sad Quotes

But it's a journey and the sad thing is you only learn from experience, so as much as someone can tell you things, you have to go out there and make your own mistakes in order to learn.

~ Emma Watson

Poetry, I think, intensifies the reader's experience. If it's a humorous facet of the story, poetry makes it more exuberant. If it's a sad facet, poetry can make it more poignant.

~ Vikram Seth

I really believe that all of us have a lot of darkness in our souls. Anger, rage, fear, sadness. I don't think that's only reserved for people who have horrible upbringings. I think it really exists and is part of the human condition. I think in the course of your life you figure out ways to deal with that.

~ Kevin Bacon

I'm sad to report that in the past few years, ever since uncertainty became our insistent 21st century companion, leadership has taken a great leap backwards to the familiar territory of command and control.

~ Margaret J. Wheatley

The sad fact is, because we've had a failed policy and failed leadership, now we're having to rely on Russians and the Iranians to go into Syria to fight and destroy ISIS.

~ Mike Mccaul

One of the sad truths about leadership is that, the higher up the ladder you travel, the less you know.

~ Margaret Heffernan

It is sad that the Republican leadership is not as interested as they say they are in protecting the institution of marriage as they are in waging a campaign to divide and distract the American people from the real issues that need to be addressed.

~ Kendrick Meek

The sad thing is, when it comes to diet, is that even when well-intentioned Feds try to do right by us, they fail. Either they're outvoted by puppets of agribusiness, or they are puppets of agribusiness.

~ Mark Bittman

I agree with cosmetic surgery for medical reasons - my mother had breast cancer and I think it's very sad when somebody has no choice in what happens to their body.

~ Paloma Faith

The sad truth is that the civil rights movement cannot be reborn until we identify the causes of black suffering, some of them self-inflicted. Why can't black leaders organize rallies around responsible sexuality, birth within marriage, parents reading to their children and students staying in school and doing homework?

~ Henry Louis Gates

The sad truth is that opportunity doesn't knock twice.

~ Gloria Estefan

Everything takes me longer than I expect. It's the sad truth about life.

~ Donna Tartt

The sad truth is that excellence makes people nervous.

~ Shana Alexander

If the sad truth be known, writers, being the misfits we are, probably ought not to belong to families in the first place. We simply are too self-interested, though we may excuse the flaw by calling it 'focused.'

~ Roger Rosenblatt

And the sad truth is that nobody wants me to write comedy. The Exorcist not only ended that career, it expunged all memory of its existence.

~ William Peter Blatty

It is easy enough to praise men for the courage of their convictions. I wish I could teach the sad young of this mealy generation the courage of their confusions.

~ John Ciardi

It would be sad if we lost our instinct and our courage to love and protect.

~ Emeli Sande

It's sad to know I'm done. But looking back, I've got a lot of great memories.

~ Bonnie Blair

First, accept sadness. Realize that without losing, winning isn't so great.

~ Alyssa Milano

Above all things let us never forget that mankind constitutes one great brotherhood; all born to encounter suffering and sorrow, and therefore bound to sympathize with each other.

~ Albert Pike

If you look at suicides, most of them are connected to depression. And the mental health system just fails them. It's so sad. We know what to do. We just don't do it.

~ Rosalynn Carter

No one wants to fail. So most of us don't even try. Sad. We don't even take that first step to improve our health or to deepen our working relationships or to realize a dream.

~ Robin S. Sharma

For those aspiring to make a living from travel photography, it's a sad fact that the boring shots are the shots that are going to make you money.

~ Martin Parr

It's sad when someone you know becomes someone you knew.

~ Henry Rollins

We all go through sad times, but I was brought up to be positive.

~ Jess Glynne

Our thoughts really do create our lives. They've done a lot of research showing if you're an optimistic, positive person you will be a healthier person than if you're a sad, depressed, negative person.

~ Alana Stewart

'The Fault in Our Stars' is a beautiful film that's really positive. The second half gets sad, but it's always positive.

~ Ansel Elgort

I try to be as positive as I can because I truly believe I am my feelings, and if I'm sad, if I have regrets, they will show up as illnesses, they will show up as cancers... I don't want that.

~ Marie Helvin

Being sad and being depressed are two different things. Also, people going through depression don't look so, while someone sad will look sad. The most common reaction is, 'How can you be depressed? You have everything going for you. You are the supposed number one heroine and have a plush home, car, movies... What else do you want?'

~ Deepika Padukone

'Sunset Boulevard' - the story of Hollywood movies draped on a depressing sex affair - is an uncompromising study of American decadence displaying a sad, worn, methodical beauty few films have had since the late twenties.

~ Manny Farber

I don't think I could compare myself to Macaulay Culkin, because we're pretty much two different kinds of actors. He's done a lot of comedy. He does mostly just comedy like 'Uncle Buck' and 'Home Alone' and 'Home Alone 2.' And I've done a lot of different stuff, like sad movies, like the movie about the kid with AIDS.

~ Brian Bonsall

It used to upset me - now it makes me sad - to see people use patriotism and our troops as a pawn in their political argument. Because I know personally, growing up in a military family, the sacrifice that is made on a daily basis.

~ Tamron Hall

When I design and wonder what the point is, I think of someone having a bad time in their life. Maybe they are sad and they wake up and put on something I have made and it makes them feel just a bit better. So, in that sense, fashion is a little help in the life of a person. But only a little.

~ Miuccia Prada

It is sad that so many designers don't know how to make. CAD software can make a bad design look palatable! It is sad that four years can be spent on a 3D design course without making anything! People who are great at designing and making have a great advantage.

~ Jonathan Ive

I think men are mainly unfaithful because as they get older, they feel the urge to prove to themselves that they are still attractive. They need proof from outside the marriage. It's really sad. It's all about them. It's not about their wives at all.

~ Pattie Boyd

A marriage is no amusement but a solemn act, and generally a sad one.

~ Queen Victoria

For me, it's sad to say, but I would probably have a spiritual marriage but not a legal marriage, because I think so much about marriage starts to become about finances. It has nothing to do with God or feelings or the romantic side of marriage. It's about who owns what, who gets what? So what's the point?

~ Andie Macdowell

I'll always be sad that my marriage ended.

~ Shania Twain

The sad pattern of lack of trust in God has persisted since the Creation.

~ Henry B. Eyring

Being on your own would be sad, sick and weird. I don't trust myself. I need that balance.

~ Daniel Craig