--- title: "8 Sad Reflection Quotes by 8 authors" description: "Browse 8 Sad Reflection quotes by 8 authors. Discover the best Sad Reflection sayings and thoughts." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/079/peter-ackroyd-2223_asylum_we-went-back-into-the-mens-apartments-wh_522662.jpg" --- > [“We went back into the Mens Apartments where there were others raving of Ships that may fly and silvered Creatures upon the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/peter-ackroyd/we-went-back-into-the-mens-apartments-where-there-were-others-raving/) [Peter Ackroyd](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/peter-ackroyd/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/079/peter-ackroyd-2223_asylum_we-went-back-into-the-mens-apartments-wh_522662.jpg) > [I think it is a sad reflection on our civilization that while we can and do measure the temperature in the atmosphere…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nicholas-kurti/i-think-it-is-a-sad-reflection-on-our-civilization-that-while-we-can/) [Nicholas Kurti](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nicholas-kurti/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/75f/nicholas-kurti-87888_atmosphere_i-think-it-is-a-sad-reflection-on-our-ci_869755.png) > [“It's a sad reflection on society how many people are shocked by honesty... and how few by dishonesty.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/noel-coward/it-s-a-sad-reflection-on-society-how-many-people-are-shocked-by/) [Noël Coward](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/noel-coward/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2fd/noel-coward-2647_corruption_it-s-a-sad-reflection-on-society-how-man_961368.png) > [“I was only giving expression to a sad reflection that was rising in my mind. Kichijiro was right in saying that all…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/shusaku-endo/i-was-only-giving-expression-to-a-sad-reflection-that-was-rising-in/) [Shusaku Endo](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/shusaku-endo/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/144/shusaku-endo-17257_christianity_i-was-only-giving-expression-to-a-sad-re_1234390.jpg) > [In my early years I read very hard. It is a sad reflection, but a true one, that I knew almost as…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/samuel-johnson/in-my-early-years-i-read-very-hard-it-is-a-sad-reflection-but-a-true/) [Samuel Johnson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/samuel-johnson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/fdf/samuel-johnson-50_book_in-my-early-years-i-read-very-hard-it-is_1612726.png) > [It is a sad reflection . . . that a sense of responsibility which comes with power is the rarest of things.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alexander-crummell/it-is-a-sad-reflection-that-a-sense-of-responsibility-which-comes/) [Alexander Crummell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alexander-crummell/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b50/alexander-crummell-36869_inspirational_it-is-a-sad-reflection-that-a-sense-of-r_2185485.jpg) > [“Love, Don Jaime, love," he went on after a moment of sad reflection. "That is the only thing that can make us…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/arturo-p-rez-reverte/love-don-jaime-love-he-went-on-after-a-moment-of-sad-reflection-that/) [Arturo Pérez-Reverte](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/arturo-p-rez-reverte/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c47/arturo-p-rez-reverte-2592_enslavement_love-don-jaime-love-he-went-on-after-a-m_2449959.png) > [This is a sad, sad reflection on our times, when people must feed off the carcasses of beloved stories from their youths-just…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joss-whedon/this-is-a-sad-sad-reflection-on-our-times-when-people-must-feed-off/) [Joss Whedon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joss-whedon/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3b1/joss-whedon-480_avengers_this-is-a-sad-sad-reflection-on-our-time_2783789.png) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/sad-reflection/#itemlist", "name": "Sad Reflection Quotes", "numberOfItems": 8, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“We went back into the Mens Apartments where there were others raving of Ships that may fly and silvered Creatures upon the Moon: Their Stories seem to have neither Head nor Tayl to them, Sir Chris. told me, but there is a Grammar in them if I could but Puzzle it out. This is a mad Age, I replied, and there are many fitter for Bedlam than these here confin'd to a Chain or a dark Room. A sad Reflection, Nick. 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