Sad Story Quotes

• Life is painful sometimes. It touches everyone, so you may as well try to look for other answers and find peace. So, it is difficult to write those types of things because nobody wants to tell sad stories. I think that I'll always tell stories about human hope. I would love to be able to tell somebody, "It's okay. It's all right. Be a good person." That's what my job is, in life.

  J.H. Wyman

  Jobs, Writing, Thinking

  Source: collider.com

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• I can see it. This one moment when you know you’re not a sad story. You’re alive. And you stand up and see the lights and the buildings and everything that makes you wonder. And you’re listening to that song in that drive with the people you love most in this world. And in this moment I swear… we are infinite.

  Stephen Chbosky

  Song, Light, People

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• The only one interested in hearing your sad story is . . . you; and even you wish you didn't have to relive it again!

  Guy Finley

  Sadness, Wish, Stories

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• Among the reasons people keep sad stories to themselves is that they do not want anyone to feel sorry for them.

  Judith Moore

  Sorry, People, Feelings

  Judith Moore (2005). “Fat Girl: A True Story”, p.156, Penguin

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• They always say the hottest love has the coldest end.

  Drake

  Sad, Break Up, Broken Heart

  Song: July

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• Sad words are just another beauty. A sad story means, this storyteller is alive. The next thing you know something fine will happen to her, something marvelous, and then she will turn around and smile.

  Chris Cleave

  Mean, Stories, Alive

  Chris Cleave (2012). “Gold: A Novel”, p.349, Simon and Schuster

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• I don't want it to end, and so, as every therapist knows, the ego does not want an end to its “problems” because they are part of its identity. If no one will listen to my sad story, I can tell it to myself in my head, over and over, and feel sorry for myself, and so have an identity as someone who is being treated unfairly by life or other people, fate or God. It gives definition to my self-image, makes me into someone, and that is all that matters to the ego.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Spiritual, Sorry, Fate

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• Death makes sad stories of us all.

  Tim Schafer

  Death, Stories

  "Grim Fandango". Video Game, www.imdb.com. 1998.

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• Don't be sorry, Callie,' he says with a heavy-hearted sigh. 'You have your own sad story.

  Jessica Sorensen

  Sorry, Stories, Heavy

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• Onyx is angry," Damian says. "Onyx has a right to be angry. You've got to remember, for many elephants, their life is that of a human in a war-torn country. Ravaged homes, killed relatives, separation," Damian says. Here's another thing I've learned over two months--every elephants here has a sad story. Every captive elephant's story is one of loss and separation. Something to remember every time you see happy people getting elephant rides.

  Deb Caletti

  Country, War, Home

  Deb Caletti (2010). “Nature of Jade”, p.88, Simon and Schuster

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• Thats beautiful! Sad and beautiful," murmured Meggie. Why were sad stories often so beautiful? It was different in real life.

  Cornelia Funke

  Beautiful, Real, Different

  Cornelia Funke (2011). “Inkheart”, p.416, Scholastic Inc.

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• Atari is a very sad story.

  Steve Wozniak

  Stories, Very Sad, Atari

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• Here I am in the garden laughing an old woman with heavy breasts and a nicely mapped face how did this happen well that's who I wanted to be at last a woman in the old style sitting stout thighs apart under a big skirt grandchild sliding on off my lap a pleasant summer perspiration that's my old man across the yard he's talking to the meter reader he's telling him the world's sad story how electricity is oil or uranium and so forth I tell my grandson run over to your grandpa ask him to sit beside me for a minute I am suddenly exhausted by my desire to kiss his sweet explaining lips.

  Grace Paley

  Summer, Running, Sweet

  Grace Paley (2016). “Begin Again: Poems by Gracey Paley”, p.199, Hachette UK

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• One thing that I believe is that every time I write something, I am taking the time to celebrate. Even if I am writing a sad story or an angry poem, I am still giving those stories my time and attention.

