“Only a man who has felt ultimate despair is capable of feeling ultimate bliss.”
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Sad Quotes — page 18 of 475
“It's not the end of the world to lose.”
“The U.S. routinely ranks lower than other countries in health outcomes such as infant mortality.”
“No boy is worth your teenage years!.”
“In America there is institutional racism that we all inherit and participate in, like breathing the air in this room - and we have to become sensitive to it.”
“One cannot help asking sadly, why is love of gold more potent than love of souls? The number of men mining and prospecting for gold in Shantung is more than double the number of men representing Southern Baptists! What a lesson for Southern Baptists to ponder!”
“Child abuse is still sanctioned — indeed, held in high regard — in our society as long as it is defined as child-rearing. It is a tragic fact that parents beat their children in order to escape the emotions from how they were treated by their own parents.”
“Every man is, or hopes to be, an idler.”
“The wizards represent all that the true 'muggle' most fears: They are plainly outcasts and comfortable with being so. Nothing is more unnerving to the truly conventional than the unashamed misfit!”
“Then I grew up, and the beauty of succulent illusions fell away from me.”
“Sometimes I wish I was a beautiful machine so I could resist your kiss and not cry when you're mean.”
“Death comes equally to us all, and makes us all equal when it comes.”
“Sometimes party loyalty asks too much.”
“Without bitterest cold that penetrates to the very bone, how can plum blossoms send forth their fragrance all over the world?”
“So, to say Barack Obama is progress is saying that he's the first black person that is qualified to be president. That's not black progress. That's white progress.”
“If woman alone had suffered under these mistaken traditions [of women's subordination], if she could have borne the evil by herself, it would have been less pitiful, but her brother man, in the laws he created and ignorantly worshipped, has suffered with her. He has lost her highest help; he has crippled the intelligence he needed; he has belittled the very source of his own being and dwarfed the image of his Maker.”
“Black literature is taught as sociology, as tolerance, not as a serious, rigorous art form.”
“It is so hard to believe because it is so hard to obey.”
“Numbing the pain for a while will make it worse when you finally feel it.”
“She says nothing at all, but simply stares upward into the dark sky and watches, with sad eyes, the slow dance of the infinite stars.”