“Cold hopes swarm like worms within our living clay.”
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Sad Quotes — page 191 of 475
“Worse than despair, Worse than the bitterness of death, is hope.”
“The world is weary of the past, Oh, might it die or rest at last!”
“Everything must degenerate into work if anything is to happen.”
“The fault is in the system and not in the men.”
“Communication is always "propaganda." The emitter always wants "to get something across."”
“Men who marry wives very much superior to themselves are not so truly husbands to their wives as they are unawares made slaves to their position.”
“Ought a man to be confident that he deserves his good fortune, and think much of himself when he has overcome a nation, or city, or empire; or does fortune give this as an example to the victor also of the uncertainty of human affairs, which never continue in one stay? For what time can there be for us mortals to feel confident, when our victories over others especially compel us to dread fortune, and while we are exulting, the reflection that the fatal day comes now to one, now to another, in regular succession, dashes our joy.”
“When a man's eyes are sore his friends do not let him finger them, however much he wishes to, nor do they themselves touch the inflammation: But a man sunk in grief suffers every chance comer to stir and augment his affliction like a running sore; and by reason of the fingering and consequent irritation it hardens into a serious and intractable evil.”
“We see many instances of cities going down like sinking ships to their destruction. There have been such wrecks in the past and there surely will be others in the future, caused by the wickedness of captains and crews alike. For these are guilty men, whose sin is supreme ignorance of what matters most.”
“To be at once exceedingly wealthy and good is impossible.”
“To do injustice is the greatest of all evils.”
“Desires are only the lack of something: and those who have the greatest desires are in a worse condition than those who have none, or very slight ones.”
“If anyone does not in accord with the Holy Fathers acknowledge the holy and ever virgin and immaculate Mary was really and truly the Mother of God, inasmuch as she, in the fullness of time,and without seed, conceived by the Holy Spirit, God in the Word Himself, who before all time was born of God the Father, and without loss of integrity brought Him forth, and after His birth preserved her virginity inviolate, let him be condemned.”
“Yes, the divorce was difficult. It was difficult.”
“It doesn't look like much work goes on at this university.”
“Who over-refines his argument brings himself to grief”
“Time, time, time, see what's become of me, While I looked around, For my possibilities; I was so hard to please”
“They were beginning to burn churches. They were beginning to move beyond crosses... They burned churches because they understood that the Christian faith was what inspired the movement and kept it going.”
“When I lost my decathlon world record I took it like a man. I only cried for ten hours.”