“The collapse of Russia was the second great event of 1917.”
Sad feeling
Sad Quotes — page 181 of 475
“Gaming, women, and wine, while they laugh they make men pine.”
“A sad, wise valor is the brave complexion.”
“The Royall Crowne cures not the head-ach. [The Royal Crown cures not the headache.]”
“Part of being young is making mistakes.”
“What they were giving me seemed incredibly real to me, so I'd react to it in a very real way. That was frightening for me, especially because of the subject.”
“I did Star 80, which was a magnificent experience as well, but still, I was at the height of my career at the beginning. Then I had to jump down the ladder and climb back up again, which I didn't understand. That was very hard.”
“Marriage is the dark side of the honeymoon”
“try to enjoy myself when I can - I'll be miserable enough as it is.”
“Every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.”
“Everything ends in death, everything. Death is terrible.”
“Indeed, ask every man separately whether he thinks it laudable and worthy of a man of this age to hold a position from which he receives a salary disproportionate to his work; to take from the people--often in poverty--taxes to be spent on constructing cannon, torpedoes, and other instruments of butchery, so as to make war on people with whom we wish to be at peace, and who feel the same wish in regard to us; or to receive a salary for devoting one's whole life to constructing these instruments of butchery, or to preparing oneself and others for the work of murder.”
“Seas of blood have been shed for the sake of patriotism. One would expect the harm and irrationality of patriotism to be self-evident to everyone. But the surprising fact is that cultured and learned people not only do not notice the harm and stupidity of patriotism, they resist every unveiling of it with the greatest obstinacy and passion (with no rational grounds), and continue to praise it as beneficent and elevating.”
“Woman is generally so bad that the difference between a good and a bad woman scarcely exists.”
“they say that time heals all things, they say you can always forget; but the smiles and the tears across the years they twist my heart strings yet!”
“You preferred to be a lunatic, a minority of one.”
“In my opinion nothing has contributed more to the corruption of the original idea of socialism as the belief that Russia is a socialist country.”
“Too stupid to learn and too stupid to give up.”
“Soon comes the cold, and the night that never ends.”
“Why is it always the innocents who suffer most, when you high lords play your game of thrones?”