“Ah, who will save me from existing? It's neither death nor life that I want.”
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Sad Quotes — page 152 of 475
“Love is not fashionable anymore; the poets have killed it.”
“It is a sad truth, but we have lost the faculty of giving lovely names to things.”
“When good Americans die they go to Paris.”
“As one reads history, not in the expurgated editions written for schoolboys and passmen, but in the original authorities of each time, one is absolutely sickened, not by the crimes that the wicked have committed, but by the punishments that the good have inflicted; and a community is infinitely more brutalised by the habitual employment of punishment than it is by the occasional occurrence of crime.”
“Men do not value a good deed unless it brings a reward.”
“Money nowadays is money; money brings office; money gains friends; everywhere the poor man is down. [Lat., In pretio pretium nunc est; dat census honores, Census amicitias; pauper ubique jacet.]”
“There is a certain pleasure in weeping.”
“All human things hang on a slender thread, the strongest fall with a sudden crash.”
“Eager souls, mystics and revolutionaries, may propose to refashion the world in accordance with their dreams; but evil remains, and so long as it lurks in the secret places of the heart, utopia is only the shadow of a dream”
“Labor is the curse of the world, and nobody can meddle with it without becoming proportionately brutalized.”
“There were points in my life where I felt oddly irresistible to women. I'm not in that state now and that makes me sad.”
“I won't do this movie because I don't believe the love story," she told Selznick. "The heroine is an intellectual woman, and an intellectual woman simply can't fall in love so deeply.”
“I hate writing. I will do anything to avoid it. The only way I could write less was if I was dead.”
“I drank my lifetime supply of alcohol and I took my lifetime supply of drugs between the ages of 15 and 19.”
“You can't be happy unless you're unhappy sometimes".”
“I had a very rough childhood and not a happy one and by age 15 I was an old person in many ways. I knew that I had to take care of myself, I um and I always did.”
“Instead of establishing facts, we have to overthrow errors; instead of ascertaining what is, we have to chase from our imaginations what is not.”
“The pencil of the Holy Ghost hath labored more in describing the afflictions of Job than the felicities of Solomon.”
“I hope and hoping feeds my pain I weep and weeping feeds my failing heart I laugh but the laughter does not pass within I burn but the burning makes no mark outside.”