“If we judge love by most of its effects, it resembles rather hatred than affection.”
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Sad Quotes — page 232 of 475
“The happiness and misery of men depend no less on temper than fortune.”
“Usually I avoided college students, whom I considered brutal, wrapped up in themselves, particularly in their youth, in which they found material for drama or an excuse for their own boredom. I did not care for young people.”
“The British regulatory system was revised, so that bigger profits were encouraged, which removed the option of big spending on programming. Quality just fell off a cliff, and all the old hands either left or were fired for being too expensive.”
“The more you have, the more people want to use you and damage you.”
“Hawaii doesn't win many games in the United States.”
“At the Isle of Wight, the sound went out and kind of kept on going. And I wasn't... when I came off stage I was kind of unhappy about how we had played. But now, I listen back to those recordings and it's not bad.”
“Such poverty as we have today in all our great cities degrades the poor, and infects with its degradation the whole neighborhood in which they live. And whatever can degrade a neighborhood can degrade a country and a continent and finally the whole civilized world, which is only a large neighborhood.”
“You have learnt something. That always feels at first as if you had lost something.”
“The English have no respect for their language, and will not teach their children to speak it.”
“The sicker you get, the harder it is to remember if you took your medicine.”
“I consider the coke a major cause. Of course, you could also make the argument that because cocaine speeds up the heart, it's good for you.”
“And what 's impossible can't be, And never, never comes to pass.”
“For my part I am very sorry for him. It is an uneasy lot at best, to be what we call highly taught and yet not to enjoy: to be present at this great spectacle of life and never to be liberated from a small hungry shivering self--never to be fully possessed by the glory we behold, never to have our consciousness rapturously transformed into the vividness of a thought, the ardour of a passion, the energy of an action, but always to be scholarly and uninspired, ambitious and timid, scrupulous and dimsighted.”
“It is a fact capable of amiable interpretation that ladies are not the worst disposed towards a new acquaintance of their own sex, because she has points of inferiority.”
“It's easy finding reasons why other folks should be patient.”
“Surely it is not true blessedness to be free of sorrow while there is sorrow and sin in the world. Sorrow is a part of love and love does not seek to throw it off.”
“Half the sorrows of women would be averted if they could repress the speech they know to be useless-nay, the speech they have resolved not to utter.”
“The disappointments of life can never, any more than its pleasures, be estimated singly; and the healthiest and most agreeable of men is exposed to that coincidence of various vexations, each heightening the effect of the other, which may produce in him something corresponding to the spontaneous and externally unaccountable moodiness of the morbid and disagreeable.”
“To the old, sorrow is sorrow; to the young, it is despair.”