“Now is the dramatic moment of fate, Watson, when you hear a step upon the stair which is walking into your life, and you know not whether for good or ill.”
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Sad Quotes — page 43 of 475
“Betrayal is the only truth that sticks.”
“Work a lifetime to pay off a house You finally own it and there's nobody to live in it.”
“I'm very sad to be compared with Warhol and The Factory, because I have no drugs, you know. We have no drug culture in Japan! Maybe it's because our attitude toward labor is totally different.”
“For-profit higher education is today a booming industry, feeding on the student loans handed out to the desperate.”
“Legalism is looking to something besides Jesus Christ in order to be acceptable and clean before God.”
“We are always complaining that our days are few, and acting as though there would be no end to them.”
“But I will agree that I think that things happen with people in relationships, that you might have been able to enjoy Morocco, say, if you weren't getting out of a bad marriage. You know what I mean?”
“Dust into Dust, and under Dust to lie, Sans Wine, sans Song, sans Singer, and-sans End!”
“For the other end of the spectrum, the 50 to 85 percent of the world's population who are not the recipients of privilege, the world they know is almost certainly worse than any their earlier counterparts knew. It is likely they are worse off materially, despite the technological changes. In substantive as opposed to formal terms, they are more, not less, subject to arbitrary constraints, since the central mechanisms are more pervasive and more efficient. And they bear the brunt of the various kinds of psychic malaise, as well as of the destructiveness of civil wars.”
“Life is hard. After all, it kills you.”
“Ennui has made more gamblers than avarice, more drunkards than thirst, and perhaps as many suicides as despair.”
“Miscommunication leads to complication.”
“Most of the successful people in Hollywood are failures as human beings.”
“If the General Government should be left dependent on the State Legislatures, it would be happy for us if we had never met in this room.”
“There is no greater misfortune in the world than the loss of reason.”
“I grieve and dare not show my discontent, I love and yet am forced to seem to hate, I do, yet dare not say I ever meant, I seem stark mute but inwardly do prate. I am and not, I freeze and yet am burned, Since from myself another self I turned. My care is like my shadow in the sun, Follows me flying, flies when I pursue it, Stands and lies by me, doth what I have done.”
“I am from Britain and think it is right that as a woman I am paid the same as my male counterparts. I think it is right that I should be able to make decisions about my own body. I think it is right that women be involved on my behalf in the policies and decision-making of my country. I think it is right that socially I am afforded the same respect as men. But sadly I can say that there is no one country in the world where all women can expect to receive these rights.”
“If owning stocks is a long-term project for you, following their changes constantly is a very, very bad idea. It's the worst possible thing you can do, because people are so sensitive to short-term losses. If you count your money every day, you'll be miserable.”
“If teardrops were pennies and heartaches were gold, I'd have all the treasures my pockets could hold.”