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Sad Quotes — page 196 of 475
“In any really good subject, one has only to probe deep enough to come to tears.”
“They say I teach brutal football, but the only thing brutal about football is losing.”
“I didn't have a thing to do with picking a coach, and didn't want to. But I didn't think they'd pick one I didn't like.”
“Georgia Tech beat us and Mississippi Southern tied us last year, and Texas beat us after we had the game won. We only played about five games the way we were capable of playing and lost one of those.”
“When I see a cheerful young man shrieking about how full of life he is, banging on a drum, and blowing on a tin trumpet, and speaking of his good spirits, it depresses me, since naturally it gives the contrary impression. It can't be real. It ought to be but it isn't. If the noisy person meant what he said, he wouldn't say it.”
“Poverty is clearly one source of emotional suffering, but there are others, like loneliness. A policy to reduce the loneliness of the elderly would certainly reduce suffering.”
“Young people are cynical about love. Ultimately, cynicism is the great mask of the disappointed and betrayed heart.”
“Both men and women remain in dysfunctional, loveless relationships when it is materially opportune.”
“If I'm feeling hurt, sad, lonely, depressed, and then I shame myself for feeling that, then that's a black hole for me. I really have worked a lot to meet pain with both gratitude and gentleness.”
“Reality hasn't really intervened in my mother's life since the seventies.”
“But I would never insult the people that love this music and I would never insult the blessing of music in my life and I would never insult myself by playing uninspired music.”
“I found myself within a forest dark.”
“That which had pleased me once, troubled by spirit.”
“There is a place in Hell called the Malebolge.”
“Thou shall know by experience how salt the savor is of others' bread, and how sad a path it is to climb and descend another's stairs.”
“Your fame is as the grass, whose hue comes and goes, and His might withers it by whose power it sprang from the lap of the earth.”
“There is in hell a place stone-built throughout, Called Malebolge, of an iron hue, Like to the wall that circles it about.”
“Less shame a greater fault would palliate.”
“Do ye not comprehend that we are worms born to bring forth the angelic butterfly that flieth unto judgment without screen?”