Sad Things Quotes - Page 5

• The song is languid and speaks of love and loneliness and loss. Why does love seem to go with the sad things?

  Lisa Ann Sandell

  Song, Loneliness, Loss

  Lisa Ann Sandell (2011). “A Map of the Known World”, p.139, Scholastic Inc.

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• She was still waiting for him to come back to her, even though he wasn't going to. She was still holding out for something that wasn't going to happen. She was good at waiting. That seemed like a sad thing to be good at.

  Ann Brashares

  Waiting, Be Good, Stills

  Ann Brashares (2005). “Girls in Pants: The Third Summer of the Sisterhood”, Delacorte Books for Young Readers

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• We sat like that for a long while, and when we stood up, all my sad things were in boxes, and Beck was my father.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Father, Long, Boxes

  Maggie Stiefvater (2011). “Forever”, p.75, Scholastic UK

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• Which is a sad thing when you're only seventeen.

  Cinda Williams Chima

  Seventeen

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• Why'd you want to sing about sad things?" Candy had asked him. "Because any fool can be happy," he'd said to her. "It takes a man with real heart" —he'd made a fist and laid it against his chest— "to make beauty out of the stuff that makes us weep.

  Clive Barker

  Real, Heart, Men

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• Sad thing is, you can still love someone and be wrong for them.

  Elvis Presley

  Valentines Day, Life And Love, Love Someone

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• 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.

  Janet Jackson

  Stress, Feel Better, Thinking

  "Janet Jackson on body image, self-acceptance" by Alison Prato, www.cnn.com. November 29, 2010.

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