“We may outrun By violent swiftness And lose by over-running.”
Sad feeling
Sad Quotes — page 146 of 475
“Life is as tedious as twice-told tale, vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man.”
“Thou detestable maw, thou womb of death.”
“After your death you were better have a bad epitaph than their ill report while you live.”
“The bay-trees in our country are all withered, And meteors fright the fixèd stars of heaven. The pale-faced moon looks bloody on the earth, And lean-looked prophets whisper fearful change. Rich men look sad, and ruffians dance and leap; The one in fear to lose what they enjoy, The other to enjoy by rage and war. These signs forerun the death or fall of kings.”
“For this relief much thanks. 'Tis bitter cold, and I am sick at heart.”
“The weariest and most loathed worldly life, that age, ache, penury and imprisonment can lay on nature is a paradise, to what we fear of death.”
“Sorrow breaks seasons and reposing hours, Makes the night morning, and the noontide night.”
“Your date is better in your pie and your porridge than in your cheek.”
“But hearing oftentimes The still, sad music of humanity.”
“I am not a pig farmer. The pigs had a great time, but I didn't make any money.”
“You could try to live monogamously. Good luck.”
“I started writing cheating songs when I was too young to have any idea what I was writing about - broken hearts and things like that. I just think it was something I already knew, something I had experienced in another lifetime.”
“The problems of victory are more agreeable than those of defeat, but they are no less difficult.”
“There's an old joke - um... two elderly women are at a Catskill mountain resort, and one of 'em says, "Boy, the food at this place is really terrible." The other one says, "Yeah, I know; and such small portions." Well, that's essentially how I feel about life - full of loneliness, and misery, and suffering, and unhappiness, and it's all over much too quickly.”
“Life is tough and it's tough whether you're famous or not famous. And in the end it's probably better to be famous because the perks are better. You get better seats at the basketball game, and you get better tables and reservations places. If I call a doctor on Saturday morning I can get him. There's a lot of things, indulgences that you don't get, if you're not famous. Now I'm not saying it's fair. But I can't say that I don't enjoy it.”
“It's all bound to end in tears.”
“Nobody but a Southerner knows the wrenching rinsing sadness of the cities of the North.”
“Pessimism is mental disease. It means illness in the person who voices it, and in the society which produces that person.”
“Every book purchase made from Amazon is a vote for a culture without content and without contentment.”