“You know, when I was nineteen, Grandpa took me on a roller coaster. Up, down, up, down. Oh, what a ride! I always wanted to go again. You know, it was just so interesting to me that a ride could make me so frightened, so scared, so sick, so excited, and so thrilled all together! Some didn't like it. They went on the merry-go-round. That just goes around. Nothing. I like the roller coaster. You get more out of it.”
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Sad Quotes — page 25 of 475
“Poverty breeds a lot of things. When people are desperate and trying to survive, they do drastic things.”
“It's a source of great sadness to me that my father died without having seen me do anything worthwhile. He was constantly having to make excuses for me.”
“We are eating too much of the wrong thing, and not enough of the right thing”
“Sadly, sadly, the sun rose; it rose upon no sadder sight than the man of good abilities and good emotions, incapable of their directed exercise, incapable of his own help and his own happiness, sensible of the blight on him, and resigning himself to let it eat him away.”
“The heavy rain beat down the tender branches of vine and jessamine, and trampled on them in its fury; and when the lightning gleamed, it showed the tearful leaves shivering and cowering together at the window, and tapping at it urgently, as if beseeching to be sheltered from the dismal night.”
“Nothing is so intolerable to man as being fully at rest, without a passion, without business, without entertainment, without care.”
“If what Proust says is true, that happiness is the absence of fever, then I will never know happiness. For I am possessed by a fever for knowledge, experience, and creation.”
“Human beings cannot be willed and molded into non-existence.”
“O yellow eye, let me be sick with your heat, let me be feverish and frowning.”
“Almost all of our sorrows spring out of our relations with other people.”
“Poverty is often concealed in splendor, and often in extravagance. It is the task of many people to conceal their neediness from others. Consequently they support themselves by temporary means, and everyday is lost in contriving for tomorrow.”
“The evolution of man is slow. The injustice of men is great.”
“From now on, the pound abroad is worth 14 per cent or so less in terms of other currencies. That doesn't mean, of course, that the Pound here in Britain, in your pocket or purse or in your bank, has been devalued.”
“Money doesn't always bring happiness. People with ten million dollars are no happier than people with nine million dollars.”
“Men grow tired of sleep, love, singing and dancing sooner than of war.”
“Man is born passionate of body, but with an innate though secret tendency to the love of Good in his main-spring of Mind. But God help us all! It is at present a sad jar of atoms.”
“To my great disappointment, it appears that the politics of division are making a big comeback. Many Americans share my disappointment - especially those who were filled with great hope a few years ago, when then-Senator Obama announced his candidacy in Springfield, Illinois.”
“That people even in well paid jobs choose ever earlier retirement is a severe indictment of our organizations - not just business, but government service, the universities. These people don't find their jobs interesting.”
“The Jews are a nervous people. Nineteen centuries of Christian love have taken a toll.”