“Youth can only assert itself through the conviction that its ventures surpass all others and resemble nothing.”
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Sad Quotes — page 240 of 475
“There is no such thing as happiness. Life bends joy and pain, beauty and ugliness, in such a way that no one may isolate them. No one should want to. Perfect joy, or perfect pain, with no contrasting element to define them, would mean a monotony of consciousness, would mean death”
“How many famous and high-spirited heroes have lived a day too long?”
“She suffers as a miser. She must be miserly with her pleasures, as well. I wonder if sometimes she doesn't wish she were free of this monotonous sorrow, of these mutterings which start as soon as she stops singing, if she doesn't wish to suffer once and for all, to drown herself in despair. In any case, it would be impossible for her: she is bound.”
“Life is a joyous thing essentially, but when you bind life by all these rigid moralities and traditions, and dogmas and creeds, then there is misery.”
“I think if we all acted the way we felt, four out of eight people at a dinner table would be sitting there sobbing.”
“See, that's nothing but blues, that's all I'm singing about. It's today's blues.”
“By crying on my bed, drinking quite a lot and feeling tempted by drugs. Well, just not reading it to be perfectly honest with you. I know it's a bit of a copout.”
“Fortunately, we can take in only so much misfortune; what exceeds that limit either destroys us or leaves us indifferent.”
“A state of affairs which leads to daily vexation is not the right state.”
“While man's desires and aspirations stir he cannot choose but err.”
“Who never ate his bread in sorrow, Who never spent the darksome hours Weeping, and watching for the morrow,- He knows you not, ye heavenly Powers.”
“Alas! sorrow from happiness is oft evolved.”
“No wonder we are all more or less pleased with mediocrity, since it leaves us at rest, and gives the same comfortable feeling as when one associates with his equals.”
“The misfortune in the state is, that nobody can enjoy life in peace, but that everybody must govern; and in art, that nobody will enjoy what has been produced, but that every one wants to reproduce on his own account.”
“Had I been chosen President again, I am certain I could not have lived another year.”
“O how feeble is man's power, that if good fortune fall, cannot add another hour, nor a lost hour recall!”
“Sleep is pain's easiest salve, and doth fulfil All offices of death, except to kill.”
“All our life is but a going out to the place of execution, to death.”
“If poisonous minerals, and if that tree, Whose fruit threw death on else immortal us, If lecherous goats, if serpents envious Cannot be damned; alas; why should I be?”