“Whereas scoundrels become reconciled after knifing one another, lovers break up irrevocably over a mere glance or word.”
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Sad Quotes — page 247 of 475
“Love passes quickly, and passes like a street Arab, anxious to mark his way with mischief.”
“One of my biggest regrets was the fact that as an institution and an international community we could not stop the war in Iraq. That really was very difficult and very painful. Every fibre in my body felt it was wrong. I spoke to leaders, we spoke to people, we tried... we couldn't stop it... and we see the results.”
“In their greatest hour of need, the world failed the people of Rwanda.”
“Asked whether donor nations may be becoming fatigued ... The fatigue may be there, but I don't think we can justify it in the face of such misery. We may need to wake up our conscience and our conscience must force us to act.”
“Jewish people have been victims of anti-Semitism in many parts of the world, and in Europe they were the target of the Holocaust, the ultimate abomination. Yet, we cannot expect Palestinians to accept this as a reason why the wrongs done to them.”
“Our happiness often depends upon social hypocrisies to which we will never stoop.”
“Political liberty, the peace of a nation, and science itself are gifts for which Fate demands a heavy tax in blood!”
“A mother's life, you see, is one long succession of dramas, now soft and tender, now terrible. Not an hour but has its joys and fears.”
“There's nothing I love more than a good cry.”
“After a child has arrived at the legal age for attending school,-whether he be the child of noble or of peasant,-the only two absolute grounds of exemption from attendance are sickness and death.”
“The object of punishment is, prevention from evil; it never can be made impulsive to good.”
“My looks had gone from well-kempt cheerleader to apocalyptic disasterpiece.”
“Every day it becomes clearer that this was the wrong war at the wrong time.”
“I was very poor and I was a waitress, and it's hard to be a poor waitress in New York.”
“The great object of life is Sensation - to feel that we exist - even though in pain - it is this "craving void" which drives us to gaming - to battle - to travel - to intemperate but keenly felt pursuits of every description whose principal attraction is the agitation inseparable from their accomplishment.”
“A little still she strove, and much repented, And whispering “I will ne'er consent”—consented.”
“Tis an old lesson; time approves it true, And those who know it best, deplore it most; When all is won that all desire to woo, The paltry prize is hardly worth the cost.”
“No ear can hear nor tongue can tell the tortures of the inward hell!”
“Despair and Genius are too oft connected”