“As someone who has enjoyed visiting Russia in the past and can also claim a degree of Russian ancestry, it would make me happy to say yes. However, as a gay man, I must decline.”
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Sad Quotes — page 39 of 475
“To err is human. To repeat error is of the Devil.”
“Illusions commend themselves to us because they save us pain and allow us to enjoy pleasure instead.”
“Everyone is overridden by thoughts; that's why they have so much heartache and sorrow.”
“Sometimes the Bible in the hand of one man is worse than a whisky bottle in the hand of another... There are just some kind of men who - who're so busy worrying about the next world they've never learned to live in this one, and you can look down the street and see the results.”
“That's a terrible price to pay because you loved life so much, with the intensity of a thousand suns, and the women and all of it - and then it's all taken away from you. You end up walking the hallways of always to a place called tedium and apathy, day after day after day. Years go by.”
“What an awful thing life is, isn’t it? It’s like soup with lots of hairs floating on the surface. You have to eat it nevertheless.”
“joy and sorrow are inseparable. . . together they come and when one sits alone with you . . remember that the other is asleep upon your bed.”
“The ones who close the path for peacefull revolution, at the same time open the path for violent revolution.”
“The tragedy is when you've got sex in the head instead of down where it belongs.”
“Pain reaches the heart with electrical speed, but truth moves to the heart as slowly as a glacier.”
“Everything means nothing to me”
“Not one change of species into another is on record ... we cannot prove that a single species has been changed.”
“When the Second World War finished, I was 23 and already I had seen enough horror to last me a lifetime. I'd seen dreadful, dreadful things, without saying a word. Seeing horror depicted on film doesn't affect me much.”
“I started learning my lessons in Abbot Texas, where I was born in 1933. My sister Bobbie and I were raised by our grandparents [...] We never had enough money, and Bobbie and I started working at an early age to help the family get by. That hard work included picking cotton. [...] Picking cotton is hard and painful work, and the most lasting lesson I learned in the fields was that I didn't want to spend my life picking cotton.”
“Where I grew up in Brooklyn, nobody committed suicide. Everyone was too unhappy.”
“The three great problems of this century; the degradation of man in the proletariat, the subjection of women through hunger, the atrophy of the child by darkness.”
“I was disappointed in Niagara - most people must be disappointed in Niagara. Every American bride is taken there, and the sight of the stupendous waterfall must be one of the earliest, if not the keenest, disappointments in American married life.”
“The passing of an ordinary man is sad. The passing of a great man is tragic, and doubly tragic when the greatness passes before the man does.”
“Every generation revolts against its fathers and makes friends with its grandfathers.”