“Contempt is the weapon of the weak and a defense against one's own despised and unwanted feelings.”
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Sad Quotes — page 57 of 475
“It was evening all afternoon. It was snowing And it was going to snow. The blackbird sat In the cedar-limbs.”
“But O, how bitter a thing it is to look into happiness through another man's eyes.”
“Sigh no more, ladies, sigh no more, Men were deceivers ever,- One foot in sea and one on shore, To one thing constant never.”
“I had a terrible education. I attended a school for emotionally disturbed teachers.”
“My relationship with death remains the same - I'm strongly against it.”
“Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon.”
“He had about the same life expectancy as a three legged hedgehog on a six lane motorway.”
“I have lived eighty years of life and know nothing for it, but to be resigned and tell myself that flies are born to be eaten by spiders and man to be devoured by sorrow.”
“A man willing to work, and unable to find work, is perhaps the saddest sight that fortune's inequality exhibits under this sun.”
“He who boasts of his pedigree praises that which does not belong to him.”
“What if everything in the world were a misunderstanding, what if laughter were really tears?”
“No man or woman alive, magical or not, has ever escaped some form of injury, whether physical, mental, or emotional. To hurt is as human as to breathe.”
“The German people are an orderly, vain, deeply sentimental and rather insensitive people. They seem to feel at their best when they are singing in chorus, saluting or obeying orders.”
“Gil-galad was an Elven-king. Of him the harpers sadly sing: the last whose realm was fair and free between the Mountains and the Sea. His sword was long, his lance was keen, his shining helm afar was seen; the countless stars of heaven's field were mirrored in his silver shield. But long ago he rode away, and where he dwelleth none can say; for into darkness fell his star in Mordor where the shadows are.”
“You will never find a truly happy self-centered person. They simply don't exist.”
“A good girl is supposed to be very quiet”
“I believe the gun has no power at all.”
“The capitalist mode of production and accumulation, and therefore capitalist private property, have for their fundamental condition the annihilation of self-earned private property: in other words, the expropriation of the labourer.”
“All I’ve ever done is dream. That, and only that, has been the meaning of my existence. The only thing I’ve ever really cared about is my inner life. My greatest griefs faded to nothing the moment I opened the window onto my inner self and lost myself in watching. I never tried to be anything other than a dreamer. I never paid any attention to people who told me to go out and live. I belonged always to whatever was far from me and to whatever I could never be. Anything that was not mine, however base, always seemed to be full of poetry. The only thing I ever loved was pure nothingness.”