“There's a sadness to all kinds of music if you want to hear it. There's also happiness to it if you want to hear it.”
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Sad Quotes — page 35 of 475
“There's a dark side to everything.”
“Oh yeah In France a skinny man Died of a big disease with a little name By chance his girlfriend came across a needle And soon she did the same At home there are seventeen-year-old boys And their idea of fun Is being in a gang called The Disciples High on crack, totin' a machine gun.”
“The only thing more unthinkable than leaving was staying; the only thing more impossible than staying was leaving.”
“Baton Rouge happens to be the worst place in the world for a visiting team. It's like being inside a drum.”
“We don’t even ask happiness, just a little less pain.”
“What goes around comes back around.”
“An unacknowledged trauma is like a wound that never heals over and may start to bleed again at any time.”
“Wrong is wrong only when you are at liberty to choose.”
“It's hard to care when no one loves you.”
“Perhaps the gods are kind to us, by making life more disagreeable as we grow older. In the end death seems less intolerable than the manifold burdens we carry”
“What is a poet? An unhappy person who conceals profound anguish in his heart but whose lips are so formed that as sighs and cries pass over them they sound like beautiful music.”
“To us who remain behind is left this day of memories. Every year--in the full tide of spring, at the height of the symphony of flowers and love and life--there comes a pause, and through the silence we hear the lonely pipe of death.”
“The Flower that once has blown forever dies.”
“Time is jealous of you, and wars against your lilies and your roses.”
“As you grow older, you'll see white men cheat black men every day of your life, but let me tell you something and don't you forget it - whenever a white man does that to a black man, no matter who he is, how rich he is, or how fine a family he comes from, he is trash.”
“If someone decides they're not going to be happy, it's not your problem. You don't have to spend your time and energy trying to cheer up someone who has already decided to stay in a bad mood. Believe it or not, you can actually hurt people by playing into their self-pity.”
“And then there stole into my fancy, like a rich musical note, the thought of what sweet rest there must be in the grave.”
“And each separate dying ember wrought its ghost upon the floor.”
“The aim of life is to be fully born, though its tragedy is that most of us die before we are thus born.”