“And the story of love is a long sad tale ending in graves.”
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Sad Quotes — page 228 of 475
“The cowboy music twanged in the roadhouse and carried across the fields, all sadness. It was all right with me. I kissed my baby and we put out the lights.”
“This is a steady, ceaseless process, impossible to contain as long as the economy driven by the endless accumulation of capital. The system may prolong its life by slowing down some of the activities which are wearing it out, but death always looms somewhere on the horizon.”
“Defeats are always pitiful. Victories are always last resources.”
“It would seem that it was not in the interest of 'someone' for us to make progress. It was in 'someone's' interest that we be always at war, that we tear each other to pieces. Yes, I'm inclined to absolve the Pakistanis. How should they have behaved? Someone encouraged them to attack us, someone gave them weapons to attack us. And they attacked us.”
“Happiness is such a fleeting point of view - there's no such thing as continual happiness.”
“Poverty assumes so many aspects here in India. There aren't only the poor that you see in the cities, there are the poor among the tribes, the poor who live in the forest, the poor who live on the mountains. Should we ignore them as long as the poor in the cities are better off? And better off with reference to what? To what people wanted ten years ago? Then it seemed like so much. Today it's no longer so much.”
“When you're going through a breakup, you should just let yourself feel everything so you can get over it as opposed to pretending everything's okay and dragging it out.”
“I'm really private, and also, when I'm home, I'm home. I don't like people in on my business. I believe that you can be overexposed.”
“My joy is as painful as my pain.”
“I know nothing and my heart aches”
“I asked for very little from life, and even this little was denied me.”
“A mutual misunderstanding.”
“There is only one real tragedy in a woman's life. The fact that her past is always her lover, and her future invariably her husband.”
“Crying is the refuge of plain women but the ruin of pretty ones.”
“I expect I shall have to die beyond my means.”
“The ugly and stupid have the best of it in this world. They can sit at their ease and gape at the play. If they know nothing of victory, they are at least spared the knowledge of defeat. They live as we all should live-- undisturbed, indifferent, and without disquiet. They never bring ruin upon others, nor ever receive it from alien hands. Your rank and wealth, Henry; my brains, such as they are-- my art, whatever it may be worth; Dorian Gray's good looks-- we shall all suffer for what the gods have given us, suffer terribly.”
“Death and vulgarity are the only two facts in the nineteenth century that one cannot explain away.”
“If it took Labouchere three columns to prove that I was forgotten, then there is no difference between fame and obscurity.”
“The body sins once, and has done with its sin, for action is a mode of purification. Nothing remains then but the recollection of a pleasure, or the luxury of a regret.”