“Words fail, there are times when even they fail.”
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Sad Quotes — page 131 of 475
“Traveling is a fool's paradise. Our first journeys discover to us the indifference of places. At home I dream that at Naples, at Rome, I can be intoxicated with beauty, and lose my sadness. I pack my trunk, embrace my friends, embark on the sea, and at last wake up in Naples, and there beside me is the stern fact, the sad self, unrelenting, identical, that I fled from. I seek the Vatican, and the palaces. I affect to be intoxicated with sights and suggestions, but I am not intoxicated. My giant goes with me wherever I go.”
“Poverty consist in feeling poor.”
“Life is a progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.”
“The whole character of Justin and the club life he lives - I have no experience with it. It's really foreign to me, which is annoying, but that's just how it is.”
“The stories never said why she was wicked. It was enough to be an old woman, enough to be all alone, enough to look strange because you have no teeth. It was enough to be called a witch. If it came to that, the book never gave you the evidence of anything. It talked about "a handsome prince"... was he really, or was it just because he was a prince that people called handsome? As for "a girl who was as beautiful as the day was long"... well, which day? In midwinter it hardly ever got light! The stories don't want you to think, they just wanted you to believe what you were told.”
“It was sad music. But it waved its sadness like a battle flag. It said the universe had done all it could, but you were still alive.”
“We earth men have a talent for ruining big, beautiful things.”
“For these beings, fall is ever the normal season, the only weather, there be no choice beyond. Where do they come from? The dust. Where do they go? The grave. Does blood stir their veins? No: the night wind. What ticks in their head? The worm. What speaks from their mouth? The toad. What sees from their eye? The snake. What hears with their ear? The abyss between the stars. They sift the human storm for souls, eat flesh of reason, fill tombs with sinners. They frenzy forth. Such are the autumn people.”
“Our best yesterdays are now foul piles of crumpled names.”
“The covetous man pines in plenty, like Tantalus up to the chin in water, and yet thirsty.”
“Sorrow can be alleviated by good sleep, a bath and a glass of good wine.”
“Unhappiness is the ultimate form of self-indulgence.”
“Variety is the spice of life. We all want surprises.”
“Women blame men for their own singlehood.”
“Fear is stronger than love”
“It makes me unhappy when brothers make babies and leave a young mother to be a pappy.”
“Life in the pen ain't for me 'cos I'd rather die.”
“It seems almost oxymoronic to believe that this new idealism has led to a new pessimism about marriage, but that is exactly what has happened. In generations past there was far less talk about "compatibility" and finding the ideal soul mate. Today we are looking for someone who accepts us as we are and fulfills our desires, and this creates an unrealistic set of expectations that frustrates both the searchers and the searched for.”
“Money has never yet made anyone rich.”