“I know well enough in advance that you'll find my paintings perfect. I know that if they are exhibited they'll be a great success, but I couldn't be more indifferent to it since I know they are bad, I'm certain of it.”
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Sad Quotes — page 164 of 475
“I can no longer work outside because of the intensity of the light.”
“To have gone to all this trouble to get to this is just too stupid! Outside there's brilliant sunshine but I don't feel up to looking at it.”
“The creditors are proving impossible to deal with and short of a sudden appearance on the scene of wealthy art patrons, we are going to be turned out of this dear little house where I led a simple life and was able to work so well. I do not know what will become of us.”
“Gardening was something I learned in my youth when I was unhappy. I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.”
“You might perhaps like to see the few canvases I was able to save from the bailiffs and the rest, since I thought you might be so good as to help me a little, as I am in quite a desperate state, and the worst is that I can no longer even work.”
“My rejection at the Salon brought an end to my hesitation [to settle in Paris] since after this failure I can no longer claim to cope... alas, that fatal rejection has virtually taken the bread out of my mouth.”
“Women need to be beautiful to be loved by men, and stupid enough to love them.”
“Some people pursue unhappiness because happiness is too mild a sensation.”
“My birth neither shook the German Empire nor caused much of an upheaval in the home. It pleased mother, caused father a certain amount of pride and my elder brother the usual fraternal jealousy of a hitherto only son.”
“I was never a villain on the stage. I always played strong, sympathetic types. My first stage role with a speaking part, believe it or not, was as a priest. It wasn't until I began acting in films that the producers and directors saw me primarily as a bizarre villain.”
“In history there are no control groups. There is no one to tell us what might have been. We weep over the might have been, but there is no might have been. There never was.”
“Every day is a lie. But you are dying. That is not a lie.”
“Wealth inequality has increased.”
“It didn't pay to trust another human being. Humans didn't have it, whatever it took.”
“It’s nice enough to make a man weep, but I don’t weep, do you?”
“I think people who are unhappy are always proud of being so, and therefore do not like to be told that there is nothing grand about their unhappiness. A man who is melancholy because lack of exercise has upset his liver always believes that it is the loss of God, or the menace of Bolshevism, or some such dignified cause that makes him sad. When you tell people that happiness is a simple matter, they get annoyed with you.”
“What a fool I was to come to Hollywood where they only understand platinum blondes and where legs are more important than talent.”
“I went to a public school through sixth grade, and being good at tests wasn't cool.”
“Nigeria has moved into low-middle-income, but their north is very poor, and the health care systems there have broken down.”