“He who is extravagant will quickly become poor; and poverty will enforce dependence, and invite corruption.”
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Sad Quotes — page 148 of 475
“Man alone is born crying, lives complaining, and dies disappointed.”
“Human life is everywhere a state in which much is to be endured, and little to be enjoyed.”
“It is generally agreed, that few men are made better by affluence or exaltation.”
“The flower bloomed and faded. The sun rose and sank. The lover loved and went. And what the poets said in rhyme, the young translated into practice.”
“It's not catastrophes, murders, deaths, diseases, that age and kill us; it's the way people look and laugh, and run up the steps of omnibuses.”
“The moon has set In a bank of jet That fringes the Western sky, The pleiads seven Have sunk from heaven And the midnight hurries by; My hopes are flown And, alas! alone On my weary couch I lie.”
“Was she really beautiful? Was she at least what they call attractive? She was exasperation, she was torture.”
“She had spent all her life in feeling miserable; this misery was her native element; its fluctuations, its varying depths, alone save her the impression of moving and living. What bothers me is that a sense of misery, and nothing else, is not enough to make a permanent soul. My enormous and morose Mademoiselle is all right on earth but impossible in eternity.”
“The Pride of every Jew finds cause to believe that the cause of their down fall is not their detestable politics, or ignorance of social graces, but the raft of God. They believe it took a miracle to undo them.”
“He who has not the spirit of this age, has all the misery of it.”
“The character of a people may be ruined by charity.”
“Nobody likes having salt rubbed into their wounds, even if it is the salt of the earth.”
“The darling schemes and fondest hopes of man are frequently frustrated by time. While sagacity contrives, patience matures, and labor industriously executes, disappointment laughs at the curious fabric, formed by so many efforts, and gay with so many brilliant colors, and, while the artists imagine the work arrived at the moment of completion, brushes away the beautiful web, and leaves nothing behind.”
“And it rained a screaming. And it rained a rawness. And it rained a plasma. And it rained a disorder.”
“Bury me smilin' with G's in my pocket, Have a party at my funeral let every rapper rock it Let the hoes that I used to know, from way before Kiss me from my head to my toe, Gimme a paper and pen so I can write about my life of sin, Couple bottles of gin, in case I don't get in.”
“Today is built on tragedies, which no one wants to face, nightmares to humanities and morally disgraced. Tonight is filled with rage, violence in the air, children bred with ruthlessness because no one at home cares.”
“I'll probably be punished for hard living.”
“In becoming an American, from Europe, what one has in common with that other immigrant is contempt for me-it's nothing else but color.”
“Along with the idea of romantic love, she was introduced to another - physical beauty. Probably the most destructive ideas in the history of human thought. Both originated in envy, thrived in insecurity, and ended in disillusion.”