“The river itself portrays humanity precisely, with its tortuous windings, its accumulation of driftwood, its unsuspected depths, and its crystalline shallows, singing in the Summer sun. Barriers may be built across its path, but they bring only power, as the conquering of an obstacle is always sure to do. Sometimes when the rocks and stone-clad hills loom large ahead, and eternity itself would be needed to carve a passage, there is an easy way around. The discovery of it makes the river sing with gladness and turns the murmurous deeps to living water, bright with ripples and foam.”
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Sad Quotes — page 104 of 475
“Once I did bad and that I heard ever. Twice I did good, but that I heard never.”
“No one returns from Christianity to the same state he was before Christianity but into a worse state: the difference between a pagan and an apostate is the difference between an unmarried woman and an adulteress. For faith perfects nature but faith lost corrupts nature. Therefore many men of our time have lost not only the supernatural light but also the natural light which pagans possessed.”
“If people believe the world is here to satisfy them, whenever they begin to encounter their limitations, they become unhappy.”
“Few companies that installed computers to reduce the employment of clerks have realized their expectations... They now need more, and more expensive clerks even though they call them 'operators' or 'programmers.'”
“Young people are the same as they always were. They are just as ignorant.”
“Constitutionally I don't exist.”
“Where the good and the bad and the worst and the best have gone to their eternal rest.”
“I believe you should tell the story of injustices, of inequalities, of bad conditions, so that the people as a whole in this country really face the problems that people who are pushed to the point of striking know all about, but others know practically nothing about.”
“They are committing the greatest indignity human beings can inflict on one another: telling people who have suffered excruciating pain and loss that their pain and loss were illusions. (v)”
“Men go into marriage with virtually no expectations whatsoever. Ten years later, the men are delightfully surprised to find out that it's actually kind of nice, and the women have sort of had to take a nose dive from what they thought it was going to be.”
“I do not fall. I fell so hard so long ago there is nothing left for me to land on. I just keep falling and falling and falling.”
“I fell off my pink cloud with a thud.”
“A great hope fell You heard no noise The ruin was within.”
“Even the most sadistic and destructive man is human, as human as the saint.”
“Anyone can be a fisherman in May.”
“Ignorance of one's misfortunes is clear gain.”
“Curiously enough, while very small people have a never-failing sense of their own importance, very great ones are often easily disheartened and put out of conceit with themselves.”
“Much of the evil in the world is due to the fact that man in general is hopelessly unconscious.”
“Sadly, at a time when so much sophisticated cultural criticism by hip intellectuals from diverse locations extols a vision of cultural hybridity, border crossing, subjectivity constructed out of plurality, the vast majority of folks in this society still believe in a notion of identity that is rooted in a sense of essential traits and characteristics that are fixed and static.”