“The development of civilization and industry in general has always shown itself so active in the destruction of forests that everything that has been done for their conservation and production is completely insignificant in comparison.”
Sad feeling
Sad Quotes — page 121 of 475
“I'd also gone through an entire year of celibacy based on my feeling that lust was the direct cause of birth which was the direct cause of suffering and death.”
“I realize that, while often happy and often cheerful, I am always sad.”
“Let us sculpt in hopeless silence all our dreams of speaking.”
“Every impulse we strangle will only poison us.”
“The one charm of marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties.”
“Salomé, Salomé, dance for me. I pray thee dance for me. I am sad to-night. Yes, I am passing sad to-night. When I came hither I slipped in blood, which is an evil omen; and I heard, I am sure I heard in the air a beating of wings, a beating of giant wings. I cannot tell what they mean .... I am sad to-night. Therefore dance for me. Dance for me, Salomé, I beseech you. If you dance for me you may ask of me what you will, and I will give it you, even unto the half of my kingdom.”
“The tragedy of growing old is not that one is old but that one is young.”
“Ah, on what little things does happiness depend! I have read all that the wise men have written, and all the secrets of philosophy are mine, yet for want of a red rose is my life made wretched.”
“I tried to visit Albania but I couldn't find it on the map.”
“The world is a stage, but the play is badly cast.”
“There were days when she was unhappy, she did not know why,--when it did not seem worthwhile to be glad or sorry, to be alive or dead; when life appeared to her like a grotesque pandemonium and humanity like worms struggling blindly toward inevitable annihilation.”
“It was not despair, but it seemed to her as if life were passing by, leaving its promises broken and unfulfilled. Yet there were other days when she listened, was led on and deceived by fresh promises which her youth had held out to her.”
“We live, we die, and the wheels on the bus go round and round.”
“The only time I am ever miserable is when I do something just for the money.”
“Are you proud of yourself tonight that you have insulted a total stranger whose circumstances you know nothing about?”
“The '80s were the worst period. You had these horrible pop bands growing their hair and calling themselves metal.”
“South Africans have no concept of time and this is also why we can't solve poverty and social problems… It's now 10 years since the fall of the Apartheid government and we cannot blame Apartheid for being tardy.”
“Israel should withdraw from all the areas which it won from the Arabs in 1967, and in particular Israel should withdraw completely from the Golan Heights, from south Lebanon and from the West Bank.”
“I never went to a psychologist or psychiatrist in my life. Never. You know, Italians are a little prejudiced against that kind of thing.”