“Today, when I saw you, I realized that what is between us is nothing more than an illusion.”
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Sad Quotes — page 31 of 475
“But Sauron was not of mortal flesh, and though he was robbed now of that shape in which had wrought so great an evil, so that he could never again appear fair to the eyes of Men, yet his spirit arose out of the deep and passed as a shadow and a black wind over the sea, and came back to Middle-earth and to Mordor that was his home. There he took up again his great Ring in Barad-dur, and dwelt there, dark and silent, until he wrought himself a new guise, an image of malice and hatred made visible; and the Eye of Sauron the Terrible few could endure.”
“It is very difficult for the prosperous to be humble.”
“Once upon a time there was a lady. She had no children, and no happiness either. And at first she cried for a long time, but then she became wicked.”
“You know you're getting old when everything hurts. And what doesn't hurt doesn't work.”
“Perhaps more than any other disease before or since, syphilis in early modern Europe provoked the kind of widespread moral panic that AIDS revived when it struck America in the 1980s.”
“No one is without their difficulties, whether in High, or low Life, & every person knows best where their own shoe pinches.”
“Happiness is the most natural thing in the world when you have it, and the slowest, strangest, most impossible thing when you don't. It's like learning a foreign language: You can think about the words all you want, but you'll never be able to speak it until you suck up your courage and say them out loud.”
“Those who depend on television as their primary information source are condemned to .... A form of political illiteracy.”
“Food, clothing and shelter — these are the basic needs. Beyond that, if you want anything, it is the beginning of self-deception.”
“They represent tomorrow's cigarette business. . . As this 14-24 age group matures, they will account for a key share of the total cigarette volume -- for at least the next 25 years.”
“Death is an evil; the gods have so judged; had it been good, they would die.”
“I don't particularly think marriage is a sane thing.”
“Though one can dine in New York, one could not dwell there.”
“All the dreams I dream are nightmares and those nightmares are the ones I live.”
“Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.”
“Most men judge your importance in their lives by how much you can hurt them.”
“My painting carries with it the message of pain.”
“Memories are dangerous things. You turn them over and over, until you know every touch and corner, but still you'll find an edge to cut you.”
“Most people are unhappy; and they are unhappy because there is no love in their hearts.”