“For my best poems were all written when I felt the worst. When I was happy, I didn't write anything.”
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Sad Quotes — page 61 of 475
“Although gold and silver are not by nature money, money is by nature gold and silver.”
“For me the only point that has remained unchanged through the years is that in India there is still so much poverty.”
“But I guess that's the way it is. When you lose something irreplaceable, you don't mourn for the thing you lost. you mourn for yourself.”
“Many of our troubles are due to the fact that our people turn to politicians for everything.”
“All young women begin by believing they can change and reform the men they marry. They can't.”
“I was looking in the mirror the other day and I realized I haven't changed much since I was in my twenties. The only difference is I look a whole lot older now.”
“READILY and, I trust, feelingly acknowledge the duty incumbent on us all . . . to provide for those who, in the mysterious order of Providence, are subject to want and to disease of body or mind; but I cannot find any authority in the Constitution for making the Federal Government the great almoner of public charity throughout the United States . . . .”
“There are no happy endings.”
“If artists and poets are unhappy, it is after all because happiness does not interest them.”
“As the most religious country of the 18 surveyed, the U.S. also comes in with the highest rates for teen pregnancy and for gonorrhea and syphilis.”
“Sorrowful and great is the artist's destiny.”
“Only nature has a right to grieve perpetually, for she only is innocent. Soon the ice will melt, and the blackbirds sing along the river which he frequented, as pleasantly as ever. The same everlasting serenity will appear in this face of God, and we will not be sorrowful, if he is not.”
“The Wreck of the Hesperus But the father answered never a word, A frozen corpse was he.”
“I don't think anybody's necessarily ready for death. You can only hope that when it approaches, you feel like you've said what you wanted to say. Nobody wants to go out in mid-sentence.”
“The worthiest people are the most injured by slander, as is the best fruit which the birds have been pecking at.”
“Be still my heart; thou hast known worse than this.”
“But a caged bird stands on the grave of dreams.”
“All sorrows are less with bread.”
“You taught me to be nice, so nice that now I am so full of niceness, I have no sense of right and wrong, no outrage, no passion.”