“A crowd flowed over London Bridge, so many, I had not thought death had undone so many.”
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Sad Quotes — page 147 of 475
“I should have been a pair of ragged claws/ Scuttling across the floors of silent seas.”
“The dripping blood our only drink, The bloody flesh our only food: In spite of which we like to think That we are sound, substantial flesh and blood Again, in spite of that, we call this Friday good.”
“It was a spring without voices. On the mornings that had once throbbed with the dawn chorus of robins, catbirds, doves, jays, wrens, and scores of other bird voices there was now no sound; only silence lay over the fields and woods and marsh... Even the streams were now lifeless... No witchcraft, no enemy action had silenced the rebirth of new life in this stricken world. The people had done it themselves.”
“Over increasingly large areas of the United States, spring now comes unheralded by the return of the birds, and the early mornings are strangely silent where once they were filled with the beauty of bird song.”
“Many who confess their venial sins out of custom and concern for order but without thought of amendment remain burdened with them for their whole life and thus lose many spiritual benefits and advantages.”
“I have the same opinion of dances that physicians have of mushrooms: the best of them are good for nothing.”
“She followed slowly, taking a long time, As though there were some obstacles in the way; And yet: as though, once it was overcome, She would be beyond all walking, and would fly.”
“People weighed down with troubles do not look back; they know only too well that misfortune stalks them.”
“The paradise of the rich is made out of the hell of the poor.”
“The Parisian is to the French what the Athenian was to the Greeks: no one sleeps better than he, no one is more openly frivolous and idle, no one appears more heedless. But this is misleading. He is given to every kind of listlessness, but when there is glory to be won he may be inspired with every kind of fury. Give him a pike and he will enact the tenth of August, a musket and you have Austerlitz. He was the springboard of Napoleon and the mainstay of Danton. At the cry of "la patrie" he enrols, and at the call of liberty he tears up the pavements. Beware of him!”
“My life, my life, now I speak of it as of something over, now as of a joke which still goes on, and it is neither, for at the same time it is over and it goes on, and is there any tense for that? Watch wound and buried by the watchmaker, before he died, whose ruined works will one day speak of God, to the worms.”
“Happy is the hearing man; unhappy the speaking man.”
“There are three wants which never can be satisfied: that of the rich, who wants something more; that of the sick, who wants something different; and that of the traveler, who says anywhere but here.”
“Society always consists in the greatest part, of young and foolish persons.”
“A man is a god in ruins.”
“Good bye, proud world! I'm going home; Thou art not my friend, and I'm not thine”
“Alas for the unhappy man that is called to stand in the pulpit, and not give the bread of life.”
“A man's concern, even his despair, over the worthwhileness of life is an existential distress but by no means a mental disease.”
“All the arguments which are brought to represent poverty as no evil show it evidently to be a great evil.”