“Some things were better lost than found.”
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Sad Quotes — page 223 of 475
“Being sorry for myself is a luxury I can't afford.”
“You think the only people who are people, Are the ones who look and think the way you do, But if you walk the footsteps of a stranger, You'll learn the things you never knew you never knew... You can own the Earth and still, All you'll own is earth until You can paint with all the colors of the wind.”
“Only then does he realize what he has done to Mirabelle, how wanting a square inch of her and not all of her has damaged them both, and how he cannot justify his actions except that, well, it was life.”
“I think we were all initially swept along with the Obama win, but he's proven to be simply a set of teeth, and useless in every other regard.”
“How young can you die of old age?”
“The main problem with solar on the Earth's surface is that it is so intermittent, and we don't have decent storage yet.”
“In bad times, the rich usually get richer.”
“One day, a pretty, fresh-faced young lady - intelligent and sincerely concerned - asked me if abortion wasn't preferable to making a young, unmarried girl have a baby she didn't want and which would, therefore, grow up unloved and probably turn out to be a criminal. I gave an answer which apparently she hadn't considered. I told her there were literally millions of people in this country who wanted but could not have children and who waited eagerly, sometimes for years, to adopt the baby she had described.”
“I think of the saddest thing I can and then add a sick dog to that. If I think of a sick dog from the beginning, I just stop there.”
“The bias against introversion leads to a colossal waste of talent, energy, and happiness.”
“It is selfish to concern oneself with tragedies.”
“Growing older is mainly an ordeal of the imagination-a moral disease, a social pathology.”
“Experiences aren't pornographic; only images and representations - structures of the imagination - are.”
“In NY sensuality completely turns into sexuality - no objects for the senses to respond to, no beautiful river, houses, people. Awful smells of the street, and dirt... Nothing except eating, if that, and the frenzy of the bed.”
“With the modern diseases (once TB, now cancer) the romantic idea that the disease expresses the character is invariably extended to assert that the character causes the disease -- because it has not expressed itself. Passion moves inward, striking and blighting the deepest cellular recesses.”
“I wonder about all the roads not taken and am moved to quote Frost...but won't. It is sad to be able only to mouth other poets. I want someone to mouth me.”
“I have never voted. Like most people I am utterly disenchanted by politics. Like most people I regard politicians as frauds and liars and the current political system as nothing more than a bureaucratic means for furthering the augmentation and advantages of economic elites.”
“Addiction is a serious desease; it will end with jail, mental institutions or death.”
“What I am finding now is that my audience is getting younger as I get older, which is a very good thing as you know - you don't want them to get older as you get older.”