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1 " But 'tis a sad thing that all one's happiness is only that the world does not know you are miserable. "
2 " People love you for what they want to see in you, not for what you are. That's a sad thing to learn. "
― Ava Dellaira, , Love Letters to the Dead
3 " Did Cinderella wonder whether her prince would have cared for her had he first seen her in her everyday clothes? Did she believe the ladies of the palace were truly her friends or did she suspect they were just friendly because she was the princess and wore beautiful gowns?Did she fear that life could again change? Everything could disappear as it had done when the clock struck twelve?Did Cinderella wonder whether her good fortune was real or the trick of a magic wand?It’s a sad thing to lose belief. "
― Gita V. Reddy , Cinderella's Escape
4 " It is a sad thing to become so blinded and deafened by pride that you are no longer concerned about whether or not God is pleased with your actions. "
― Thea Harris , Pour the Oil
5 " It is a sad thing to me that in this world a persons value is measured by the size of their wallet. "
― Heather Wolf
6 " What a sad thing men are. Can't do nothing good without being so weak we have to mess it up. Can't build something up without tearing it down. "
― Patrick Ness , Monsters of Men (Chaos Walking, #3)
7 " It is very easy to grow tired at collecting; the period of a low tide is about all men can endure. At first the rocks are bright and every moving animal makes his mark on the attention. The picture is wide and colored and beautiful. But after an hour and a half the attention centers weary, the color fades, and the field is likely to narrow to an individual animal. Here one may observe his own world narrowed down until interest and, with it, observation, flicker and go out. And what if with age this weariness becomes permanent and observation dim out and not recover? Can this be what happens to so many men of science? Enthusiasm, interest, sharpness, dulled with a weariness until finally they retire into easy didacticism? With this weariness, this stultification of attention centers, perhaps there comes the pained and sad memory of what the old excitement was like, and regret might turn to envy of the men who still have it. Then out of the shell of didacticism, such a used-up man might attack the unwearied, and he would have in his hands proper weapons of attack. It does seem certain that to a wearied man an error in a mass of correct data wipes out all the correctness and is a focus for attack; whereas the unwearied man, in his energy and receptivity, might consider the little dross of error a by-product of his effort. These two may balance and produce a purer thing than either in the end. These two may be the stresses which hold up the structure, but it is a sad thing to see the interest in interested men thin out and weaken and die. We have known so many professors who once carried their listeners high on their single enthusiasm, and have seen these same men finally settle back comfortably into lectures prepared years before and never vary them again. Perhaps this is the same narrowing we observe in relation to ourselves and the tide pool—a man looking at reality brings his own limitations to the world. If he has strength and energy of mind the tide pool stretches both ways, digs back to electrons and leaps space into the universe and fights out of the moment into non-conceptual time. Then ecology has a synonym which is ALL. "
― John Steinbeck , The Log from the Sea of Cortez
8 " It's a sad thing to see, because as far as I know, this man Gavo had done nothing to deserve being shot in the back of the head at his own funeral. Twice. "
― Téa Obreht , The Tiger's Wife
9 " Which is a sad thing when you're only seventeen. "
― Cinda Williams Chima , The Exiled Queen (Seven Realms, #2)
10 " It is a sad thing when men have neither the wit to speak well nor the judgment to hold their tongues. "
11 " It's a sad thing to contemplate, but I'm the last surviving cast member of 'The African Queen.' "
12 " 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. "