“If only the good were a little less heavy-footed”
Sad feeling
Sad Quotes — page 117 of 475
“In every cry of every man, In every infant's cry of fear, In every voice, in every ban, The mind-forg'd manacles I hear.”
“Your hooves have stamped at the black margin of the wood, Even where horrible green parrots call and swing. My works are all stamped down into the sultry mud.”
“I am your Prince and you will marry me," Humperdinck said. Buttercup whispered, "I am your servant and I refuse." "I am you Prince and you cannot refuse." "I am your loyal servant and I just did." "Refusal means death." "Kill me then.”
“Take the happiest man, the one most envied by the world, and in nine cases out of ten his inmost consciousness is one of failure. Either his ideals in the line of his achievements are pitched far higher than the achievements themselves, or else he has secret ideals of which the world knows nothing, and in regard to which he inwardly knows himself to be found wanting.”
“In deep sadness there is no place for sentimentality. It is as final as the mountains: a fact. There it is. When you realize it you cannot complain.”
“Is it not strange that desire should so many years outlive performance?”
“How my achievements mock me!”
“It is great sin to swear unto a sin, But greater sin to keep a sinful oath.”
“Yet who would have thought the old man to have had so much blood in him? - Lady Macbeth”
“Ay me! for aught that ever I could read, could ever hear by tale or history, the course of true love never did run smooth.”
“At Christmas, I no more desire a rose.”
“Men shut their doors against a setting sun.”
“Desire of having is the sin of covetousness.”
“Have I not reason to lament What man has made of man?”
“And often, glad no more, We wear a face of joy because We have been glad of yore.”
“There's so many things going on in the world, Babies dying. Mothers crying. How much oil is one human life worth. And what ever happened to peace on earth.”
“The soul is "torn apart in a painful condition as long as it prefers the eternal because of its Truth but does not discard the temporal because of familiarity.”
“People can pass thirty nights in dancing and no one complains about it, but if they watch through a single Christmas night they cough and claim their stomach is upset the next morning. Does anyone fail to see that the world is an unjust judge, gracious and well disposed to its own children but harsh and rigorous towards the children of God?”
“Do not be ashamed of being poor, or of asking alms. Receive what is given you with humility, and accept a refusal meekly. Frequently call to mind Our Lady's journey into Egypt with her Holy Child, and of all the poverty, contempt and suffering they endured. If you follow their example you will indeed be rich amid your poverty.”