“Absolute silence leads to sadness. It is the image of death.”
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Sad Quotes — page 46 of 475
“Shortly after I met my mentor he asked me, ‘Mr. Rohn, how much money have you saved and invested over the last six years?’ And I said, ‘None.’ He then asked, ‘Who sold you on that plan?’”
“One of the greatest casualties of the war in Vietnam is the Great Society... shot down on the battlefield of Vietnam.”
“I explain to you, exactly and truly, how we are circumstanced. A greater portion of our means is unavailable, consisting of a house in S. Springfield and some wild lands in Iowa. Notwithstanding my great and good husband's life was sacrificed for his country, we are left to struggle in a manner...of life undeserved. Roving Generals have elegant mansions showered upon them, and the American people leave the family of the Martyred President to struggle as best they may! Strange justice this.”
“I got the blues thinking of the future, so I left off and made some marmalade. It's amazing how it cheers one up to shred orange and scrub the floor.”
“A gun is no more dangerous than a cricket bat in the hands of a madman.”
“Just as modern mass production requires the standardization of commodities, so the social process requires standardization of man, and this standardization is called equality.”
“Sadness diminishes a man's powers”
“Of all the animals with which this globe is peopled, there is none towards whom nature seems, at first sight, to have exercised more cruelty than towards man, in the numberless wants and necessities with which she has loaded him, and in the slender means which she affords to the relieving these necessities.”
“I used to want you so bad, I'm so through with that because honestly you turned out to be the best thing I never had!”
“Universal happiness keeps the wheels steadily turning, truth and beauty can't.”
“Failure make people bitter and cruel. Success improves the character of the man.”
“The innocent and the beautiful have no enemy but time.”
“Rearing a family is probably the most difficult job in the world. It resembles two business firms merging their respective resources to make a single product. All the potential headaches of that operation are present when an adult male and an adult female join to steer a child from infancy to adulthood.”
“I suffer more from the humiliations inflicted by my country than from those inflicted on her.”
“A human being is only breath and shadow.”
“To describe happiness is to diminish it.”
“I didn’t want my picture taken because I was going to cry. I didn’t know why I was going to cry, but I knew that if anybody spoke to me or looked at me too closely the tears would fly out of my eyes and the sobs would fly out of my throat and I’d cry for a week. I could feel the tears brimming and sloshing in me like water in a glass that is unsteady and too full.”
“I hide my distress, just likethe blessed birds hide themselveswhen they are preparing to die. Wine! Wine, roses, music and yourindifference to my sadness, my loved-one!”
“And sometimes you didn't want to know the end… because how could the end be happy?”