“Our thoughts are often worse than we are.”
Sad feeling
Sad Quotes — page 272 of 475
“The years seem to rush by now, and I think of death as a fast approaching end of a journey-double and treble reason for loving as well as working while it is day.”
“We mortals, men and women, devour many a disappointment between breakfast and dinnertime.”
“The world of education is like an island where people cut off from the world are prepared for life by exclusion from it.”
“The night is dark, the waters deep, Yet soft the billows roll; Alas! at every breeze I weep — The storm is in my soul.”
“The United States has tried for years to live down President Franklin D. Roosevelt's order during World War II to move Japanese-Americans on the West Coast to inland detention camps on grounds that they might be disloyal.”
“Would you know what money is, go borrow some.”
“The wine in the bottle does not quench thirst.”
“There's nothing beautiful about somebody killing themselves.”
“What good is it being Marilyn Monroe? Why can't I just be an ordinary woman?”
“Trying to build myself up with the fact that I have done things right that were even good and have had moments that were excellent but the bad is heavier to carry around and feel have no confidence.”
“England is the most class-ridden country under the sun. It is a land of snobbery and privilege, ruled largely by the old and silly.”
“The result of this is that so-called peace propaganda is just as dishonest and intellectually disgusting as war propaganda. Like war propaganda, it concentrates on putting forward a ‘case’, obscuring the opponent’s point of view and avoiding awkward questions.”
“From the proletarians nothing is to be feared. Left to themselves, they will continue from generation to generation and from century to century, working, breeding, and dying, not only without any impulse to rebel, but without the power of grasping that the world could be other than it is.”
“Perhaps it is only when people are somewhere near the starvation level that they have anything to sing about.”
“And what lesson can we draw from Volantene history? If you want to conquer the world, you best have dragons.”
“I'm tired. I'm going back to bed.”
“It is not society's fault that most men seem to miss their vocation. Most men have no vocation.”
“It seems to me that the earth belongs to God who made it and entrusted it to men as a perpetual home. But it cannot have been part of His plan that some men should be ill with overfeeding and that others should die of starvation. No matter what anyone can say they cannot prevent me from feeling sad and angry when I see a beggar crying at a rich man's door.”
“I die hard but am not afraid to go.”