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Quotes About Sad

So, Israel, for all its glory, has failed as a social country because it has not built a strong society, but a very weak one. We succeeded militarily and financially, and we are the 'Start-Up Nation' - but when it comes to social issues, Israel has failed. It is very sad.
~ Nuseir Yassin
Thanos has eight million backstories in the comics, but they're all kind of sad.
~ Christopher Markus
My style is bad white-boy dancing. I can do swing a little bit, but nothing beyond that. My solo dancing is sad. I use my arms, badly.
~ Robin Williams
The sad duty of politics is to establish justice in a sinful world.
~ Reinhold Niebuhr
The oriole entered the capital of dawn. The sword of his song closed the sad bed. Everything forever ended.
~ Rene Char
The building used to be a club. Like a private gentlemen's club. Except upstairs, that's where they'd meet their mistresses." Parker smacked a hand to his forehead. "Hookers! Damn! And I took the courthouse!" " Not prostitutes." Another offended look from Ashley. " Mistresses. It's not just about sex, you know. There's a very big difference." "Is that the sad part?" Parker asked.
~ Richie Tankersley Cusick
Did you bring me a rat? He has no time for rats, George. No time for rats? That's just sad.
~ Rick Riordan
Demigods today. I blame social media for their short attention spans. When you can't even take the time to listen to a god hold forth, that's just sad.
~ Rick Riordan
I lay there and thought how life was like a Littmus Lozenge, how the sweet and the sad were all mixed up together and how hard it was to separate them out. It was confusing.
~ Kate DiCamillo
From Old Mortality ] The woman in the picture. . . was only a ghost in a frame, and a sad, pretty story from old times.
~ Katherine Anne Porter
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
A sad tale's best for winter.I have one of sprites and goblins.
~ William Shakespeare
It's an indication of how cynical our society has become that any kind of love story with a sad theme is automatically ridiculed as sentimental junk.
~ Winona Ryder
I find America falling in love with a TV show flattering and interesting, but at the same time a little sad.
~ David Schwimmer
Arnie sighed and for a quick moment looked genuinely sympathetic that someone could dream up something this elaborately sad.
~ David Wong
Because the sad fact is that the Enron Corporation and others manipulated with unfortunately great effect the energy market in the West Coast starting in 2000.
~ Jay Inslee
It is the size of the characters' desires that helps to make a sad story a tragedy.
~ Jean Hegland
Days of absence, sad and dreary, Clothed in sorrow's dark array, - Days of absence, I am weary; She I love is far away.
~ Jean-Jacques Rousseau
This is truly a sad comedown for a man and a Geiger. Please say you'll talk some sense into him.
~ Jeanne Birdsall
It is not graceful, and it makes one hot; but it is a blessed sort of work, and if Eve had had a spade in Paradise and known what to do with it, we should not have had all that sad business of the apple.
~ Elizabeth von Arnim
One blink of a camera eye (can't quite put his finger on the name of the photographer) and that child dressed in leaves became all these things: sad, terribly, beautiful, funny, terrifying, dark, light, charming, fairystory, folkstory, truth.
~ Ali Smith
How sad, he thought, that desire found new objects but did not abate, that when it came to longing there was no end.
~ Allegra Goodman
Being your slave, what should I do but tend Upon the hours and times of your desire? I have no precious time at all to spend, Nor services to do till you require. Nor dare I question with my jealous thought Where you may be or your affairs suppose, But like a sad slave stay and think of nought Save where you are, how happy you make those.
~ Allison Pearson
My lasting impression of Truman Capote is that he was a terribly gentle, terribly sensitive, and terribly sad man.
~ Alvin Ailey