“I was adopted into this incredible home, a loving, positive environment, yet I had this yearning, this kind of darkness that was also inside me.”
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Sad Quotes — page 226 of 475
“I always remind myself that [ Jean-Paul] Sartre and [Simone] de Beauvoir didn't have children. And when you don't have children, it might be easier to believe that the child doesn't come with something.”
“If this [national Democratic Party] is a national party, sushi is our national dish. Today, our national Democratic leaders look south and say, "I see one-third of a nation and it can go to hell."”
“Medicines are only fit for old people.”
“You won't find me in a romantic comedy. Those movies don't speak to me. People don't come to talk to me about those scripts, because they probably think I'm this dark, twisted, miserable person.”
“I know I can feel bad, when I get in a bad mood, and the world can look so sad, only you make me feel good.”
“The real meaning of economic equality is "To each according to his need."”
“It is a sad thing that our schoolboys look upon manual labour with disfavour, if not contempt.”
“I lost my reputation, I forgot my truth. But I have my beauty and I have my youth.”
“Don't make me sad, don't make me cry. Sometimes love is not enough and the road gets tough, I don't know why.”
“I got the Weary Blues And I can't be satisfied.”
“It's such a Bore Being always Poor.”
“I felt very bad in Washington. . . I didn't like my job, and I didn't know what was going to happen to me, and I was cold and half-hungry, so I wrote a great many poems.”
“The people starve because those above them eat too much tax-grain. That is the only reason why they starve.”
“It took me the bulk of my twenties to write one book about a family of alligator wrestlers. Whereas somebody like Steve Martin is releasing his latest banjo symphony, having just completed another movie and acclaimed, best-selling novel.”
“If you're short on time, that would be the two-word version of our story: we fell.”
“I wish life was not so short. Languages take such a time, and so do all the things one wants to know about.”
“A red sun rises. Blood has been spilled this night.”
“Tears unnumbered ye shall shed.”
“It was an evil doom that set her in his path. For she is a fair maiden, fairest lady of a house of queens. And yet I know not how I should speak of her. When I first looked on her and perceived her unhappiness, it seemed to me that I saw a white flower standing straight and proud, shapely as a lily and yet knew that it was hard, as if wrought by elf-wrights out of steel.”