311 Quotes About Sad-but-true

So it’s true, when all is said and done, grief is the price we pay for love.

(The Mona Lisa), that really is the ugliest portrait I’ve seen, the only thing that supposedly makes it famous is the mystery behind it,” Katherine admitted as she remembered her trips to the Louvre and how she shook her head at the poor tourists crowding around to see a jaundiced, eyebrow-less lady that reminded her of tight-lipped Washington on the dollar bill. Surely, they could have chosen a better portrait of the First President for their currency?

I am still a naive to happiness.

If typos are God's way of keeping a writer humble, plot holes certainly keeps one on their knees.

You can kill a book quicker by your silence than by a bad review.

They don't know how warm you are and how warm they are with you, not until they're cold. People think a bonfire is something they can build anywhere. It's not. It takes wood, an open space, ideally stars in the sky. They can't fabricate that. They don't know how warm you are until they're cold. They don't know your stars until you're not there.

In the earliest English, the word bully was created by borrowing boel from the Dutch language. It means lover or sweetheart. Today, it is used to talk about someone who gets off by intimidating others because making others feel inferior is the only way for them to feel better about themselves maybe. Oh, how the words have fallen – literally fallen from grace!

While art thrives on the blazing colours of scandal, literature blossoms on the dark soil of tragedy.

Never say you understand someone's pain if you haven't felt the same, because not only would you sound mocking but also ignorant.