“Who is more to be pitied, a writer bound and gagged by policemen or one living in perfect freedom who has nothing more to say?”
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Sad Quotes — page 158 of 475
“The United States is like Count Dracula who at six o'clock in the morning has not sucked [any necks].”
“Life is beautiful and living is pain.”
“…marriage, they say, halves one's rights and doubles one's duties.”
“Alas, Siddhartha, I see you suffering, but you're suffering a pain at which one would like to laugh, at which you'll soon laugh for yourself.”
“Pale blind diver, luckless slinger, lost discoverer, in you everything sank!”
“God's love in John 3:16 is not amazing because the world is so big, but because the world is so bad.”
“Happiness cannot come from hatred or anger. Nobody can say, 'Today I am happy because this morning I was angry.' On the contrary, people feel uneasy and sad and say, 'Today I am not very happy, because I lost my temper this morning.'”
“How incessant and great are the ills with which a prolonged old age is replete.”
“The lost enjoy forever the horrible freedom they have demanded.”
“Someday, without fail, everyone will disappear, scattered into the blackness of time.”
“If you were successful, somebody along the line gave you some help... Somebody helped to create this unbelievable American system that we have that allowed you to thrive. Somebody invested in roads and bridges. If you’ve got a business - you didn’t build that. Somebody else made that happen.”
“No one is pro-abortion.”
“Remorse is extremely useful for a generation which has in fact dirtied its hands but for the next generation you cannot ask, for instance, young Germans today to feel guilty about Hitlerism.”
“There is no life without guilt anyway, at least in the Western world. I think in other civilizations it might be different but if the world is getting Westernized all over, guilt will enter through the technology and democracy and their actions. It will come side by side so there won't be anymore innocent societies in the future I think which in fact is not such a bad thing.”
“Guilt is a very good thing if it is shared by others.”
“My school days were the happiest days of my life; which should give you some indication of the misery I've endured over the past twenty-five years.”
“Free enterprise empowers entrepreneurs who have ideas and imagination, investors who take risks, and workers who hone their skills and offer their labor.”
“Look, only in Washington is not raising taxes considered a tax cut. Nobody's getting a tax cut here. We're not cutting taxes. We're preventing tax increases from occurring.”
“Sadness does not last forever when we walk in the direction of that which we always desired.”