Sad Truths Quotes

“How can you believe someone to be so beautiful and amazing and just about the most magical person you've ever known, when it turns out she was in such pain that she had to drink poison to rob her cells of oxygen until her heart had no choice but to stop beating?”
― Gayle Forman, I Was Here

“All too often, when we love somebody, we don't accept him or her as what the person effectively is. We accept him or her insofar as this person fits the co-ordinates of our fantasy. We misidentify [...] him or her – which is why, when we discover that we were wrong, love can quickly turn into violence.”
― Slavoj Žižek

“Sad truth is. . . we all end up alone on some death bed. Yeah? No way to take anybody else's place and no way we can be lying on the same one.”

I was at the edge of the white-wed cloth. My shoes filled with concrete, as did my head, looking at the empty shell of what was once a woman full of wonder.

“Any way to make someone feel not so alone?” she asked.

“The only thing anyone can ever do is help someone feel a little less lonely before they get there.”

“How does someone do that?”

“Memories. Help create memories. Better ones. Ones to replace the old.”
― S.D. Lawendowski, Snapped

“The bureaucrat is a man who administers things and people, and who relates himself to people as to things.”
― Erich Fromm

“How can you believe someone to be so beautiful and amazing and just about the most magical person you've ever known, when it turns out she was in such pain that she had to drink poison to rob her cells of oxygen until her heart had no choice but to stop beating?”
― Gale Forman