“When you're eighteen your emotions are violent, but they're not durable.”
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Sad Quotes — page 130 of 475
“For every laugh, there should be a tear.”
“On rolls the stream with a perpetual sigh; The rocks moan wildly as it passes by; Hyssop and wormwood border all the strand, And not a flower adorns the dreary land.”
“If merely 'feeling good' could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience.”
“Though yet of Hamlet our dear brother's death the memory be green.”
“We are not ourselves When nature, being oppressed, commands the mind To suffer with the body.”
“The Turkish Government began and ruthlessly carried out the infamous massacre and deportation of Armenians in Asia Minor. The clearance of the race from Asia Minor was about as complete as such an act, on a scale so great, could well be.”
“People say that death is a part of life and there must be something to it, but I just see it as bad news and I want everybody to stop sugarcoating it.”
“I should have known something was wrong with my first wife. When I brought her home to meet my parents, they approved of her.”
“I am a most unhappy man. I have unwittingly ruined my country.”
“Revolution today is taken for granted, and in consequence becomes rather dull.”
“The so-called Real World. Human misery and sadness. Blind politics and general cruelty.”
“Wars have never hurt anybody except the people who die.”
“Being on top of the world doesn't mean anything unless you know what it's like to be at the bottom.”
“Doing nothing is happiness for children and misery for old men.”
“"Animals are happy," said the queen. "They run no risk of going to hell." "They are there already," replied Josiana.”
“In winter there is no heat, no light, no noon, evening touches morning, there is fog, and mist, the window is frosted, and you cannot see clearly. The sky is but the mouth of a cave. The whole day is the cave.... Frightful season! Winter changes into stone the water of heaven and the heart of man.”
“They never lynch children, babies, no matter what they do they are whitewashed in advance.”
“We could have saved sixpence. We could have saved fivepence. But at what cost?”
“The short winter’s day was drawing to a close. It seems to me sometimes that these are the only days I have ever known, and especially that most charming moment of all, just before night wipes them out.”