“I could try to pretend that I didn't care anymore, but it could never be true again. You can't just make yourself matter, and then die, Alaska, because now, I am irretrievably different, and I'm sorry I let you go, yes, but you made the choice.”
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Sad Quotes — page 137 of 475
“When you stopped wishing things wouldn't fall apart, you'd stop suffering when they did.”
“Marriage, as an institution, is as dead as the dodo bird.”
“I would rather be a serf in a poor man's house and be above ground than reign among the dead.”
“For years now I have heard the word "wait." It rings in the ear of every Negro with a piercing familiarity. This "wait" has almost always meant "never."”
“Calling someone a monster does not make him more guilty; it makes him less so by classing him with beasts and devils.”
“People love you when you're successful, but if you're not, who really cares about you?”
“The longing for order is at the same time a longing for death, because life is an incessant disruption of order.”
“No matter how much we scorn it, kitsch is an integral part of the human condition.”
“Monk was a gentle person, gentle and beautiful, but he was strong as an ox. And if I had ever said something about punching Monk out in front of his face - and I never did - then somebody should have just come and got me and taken me to the madhouse, because Monk could have just picked my little ass up and thrown me through a wall.”
“Those who spend too fast never grow rich.”
“The reality is that no group of countries has any grounds for complacency about its own human rights performance and no group of countries does itself justice by automatically slipping into the "victim" mode . . . .”
“Have not all past human beings parted, And must not all the present, one day part?”
“The keenest pangs the wretched find Are rapture to the dreary void, The leafless desert of the mind, The waste of feelings unemployed.”
“Know ye the land where the cypress and myrtle Are emblems of deeds that are done in their clime? Where the rage of the vulture, the love of the turtle, Now melt into sorrow, now madden to crime!”
“I thought scientists were going to find out exactly how everything worked, and then make it work better. I fully expected that by the time I was twenty-one, some scientist, maybe my brother, would have taken a color photograph of God Almighty—and sold it to Popular Mechanics magazine. Scientific truth was going to make us so happy and comfortable. What actually happened when I was twenty-one was that we dropped scientific truth on Hiroshima.”
“What a bummer it is to be a human being.”
“School was the unhappiest time of my life and the worst trick it ever played on me was to pretend that it was the world in miniature. For it hindered me from discovering how lovely and delightful and kind the world can be, and how much of it is intelligible.”
“Sin corrupts even our good deeds. We injure our shoulder trying to pat ourselves on the back.”
“Their whole life depends on spending money, and now they’ve got none to spend. That’s our civilization and our education: bring up the masses to depend entirely on spending money, and then the money gives out.”