“I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest.”
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Sad Quotes — page 144 of 475
“It isn't enough for your heart to break because everybody's heart is broken now.”
“I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked, dragging themselves through the negro streets at dawn looking for an angry fix angelheaded hipsters burning for the ancient heavenly connection to the starry dynamo in the machinery of the night.”
“I gave everything I had to basketball. The passion is still there but the desire to play is not. It was a great ride.”
“When you're miserable, you don't want anyone around you to be happy.”
“Happiness: We rarely feel it. I would buy it, beg it, steal it, Pay in coins of dripping blood For this one transcendent good.”
“Drunkenness is never anything but a substitute for happiness.”
“I'm very sad about Mitch McConnell probably getting to be Senate majority leader, if only for two years. To me, he is just everything that is wrong with the world, a bullying obstructionist blowhard liar (not to put too fine a point on it).”
“As for me, I am a watercolor. I wash off.”
“But suicides have a special language. Like carpenters they want to know which tools. They never ask why build. Twice I have so simply declared myself, have possessed the enemy, eaten the enemy, have taken on his craft, his magic.”
“Once upon a time we were all born, popped out like jelly rolls forgetting our fishdom, the pleasuring seas, the country of comfort, spanked into the oxygens of death.”
“You know... when you are sad you love the sunsets.”
“A hungry dog believes in nothing but meat.”
“My philosophy is fundamentally sad, but I'm not a sad man, and I don't believe I sadden anyone else.”
“The young are heated by Nature as drunken men by wine.”
“Nor need it cause surprise that things disagreeable to the good man should seem pleasant to some men; for mankind is liable to many corruptions and diseases, and the things in question are not really pleasant, but only pleasant to these particular persons, who are in a condition to think them so.”
“Life to the great majority is only a constant struggle for mere existence, with the certainty of losing it at last.”
“Human existence is an error...it is bad today and every day it gets worse, until the worst happens.”
“Suffering by nature or chance never seems so painful as suffering inflicted on us by the arbitrary will of another.”
“Long marriages have ended in ruin over tiny and insignificant grievances that were never properly aired and instead grew into a brittle barnacle of hatred.”