“For most of the world, civil and political rights... come as luxuries that are far away in the future.”
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Sad Quotes — page 167 of 475
“Fleetwood Mac are more like a folk-rock band.”
“I don't think we ever clash but we do become frosty.”
“There is always a but in this imperfect world.”
“Some people won't go the extra mile, and then on their birthday, when no one makes a fuss, they feel neglected and bitter.”
“My ideas are a curse. They spring from a radical discontent with the awful order of things. I play clown. I play carpenter. I play nurse. I play witch.”
“It is June. I am tired of being brave.”
“I leave you, home, when I'm ripped from the doorstep by commerce or fate. Then I submit to the awful subway of the world.”
“Thumbs grow into my throat. I wear slaps like a spot of rouge.”
“O fallen angel, the companion within me, whisper something holy before you pinch me into the grave.”
“Thief!- how did you crawl into, crawl down alone into the death I wanted so badly and for so long.”
“Even without wars, life is dangerous.”
“Then I feel so happy and at the same time so sad, it's unimaginable.”
“I'll look as if I'm dead, and that won't be true.' I said nothing. 'You understand. It's too far. I can't take this body with me. It's too heavy.' I said nothing. 'But it'll be like an old abandoned shell. There's nothing sad about an old shell...' I said nothing. 'It'll be nice, you know. I'll be looking at the stars, too. All the stars will be wells with a rusty pulley. All the stars will pour out water for me to drink...' I said nothing. 'And it'll be fun! You'll have five-hundred million little bells; I'll have five-hundred million springs of fresh water...' And he, too, said nothing more.”
“Greed and globalization aren't just America's fault.”
“There are two sayings that are familiar in every news room across the country: 1) sex sells; 2) if it bleeds it leads.”
“We're dealing with a crisis of inequality, of joblessness, of underemployment.”
“We had a world dominated by the Soviet Union on the one hand, and the Americans on the other hand. They called it the Cold War. But it wasn't cold. I am someone who comes from the third world. In the third world, the cold war wasn't cold. Millions had been killed. It was a proxy war.”
“The middle class is teetering on the brink of collapse just as surely as AIG was in the fall of 2009 - only this time, it's not just one giant insurance company (and its banking counterparties) facing disaster, it's tens of millions of hardworking Americans who played by the rules.”
“We're not the only people that have had to suffer, there have always been people that've had to.”