“[T]he syndrome known as life is too diffuse to admit of palliation. For every symptom that is eased, another is made worse. The horse leech's daughter is a closed system. Her quantum of wantum cannot vary.”
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Sad Quotes — page 171 of 475
“They give birth astride of a grave, the light gleams an instant, then it's night once more.”
“Striving to tell his woes, words would not come; For light cares speak, when mighty griefs are dumb.”
“O Lord! Unhappy is the man whom man can make unhappy.”
“The peace of the man who has forsworn the use of the bullet seems to me not quite peace, but a canting impotence.”
“I see drawings and pictures in the poorest huts, in the dirtiest corner. And my mind is drawn toward these things by an irresistible force.”
“Do not accustom yourself to consider debt only as an inconvenience; you will find it a calamity.”
“Want of tenderness is want of parts, and is no less a proof of stupidity than depravity.”
“Sir, sorrow is inherent in humanity. As you cannot judge two and two to be either five, or three, but certainly four, so, when comparing a worse present state with a better which is past, you cannot but feel sorrow. It is not cured by reason, but by the incursion of present objects, which bear out the past.”
“Gloomy calm of idle vacancy.”
“The pleasure of expecting enjoyment is often greater than that of obtaining it, and the completion of almost every wish is found a disappointment.”
“All envy is proportionate to desire.”
“Everybody knows worse of himself than he knows of other men.”
“I thought it very strange, and very sad, that the fairy kingdom largely appears to be English. I thought it was time for some regional representation. And the Nac Mac Feegle are, well, they're like tiny little Scottish Smurfs who have seen Braveheart altogether too many times.”
“We have everything we need to be happy, but we aren't happy. Something's missing.”
“Discussion in class, which means letting twenty young blockheads and two cocky neurotics discuss something that neither their teacher nor they know.”
“A change of environment is the traditional fallacy upon which doomed loves, and lungs, rely.”
“The multitude of books is making us ignorant.”
“What a pessimist you are!" exclaimed Candide. "That is because I know what life is," said Martin.”
“And ask each passenger to tell his story, and if there is one of them all who has not cursed his existence many times, and said to himself over and over again that he was the most miserable of men, I give you permission to throw me head-first into the sea.”