“The tears of the world are a constant quantity. For each one who begins to weep, somewhere else another stops. The same is true of the laugh.”
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Sad Quotes — page 55 of 475
“It's sad that children cannot know their parents when they were younger; when they were loving, courting, and being nice to one another. By the time children are old enough to observe, the romance has all too often faded or gone underground.”
“Adolescents are not monsters. They are just people trying to learn how to make it among the adults in the world, who are probably not so sure themselves.”
“The hard times make a true friend afraid to ask.”
“This is what is sad when one contemplates human life, that so many live out their lives in quiet lostness...they live, as it were, away from themselves and vanish like shadows. Their immortal souls are blown away, and they are not disquieted by the question of its immortality, because they are already disintegrated before they die.”
“There's a lot of Americans, black and white, who think that we've arrived where we need to be and nothing else needs to be done and affirmative action needs to be dismantled.”
“One social evil for which the New Testament is clearly in part responsible is anti-Semitism.”
“It appears then, that capitalist production comprises conditions independent of good or bad will, conditions which permit the working-class to enjoy that relative prosperity only momentarily, and at that always only as the harbinger of a coming crisis.”
“The Jews have lived an existence that is much harder than ours. There is nothing that compares to the Holocaust.”
“Dear little Swallow,’ said the Prince, ‘you tell me of marvelous things, but more marvelous than anything is the suffering of men and of women. There is no Mystery so great as Misery.”
“I loathe my own face, and I've done self-portraits because I've had nobody else to do.”
“People respect unhappiness and find it especially hard to forgive success.”
“Like Mahmoud Abbas. He is not gaining anything. He puts conditions and Israel ignores them. Israel doesn’t give him any hint that they will accept a single one of his conditions. Let me tell you. Arafat went to Oslo and signed [the agreement]. What did Israel do? They confined him in Muqata in one room and killed him.”
“No smile is as beautiful as the one that struggles through tears.”
“Manhattan, though, was an entirely different ballgame in a whole different kind of world, with a man who was brilliant and at the same time terribly charismatic.”
“Women who try to be equivalent with men need desire.”
“Of pain you could wish only one thing: that it should stop. Nothing in the world was so bad as physical pain. In the face of pain there are no heroes.”
“On 16 September 1985, when the Commerce Department announced that the United States had become a debtor nation, the American Empire died.”
“Every day has its emotional difficulties. I miss my mother whether I'm singing her music or not.”
“I'm sorry that I did not become the world's first black classic pianist. I think I would have been happier.”