“One mustn't ask apple trees for oranges, France for sun, women for love, life for happiness.”
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Sad Quotes — page 49 of 475
“When I'm dead are they going to remember me ? I don't really think about it, it's up to them. When I'm dead, who cares ? I don't.”
“The word 'innocence' means a mind that is incapable of being hurt.”
“Ask yourself whether you are happy, and you cease to be so.”
“War is the greatest plague that can afflict humanity, it destroys religion, it destroys states, it destroys families. Any scourge is preferable to it.”
“I'll never be happy. I believe I'll die alone. I would want it that way. I've been a loner all my life with my secrets and my pain. I'm really lost, but I'm trying to find myself. I'm really a sad, pathetic case. My whole life has been a waste. I've been a failure. I just want to escape.”
“Let it be enough for you to have bread and live virtuously and poorly like Christ, as I do here. I live meanly and don't bother about life or honor ... and I live with the greatest toil and a thousand worries. It is now about 15 years since I had a happy hour.”
“Always leave something to wish for; otherwise you will be miserable from your very happiness.”
“No one dare disturb the sound of silence...”
“I'm not going to entertain something that took place not three months, not six months, not a year but two years ago. I'm not going to sit up here and say anything about it, whether I did or did not do it, because I don't want to beat a dead horse talking about it. It's not going to affect me any way, shape or fashion.”
“Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered weak and weary.”
“All my possessions for a moment of time.”
“College students today are drowning in debt, and it is hurting them and hurting our economy. We must find a way to help families pay for college without condemning them to a lifetime of indebtedness.”
“Oh foolish desires of mortals! How weak are the reasons that lead us to not take off our flight from the ground.”
“They yearn for what they fear for.”
“Man's sensitivity to the little things and insensitivity to the greatest are the signs of a strange disorder.”
“You entertain people who are satisfied. Hungry people can't be entertained - or people who are afraid. You can't entertain a man who has no food.”
“...the habit of despair is worse than despair itself.”
“We are still barely conscious of how harmful it is to treat children in a degrading manner. Treating them with respect and recognizing the consequences of their being humiliated are by no means intellectual matters; otherwise, their importance would long since have been generally recognized.”
“They say best men are molded out of faults, And, for the most, become much more the better For being a little bad”