“The percentage of couples who stay together after high school is, like, less than five percent, you guys.”
Sad feeling
Sad Quotes — page 265 of 475
“Moreover, nothing is so rare as to see misfortune fairly portrayed; the tendency is either to treat the unfortunate person as though catastrophe were his natural vocation, or to ignore the effects of misfortune on the soul, to assume, that is, that the soul can suffer and remain unmarked by it, can fail, in fact, to be recast in misfortune's image.”
“The sad rhyme of the men who proudly clung To their first fault, and withered in their pride.”
“Bullying is a terrible, terrible thing.”
“You see how when rivers are swollen in winter those trees that yield to the flood retain their branches, but those that offer resistance perish, trunk and all.”
“Man's worst ill is stubbornness of heart.”
“You cannot know a man's life before the man has died, then only can you call it good or bad.”
“For even bold natures flee, whenever they see Hades close to life.”
“There is an ancient saying, famous among men, that thou shouldst not judge fully of a man's life before he dieth, whether it should be called blest or wretched.”
“War never takes a wicked man by chance, the good man always.”
“How dreadful knowledge of the truth can be when there's no help in truth!”
“It's terrible when the one who does the judging judges things all wrong.”
“A poet is an unhappy creature whose heart is tortured by deepest suffering but whose lips are so formed that when his sighs and cries stream out over them, their sound beomes like the sound of beautiful music . . . . And men flock about the poet saying, Sing for us soon again; that is to say, may new sufferings torture your soul, and may your lips continue to be formed as before.”
“To be true to oneself is the hardest test of life.”
“People, who live below their means, save for a rainy day - the price is a cheap life. There are a lot of people who have a lot of money; but at the end of the process, they are still cheap; so they have made money their God.”
“Congratulations on your job at the bank! Yes. You work for the bank. After taxes, your largest expense is your mortgage and credit-card debt.”
“There's a similarity in both being young people who are not about the politics of respectability.”
“Suicide carried off many. Drink and the devil took care of the rest”
“Some day...after I am dead, you may perhaps come to learn the right and wrong of this. I cannot tell you.”
“It's the idea that we just have to go along, we can't change it, things won't change. I think that's the sad part, the sad reality traditional parties have bred in parts of Atlantic Canada.”