“Time has a doomsday book, upon whose pages he is continually recording illustrious names. But as often as a new name is written there, an old one disappears. Only a few stand in illuminated characters never to be effaced.”
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Sad Quotes — page 238 of 475
“There is nothing perfectly secure but poverty.”
“Not joy is the mother of dissipation, but joylessness.”
“Man is more sensitive to the contempt of others than to self-contempt.”
“Spring flies, and with it all the train it leads; and flowers, in fading, leave us but their seeds.”
“No greater grief than to remember days of gladness when sorrow is at hand.”
“Alas! When duty grows thy law, enjoyment fades away.”
“Yes great people are always subject to persecution and always getting into straits.”
“Secrecy is for the happy,--misery, hopeless misery, needs no veil; under a thousand suns it dares act openly.”
“I used to analyze myself down to the last thread, used to compare myself with others, recalled all the smallest glances, smiles and words of those to whom I’d tried to be frank, interpreted everything in a bad light, laughed viciously at my attempts ‘to be like the rest’ –and suddenly, in the midst of my laughing, I’d give way to sadness, fall into ludicrous despondency and once again start the whole process all over again – in short, I went round and round like a squirrel on a wheel.”
“Kabul is... a thousand tragedies per square mile.”
“In the end, the world always wins. That's just the way of things.”
“I found a sad little fairy Beneath the shade of a paper tree. I know a sad little fairy Who was blown away by the wind one night.”
“I think the changes that have happened, there have been come positive, but by and large, you have to say the changes have been negative. The situation has reached a fairly critical stage in Afghanistan.”
“They tell me I must wade into waters, where I will soon drown. Before I march in, I leave this on the shore for you. I pray you find it, sister, so you will know what was in my heart as I went under.”
“The ordinary, utterly mundane reason behind the massacre makes it somehow more terrible, and far more depressing. The word 'senseless' springs to mind, and Idris thwarts it. It's what people always say. A senseless act of violence. A senseless murder. As if you could commit sensible murder.”
“The biggest thing in today's sorrow is the memory of yesterday's joy.”
“That deed which in our guilt we today call weakness, will appear tomorrow as an essential link in the complete chain of Man.”
“I was sorry to have my name mentioned as one of the great authors, because they have a sad habit of dying off. Chaucer is dead, Spencer is dead, so is Milton, so is Shakespeare, and I’m not feeling so well myself.”
“A man accustomed to American food and American domestic cookery would not starve to death suddenly in Europe, but I think he would gradually waste away, and eventually die.”