“Well now what's the use in dreamin' You got better things to do Dreams never did work for me anyway Even when they did come true”
Sad feeling
Sad Quotes — page 143 of 475
“Despite everybody who has been born and has died, the world has just gone on. I mean, look at Napoleon -but we went right on. Look at Harpo Marx -the world went around, it didn't stop for a second. It's sad but true. John Kennedy, right?”
“The battle outside raging will soon shake your windows and rattle your walls.”
“Twenty years ago, you'd see guys busting rackets in locker rooms. Today they do it in their hotel rooms.”
“We are now going to the Lamanites, to whom we intend to be messengers of instruction... We will show them that in consequence of their transgressions a curse has been inflicted upon them - in the darkness of their skins. We will have intermarriages with them, they marrying our young women, and we taking their young squaws to wife. By these means it is the will of the Lord that the curse of their color shall be removed and they restored to their pristine beauty.”
“When I look at myself, I don't see the man I wanted to be.”
“I think you can get to a point where nihilism, if that's the right word, is overwhelming, and the basic laws that society has set up - either religious or social laws - become meaningless.”
“Personally I am very much against the death penalty for several reasons.”
“One in four of us will have a mental illness at some point. That is a lot of people.”
“There is no love of life without despair of life.”
“How hard it is, how bitter it is to become a man!”
“Children will still die unjustly even in a perfect society. Even by his greatest effort, man can only propose to diminish, arithmetically, the sufferings of the world.”
“In this respect, our townsfolk were like everybody else, wrapped up in themselves; in other words, they were humanists: they disbelieved in pestilences. A pestilence isn't a thing made to man's measure; therefore we tell ourselves that pestilence is a mere bogy of the mind, a bad dream that will pass away. But it doesn't always pass away and, from one bad dream to another, it is men who pass away, and the humanists first of all, because they have taken no precautions.”
“It would seem that men always need some idiotic fiction in the name of which they can hate one another. Once it was religion. Now it is the State.”
“It would be a sad situation if the bag was better than the meat wrapped in it.”
“...two thirds of all sorrow is homemade and, so far as the universe is concerned, unnecessary.”
“Actual happiness always looks pretty squalid in comparison with the over-compensations for misery.”
“Man is an intelligence in servitude to his organs.”
“When I told my parents, 'I'm going to be an actor,' they screamed and wept and freaked out.”
“When you compare the sorrows of real life to the pleasures of the imaginary one, you will never want to live again, only to dream forever.”