“No matter how the sun shone, the sea held forth no more promises.”
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Sad Quotes — page 204 of 475
“The Poor Man whom everyone speaks of, the Poor Man whom everyone pities, one of the repulsive Poor from whom charitable souls keep their distance, he has still said nothing. Or, rather, he has spoken through the voice of Victor Hugo, Zola, Richepin. At least, they said so. And these shameful impostures fed their authors. Cruel irony, the Poor Man tormented with hunger feeds those who plead his case.”
“No longer were there individual destinies; only a collective destiny, made of plague and emotions shared by all.”
“When a war breaks out, people say: "It's too stupid; it can't last long." But though a war may well be "too stupid," that doesn't prevent its lasting. Stupidity has a knack of getting its way; as we should see if we were not always so much wrapped up in ourselves.”
“When the body is sad, the heart languishes.”
“Happiness is not everything and men have their duties. Mine is to find my mother, a homeland”
“Folly is often more cruel in the consequences than malice can be in the intent.”
“There was a thing called Heaven; but all the same they used to drink enormous quantities of alcohol.”
“The sea complains upon a thousand shores.”
“To have to die is a distinction of which no man is proud.”
“Each time we love,We turn a nearer and a broader markTo that keen archer, Sorrow, and he strikes.”
“Does the open wound in another's breast soften the pain of the gaping wound in our own? Or does the blood which is welling from another man's side staunch that which is pouring from our own? Does the general anguish of our fellow creatures lessen our own private and particular anguish? No, no, each suffers on his own account, each struggles with his own grief, each sheds his own tears.”
“For the happy man prayer is only a jumble of words, until the day when sorrow comes to explain to him the sublime language by means of which he speaks to God.”
“On what slender threads do life and fortune hang.”
“Strangely enough, through all those school years I decided at 13 or 14 I was going to be a musician and so school was just something to get out of the way, a waste of time and not to bother with it.”
“The student community of Presidency College was also politically most active.”
“Civilization degrades the many to exalt the few.”
“I probably never would have been hired on Broadway had I not moved out to LA and pursued acting and film, which is sad really.”
“From the satisfaction of desire there may arise, accompanying joy and as it were sheltering behind it, something not unlike despair.”
“Martin Luther King said America had given a bad check to black people.”