“What I'd really like to say about stardom is that it gave me everything I never wanted.”
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Sad Quotes — page 33 of 475
“Winter lies too long in country towns; hangs on until it is stale and shabby, old and sullen.”
“The falcon cannot hear the falconer”
“There are more tears shed over answered prayers than over unanswered prayers.”
“Some people—and I am one of them—hate happy ends. We feel cheated. Harm is the norm. Doom should not jam. The avalanche stopping in its tracks a few feet above the cowering village behaves not only unnaturally but unethically.”
“Happiness is the greatest hiding place for despair.”
“The poor, the unsuccessful, the unhappy, the unhealthy are the ones who use the word tomorrow the most.”
“I wish the rent Was heaven sent.”
“Socialists have always spent much of their time seeking new titles for their beliefs, because the old versions so quickly become outdated and discredited.”
“When it's in a book I don't think it'll hurt any more ...exist any more. One of the things writing does is wipe things out. Replace them.”
“Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.”
“Ah cher ami, how poor in invention men are! They are They always think one commits suicide for a reason. But it's quite possible to commit suicide for two reasons. No, that never occurs to them. So what's the good of dying intentionally, of sacrificing yourself to the idea you want people to have of you? Once you are dead, they will take advantage of it to attribute idiotic or vulgar motives to your action. Martyrs, cher ami, must choose between being forgotten, mocked, or made use of. As for being understood--never!”
“The goal of all life is death”
“Puberty was definitely difficult for me.”
“Politics is a jungle-torn between doing the right thing and staying in office.”
“Deep in the shady sadness of a vale Far sunken from the healthy breath of morn, Far from the fiery noon and eve's one star, Sat gray-haired Saturn, quiet as a stone, Still as the silence round about his lair.”
“In women everything is heart, even the head.”
“Love and knowledge, so far as they were possible, led upward toward the heavens. But always pity brought me back to earth. Echoes of cries of pain reverberate in my heart. Children in famine, victims tortured by oppressors, helpless old people a burden to their sons, and the whole world of loneliness, poverty, and pain make a mockery of what human life should be. I long to alleviate this evil, but I cannot, and I too suffer.”
“I feel quite sad for the young musicians coming up because they may never get to pay their rent properly. It doesn't matter what the genre; nowadays, it's so much harder than it ever was.”
“I don't mind growing old. If I have to go before my time, this is how I'll go-- cigarette in one hand, glass of scotch in the other.”