“We are swimming on the face of time and all else has drowned, is drowning, or will drown.”
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Sad Quotes — page 103 of 475
“Civilization is drugs, alcohol, engines of war, prostitution, machines and machine slaves, low wages, bad food, bad taste, prisons, reformatories, lunatic asylums, divorce, perversion, brutal sports, suicides, infanticide, cinema, quackery, demagogy, strikes, lockouts, revolutions, putsches, colonization, electric chairs, guillotines, sabotage, floods, famine, disease, gangsters, money barons, horse racing, fashion shows, poodle dogs, chow dogs, Siamese cats, condoms, peccaries, syphilis, gonorrhea, insanity, neuroses, etc., etc.”
“But the most horrible spot .... lies....immediately south west of Oxford Road and is known as Little Ireland. The race that lives in these ruinous cottages, behind broken windows, mended with oilskin, sprung doors, and rotten door-posts, or in dark, wet cellars, in measureless filth and stench....must surely have reached the lowest stage of humanity.”
“Some die too young, some die too old; the precept sounds strange, but die at the right age.”
“Let him that sows the serpent's teeth not hope to reap a joyous harvest. Every crime has, in the moment of its perpetration, its own avenging angel,--dark misgivings at the inmost heart.”
“For too many, to work means having less income.”
“There's no evidence that registering guns reduces the level of gun violence. It's not that I don't think it's something worth doing, (but) it's something you do much later.”
“I don't think people fully appreciate the trauma associated with losing. It takes a lot out of you, year after year.”
“What have they done to the earth? What have they done to our fair sister? Ravaged and plundered and ripped her and bit her Stuck her with knives in the side of the dawn And tied her with fences and dragged her down”
“There are some times...when the love for people is strong and warm like a sorrow.”
“We all have the defects of our qualities.”
“The truth hurts because it's real. It hurts because it mattered. And that's an important thing to acknowledge to yourself.”
“When legislature is corrupted, the people are undone.”
“Far from me be the gift of Bacchus--pernicious, inflaming wine, that weakens both body and mind.”
“There is nothing more tragic than to find an individual bogged down in the length of life, devoid of breadth.”
“Violence never brings permanent peace. It solves no social problem: it merely creates new and more complicated ones.”
“In violence, we forget who we are”
“She wanted happily ever after more than he could possibly know. She wanted forever. Problem was, she just wasn’t sure she believed in it anymore. It was why she clung to her fiction so much. She immersed herself in books because there she could be anyone and it was easy to believe in love and happily ever after”
“Being president isn't anything like reality TV.”
“Like everybody, I have invested in things that have gone bad, because there's never any guarantee of success or profit when it comes to money.”