“Sometimes I think that idlers seem to be a special class for whom nothing can be planned, plead as one will with them - their only contribution to the human family is to warm a seat at the common table.”
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Sad Quotes — page 16 of 475
“There are ships sailing to many ports, but not a single one goes where life is not painful.”
“What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.”
“Poor is the man who desires a lot”
“The eye, like a shattered mirror, multiplies the images of sorrow”
“I found him well educated, with unusual powers of mind, but infected with misanthropy, and subject to perverse moods of alternate enthusiasm and melancholy.”
“I can't give you the sunset, but I can give you the night.”
“I was in California when this journalist made a blanket statement about the fact that she did not think that black men and women had the kind of love relationship that Rebecca and Nathan had in Sounder.”
“The art of not experiencing feelings. A child can experience her feelings only when there is somebody there who accepts her fully, understands her, and supports her. If that person is missing, if the child must risk losing the mother's love of her substitute in order to feel, then she will repress emotions.”
“Wealth is like sea-water; the more we drink, the thirstier we become; and the same is true of fame.”
“Love is the greatest of dreams, yet the worst of nightmares.”
“Not just in commerce but in the world of ideas too our age is putting on a veritable clearance sale. Everything can be had so dirt cheap that one begins to wonder whether in the end anyone will want to make a bid.”
“In every revolution there intrude, at the side of its true agents, men of a different stamp; some of them survivors of and devotees to past revolutions, without insight into the present movement, but preserving popular influence by their known honesty and courage, or by the sheer force of tradition; others mere brawlers, who, by dint of repeating year after year the same set of stereotyped declamations against the government of the day, have sneaked into the reputation of revolutionists of the first water They are an unavoidable evil: with time they are shaken off.”
“We accept reality so readily - perhaps because we sense that nothing is real.”
“Some sad news from Australia... the inventor of the boomerang grenade died today.”
“The worse illness of our time, is that so many people have to suffer from never being loved”
“It was night, and the rain fell; and falling, it was rain, but, having fallen, it was blood.”
“Every poem should remind the reader that they are going to die.”
“No one knew what Rodney King had done beforehand to be stopped. No one realized that he was a parolee and that he was violating his parole. No one knew any of those things. All they saw was this grainy film and police officers hitting him over the head.”
“I don’t think teens make mistakes when they fall in love. You experience what you experience and you take away what you can from it; it is very human.”