“The breath Of accusation kills an innocent name, And leaves for lame acquittal the poor life, Which is a mask without it.”
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Sad Quotes — page 114 of 475
“It is bad enough to be condemned to drag around this image in which nature has imprisoned me. Why should I consent to the perpetuation of the image of this image?”
“There is something worse than dying, and that is humiliation - at least so it seemed to me.”
“Either the memory of past bliss is the anguish of to-day; or the agonies which are have their origins in ecstasies which might have been.”
“the truth is, I am heartily sick of this life & of the nineteenth century in general. (I am convinced that every thing is going wrong.)”
“Osama bin Laden, who is a Saudi, feels himself to be a patriot because the U.S. has forces in Saudi Arabia, which is sacred because it is the land of the prophet Mohammed.”
“'T is impious in a good man to be sad.”
“Childlessness doesn't make people selfish; selfishness makes people selfish.”
“I just feel like every kid is growing up too fast and they're seeing too much. Everything is about sex, and that's fine for me. I'm not saying I don't like it. But I don't think it should be everywhere, where kids are exposed to everything sexual. Because they have to have some innocence; there's just no innocence left.”
“The old church tower and garden wall Are black with autumn rain And dreary winds foreboding call The darkness down again”
“Ain't no love lost, cause there was never none there.”
“There is hardly any activity, any enterprise, which is started out with such tremendous hopes and expectations, and yet which fails so regularly, as love.”
“The sick individual finds himself at home with all other similarly sick individuals. The whole culture is geared to this kind of pathology.”
“I would say our social relationships are relatively shallow. We are actually afraid to be intimate, with people - many people even with their wives and husbands.”
“War is not won by victory.”
“It's just that a lot of songs that are popular right now, they don't have any meaning”
“He knelt by the bed and bent over her, draining their last moment to its lees; and in the silence there passed between them the word which made all clear.”
“Every father is given the opportunity to corrupt his daughter's nature, and the educator, husband, or psychiatrist then has to face the music. For what has been spoiled by the father can only be made good by a father, just as what has been spoiled by the mother can only be repaired by a mother. The disastrous repetition of the family pattern could be described as the psychological original sin, or as the curse of the Atrides running through the generations.”
“Here we find the moat of thieves. And just as a lizard, with a quick, slick slither, Flicks across the highway from hedge to hedge, Fleeter than a flash, in the battering dog-day weather, A fiery little monster, livid, in a rage, Black as any peppercorn, came and made a dart At the guts of the others, and leaping to engage One of the pair, it pierced him at the part Through which we first draw food; then loosed its grip And fell before him, outstretched and apart.”
“Oh blind! Oh ignorant, self-seeking cupidity which spurs us so in the short mortal life and steeps us so through all eternity!”