“Since long I've held silence a remedy for harm.”
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Sad Quotes — page 162 of 475
“Of prosperity mortals can never have enough.”
“Unions in wedlock are perverted by the victory of shameless passion that masters the female among men and beasts.”
“They can rule the world while they can persuade us our pain belongs in some order is death by famine worse than death by suicide, than a life of famine and suicide...?”
“...logical validity is not a guarantee of truth.”
“Jealousy is a painful passion; yet without some share of it, the agreeable affection of love has difficulty to subsist in its full force and violence.”
“If I were a person of color in Florida, I would pick up a brick and start walking toward that courthouse in Sanford. Those that do not, those that hold the pain and betrayal inside and somehow manage to resist violence - these citizens are testament to a stoic tolerance that is more than the rest of us deserve. I confess, their patience and patriotism is well beyond my own.”
“One of the sad things about contemporary journalism is that it actually matters very little. The world now is almost inured to the power of journalism. The best journalism would manage to outrage people. And people are less and less inclined to outrage.”
“Lawrence Gilliard Jr. is a fine actor and I've always felt some residual guilt that we killed him so early in The Wire. It was always planned that way; we didn't kill him because of anything he did, we don't kill off actors just to do it.”
“Judgment is guilt wearing a moral mask to disguise its pain.”
“You can wish for things in the future to be different, but in this moment you have to accept things as they are.”
“I think you ought to know I'm feeling very depressed.”
“It's a difficult time for a lot of people right now.”
“Sittin there wishin their problems became ours, cause we have nothin in common since I done became star.”
“I really wish she had a different way of viewing things I think the city that we're from just kinda ruined things”
“Of all the places you could go, I just thought you'd choose somewhere that has somebody that you know”
“I thought it completely absurd to mention my name in the same breath as the presidency.”
“All those writers who write about their own childhood! Gentle God, if I wrote about mine you wouldn't sit in the same room with me.”
“Men They hail you as their morning star Because you are the way you are. If you return the sentiment, They'll try to make you different; And once they have you, safe and sound, They want to change you all around. Your moods and ways they put a curse on; They'd make of you another person. They cannot let you go your gait; They influence and educate. They'd alter all that they admired. They make me sick, they make me tired.”
“Gratitude - the meanest and most snivelling attribute in the world.”