“I'm currently in the middle of a depression. I couldn't really tell you what set it off, but I think it stems from my cowardice, which confronts me at every turn.”
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Sad Quotes — page 70 of 475
“SAD, BUT ONE DAY OUR KIDS WILL HAVE TO VISIT MUSEUMS TO SEE WHAT A LADY LOOKS LIKE.”
“Romance is dead - it was acquired in a hostile takeover by Hallmark and Disney, homogenized, and sold off piece by piece.”
“Crowded classrooms and half-day sessions are a tragic waste of our greatest national resource - the minds of our children.”
“Since all the riches of this world May be gifts from the Devil and earthly kings, I should suspect that I worshipp'd the Devil If I thank'd my God for worldly things.”
“Too long a sacrifice can make a stone of the heart. O when may it suffice?”
“Too much of water hast thou, poor Ophelia, And therefore I forbid my tears.”
“Most of the world's work is done by people who don't feel very well.”
“My father worked for the same firm for 12 years. They fired him and replaced him with a tiny gadget that does everything my father does, only much better. The depressing thing is my mother ran out and bought one”
“Why is it that man desires to be made sad, beholding doleful and tragical things, which yet himself would by no means suffer?”
“Every happiness is the child of a separation it did not think it could survive.”
“This ennui, for which we Saxons had no name,--this word of France, has got a terrific significance. It shortens life, and bereaves the day of its light.”
“Liberty is, to the lowest rank of every nation, little more than the choice of working or starving.”
“I never considered myself part of rock 'n' roll. My stuff was more adult. It was more difficult for teenagers to relate to; my stuff was filled with more despair than anything you'd associate with rock 'n' roll. Since I couldn't see people dancing, I didn't write jitterbugs or twists. I wrote rhythms that moved me. My style requires pure heart singing.”
“Optimism," said Cacambo, "What is that?" "Alas!" replied Candide, "It is the obstinacy of maintaining that everything is best when it is worst.”
“Birfdays was the worst days, Now we sip champagne when we thirstay uh”
“Laissez-faire, supply and demand-one begins to be weary of all that. Leave all to egotism, to ravenous greed of money, of pleasure, of applause-it is the gospel of despair.”
“Pain is part of life. Suffering is an option.”
“When people say, "I know God forgives me, but I can't forgive myself," they mean that they have failed an idol, whose approval is more important than God's.”
“It is difficult at times to repress the thought that history is about as instructive as an abattoir; that Tacitus was right and that peace is merely the desolation left behind after the decisive operations of merciless power.”