  Sarah Kay

  Believe, Writing, Giving

  Interview with Jennifer Messing, journalwomenwriters.wordpress.com. August 5, 2014.

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• I'm part of the party, getting the crowd fired up, singing songs, pouring drinks, whatever it takes to get them to have a good time. When I walk into the meet-and-greet, someone's always going to have a story, a sad story or a happy story.

  Dierks Bentley

  Song, Party, Singing

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• I think the world is like a great mirror, and reflects our lives just as we ourselves look upon it. Those who turn sad faces toward the world find only sadness reflected. But a smile is reflected in the same way, and cheers and brightens our hearts. You think there is no pleasure to be had in life. That is because you are heartsick and-and tired, as you say. With one sad story ended you are afraid to begin another-a sequel-feeling it would be equally sad. But why should it be? Isn't the joy or sorrow equally divided in life?

  L. Frank Baum

  Cheer, Tired, Heart

  L. Frank Baum (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of L. Frank Baum (Illustrated)”, p.4750, Delphi Classics

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• I cry all the time. It's more like when didn't you cry. My friends are like, 'Oh God, she's sobbing again.' I cry if I'm happy, sad, normal... What really gets me is when I read a sad story about a child in the paper, especially at the moment with my hormones raging.

  Sara Cox

  Children, Stories, Paper

  "Interrogation: Sara Cox". Mirror Interview, www.mirror.co.uk. March 2, 2008.

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• An interesting example is that the worst woman in the book, who is so cruel and violent, is the sorceress in "The Prince of the Black Islands." She's a beautiful young woman, and she has turned her husband into stone from the waist down. A traveling sultan finds him, in his dreadful state, and the man petrified from the waist down tells his sad story...how his wife comes every afternoon and beats him until the blood runs down. She's just unwontedly, arbitrarily cruel.

  Marina Warner

  Beautiful, Running, Husband

  Source: therumpus.net

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• If you tell yourself a sad story, the body reacts to that. And if you tell yourself a self-aggrandizing story, the body feels puffed up, confident. But when you realize it’s all stories, there can be a vast waking up out of the mind, out of the dream. You don’t awaken, what has eternally been awake realizes itself. That which is eternally awake is what you are.

  Adyashanti

  Dream, Self, Mind

  Adyashanti (2009). “Emptiness Dancing”, p.12, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Let's talk of graves, of worms, and epitaphs; Make dust our paper, and with rainy eyes Write sorrow on the bosom of the earth.... [W]hat can we bequeath, Save our deposed bodies to the ground?... [N]othing can we call our own, but death... [L]et us sit upon the ground, And tell sad stories of the death of kings: - How some have been depos'd, some slain in war; Some haunted by the ghosts they have depos'd.

  William Shakespeare

  Kings, War, Writing

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• It's very simple, I just tell my sad story, and people weep.

  Corazon Aquino

  Simple, People, Stories

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• For God's sake, let us sit upon the ground, and tell sad stories of the death of kings... All murdered; for within the hollow crown that rounds the mortal temples of a king, keeps Death his court... and with a little pin bores through his castle wall, and farewell king!

  William Shakespeare

  Kings, Wall, Farewell

  'Richard II' (1595) act 3, sc. 2, l. 155

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• We have newsreaders behaving like actors, lowering their voices if it's a sad story, as if we didn't know it's a sad story. There isn't a single cool newsreader.

  Tom Baker

  Voice, Stories, Actors

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• Film 'This Changes Everything' is not a sad story. It's not a slit-your-wrists climate film. It's a story about people who are making change happen.

  Avi Lewis

  People, Climate, Stories

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• Badfinger was pretty good. It was a very sad story, though, because the guy, he ended up killing himself, Pete Ham, who was a lovely fellow, he was a good guitar player and a great singer, he wrote, the most famous tune I would imagine is "Without You", you know the Harry Nilsson record.

  George Harrison

  Player, Guitar, Guy

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