“His whole future seemed suddenly to be unrolled before him; and passing down its endless emptiness he saw the dwindling figure of a man to whom nothing was ever to happen.”
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Sad Quotes — page 140 of 475
“Don't they always go from bad to worse? There's no turning back--your old self rejects you, and shuts you out. ~Lilly Bart”
“Life is the saddest thing there is, next to death.”
“The greatest tragedy of the family is the unlived lives of the parents.”
“Life is but a momentary glimpse of the wonder of this astonishing universe, and it is sad to see so many dreaming it away on spiritual fantasy.”
“We have only one way to be born and many ways to die.”
“I was so full of sleep at the time that I left the true way.”
“Nobody is forgotten, when it is convenient to remember him.”
“William Gladstone has not a single redeeming defect.”
“Debt is a prolific mother of folly and of crime.”
“The very phrase 'foreign affairs' makes an Englishman convinced that I am about to treat of subjects with which he has no concern.”
“The services in wartime are fit only for desperadoes, but in peace are only fit for fools.”
“Money never made a man happy yet, nor will it. There is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more a man has, the more he wants. Instead of its filling a vacuum, it makes one. If it satisfies one want, it doubles and trebles that want another way. That was a true proverb of the wise man, rely upon it; Better is little with the fear of the Lord, than great treasure, and trouble therewith.”
“Nothing brings more pain than too much pleasure; nothing more bondage than too much liberty.”
“Where there's no law, there's no bread.”
“After crosses and losses men grow humbler and wiser.”
“Better is little with the fear of the Lord, than great treasure, and trouble therewith.”
“Great pleasures are much less frequent than great pains.”
“There are two Americas - separate, unequal, and no longer even acknowledging each other except on the barest cultural terms. In the one nation, new millionaires are minted every day. In the other, human beings no longer necessary to our economy, to our society, are being devalued and destroyed.”
“Every day, human beings are worth less. That's the triumph of capitalism. The money gets made, and the fewer people we need to make that money.”