“Sin has caused our affections to stray, propelling us to worship relationships, achievement, and work-everything but God.”
Sad feeling
Sad Quotes — page 149 of 475
“Some cures are worse than the dangers they combat.”
“The display of grief makes more demands than grief itself. How few men are sad in their own company.”
“Poverty wants some, luxury many, and avarice all things.”
“He is not guilty who is not guilty of his own free will.”
“You say you are a nameless man. You are not to your wife and to your child. You will not long remain so to your immediate colleagues if you can answer their simple questions when they come into your office. You are not nameless to me. Do not remain nameless to yourself — it is too sad a way to be. Know your place in the world and evaluate yourself fairly, not in terms of the naïve ideals of your own youth, nor in terms of what you erroneously imagine your teacher's ideals are.”
“The average family earning minimum wage spends 141 percent of their income struggling to meet basic needs - food, shelter, clothing.”
“America is the most grandiose experiment the world has seen, but, I am afraid, it is not going to be a success.”
“It is the glory and good of Art, That Art remains the one way possible Of speaking truth, to mouths like mine at least.”
“how sad and bad and mad it was - but then, how it was sweet”
“In Stalinism, everybody was potentially a victim in a totally contingent way.”
“With the daguerreotype, everyone will be able to have their portrait taken . . . and at the same time everything is being done to make us all look exactly the same.”
“A man who cannot seduce men cannot save them either.”
“My melancholy is the most faithful sweetheart I have had.”
“When he endures nothing but endless miseries-- What pleasure is there in living the day after day, Edging slowly back and forth toward death? Anyone who warms their heart with the glow Of flickering hope is worth nothing at all. The noble man should either live with honor or die with honor. That's all there is to be said.”
“It is a base thing for a man among the people not to obey those in command. Never in a state can the laws be well administered when fear does not stand firm.”
“If it were possible to heal sorrow by weeping and to raise the dead with tears, gold were less prized than grief.”
“For no one loves the bearer of bad tidings.”
“If this is death, it is easier than life.”
“Doubters will doubt to the end.”