Sad Truth Quotes

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

  Donna Tartt

  Truth, Truth About Life, Take Me

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• You never know what you can do until you have to do it.

  Betty Ford

  Business, Anticipation, Knows

  Betty Ford, Chris Chase (1978). “The times of my life”, Ballantine Books

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• The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil.

  Hannah Arendt

  Inspirational, Peace, Emo

  "The Life of the Mind". Book by Hannah Arendt. Chapter: "Thinking", 1978.

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• The sad truth is the truth is sad.

  Daniel Handler

  Sadness, Truth Is, Series Of Unfortunate Events

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

  Gloria Estefan

  Opportunity, Truth Is

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  All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Inspirational, Witty, Truth

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2016). “101 Facts of life”, p.4, Publishdrive

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• The sad truth is that man's real life consists of a complex of inexorable opposites - day and night, birth and death, happiness and misery, good and evil. We are not even sure that one will prevail against the other, that good will overcome evil, or joy defeat pain. Life is a battleground. It always has been and always will be; and if it were not so, existence would come to an end.

  Carl Jung

  Pain, Real, Night

  Carl Gustav Jung (2012). “Man and His Symbols”, p.110, Dell

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• The sad truth is that certain types of things can't go backward. Once they start going forward, no matter what you do, they can't go back the way they were. If even one little thing goes awry, then that's how it will stay forever.

  Haruki Murakami

  Forever, Littles, Matter

  Haruki Murakami (2011). “South Of The Border, West Of The Sun”, p.129, Random House

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• The sad truth is that without complex business partnerships between African elites and European traders and commercial agents, the slave trade to the New World would have been impossible, at least on the scale it occurred.

  Henry Louis Gates

  Agents, World, Impossible

  Henry Louis Gates Jr. (2012). “The Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Reader”, p.547, Basic Books

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• 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

  Children, Reading, School

  Henry Louis Gates Jr. (2012). “The Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Reader”, p.546, Basic Books

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• The sad truth is that excellence makes people nervous.

  Shana Alexander

  Love, Life, Relationship

  Shana Alexander (1970). “The feminine eye”, McCall Pub. Co

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• 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

  Memories, Writing, Careers

  Interview with Lucy A. Snyder, www.lucysnyder.com. July 26, 1999.

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• There's one sad truth in life I've found While journeying east and west - The only folks we really wound Are those we love the best. We flatter those we scarcely know, We please the fleeting guest, And deal full many a thoughtless blow To those who love us best.

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox

  Relationship, Smile, Im Sorry

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• You don't know what you can do until you try.

  Publilius Syrus

  Trying, Knows, Can Do

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• If there is one sound the follows the march of humanity, it is the scream.

  David Gemmell

  Humanity, Sound, March

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• The sad truth is that truth is almost irrelevant in a court of law.

  Joy Fielding

  Law, Truth Is, Court

  Joy Fielding (2016). “Tell Me No Secrets: A dark and suspenseful psychological thriller”, p.143, Bonnier Publishing Fiction Ltd.

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• I've even had people tell me that I must not be a Christian because I think climate change is real. But you know, there's nothing in the Bible that says that. The sad truth is that our thought leaders - many of them in the conservative media and politics - are the ones telling us this isn't real, and we are believing them.

  Katharine Hayhoe

  Christian, Real, Believe

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I grew up in Venezuela, and when I was 14-years-old, my parents decided to sell everything and come to America. Five of us lived in a two bedroom house. It wasn't a sad truth, it was just the way it was [at the time]. That feeling is so universal for every immigrant.

  Wilmer Valderrama

  Years, Bedroom House, Two

  Source: www.thehollywoodgossip.com

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• The sad truth is that it is precisely those who disagree most with the hypothesis of efficient market pricing of stocks, those who pooh-pooh beta analysis and all that, who are least able to understand the analysis needed to test that hypothesis.

  Paul Samuelson

  Investing, Tests, Able

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• It is a sad truth, but we have lost the faculty of giving lovely names to things. Names are everything. I never quarrel with actions. My one quarrel is with words. The man who could call a spade a spade should be compelled to use one. It is the only thing he is fit for.

  Oscar Wilde

  Love, Funny, Humorous

  Oscar Wilde (2015). “The Picture of Dorian Gray (Diversion Classics)”, p.212, Diversion Books

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• Evil is nothing but a word, an objectification where no objectification is necessary. Cast aside this notion of some external agency as the source of inconceivable inhumanity - the sad truth is our possession of an innate proclivity towards indifference, towards deliberate denial of mercy, towards disengaging all that is moral within us. But if that is too dire , let's call it evil. And paint it with fire and venom.

  Steven Erikson

  Fire, Agency, Evil

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• It's a strange thing, you have said it thousands of times I am sure...you will never know what you can do until you try. However the sad truth is, that most people never try anything until they know they can do it.

  Bob Proctor

  Motivational, People, Trying

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• The sad truth is, they should never trust me.

  Julie Anne Peters

  Trust Me, Never Trust, Truth Is

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• It is a sad truth, but we have lost the faculty of giving lovely names to things.

  Oscar Wilde

  Names, Giving, Lovely

  Oscar Wilde, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays”, p.812, GENERAL PRESS

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• It's better to live with a sad truth than with all the happy progress talk you get up here in the North.

  Robert M. Pirsig

  Progress, Get Up

  Robert M. Pirsig (1991). “LILA An Inquriry into Morals”

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