“The secret to happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible.”
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Sad Quotes — page 12 of 475
“Behind every beautiful thing, there's some kind of pain.”
“You see, one loves the sunset when one is so sad.”
“a girl takes too much time to love and a few seconds to hate. but a boy takes a few seconds to love and too much time to hate.”
“It cannot remain unmentioned that so many poorly equipped boys, and boys who have no talent at all for music, have been accepted into the school to date that the quality of music has necessarily declined and deteriorated. And those who do bring a few precepts with them when they come to school are not ready to be used immediately.”
“I know a man who gave up smoking, drinking, sex, and rich food. He was healthy right up to the day he killed himself.”
“Men often hate each other because they fear each other; they fear each other because they don't know each other; they don't know each other because they can not communicate; they can not communicate because they are separated.”
“People cheat on each other in a hundred different ways: indifference, emotional neglect, contempt, lack of respect, years of refusal of intimacy. Cheating doesn't begin to describe the ways that people let each other down.”
“In the short term, corporal punishment may produce obedience. But it is a fact documented by research that in the long term the results are inability to learn, violence and rage, bullying, cruelty, inability to feel another's pain, especially that of one's own children, even drug addiction and suicide, unless there are enlightened or at least helping witnesses on hand to prevent that development.”
“Prisons do not disappear problems, they disappear human beings.”
“(A unified) 'Europe' is the result of plans. It is, in fact, a classic utopian project, a monument to the vanity of intellectuals, a programme whose inevitable destiny is failure: only the scale of the final damage done is in doubt.”
“...Cities may be rebuilt, and a People reduced to Poverty, may acquire fresh Property: But a Constitution of Government once changed from Freedom, can never be restored. Liberty once lost is lost forever. When the People once surrendered their share in the Legislature, and their Right of defending the Limitations upon the Government, and of resisting every Encroachment upon them, they can never regain it.”
“The greatest of follies is to sacrifice health for any other kind of happiness.”
“So take care of your life and take notice and be observant, for the number of widows is always far greater than the number of widowers.”
“Globalization is incredibly efficient but also so far incredibly unjust.”
“What a sad era when it is easier to smash an atom than a prejudice.”
“There are many spokes on the wheel of life. First, we're here to explore new possibilities.”
“He wanted to cry quietly but not for himself: for the words, so beautiful and sad, like music.”
“Many kids can tell you about drugs but do not know what celery or courgettes taste like.”
“America is the wealthiest nation on Earth, but its people are mainly poor, and poor Americans are urged to hate themselves... It is in fact a crime for an American to be poor, even though America is a nation of poor. Every other nation has folk traditions of men who were poor but extremely wise and virtuous, and therefore more estimable than anyone with power and gold. No such tales are told by American poor. They mock themselves and glorify their betters.”