“Augustus, perhaps you’d like to share your fears with the group.” “My fears?” “Yes.” “I fear oblivion,” he said without a moment’s pause. “I fear it like the proverbial blind man who’s afraid of the dark.” “Too soon,” Isaac said, cracking a smile. “Was that insensitive?” Augustus asked. “I can be pretty blind to other people’s feelings.”
Sad feeling
Sad Quotes — page 187 of 475
“I'm convinced I got signed because of who I am. And it makes me sad.”
“What makes old age so sad is, not that our joys, but that our hopes then cease.”
“Poverty is the only load which is the heavier the more loved ones there are to assist in bearing it.”
“Despair is the only genuine atheism.”
“I have pushed virtue to outright brutality.”
“Hell, covering all with its gloomy vapors, has cast shadows on even the holiest eyes.”
“We only get one life. Wasting someone's time is the subtlest form of murder.”
“Why so much grief for me? No man will hurl me down to Death, against my fate. And fate? No one alive has ever escaped it, neither brave man nor coward, I tell you - it’s born with us the day that we are born.”
“Thus have the gods spun the thread for wretched mortals: that they live in grief while they themselves are without cares; for two jars stand on the floor of Zeus of the gifts which he gives, one of evils and another of blessings.”
“The best things beyond their measure cloy.”
“…but there they lay, sprawled across the field, craved far more by the vultures than by wives.”
“But you, Achilles,/ There is not a man in the world more blest than you--/ There never has been, never will be one./ Time was, when you were alive, we Argives/ honored you as a god, and now down here, I see/ You Lord it over the dead in all your power./ So grieve no more at dying, great Achilles.’ I reassured the ghost, but he broke out protesting,/ ‘No winning words about death to me, shining Odysseus!/ By god, I’d rather slave on earth for another man--/ Some dirt-poor tenant farmer who scrapes to keep alive—than rule down here over all the breathless dead.”
“A man's life breath cannot come back again-- no raiders in force, no trading brings it back, once it slips through a man's clenched teeth.”
“The bitter dregs of Fortune's cup to drain.”
“The curse of poverty has no justification in our age.”
“With all of its false assumptions and evil methods, communism grew as a protest against the hardships of the underprivileged. Communism in theory emphasized a classless society, and a concern for social justice, though the world knows from sad experience that in practice it created new classes and a new lexicon of injustice.”
“In our sad condition our only consolation is the expectancy of another life. Here below all is incomprehensible.”
“As for the demented, I hold it certain that all beings deprived of reason are thus afflicted only by the Devil.”
“How mutable are our feelings, and how strange is that clinging love we have of life even in the excess of misery!”