“An old man dies. A young woman lives. A fair trade.”
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Sad Quotes — page 154 of 475
“Badfinger was pretty good. It was a very sad story, though, because the guy, he ended up killing himself, Pete Ham, who was a lovely fellow, he was a good guitar player and a great singer, he wrote, the most famous tune I would imagine is "Without You", you know the Harry Nilsson record.”
“To err is human; to forgive, infrequent.”
“There isn't anybody that looks like me without clothes on.”
“Men are only as good as their technical development allows them to be.”
“There is no such thing as a naval dictatorship.”
“The great Gaels of Ireland are the men that God made mad, For all their wars are merry, and all their songs are sad.”
“Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies.”
“No failure in America, whether of love or money, is ever simple; it is always a kind of betrayal, of a mass of shadowy, shared hopes.”
“It isn't necessary to have relatives in Kansas City in order to be unhappy.”
“Where man had been, in every place he left, garbage remained. Even in his pursuit of the ultimate truth and quest for his God, he produced garbage. By his garbage, which lay stratum upon stratum, he could always - one had only to dig - be known. For more long-lived than man is his refuse. Garbage alone lives after him.”
“We were disliked by the press in the early days because they couldn't put their finger on us, and that was the case with Zeppelin as well.”
“The sad truth is that without complex business partnerships between African elites and European traders and commercial agents, the slave trade to the New World would have been impossible, at least on the scale it occurred.”
“In war, the army is not merely a pure consumer, but a negative producer.”
“I make mistakes, but I am on the side of Good," the Golux said, "by accident and happenchance. I had high hopes of being Evil when I was two, but in my youth I came upon a firefly burning in a spider's web. I saved the victim's life." "The firefly's ?" said the minstrel. "The spider's. The blinking arsonist had set the web on fire.”
“Life is nothing but an occassional burst of laughter rising above the interminable wail of grief.”
“The things that have been and shall be no more, The things that are, and that hereafter shall be, The things that might have been, and yet were not, The fading twilight of joys departed.”
“God sent his Singers upon earth With songs of sadness and of mirth, That they might touch the hearts of men, And bring them back to heaven again.”
“I do not believe anyone can be perfectly well, who has a brain and a heart”
“It was a high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, - always do what you are afraid to do.”