“Nature shows that with the growth of intelligence comes increased capacity for pain, and it is only with the highest degree of intelligence that suffering reaches its supreme point.”
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Sad Quotes — page 6 of 475
“You are not ready to accept the fact that you have to give up. A complete and total 'surrender'. It is a state of hopelessness which says that there is no way out. Any movement in any direction, on any dimension, at any level, is taking you away from yourself.”
“I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro's great stumbling block in the stride toward freedom is not the White Citizens Councilor or the Ku Klux Klanner but the white moderate who is more devoted to order than to justice; who prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice.”
“In the depths of my heart I can’t help being convinced that my dear fellow-men, with a few exceptions, are worthless.”
“If you've never been hated by your child, you've never been a parent.”
“The trust of the innocent is the liar's most useful tool.”
“Food is one of life's greatest joys yet we've reached this really sad point where we're turning food into the enemy, and something to be afraid of”
“But what is memory if not the language of feeling, a dictionary of faces and days and smells which repeat themselves like the verbs and adjectives in a speech, sneaking in behind the thing itself,into the pure present, making us sad or teaching us vicariously.”
“Perhaps somewhere, someplace deep inside your being, you have undergone important changes while you were sad.”
“Through primrose tufts, in that green bower, The periwinkle trails its wreath; And 'tis my faith that every flower Enjoys the air it breathes. The birds around me hopped and played, Their thoughts I cannot measure; But the least motion which they made, It seemed a thrill of pleasure. The budding twigs spread out their fan, To catch the breezy air; And I must think, do all I can That there was pleasure there. If this belief from heaven be sent, If such be Nature's holy plan, Have I not reason to lament What man has made of man?”
“I do not like candid pictures. They are so unattractive.”
“The evolution from happiness to habit is one of death's best weapons.”
“I was never really insane except upon occasions when my heart was touched.”
“The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one.”
“I feel like crying, so I must be crying, but it's impossible to tell because I'm underwater.”
“Consequences from evil will make your past haunt you”
“It has been said that arguing against globalization is like arguing against the laws of gravity.”
“The plain fact is that if you don't have a problem, you create one. If you don't have a problem you don't feel that you are living.”
“He was so terrible that he was no longer terrible, only dehumanized.”
“So in the end, was it worth it? Jesus Christ. How irreparably changed my life has become. It's always the last day of summer and I've been left out in the cold with no door to get back in. I'll grant you I've had more than my share of poignant moments. Life passes most people by while they're making grand plans for it. Throughout my lifetime, I've left pieces of my heart here and there. And now, there's almost not enough to stay alive. But I force a smile, knowing that my ambition far exceeded my talent. There are no more white horses or pretty ladies at my door.”