“If you cry because the sun has gone out of your life, your tears will prevent you from seeing the stars.”
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Sad Quotes — page 2 of 475
“Life, as we find it, is too hard for us; it brings us too many pains, disappointments and impossible tasks. In order to bear it we cannot dispense with palliative measures... There are perhaps three such measures: powerful deflections, which cause us to make light of our misery; substitutive satisfactions, which diminish it; and intoxicating substances, which make us insensible to it.”
“I have a hard time accepting diversity as a synonym for justice. Diversity is a corporate strategy.”
“You never stop loving someone. You just learn to live without them.”
“There are many things that can only be seen through eyes that have cried”
“I like your Christ. I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ.”
“We have a system of justice in [the US] that treats you much better if you're rich and guilty than if you're poor and innocent. Wealth, not culpability, shapes outcomes.”
“Oh, my God. What if you wake up some day, and you're 65 or 75, and you never got your novel or memoir written; or you didn't go swimming in warm pools or oceans because your thighs were jiggly or you had a nice big comfortable tummy; or you were just so strung out on perfectionism and people-pleasing that you forgot to have a big juicy creative life, of imagination and radical silliness and staring off into space like when you were a kid? It's going to break your heart. Don't let this happen.”
“What hurts the victim most is not the cruelty of the oppressor, but the silence of the bystander.”
“Fear of something is at the root of hate for others, and hate within will eventually destroy the hater.”
“People in their natural state are basically good. But this natural innocence,however, is corrupted by the evils of society.”
“I bought a cactus. A week later it died. And I got depressed, because I thought, Damn. I am less nurturing than a desert.”
“Day by day, case by case, the Supreme Court is busy designing a Constitution for a country I do not recognize.”
“It is better to be unhappy and know the worst, than to be happy in a fool's paradise.”
“Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.”
“Love, friendship and respect do not unite people as much as common hatred for something.”
“Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player, that struts and frets his hour upon the stage, and then is heard no more; it is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.”
“No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the far greater part of the members are poor and miserable.”
“Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.”
“Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide.”