“The road to someday leads to a town of nowhere.”
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Sad Quotes — page 67 of 475
“I certainly never get above my station - my family would soon slap me back down to earth.”
“The candid incline to surmise of late that the Christian faith proves false.”
“My mama couldn't give me what I wanted. I had all right clothes, but the people I was with had better clothes. I felt that I had to have better clothes.”
“In the end, therefore, money will be the one thing people will desire, which is moreover only representative, an abstraction. Nowadays a young man hardly envies anyone his gifts, his art, the love of a beautiful girl, or his fame; he only envies him his money. Give me money, he will say, and I am saved...He would die with nothing to reproach himself with, and under the impression that if only he had had the money he might really have lived and might even have achieved something great.”
“Pain reconciles one to existence. Infinite resignation is that shirt in the old fable. The thread is spun with tears, bleached by tears, the shirt sewn in tears, but then it also gives better protection than iron. The secret in life is that everyone must sew it for himself.”
“Time takes it all, whether you want it to or not.”
“How boring just to be a body.”
“The mentality and behavior of drug addicts and alcoholics is wholly irrational until you understand that they are completely powerless over their addiction and unless they have structured help they have no hope.”
“The thing about hip-hop is that it's from the underground, ideas from the underbelly, from people who have mostly been locked out, who have not been recognized.”
“It begins in the heart...and it hurts when it's true. It only hurts because it's true.”
“Daddy's gone mad, hasn't he?”
“Nobody is worth crying for, and those that are worth it will not make you cry.”
“Bad girl, drunk by six, kissing someone else's lips. Smoked to many cigarettes today, I'm not happy when I act this way.”
“We are human beings, and this is the part of our human nature, that we don't learn the importance of anything until it's snatched from our hands.”
“The bourgeoisie, wherever it has got the upper hand, has put an end to all feudal, patriarchal, idyllic relations. It has pitilessly torn asunder the motley of ties that bound man to his "natural superiors," and left remaining no other nexus between man and man than naked self-interest, than callous "cash payment.”
“It is, let me say, at the very least by no means self-evident that there is more liberty, equality, and fraternity in the world today than there was one thousand years ago. One might arguably suggest that the opposite is true. I seek to paint no idyll of the worlds before historical capitalism. They were worlds of little liberty, little equality, and little fraternity. The only question is whether historical capitalism represented progress in these regards, or regression.”
“My theory is that men are no more liberated than women.”
“There are times when sorrow seems to me to be the only truth.”
“If school days are the happiest days of your life, I'm hanging myself with my skip-rope tonight.”