“The attitude of unhappiness is not only painful, it is mean and ugly.”
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Sad Quotes — page 75 of 475
“What fates impose, that men must needs abide; it boots not to resist both wind and tide.”
“Better a little chiding than a great deal of heartbreak.”
“A young man married is a man that's marred.”
“O, here Will I set up my everlasting rest And shake the yoke of inauspicious stars From the world-wearied flesh”
“I'm drowning in whiskey river.”
“Marital intercourse is certainly holy, lawful and praiseworthy in itself and profitable to society, yet in certain circumstances it can prove dangerous, as when through excess the soul is made sick with venial sin, or through the violation and perversion of its primary end, killed by mortal sin; such perversion, detestable in proportion to its departure from the true order, being always mortal sin, for it is never lawful to exclude the primary end of marriage which is the procreation of children.”
“But I know what darkness is, it accumulates, thickens, then suddenly bursts and drowns everything.”
“Normally I didn’t see a great deal. I didn’t hear a great deal either. I didn’t pay attention. Strictly speaking I wasn’t there. Strictly speaking I believe I’ve never been anywhere.”
“One likes people much better when they're battered down by a prodigious siege of misfortune than when they triumph.”
“Some people, and I am one of them, hate happy ends. We feel cheated. Harm is the norm.”
“If anyone thinks that Jews can steal into the land of their fathers, he is deceiving either himself or others. Nowhere is the coming of Jews so promptly noted as in the historic home of the Jews, for the very reason that it is the historic home.”
“It were a real increase of human happiness, could all young men from the age of nineteen be covered under barrels, or rendered otherwise invisible; and there left to follow their lawful studies and callings, till they emerged, sadder and wiser, at the age of twenty-five.”
“The external reality and inner dynamic of happenings in Northern Ireland between 1968 and 1974 were symptomatic of change, violent change admittedly, but change nevertheless, and for the minority living there, change had been long overdue.”
“It is the practice of the multitude to bark at eminent men, as little dogs do at strangers.”
“No one can be happy who has been thrust outside the pale of truth. And there are two ways that one can be removed from this realm: by lying, or by being lied to.”
“I feel as if I were a piece in a game of chess, when my opponent says of it: That piece cannot be moved.”
“However much one generation learns from another, it can never learn from its predecessor the genuinely human factor. In this respect every generation begins afresh. Thus no generation has learned from another how to love, no generation can begin other than at the beginning.”
“Knowledge of the truth I may perhaps have attained to; happiness certainly not. What shall I do? Accomplish something in the world, men tell me. Shall I then publish my grief to the world, contribute one more proof for the wretchedness and misery of existence, perhaps discover a new flaw in human life, hitherto unnoticed? I might then reap the rare reward of becoming famous, like the man who discovered the spots on Jupiter. I prefer, however, to keep silent.”
“If you have done terrible things, you must endure terrible things; for thus the sacred light of injustice shines bright.”