“Brain surgery is a terrible profession. If I did not feel it will become different in my lifetime, I should hate it.”
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Sad Quotes — page 34 of 475
“We are never so defensless against suffering as when we love.”
“Nothing records the effects of a sad life so graphically as the human body.”
“She felt so old, so worn out, so far away from the best moments of her life that she even yearned for those that she remembered as the worst… Her heart of compressed ash, which had resisted the most telling blows of daily reality without strain, fell apart with the first waves of nostalgia. The need to feel sad was becoming a vice as the years eroded her. She became human in her solitude.”
“No social problem is as universal as the oppression of the child”
“Selfishness must always be forgiven you know, because there is no hope of a cure.”
“The spectacle of what is called religion, or at any rate organised religion, in India and elsewhere, has filled me with horror and I have frequently condemned it and wished to make a clean sweep of it. Almost always it seemed to stand for blind belief and reaction, dogma and bigotry, superstition, exploitation and the preservation of vested interests.”
“The problem is that everybody treats teenagers like they're stupid.”
“As long as you feel like a victim, you are one.”
“In your eyes of mourning the land of dreams begins.”
“One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living.”
“So you are the people tearing down the Brazilian rainforest and breeding cattle.”
“Skepticism is the sadism of embittered souls.”
“The sadistic person is as dependent on the submissive person as the latter is on the former; neither can live without the other. The difference is only that the sadistic person commands, exploits, hurts, humiliates, and that the masochistic person is commanded, exploited, hurt, humiliated. This is a considerable difference in a realistic sense; in a deeper emotional sense, the difference is not so great as that which they both have in common: fusion without integrity .”
“We wait always for something that does not come.”
“At some future period, not very distant as measured by centuries, the civilised races of man will almost certainly exterminate and replace throughout the world the savage races. At the same time the anthropomorphous apes, as Professor Schaaffhausen has remarked, will no doubt be exterminated. The break will then be rendered wider, for it will intervene between man in a more civilised state as we may hope, than the Caucasian and some ape as low as a baboon, instead of as at present between the negro or Australian and the gorilla.”
“No one wants the truth if it is inconvenient.”
“There is no worse mistake in public leadership than to hold out false hope soon to be swept away.”
“Most people stand on the dock of life waiting for their ship to come in when deep down inside they know it has never left port.”
“I don't think there will be a woman Prime Minister in my lifetime.”