“Do not dump your woes upon people — keep the sad story of your life to yourself. Troubles grow by recounting them.”
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Sad Quotes — page 251 of 475
“I have tried to keep memory alive... I have tried to fight those who would forget. Because if we forget, we are guilty, we are accomplices.”
“A man who is fighting for the future of mankind is not waiting for torture, he's waiting for -- the Revolution.”
“It was the beginning of the war. I was twelve years old, my parents were alive, and God still dwelt in our town.”
“I was full of a hot, powerful sadness and would have loved to burst into the comfort of tears, but tried hard not to, remembering something my Guru once said -- that you should never give yourself a chance to fall apart because, when you do, it becomes a tendency and it happens over and over again. You must practice staying strong, instead.”
“On Mother's Day: It's just a rip-off, to tell the truth, a chance to sell my perfume and other things that ladies like.”
“Never, under any circumstance, do I touch soup, as I do not believe in building a meal on a lake.”
“No, I don't take soup. You can't build a meal on a lake.”
“There is no limit to suffering.”
“He who is not happy with little will never be happy with much.”
“We have a religious renaissance today in America, as many people say. I would say this religious renaissance, ninety percent of it is the greatest danger true religious experience has ever been confronted with.”
“I will never understand children. I never pretended to. I meet mothers all the time who make resolutions to themselves. 'I'm going to ... go out of my way to show them I am interested in them and what they do. I am going to understand my children.' These women end up making rag rugs, using blunt scissors.”
“It was like certain dinners I remember from the war. There was much wine, an ignored tension, and a feeling of things coming that you could not prevent happening. Under the wine I lost the disgusted feeling and was happy. It seemed they were all such nice people.”
“And who understands? Not me, because if I did I would forgive it all.”
“After writing a story I was always empty and both sad and happy, as though I had made love.”
“it is usually in better taste to praise an isolated action or a production of genius, than a man's character as a whole.”
“If all the good people were clever And all the clever people were good The world would be nicer than ever We thought that it possibly could. But somehow, 'tis seldom or ner The two hit it off as they should The good are so harsh to the clever The clever so rude to the good!”
“Beauty is only skin deep; ugliness goes all the way through.”
“Once more it was borne in on him that marriage was not the safe anchorage he had been taught to think, but a voyage on uncharted seas.”
“In every heart there should be one grief that is like a well in the desert.”