“As long as this exists, this sunshine and this cloudless sky, and as long as I can enjoy it, how can I be sad?”
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Sad Quotes — page 63 of 475
“The question, O me! so sad, recurring - What good amid these, O me, O life? That you are here - that life exists and identity, that the powerful play goes on, and you may contribute a verse.”
“The melancholy days are come, the saddest of the year, Of wailing winds, and naked woods and meadows brown and sear.”
“Now Christianity sounded good at first to the naive convert. Love, peace and charity - what's wrong with that? I'll tell you what's wrong - a series of unprecedented horrors perpetrated by so-called Christians: The Inquisition, the Conquistadores, the American Indian wars, slavery, Hiroshima and the present-day Bible Belt.”
“And oftentimes excusing of a fault doth make the fault the worse by the excuse.”
“Diseased Nature oftentimes breaks forth In strange eruptions.”
“Princes have but their titles for their glories, An outward honor for an inward toil; And, for unfelt imaginations, They often feel a world of restless cares.”
“What has changed is that nothing has changed... that's what has made me more unhappy than everything else.”
“Growing up in the streets of Bed-Stuy, it was hard, yo.”
“Massive inequality, we have learned, isn't the best way to run an economy after all. And when you think about it, it's also profoundly ugly.”
“Sherman made the terrible discovery that men make about their fathers sooner or later.”
“Levity of behavior is the bane of all that is good and virtuous.”
“To lose a friend is the greatest of all evils, but endeavour rather to rejoice that you possessed him than to mourn his loss.”
“Horror is the natural reaction to the last 5,000 years of history.”
“What if the Soviet intervention was a blessing in disguise? It saved the myth that if the Soviets were not to intervene, there would have been some flowering authentic democratic socialism and so on. I'm a little bit more of a pessimist there. I think that the Soviets - it's a very sad lesson - by their intervention, saved the myth.”
“Listen to the cry of a woman in labor at the hour of giving birth - look at the dying man's struggle at his last extremity, and then tell me whether something that begins and ends thus could be intended for enjoyment.”
“I have just now come from a party where I was its life and soul; witticisms streamed from my lips, everyone laughed and admired me, but I went away - yes, the dash should be as long as the radius of the earth's orbit ——————————— and wanted to shoot myself.”
“Whom Jupiter would destroy he first drives mad.”
“A strange effect of marriage, such as the nineteenth century has made it! The boredom of married life inevitably destroys love, when love has preceded marriage. And yet, as a philosopher has observed, it speedily brings about, among people who are rich enough not to have to work, an intense boredom with all quiet forms of enjoyment. And it is only dried up hearts, among women, that it does not predispose to love.”
“Being the richest man in the cemetery doesn't matter to me.”