“You know this old style of American family series? Well, I sit there and cry.”
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Sad Quotes — page 235 of 475
“I have dreamed much and have done very little.”
“She was as sated with him as he was tired of her. Emma had rediscovered in adultery all the banality of marriage.”
“Happiness is a monstrosity! Punished are those who seek it.”
“Boredom, that silent spider, was spinning its web in the darkness in every corner of her heart.”
“She would have liked not to be alive, or to be always asleep.”
“This morning, for the first time in a long time, the joy again of imagining a knife twisted in my heart.”
“We need the books that affect us like a disaster”
“The neoliberal programs of the last generation have in fact been, and were intended to be, a pretty serious attack on democracy, but also they've led to stagnation or decline for large parts of the population - the working class, the lower middle class, these people have essentially been cast aside.”
“In the major state capitalists economies, Europe and the US, it's low growth and stagnation and a very sharp income differentiation a shift - a striking shift - from production to financialization.”
“Women didn't have rights. Under British common law, women were property.”
“The fall of the present bureaucratic dictatorship [in the Soviet Union], if it were not replaced by a new socialist power, would thus mean a return to capitalist relations with a catastrophic decline of industry and culture.”
“When you've fallen on the highway / and you're lying in the rain, / and they ask you how you're doing / of course you'll say you can't complain.”
“Lust is the cause of generation.”
“Every one who marries goes it blind, more or less.”
“People here are quite struck aback at Sunday's news of the capture of New Orleans. It took them three days to make up their minds to believe it. The division of American had become an idea so fixed that they had about shut out all the avenues to the reception of any other.”
“My life has been the poem I would have writ, But I could not both live and utter it.”
“Scholars are wont to sell their birthright for a mess of learning.”
“I know a good woman who thinks that her son lost his life because he took to drinking water only.”
“The only fruit which even much living yields seems to be often only some trivial success,--the ability to do some slight thing better. We make conquest only of husks and shells for the most part,--at least apparently,--but sometimes these are cinnamon and spices, you know.”