“Nostalgia! I feel it even for someone who meant nothing to me, out of anxiety for the flight of time and a sickness bred of the mystery of life. If one of the faces I pass daily on the streets disappears, I feel sad; yet they meant nothing to me, other than being a symbol of all life.”
Sad feeling
Sad Quotes — page 58 of 475
“She was moved by a kind of commiseration... a pity for that colorless existence which never uplifted its possessor beyond the region of blind contentment, in which no moment of anguish ever visited her soul, in which she would never have the taste of life's delirium.”
“Desire is a pain which seeks easement through possession.”
“Sometimes we have to lose our way to find out what we really want, for we often ignore our needs until we are lost.”
“If you feel loved, you can do a thousand things. If you feel rejected, everything becomes a problem.”
“May everyone live, And may everyone die. Hello, my love, And my love, Goodbye.”
“There are things of which I may not speak; There are dreams that cannot die; There are thoughts that make the strong heart weak, And bring a pallor into the cheek, And a mist before the eye.”
“The Taliban's acts of cultural vandalism - the most infamous being the destruction of the giant Bamiyan Buddhas - had a devastating effect on Afghan culture and the artistic scene. The Taliban burned countless films, VCRs, music tapes, books, and paintings. They jailed filmmakers, musicians, painters, and sculptors.”
“Happiness ain't a thing in itself - it's only a contrast with something that ain't pleasant.”
“the time to hesitate is through no time to wallowin the mire Try now we can only lose and our love become a funeral pyre”
“If I'm free, it's because I'm always running.”
“Human history is the sad result of each one looking out for himself.”
“Sometimes you have to give up on people. Not because you don't care, but because they don't.”
“Feeling well that breathed words Would all be lost, unheard, and vain as swords Against the enchased crocodile, or leaps Of grasshoppers against the sun.”
“It seems there's just no room left for elegance in this paper-plate, blue-jean world. And I, for one, think it's a shame.”
“When the truth is ugly, people try to keep it hidden, because they know if revealed, the damage it will do. So they conceal it within sturdy walls or they place it behind closed doors or they obscure it with clever disguises but truth, no matter how ugly, always emerges. And someone we care about always ends up getting hurt. And someone else will revel in their pain and that's the ugliest truth of all.”
“You can have the best vaccines for a woman or her child, but if you can't get her to come and get them then they won't work.”
“All over this land women have no political existence. Laws pass over our heads that we can not unmake. Our property is taken from us without our consent. The babes we bear in anguish and carry in our arms are not ours.”
“Sufre mas el que espera siempre que aquel que nunca espero a nadie? Does he who is always waiting suffer more than he who’s never waited for anyone?”
“Mistrust all enterprises that require new clothes.”