“Revenge is not always sweet, once it is consummated we feel inferior to our victim.”
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Sad Quotes — page 126 of 475
“Whether our reformers admit it or not, the economic and social inferiority of women is responsible for prostitution.”
“Our contemporary Western society, in spite of its material, intellectual and political progress, is increasingly less conducive to mental health, and tends to undermine the inner security, happiness, reason and the capacity for love in the individual; it tends to turn him into an automaton who pays for his human failure with increasing mental sickness, and with despair hidden under a frantic drive for work and so called pleasure.”
“Greedhas no satiation point, since its consummation does not fill the inner emptiness, boredom, loneliness, and depression it is meant to overcome.”
“It is a tragedy that most of us die before we have begun to live.”
“In the nineteenth century the problem was that God is dead. In the twentieth century the problem is that man is dead.”
“My mother won't admit it, but I've always been a disappointment to her. Deep down inside, she'll never forgive herself for giving birth to a daughter who refuses to launder aluminium foil and use it over again.”
“Comparison is the thief of all joy.”
“There's nothing so obscene and depressing as an American Christmas.”
“No insect hangs its nest on threads as frail as those which will sustain the weight of human vanity.”
“Money buys everything except love, personality, freedom, immortality, silence, peace.”
“We have really lost in our society the sense of the sacredness of life.”
“If we'd beaten 'em, I wouldn't be going out.”
“The major motivation theories by which most men live can lead them only to depression and cynicism.”
“I was 19 years old, pumping gas and going nowhere. I was kind of a high school dropout at that point because I had left school to play hockey, but no one drafted me.”
“At the midpoint on the journey of life, I found myself in a dark forest, for the clear path was lost.”
“Through me you go into a city of weeping; through me you go into eternal pain; through me you go amongst the lost people”
“There, pride, avarice, and envy are the tongues men know and heed, a Babel of depsair”
“No Government can be long secure without a formidable Opposition.”
“He was distinguished for ignorance; for he had only one idea, and that was wrong.”