“What do you believe? I believe that the last and the first suffer equally. Pari passu. Equally? It is not alone in the dark of death that all souls are one soul. Of what would you repent? Nothing. Nothing? One thing. I spoke with bitterness about my life and I said that I would take my own part against the slander of oblivion and against the monstrous facelessness of it and that I would stand a stone in the very void where all would read my name. Of that vanity I recant all.”
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Sad Quotes — page 106 of 475
“What a miserable thing life is: you're in clover; only the clover isn't good enough.”
“Women get the attention when we get into the men's arena, and that's sad.”
“Many more will have to suffer, many more will have to die , don't ask me why !”
“Nostalgia is also a dangerous form of comparison. Think about how often we compare our lives to a memory that nostalgia has so completely edited that it never really existed.”
“For in all adversity of fortune the worst sort of misery is to have been happy.”
“Believe me, the hardest thing for a man to give up is that which he really doesn't want, after all.”
“There is merely bad luck in not being loved; there is misfortune in not loving. All of us, today, are dying of this misfortune. For violence and hatred dry up the heart itself; the long fight for justice exhausts the love that nevertheless gave birth to it.”
“Most men and women lead lives at the worst so painful, at the best so monotonous, poor and limited that the urge to escape, the longing to transcend themselves if only for a few moments, is and has always been one of the principal appetites of the soul.”
“Both of us victims of the same twentieth-century plague. Not the Black Death, this time; the Gray Life.”
“I cry alot-I dont know why, but it just helps me. I cry over bad and good stuff-sometimes sadness can be beautiful”
“I would as soon leave my son a curse as the almighty dollar.”
“It's easier to ask for money from the poor than from the wealthy.”
“The unhappy are egotistical, base, unjust, cruel, and even less capable of understanding one another than are idiots. Unhappinessdoes not unite people, but separates them.”
“Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.”
“Normal people can be happy with a regular life, but there is more to life than just plodding through an average existence.”
“If I could have done anything more, it would have been less”
“Why are women always the ones who have to forgive? If you cheated on a man, he would be like, ‘You’re disgusting, and I want nothing to do with you.’ But women, we’re supposed to be like, ‘He messed up. He made a mistake.’”
“I see the President almost every day. I see very plainly Abraham Lincoln's dark brown face with its deep-cut lines, the eyes always to me with a deep latent sadness in the expression. None of the artists or pictures has caught the deep, though subtle and indirect expression of this man's face. There is something else there. One of the great portrait painters of two or three centuries ago is needed.”
“Women are hard and proud and stubborn-hearted, Their heads being turned with praise and flattery; And that is why their lovers are afraid To tell them a plain story.”