“Indifference is the revenge the world takes on mediocrities.”
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Sad Quotes — page 270 of 475
“The quivering, ardent sunlight showed him the lines of cruelty round the mouth as clearly as if he had been looking into a mirror after he had done some dreadful thing.”
“Alluring pleasure is said to have softened the savage dispositions (of early mankind). [Lat., Blanda truces animos fertur mollisse voluptas.]”
“It is prudence that first forsakes the wretched.”
“Trusting no man as his friend, he could not recognize his enemy when the latter actually appeared.”
“Death was too definite an object to be wished for or avoided.”
“It's sadly predictable that the only way you can come up with a way to celebrate the liberation you feel at leaving the old system behind is by coming up with a "system of liberation", as if such a thing could exist - but that's what we can expect from those who have never known anything other than systems and systematizing, I guess.”
“The ruthless economic exploitation and political oppression of the peasants by the landlord class forced them into numerous uprisings against its rule.... It was the class struggles of the peasants, the peasant uprisings and peasant wars that constituted the real motive force of historical development in Chinese feudal society.”
“Marriage, in my culture, has nothing to do with romance. It's a matter of logic. If Mr. and Mrs. Ahmadi like Mr. and Mrs. Nejari, then their children should get married. On the other hand, if the parents don't like each other, but the children do, well, this is where sad poetry comes from.”
“Being poor is like being a child. Being rich is like being an adult: you get to do whatever you want. Everyone is nice when they have to be; rich people are nice when they feel like it.”
“I'm like the laziest person who ever lived. It's amazing to me I even sit up.”
“There were faces at the windows and words written in blood; deep in the crypt a lonely ghoul crunched on something that might once have been alive; forked lightnings slashed the ebony night; the faceless were walking; all was right with the world”
“If humans one day become extinct from a catastrophic collision, there would be no greater tragedy in the history of life in the universe. Not because we lacked the brain power to protect ourselves but because we lacked the foresight. The dominant species that replaces us in post-apocalyptic Earth just might wonder, as they gaze upon our mounted skeletons in their natural history museums, why large headed Homo sapiens fared no better than the proverbially peabrained dinosaurs.”
“I was out there for 12 days. There are more beggars in Soho than there are in Kabul.”
“I see a woman in the night with a baby in her hand, under an old street light near a garbage can.”
“Mother Goose, she's on the skids. Sure ain't happy, neither are the kids.”
“It is better to burn out then fade away”
“Only when a woman decides not to have children, can a woman live like a man. That's what I've done.”
“Although women do two-thirds of the world's labor, they own less than one percent of the world's assets.”
“You think, 'Musicals, they must always be romantic' - You'd be surprised how few of them historically have ever been romantic.”