“That's how children deal with terror, they fall asleep.”
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Sad Quotes — page 136 of 475
“Sadness is but a wall between two gardens.”
“To know the pain of too much tenderness”
“A shy failure is nobler than an immodest success.”
“I have a religion-but you will call it blasphemy. It is that there is a God for the rich man but none for the poor.....Perhaps your religion will sustain you,will feed you-I place no dependence in mine. Our religions are alike, though, in one respect-neither can make a man happy when he is out of luck.”
“She was sensible and clever, but eager in everything; her sorrows, her joys, could have no moderation.”
“Here and there, human nature may be great in times of trial, but generally speaking it is its weakness and not its strength that appears in a sick chamber; it is selfishness and impatience rather than generosity and fortitude, that one hears of. There is so little real friendship in the world! – and unfortunately' (speaking low and tremulously) 'there are so many who forget to think seriously till it is almost too late.”
“There are few people whom I really love and still fewer of whom I think well.”
“Someday we shall look back on this dark era of agriculture and shake our heads. How could we have ever believed that it was a good idea to grow our food with poisons?”
“Anything, anything would be better than this agony of mind, this creeping pain that gnaws and fumbles and caresses one and never hurts quite enough.”
“As hard as it is and as tired as I am, I force myself to get dinner at least once a week with my girlfriends, or have a sleepover. Otherwise my life is just work.”
“I wish everyone could experience being rich and famous, so they'd see it wasn't the answer to anything.”
“Men perish with whispering sins-nay, with silent sins, sins that never tell the conscience that they are sins, as often with crying sins; and in hell there shall meet as many men that never thought what was sin, as that spent all their thoughts in the compassing of sin.”
“It is very sad to me that some people are so intent on leaving their mark on the world that they don’t care if that mark is a scar.”
“One of the prevailing sources of misery and crime is in the generally accepted assumption, that because things have been wrong a long time, it is impossible they will ever be right.”
“Don't make everyone know about your sadness.”
“I love white Portugal wine better than claret, champagne, or burgundy. I have a sad vulgar appetite.”
“There is no disappointment so numbing...as someone no better than you achieving more.”
“I think because of their terrible past, particularly this century, the Chinese have come to accept cruelty more than many other people, which is something I feel very unhappy about”
“Through the sad heart of Ruth, when sick for home She stood in tears amid the alien corn; The same that ofttimes hath Charm'd magic casements, opening on the foam Of perilous seas, in faery lands forlorn.”