“You want to cry aloud for your mistakes. But to tell the truth the world doesn't need any more of that sound.”
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Sad Quotes — page 113 of 475
“Come out to view / the truth of flowers blooming / in poverty.”
“Some people want to see God with their eyes as they see a cow, and to love Him as they love a cow - for the milk and cheese and profit it brings them. This is how it is with people who love God for the sake of outward wealth or inward comfort. They do not rightly love God, when they love Him for their own advantage.”
“Fruits and vegetables for some kids are scary and not fun.”
“How sad, ye Gods, how sad the world is at evening, how mysterious the mists over the swamps! You will know it when you have wandered astray in those mists, when you have suffered greatly before dying, when you have walked through the world carrying an unbearable burden. You know it two when you are weary and ready to leave this earth without regret; its mists; its swamps and its rivers; ready to give yourself into the arms of death with a light heart, knowing that death alone can comfort you.”
“There would seem to be nothing more obvious, more tangible and palpable than the present moment. And yet it eludes us completely. All the sadness of life lies in that fact. In the course of a single second, our senses of sight, of hearing, of smell, register (knowingly or not) a swarm of events and a parade of sensations and ideas passes through our head. Each instant represents a little universe, irrevocably forgotten in the next instant.”
“Though the human heart may have to pause for rest when climbing the heights of affection it rarely stops on the slippery slope of hatred.”
“They ended as all great passions do end - by a misunderstanding.”
“The burdens of a woman are more than the average man could ever endure.”
“The busy have no time for tears.”
“Americans, like human beings everywhere, believe many things that are obviously untrue, the monograph went on. Their most destructive untruth is that it is very easy for any American to make money. They will not acknowledge how in fact how hard money is to come by, and, therefore, those who have no money blame and blame and blame themselves.”
“I wanted all things to seem to make some sense, So we could all be happy, yes, instead of tense. And I made up lies, so they all fit nice, and I made this sad world a paradise”
“Latin Americans have gotten tired of the Washington consensus - a neoliberalism that has aggravated misery and poverty.”
“Negative thinking is prevalent, in particular, among so many women in their later years, and, as a result, they live out their lives in discontent.”
“Tonight I can write the saddest lines...Though this be the last pain that she makes me suffer and these the last verses that I write for her.”
“Love is brief: forgetting lasts so long.”
“A woman has to live her life, or live to repent not having lived it.”
“The world fears a new experience more than it fears anything. Because a new experience displaces so many old experiences. . . . The world doesn't fear a new idea. It can pigeon-hole any idea. But it can't pigeon-hole a real new experience.”
“Crying is all right in its way while it lasts. But you have to stop sooner or later, and then you still have to decide what to do.”
“We have not confronted forcefully enough the intolerance, sectarianism, and hopelessness that feeds violent extremism in too many parts of the globe.”