“Things have a way of turning out so badly.”
Sad feeling
Sad Quotes — page 216 of 475
“It is the common vice of all, in old age, to be too intent upon our interests.”
“Nowadays those are rewarded who make right appear wrong.”
“I mention my age because I find people in this country - women, not men, of course - women are so troubled by their age. There's a culture of youth, and it's a phony culture.”
“Winter was nothing but a season of snow; spring, allergies; and summer...It was the worst. That was swimsuit season.”
“Resentment is a union of sorrow with malignity; a combination of a passion which all endeavor to avoid with a passion which all concur to detest.”
“That all who are happy are equally happy is not true. A peasant and a philosopher may be equally satisfied, but not equally happy. A small drinking glass and a large one may be equally full, but the large one holds more than the small.”
“I would not give half a guinea to live under one form of government rather than another. It is of no moment to the happiness of an individual.”
“Apologies are seldom of any use.”
“Plenty is the original cause of many of our needs; and even the poverty, which is so frequent and distressful in civilized nations, proceeds often from that change of manners which opulence has produced. Nature makes us poor only when we want necessaries; but custom gives the name of poverty to the want of superfluities.”
“Riches exclude only one inconvenience,--that is, poverty.”
“Rags will always make their appearance where they have a right to do it.”
“I also admit, that there are some sluggish men who are improved by drinking; as there are fruits which are not good till they are rotten.”
“Nothing is more hopeless than a scheme of merriment.”
“To be idle and to be poor have always been reproaches, and therefore every man endeavors with his utmost care to hide his poverty from others, and his idleness from himself.”
“Such is the state of life, that none are happy but by the anticipation of change: the change itself is nothing; when we have made it, the next wish is to change again.”
“Prepare for death, if here at night you roam, and sign your will before you sup from home.”
“He who expects much will be often disappointed; yet disappointment seldom cures us of expectation, or has any other effect than that of producing a moral sentence or peevish exclamation.”
“This mournful truth is everywhere confessed, slow rises worth by poverty depressed.”
“To tell of disappointment and misery, to thicken the darkness of futurity, and perplex the labyrinth of uncertainty, has been always a delicious employment of the poets”